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“He fell on his kneecap,” the coach said. “It actually split open. The skin, not the kneecap. I would have fainted if that had happened.”
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Spurs guard Manu Ginobili believes he will return to the lineup soon, perhaps by the end of the week.
Though Spurs coach Gregg Popovich insisted injured guard Manu Ginobili went on the team’s two-game road trip to Atlanta and Philadelphia only for aesthetic reasons, there was rationale for his presence of much greater import.
The team’s No. 3 scorer worked through stretching and rehabilitation routines designed to hasten his recovery from the strained left hamstring he suffered in a Jan. 13 game against Minnesota.
The result: Ginobili believes he will return to the lineup soon, perhaps by the end of the week.
“I was able to do some more things in practice,” Ginobili said Monday in Philadelphia. “It is feeling pretty good. I know they said I would be out 10 to 14 days, but I don’t think it is going to be 14. It will be sooner.”
Though frustrated by another injury just as he was beginning to get into a good rhythm, Ginobili is relieved that the hamstring was not torn. That would have sidelined him much longer, perhaps the remainder of the season.
“It is frustrating because it took me a long while to get into a rhythm and when I first got into that game (against Minnesota), I was feeling great, penetrating a lot,” he said. “Right after that game, I was very frustrated. In fact, I thought it was way worse. When I felt something pop I thought, ‘OK, I tore something and I will be out for a while.’”
Consultation with a couple of friends who had suffered hamstring tears reassured him his injury could not have been so severe.
“When I got back home after the game, I felt better and I thought, ‘It can’t be that bad,’” Ginobili said. “So I talked to a couple of guys that had tears before and I said, ‘No, that can’t be it; a whole tear.’ They told me they could not even walk.
“I can look at it on the bright side: OK, it is an injury for 10 days or 14 days. A little rest is not going to hurt as long as I come back fine.”
An MRI the next morning confirmed his su ions that the soreness was the result of a strain, rather than a tear.
Get a hammer: Kawhi Leonard suffered the strangest injury of the Spurs season on Monday when he fell at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center and came up with a gash in his left kneecap.
It was a painful injury, but not as frightening as the description Popovich provided.
“He fell on his kneecap,” the coach said. “It actually split open. The skin, not the kneecap. I would have fainted if that had happened.”
There has been no response from Popovich to Leonard’s assertion that the cut was caused by a nail that was sticking through the hardwood.
“He fell on his kneecap,” the coach said. “It actually split open. The skin, not the kneecap. I would have fainted if that had happened.”
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