Woj: Kawhi Expected Back Within 2 Weeks

[Spur-Addict]

[Brazil]

[SupremeGuy]

Kawhi Back

[Ice009]

Parker wins his Finals MVP by destroying some no name hack named Boobie Gibson who isn't in the league anymore and Kawhi wins his being guarded by LeBron James.

Yeah, when you put it like that, people need to stop bringing up that finals MVP from TP. Tim Duncan was clearly the Spurs best player that whole playoff run, no question about it. In the finals the Spurs just exploited a favorable match up.

[james evans]

Parker wins his Finals MVP by destroying some no name hack named Boobie Gibson who isn't in the league anymore and Kawhi wins his being guarded by LeBron James.

and having to actually guard james too

[Phenomanul]

Best part of the article tbh...we can't have him at less than 100% playing with pain if we want to repeat.

Anyways, here is how the schedule looks over the next 2 weeks:

Detroit
Phoenix
@Minnesota (b2b)
@Washington
@Charlotte (b2b)
Portland
Utah
@Denver

Looks like a cakewalk compared to what we just went through, but there are still some potentially tough games in there. Would be nice if Kawhi could manage to play against Portland on the 16th, but we'll see.

I hope so... I plan on being in attendance for that game...

[SnakeBoy]

[SpursFan86]

Kinda off topic with this, but since we're bringing up Parker's FMVP in 2007...It legitimately annoys me when people try to use Parker winning FMVP in '07 as a knock against Duncan and act like Duncan wasn't by far the best player on the team at that point. Duncan was miles and miles better than Parker that year. Duncan carried us through the West when we were playing better teams, and then Parker just had the better Finals series because we attacked Cleveland's horrible backcourt. If you look at the entirety of the playoffs, Parker really wasn't anything too special that year.

There are seriously some people out there who act like Duncan stopped being the best player on the team in '07...pretty funny tbh In his entire career, Duncan hasn't been the best player on the team in only 2 seasons IMO. His rookie year (D-Rob), and 2011 (Manu). Every other year he was the best player on the Spurs.

[look_at_g_shred]

Any day now...

[cjw]

In his entire career, Duncan hasn't been the best player on the team in only 2 seasons IMO. His rookie year (D-Rob), and 2011 (Manu). Every other year he was the best player on the Spurs.

Even in his rookie year, he's the one who made first team All NBA (Admiral was second team). So could be argued that it was only 2011 and he was beat up / hobbling around that year.

[ace3g]

[Robz4000]

dammit ace3g I thought you had an update on Kawhi...

[Russ]

The thinker!

[phxspurfan]

Best part of the article tbh...we can't have him at less than 100% playing with pain if we want to repeat.

Anyways, here is how the schedule looks over the next 2 weeks:

Detroit
Phoenix
@Minnesota (b2b)
@Washington
@Charlotte (b2b)
Portland
Utah
@Denver

Looks like a cakewalk compared to what we just went through, but there are still some potentially tough games in there. Would be nice if Kawhi could manage to play against Portland on the 16th, but we'll see.

dat sig doe

[100%duncan]

Yeah, when you put it like that, people need to stop bringing up that finals MVP from TP. Tim Duncan was clearly the Spurs best player that whole playoff run, no question about it. In the finals the Spurs just exploited a favorable match up.

Duncan was also the best player the whole playoffs last season.

[heyheymymy]

Full team healthy?

[EVAY]

Yeah, when you put it like that, people need to stop bringing up that finals MVP from TP. Tim Duncan was clearly the Spurs best player that whole playoff run, no question about it. In the finals the Spurs just exploited a favorable match up.

Duncan drew the attention of the defense that season, enabling a player who was ready and able to score to get the MVP.

Just like last year, when our 'big three' drew the most attention from the defense, Kawhi was ready and able to score - especially in the last three games. Before the last three games, he was not MVP.

The thing about Finals MVPs are that they are ALWAYS a media-driven, 'who looks the flashiest and/or is the biggest surprise' award.

If we hadn't lost in 2013, Green would likely have been the MVP.

Tim Duncan has clearly been the best Spurs player in every playoff series since he entered the league.

Doesn't mean that other players are not contributing or are not super - Manu was super last year too, but Diaw was a damn close second for MVP, imo. And, tbh, Parker was the one being guarded by LeBron most of the last two finals series when they were both on the floor. People get chances to shine and they take them or they don't.

I kind of wish that the entire team won the MVP in last year's finals...but that isn't the way the hype works.

It's sort of like the fan voting for All-Star. That's all any of those things are. Stop pitting the players against one another on a team that manifestly won everything with more team play than anyone has ever seen.

[Spurs 4 The Win]

Duncan drew the attention of the defense that season, enabling a player who was ready and able to score to get the MVP.

Just like last year, when our 'big three' drew the most attention from the defense, Kawhi was ready and able to score - especially in the last three games. Before the last three games, he was not MVP.

The thing about Finals MVPs are that they are ALWAYS a media-driven, 'who looks the flashiest and/or is the biggest surprise' award.

If we hadn't lost in 2013, Green would likely have been the MVP.

Tim Duncan has clearly been the best Spurs player in every playoff series since he entered the league.

Doesn't mean that other players are not contributing or are not super - Manu was super last year too, but Diaw was a damn close second for MVP, imo. And, tbh, Parker was the one being guarded by LeBron most of the last two finals series when they were both on the floor. People get chances to shine and they take them or they don't.

I kind of wish that the entire team won the MVP in last year's finals...but that isn't the way the hype works.

It's sort of like the fan voting for All-Star. That's all any of those things are. Stop pitting the players against one another on a team that manifestly won everything with more team play than anyone has ever seen.

Wrong, they said they did a vote and Duncan would have won in 2013

[Proxy]

he's leaning on that hand pretty hardddddd.............. this is complete bs fuk you Pop

[unleashbaynes]

Hopefully the kid learned the value of a good stranger every now and then.

[ace3g]

Jeff McDonald @JMcDonald_SAEN
Pop says Kawhi Leonard (hand) has begun light shooting in the paint. Still can't fully extend hand to take perimeter shots.

[dabom]

Jeff McDonald @JMcDonald_SAEN
Pop says Kawhi Leonard (hand) has begun light shooting in the paint. Still can't fully extend hand to take perimeter shots.

Pop said this?

[loveforthegame]

So he's still a couple weeks away?

He'll have to go 3 on 3 and 5 on 5 before he can return.

[loveforthegame]

http://www.expressnews.com/sports/sp...witter-premium

“They allowed him to do it in the paint because he can’t do like that,” coach Gregg Popovich said Friday, mimicking a full shooting motion. “That’s what bothers him, or of course if the ball hits it.”

“As we move along it’s going to be pain tolerance and whether the hand works enough to play basketball with it,” Popovich said. “Once he can do that, whatever pain he has he’ll be able to handle. But if he can’t pass, catch and shoot, it doesn’t matter.”

[100%duncan]

Jeff McDonald @JMcDonald_SAEN
Pop says Kawhi Leonard (hand) has begun light shooting in the paint. Still can't fully extend hand to take perimeter shots.

God this sucks