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official injury thread.
official injury thread.
yeah.. there is no hope to see him coming back before next year tbh
best we can wish for at this point is that it is not a career ending injury
I felt worse after game 2 than game 1. This really sucks
Age of player. Injury to player. Zero speed. 3rd string PG in the NBA at best.
Terrible. It's been a while since the Spurs had this kind of bad luck. Depending on the extent of the injury, it could impact what the Spurs do this offseason. It was great watching Retro Tony during this playoff run. Next man up.
just the game he passed Kobe and became 5th with most PO games played... this is easily could be it...
All we needed him to be is a Mario Ellie or Porter to lead this team as a veteran. Not to be balls out athletic. So, he will be missed big time.
Good point. What is Ellie up to right now?
That Bontemps again:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...antonio-spurs/
Tony Parker’s injury could mark the end of an era for the San Antonio Spurs
Through the first eight games of these NBA playoffs, Tony Parker appeared to have jumped into a time machine. The 34-year-old point guard, long one of the pillars of the dynastic San Antonio Spurs, was suddenly — and surprisingly — an impact player in San Antonio once again, providing the kind of spark he had in countless postseason games earlier in his career.
But then came a possession early in the fourth quarter of what would eventually be a 121-96 victory for the Spurs over the Houston Rockets, a win that would even San Antonio’s series with their Texas rivals at a game apiece thanks in no small part to Parker’s 18 points on 8-for-13 shooting and four assists. Parker got into the lane, as he has so many times before, and rose up for his trademark floater over the Houston defense.
As the shot missed, the Rockets collected the rebound and began to go the other way, but Parker wasn’t going anywhere. He collapsed to the ground, held his left leg and stared at his left knee. It was the look of a man who knew something bad had happened.
His fears were confirmed when Parker had to be carried off the court and to the locker room by a pair of teammates.
“It’s not good,” Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich told reporters after the game.
The full extent of Parker’s injury — simply deemed a “left leg injury” by the team — won’t be known until after an MRI Thursday morning. But it seems no one in San Antonio is expecting good news.
“It’s hard to see him limping and hurting now, and you kind of know we’re not going to see him anytime soon,” Ginobili said. “That’s a tough blow. We shall see. We don’t know.”
For so long, the Spurs have been defined by four figures: Tim Duncan, Popovich, Ginobili and Parker. Or, as they’re known in San Antonio: Timmy, Pop, Manu and Tony. It’s a quartet that’s won as much together as any in NBA history, collecting four championships and making the postseason every season this century — something no other team has done.
But now, one by one, that era is beginning to end. Duncan was the first to go, choosing to retire after last year’s playoffs. Ginobili, who looked every bit of his 39 years in going scoreless in the first four games of San Antonio’s first-round playoff series against the Memphis Grizzlies, seems as if he could very well follow Duncan after this season. And now Parker — signed through next season — has an uncertain future as well.
Sports can be cruel, and few moments are worse than seeing a player crumple to the ground with a noncontact injury. But it’s doubly so for someone in Parker’s position. The veteran had played as he used to in the playoffs, giving Kawhi Leonard some modi of help to try to lift the Spurs to yet another deep postseason run.
“He has that presence, just like [Duncan] had that presence,” point guard Patty Mills told reporters. “And he was rolling the last month, going back to his old self. He has that presence on the floor, especially when he’s on the break.
“When the ball is in his hands, he makes big-time plays, big-time shots, big-time moves. So we’ll see what the deal is.”
Assuming Parker will be out, San Antonio has other options. Leonard was once again remarkable in Game 2, finishing with 34 points on 13-for-16 shooting and eight assists, and likely will be called upon not only to be the Spurs’ defensive stopper and leading scorer, but the team’s main creator moving forward. Mills will likely become the team’s starting point guard, and Ginobili — still one of the sport’s most creative passers — will probably assume the backup point guard spot.
What the Spurs can’t do, however, is replace what Parker means to the team.
“Besides the fact that Tony is our point guard, we are going to miss having him around, his experience, his big shots,” Ginobili said. “It is more than just who is going to start. We are going to miss his presence.”
As Parker was carried back to San Antonio’s locker room moments later, one could almost see that presence leaving with him, along with so much of what has made the Spurs who they have been over their long run of dominance within the sport. The question now, as the Spurs wait for those MRI results, is when — or if — that presence will return.
Me too! Loved the win but just felt sad that TP was injured that way after playing so well! Get well TP and my prayers are with you!
I think Parker and GNob just tied the leader for duos with most playoff wins.
This is better than knee injury.
Parker did a real hard spin move for a hoop earlier in the game.
Loved it, but I wondered then if that was the set up for the tweak.
I mean, you kind of hope it's a quadricep instead of an ACL/knee ligament injury in terms of severity right? He's going to be out for a while either way.
Damn, that's sad. Feel bad for TP.
If it's severe, I'm reading it could take around 3 months to resume normal activities
Yes, with a quadricep you at least hope he won't miss the entire year next year, and possibly regain the form he was playing with these playoffs. Either way it's grim for an aging point guard
Yep. Im legit sad. Haven't felt this way since TD announced retirement.
And with TD in game 6 it had an eerie funeral feel with how he was playing. Like something wasn't right.
Yes. Im sure you remember, when they looked like they were about to go on a run, and TD missed like a layup or got blocked or something. And he reacted in a way that I really though to myself, this was it.
The quadricep part seems to be gaining steam.
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