Manu Ginobili to have surgery, out 6-8 weeks

[ace3g]

DarrenMHaynes Darren M. Haynes
Spurs Manu Ginobili (broken hand) says "doctors will remove s ches on Monday" twitpic.com/87cpva #SPURS

[Darkwaters]

Poor guy. I've never seen someone be so miserable to get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to have front-row seats to an NBA game.

Wouldn't you? Consider - how many basketball games do you think Manu has been to in his entire life. Seriously. How many thousands of games?

[dunkman]

Hope he returns soon . . .

[Manu-of-steel]

Get well soon, Manu!

[ElNono]

I should be able to return between the 10th and the 15th of February.

That would be nice because he could help in the last part of the rodeo road trip, but if our playoff chances are not in jeopardy by then, I would expect him to return at home against Chicago on the 29th, after the All-Star break.

[ChuckD]

That would be nice because he could help in the last part of the rodeo road trip, but if our playoff chances are not in jeopardy by then, I would expect him to return at home against Chicago on the 29th, after the All-Star break.

If our road record doesn't improve, having him sit out the last SEVEN games (the difference between his earliest date and your proposed date) of the RT might well knock us out of the playoffs.

I'm OK with whatever the Spurs do, because they tend towards the conservative, sometimes to their own detriment, game one of the Grizz series, for example. If they bring him back, he's ready, and probably has been for a while.

[xmas1997]

Don't bring him back too soon, even if it means missing the playoffs. Better to have a totally healthy Manu than an injured one.
Besides this draft is loaded with bigs and the Spurs need a good one.
It would be amazing that if they missed the playoffs and landed in the lottery and got lucky again and got the #1 pick.
Who would they draft?????????????????

[boutons_deux]

I wonder how long it will take for Manu to regain strength and endurance in his left immobilized, atrophied arm, hand, shoulder after he's approved for full functioning?

[ChuckD]

I wonder how long it will take for Manu to regain strength and endurance in his left immobilized, atrophied arm, hand, shoulder after he's approved for full functioning?

They'll have stuff he can do without using his hand, resistance bars and bands using the wrist and forearm, for example. He won't be just sitting and doing nothing for six weeks.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Would love it if Manu was back in time for the Raptors game on the 15th! Already bought my tickets

[ducks]

6-2 without manu

[intlspurshk]

time to trade TP when he still has value

[ace3g]

Manu
I guess I won't be able to fulfill my dream of becoming a hand model after my NBA career.

[Muser]

Cool scar