Any update on Manu??

[smeagol]

Well i can help you with that, he said he will be out between 7 and 10 days, that´s excellent!!!!

I'll be praying 'cause I've got tickets for the game against the Nets on 2/10

[angel_luv]

I'm praying too. I hope you get to see him. =)

[T Park]

Im praying as well.

This team is a 56% second round, maybe first round, and out team without Ginobili.

[sa_butta]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/b...k.7e62649.html

Spurs notebook: Ginobili regains optimism

Johnny Ludden
Express-News Staff Writer
After the Spurs returned home early Saturday morning, Manu Ginobili turned on the television and surfed through the channels until he found highlights of the team's victory in Miami.

Soon enough, Ginobili found himself watching a slow-motion replay of his ankle buckling after he stepped on the foot of Heat forward Udonis Haslem while driving to the basket.

"I wanted to see because I didn't remember who I stepped on or how it happened," Ginobili said.

His reaction?

"It made me sweat."

Ginobili said he was in considerable pain immediately after the injury, though he began to feel a little better on the flight home.

"When I went to the doctor to do the X-rays (in the arena) it was killing me," Ginobili said. "But I woke up the next morning and I could walk.

"I went from being very upset and sad to having a good sense of humor because I realized it wasn't probably as bad as I thought."

Ginobili was walking with only a slight trace of a limp Sunday.

Although the Spurs expect him to be out one to two weeks, Ginobili didn't want to predict a date for his return. After spraining the same foot Dec. 12, he thought he would be able to come back fairly quickly but needed two weeks to regain his full range of motion.

"The last part of the rehab is the hardest," Ginobili said.

He's back: Melvin Sanders was watching the Spurs game against Miami and saw Ginobili get hurt. Shortly after the game ended, his telephone rang.

Dell Demps, the Spurs director of pro player personnel, was calling to offer him a 10-day contract.

Sanders, who was in Fayetteville, N.C., left at 3:45 a.m. to drive to Raleigh and catch a 6a.m. flight. He arrived in San Antonio in time for the Spurs' practice.

"I just packed up my stuff and pretty much left that night," Sanders said.

Sanders has grown used to his nomadic season. He was the last player cut by the Spurs in training camp but re-signed with the team Nov. 9 — about an hour before a game in Charlotte — when Michael Finley and Brent Barry got injured.

Sanders appeared in five games, averaging 2.2 points and 2.6 rebounds in 11.6 minutes, before the Spurs waived him Nov.19. He joined the Fayetteville Patriots of the NBA's developmental league in part to be available should an NBA team call.

Sanders, who averaged 20.6 points and 5.0 points in five games with Fayetteville, understands his latest stay also might not last long.

"You just have to come in do what you can do and let everything else take care of itself," Sanders said. "You appreciate every second that you're here. It's all a process. You have to be humble and play hard."

Team comes first: It's been a frustrating season for Spurs center Nazr Mohammed, and Sunday's game against the Denver Nuggets was no exception.

Even when Mohammed gets it right, things seem to turn out wrong.

Mohammed had his best game of the season against the Nuggets, with season highs in both points and rebounds.

The Spurs' loss spoiled any satisfaction Mohammed might have taken from his own play.

"Of course, I'm happy to get on the court and help," said Mohammed, averaging only 12.6 minutes this season before logging a season-high 30 Sunday, "but I'm not happy with the loss. It's really disappointing, losing at home.

"I'm always kind of hard on myself. I think more of the mistakes I make. Rebounding and scoring, that's what I'm supposed to do. But the mistakes hurt."

Briefly: Spurs coach Gregg Popovich received a technical with 10.3 seconds left in the second quarter when he complained that Carmelo Anthony used an elbow to push off Bruce Bowen before making a layup. ... Sunday was the final day for fans to turn in All-Star ballots. In last week's returns, Tim Duncan led Minnesota's Kevin Garnett by 65,957 votes in the race for the Western Conference's second forward position. Houston's Tracy McGrady leads all West forwards. ... The Spurs have billboards around town incorrectly listing the date of the Charlotte game. The Spurs play host to the Bobcats on Tuesday, not today.

[WalterBenitez]

After the Spurs returned home early Saturday morning, Manu Ginobili turned on the television and surfed through the channels until he found highlights of the team's victory in Miami.

[bonesinaz]

Thanks everyone for the updates.