Good News Tony / Bad News Kawhi

[lefty20]

The aposauce clearly was bad. It was beyond its shelf life.

Dude's gotta fix dat e b4 the Christmas reunion with is aunt, tbh.

[bklynspursfan]

Sure, it's only taken him 6+ months to heal and there's still no timetable for his return. And posters thought that there was a chance he might return for game 3 of the Western Conference Finals. Why on earth should anyone be concerned when Tony Parker, who suffered a career threatening injury, makes it back to the court before Kawhi Le洛nard?

Completely different injuries tho. (WCF was ankle) He could've injured the quad from working too hard during the summer.

[BillMc]

Completely different injuries tho. (WCF was ankle) He could've injured the quad from working too hard during the summer.

By all accounts he did

[BillMc]

Dude's gotta fix dat e b4 the Christmas reunion with is aunt, tbh.

[bic50]

Yeah, really.

No

[bic50]

Bottom line Tony will come back before Kawhi... that's crazy when you think about it tbh

Not really

[bklynspursfan]

By all accounts he did

Makes sense. His work ethic is crazy

[tholdren]

I could get why he feels this way. He was working hard all summer, we watched IG vids about his workouts...He even traveled with this trainer to China to continue his summer work.

Then in training camp Spurs' doctors told him his injury didn't heal in the way they expected...He already missed 10 games in the season that most people saw him as the serious MVP.

He has to deal with that frustration. He wanted to dominate the league but he has to watch games on the bench now. Dealing with something like this it's not easy.

That's why Parker and Kawhi are in two whole different situations. One player wants to come back to enjoy playing his last seasons without any pressure at this point of his career...The other already knows he missed a possible MVP but also, he missed the opportunity to help his team to get a 2-3 seed that would have been crucial to make WCF again.

How old are you?

[tholdren]

Every year he has some bizarre injury that keeps him out way longer than the average player. Whether its a random eye infection, or a random quad injury it feels like Kawhi misses at least 10 games or so every year. Love the guy, but like you said, for a guy who is so coddled with minutes it really is worrisome at this point.

Why is it worrisome? Has his minor injuries ever affected the outcome of playoffs? No... so move along. For all we know this is pop trolling the new league rest rules.

[Ice009]

Every year he has some bizarre injury that keeps him out way longer than the average player. Whether its a random eye infection, or a random quad injury it feels like Kawhi misses at least 10 games or so every year. Love the guy, but like you said, for a guy who is so coddled with minutes it really is worrisome at this point.

How many players in the NBA play as hard as he does on both defense and offense? That's gotta take it's toll, physically.

[Chinook]

How many players in the NBA play as hard as he does on both defense and offense? That's gotta take it's toll, physically.

I don't think you can used that excuse. He's been missing games in chunks for years now. Kawhi does just seem naturally fragile. Like his INJ rating in 2K would just be lower than average. At this point, it's just something the team has to live with, and I think they are doing a good job of that now. Just wish they had drafted Bell or Bolden over White. Would have a very well balanced roster if they had.

[TheDoctor]

Why is it worrisome? Has his minor injuries ever affected the outcome of playoffs? No... so move along. For all we know this is pop trolling the new league rest rules.

One of the worst takes ever tbh. I doubt a player as compe ive as Kawhi agreed to sit 15-20 games just to troll the League. Wtf?

[YGWHI]

How old are you?

Dont wanna waste my time asking why you....

22. My bday is on February if you want to give me a gift.

[BatManu20]

Wut

[YGWHI]

Even if Kawhi isn't back until late December the 3 spot is still obtainable. I think GS and Houston are going to win a lot of regular season games but there will be a logjam after that for 3-6.

IDK. Some fans here say this season remind them of 2015 regular season. Many injuries Tiago's calf, Patty shoulder, Kawhi hand, Beli groin, Parker's hamstring... #6 seed.

Odds don't favor us but #6 is too pessimistic. I would say 3-4 seed is more realistic.

[Play Boban]

[ElNono]

Spurs might need to move on, tbh... injury prone, long recovery times, turns down fan's daughters in crutches... smh

[YGWHI]

And if Kawhi comes back and dominates his name will likely be in the MVP talk assuming he doesn't miss more time after he comes back.

Iverson was the only MVP that missed 11 games in the NBA history, Kawhi would miss more this season...Obviously, it could change. Like changed seed-importance or ppg-relevance in other MVP voting results. Anyway, Kawhi still can make All NBA and ASG.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/mvp.html

However, the only thing that matters is to have him fully recovered, 100% healthy.

[YGWHI]

I opened a thread about him inching closer and closer to " injury-prone" category..whether it is ty stomach virus, an inflammation in the ear/eye.

"Injuries"

[Play Boban]

Spurs might need to move on, tbh... injury prone, long recovery times, turns down fan's daughters in crutches... smh

[spurs10]

Spurs might need to move on, tbh... injury prone, long recovery times, turns down fan's daughters in crutches... smh

Can't even do fan's daughter! Trade now!!

[Brazil]

This thread, SMH. OP should be deported TBH

wtf son ? another shooting the messenger bs ?

[John B]

MVP is the last thing in his mind. The important thing is getting back 100% healthy, whenever that is. He is young. I’m sure he’ll have plenty of opportunities to get MVP consideration.

[John B]

How many players in the NBA play as hard as he does on both defense and offense? That's gotta take it's toll, physically.

This. The guy just works too hard as shown by his improvements every year.

[rjv]

seeming to be fragile and being fragile are entirely different. there is not one single poster here could categorically state that they know for certain kawhi is injury prone. especially since we don't even know what the is actually going on with him.