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Spurs' Parker has plantar fasciitis
Jeff McDonald
Tony Parker, the Spurs' All-NBA point guard, has seen his offensive production dip this season, from 22.0 points and 6.9 assists per game to 16.5 points and 5.8 assists.
Now we know why.
After scoring 20 second-half points to lead the Spurs to a 105-85 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night at the AT&T Center, Parker revealed he is suffering from plantar fasciitis in his left foot.
Asked why he has had occasional problems this season on drives to the basket, Parker volunteered the news about his injury.
“I'm a little bit slower, that's why,” he said. “I don't think it's much different. It's just my plantar fasciitis is killing me.”
Then, holding up a special sock designed to lessen the effects of the painful injury, Parker said he will play through the injury as long as he can.
“Got my sock, though,” he said. “Gonna wear it on the road.”
The injury is particularly difficult for the three-time All-Star because he naturally jumps off his left foot.
“(It's) the left one, that I plant and everything,” he said.
Parker's injury is the same one that befell Spurs captain Tim Duncan in the 2005-06 season.
“I have to wear my sock, do treatment every day: cold tub, ultrasound, same old, same old,” Parker said. “Just like TD (Duncan) in 2006. He had it the whole season. I asked TD what I have to do. He said the sock is great.”
For now, Parker doesn't anticipate missing any games but said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich will make the judgment on when he will play and when he will rest.
“Pop talked about it,” he said. “Right now, I don't want to miss games. I want to play. Maybe down the road, in March or April, maybe I'll miss back-to-backs or something like that. But Pop knows about it. It's up to him.”
Parker, who came into Tuesday averaging 31.5 minutes, logged 34:26 against the Lakers. He finished with 22 points and six assists.
Dynamic defender: Spurs guard George Hill matched up defensively against Kobe Bryant for long stretches of the first three quarters, forcing two Bryant turnovers and doing a credible job pestering the NBA's No. 2 scorer.
When Bryant left late in the third with back spasms, the 6-foot-2, 180-pound second-year pro ended up on 6-7, 260-pound Ron Artest.
“Kobe is Kobe; Artest is strong,” said Hill, an Indianapolis native. “I play against Ron in the summer, when he comes back to Indianapolis and stays.”
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Damn. Sorry Parker - heal up soon! Sadly this is probably going to be a nagging injury the whole season unless he sits out indefinitely for an extended period...
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...did he get it from Tim? Is it contagious???? No wonder their team chemistry has improved...How close is this team off the court where they get each others sicknesses so easily? haha
That does explain alot.
the regular season, rest this man as much as possible I want him fresh for the playoffs
and so it begins...
Why the has pop been playing him? He should have rested parker as soon as he found out about it. The spurs need a healthy parker going into the playoffs.
Well this is good and bad news i guess. The good, at least we have a legit reason as to why he has struggled this season... Obviously the bad is there are no garuantees of recovery.. other than alot of rest..
Hmm...
So it all makes sense now..ANYBODY that has watched Tony this year can tell there's something clearly wrong..this really sucks..
So would a few weeks of rest help with the PF or is pointless unless you get a few months of rest and treatment?..
atleast we know why now.
Duncan played with it the entire '05-'06 season.
Wow they really hid this one from us. I thought Parker was being lazy and tired.
He got it from playing too damn much...
Why didn't he take the Summer off?
is this the same thing as the arch-injury he told the french media about?
Jealous?
so whats the treatment for this type of injury
wow, talk about an under-the-radar injury announcement. I almost wish he NEVER said it. Now there's an element of "GO AT PARKER" in a game plan. Goddamn I'm having 'Nam-style flashbacks of the 2006 playoffs. .
The only good that comes from this news is that the idiot-assholes will cut him some slack and stop complaining that he's not dropping 22/8/4 on a team this deep. But that's not really of any consequence...this is a real bummer except for the fact that he really had a nice second half tonight.
I really enjoyed the banging first half without Parker's points. His passing was great. Having him answer the questions about whether or not we'd ultimately lose the lead and the game was awesome. It's a nice change of pace to have the game dominated by Tim and Manu's high-flying squad and then Tony come out firing in the second half. That's actually a strategy I'd be into seeing on a consistent basis. There's a lot of upside to that. ...
Getting the whole team involved. Stretching the floor. Not relying on Parker to heat and possibly sacrifice team chemistry.
I guess a potential positive is that Duncan struggled with it the entire 2006 regular season, but still completely dominated in the playoffs..I guess we can hope for something similar from TP..
I still would prefer that he gets a good rest..
My thoughts exactly. Makes me feel a bit better now that I know why he has looked so lackluster this season. Unfortunately this will probably be something he has to play through for the rest of the season.
Honest.
Rest him for a month. Let Hill, Mason and Manu run the show.
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