Parker Injures Ankle

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According to LNB (via Project Spurs) Tony Parker injured his ankle and thigh during international play. According to the FFBB, the sprain is mild, with no tearing or ligament damage. Parker is expected to play against Italy on August 5th.

I assume the thigh injury that initially caused him to leave Friday’s game against Austria is not severe, as the article’s main focus is Parker’s ankle. I’ll keep you updated if any new information becomes available.

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  • ThatBigGuy

    Wesley: good call on the stamina thing. I played college ball as well, although I was a 4/5. We had a PG who was 5’10″ on a good day who was top 5 in the nation in scoring (NAIA) for 3 years. He played about 35-37 mins a game because he was a freak of nature (think Chris Paul in your example.) Our back up point saw about 15 mins a game. Our stud PG got a thigh contusion, so our back up PG had to play about 30 mins a game. When he hit that 15 min mark, he was gassed, even though he was a finely tuned athlete and we practiced daily. When you play 82+ games a season, your body adjusts accordingly and doles out energy reserves to your body in an efficient manner. This happens over a period of time, not very quickly. Tony went from a low 30 mpg guy for most of the season to a 40 mpg guy when Manu went down. His body, even though finely tuned and in shape, just wasn’t able to switch to being efficient at 40 mpg. However, give Tony those type of mins throughout the year, and he’s not gassed in the playoffs.

  • Bentley

    I think that Parker will eventually have to develop the closer role, throughout his career he has shown glimpses of being that guy, but the sooner it develops, the better.

    I think Parker’s aggressiveness, while it may lead to turnovers and wild shots occasionally, is one of the best things about his game. The fact that he will take it to any player on the opposing team makes it harder for a team to scout him, much less actually guard him.

    And BigJ, the Spurs, had they been healthy last season were definitely the best challenger for Los Angeles, I have no doubt that we beat the Mavericks with a healthy squad.

    Let’s just hope we have ahealthy squad for the duration of this upcoming season

  • Will

    BigJ, I disagree that your employer should have a say about what you do in your off-hours. What about you go play some basketball on a Wed night and break something and can’t work for a couple of weeks – should your employer say you aren’t allowed to play b-ball because it’s a “risk”. Everything is a risk… The point is, for most sports it’s in the statuses of the governing body that players should be in a position to play for their national teams (actually in some sports a player could be banned for refusing to play for his national team).

    There are many ways around this if money is the issue: insurance, participation from federations, participation for sponsors (e.g. whichever sponsor has its logo on the national team jerseys and so on). If you are worried about competition (i.e. seing a player has a “can’t be replaced” commodity, which in the case of the NBA is pretty much exactly the case) then I don’t think it can work because you can’t ask a player at this level to be competitive one day and not the next. If a team is lucky enough to land players who play their heart out each and every day (which is the case of every Spurs player I can think of) then there is no on/off switch.

  • Kevin

    To chime in on the conditioning thing… one of the reasons Tony was so gassed at the end of games last year was because he was heavily depended on for scoring the entire game. Because we didn’t have Manu, and because of the PG struggles of Hill (after Tony came back) and Mason (never really handled the ball well), Pop couldn’t afford to keep Tony out of these games.

    I think this year the 2nd unit will be so much better (Manu, experience, etc.) that we won’t have to force Parker to play so many high intensity minutes. Therefor, he should be able to keep his legs and be a big threat every time he touches the ball.

  • hobson13

    Hey guys, I know this is TOTALLY off the subject but I just got finished listening to the B.S. Report on ESPN and Bill Simmons and Mark Stein both agreed that they thought the Spurs had the best shot at winning the title this next year. Rick Buchler almost agreed but he ended up picking Boston since he didn’t want to agree with the other two! Now keep in mind that the condition was that Odom left for Miami which seems more likely every day the Lakers don’t raise the stakes.

    They all three thought (as I do) that L.A. made a foolish move by getting the insane Ron Artest. There seemed to be a lot of debate about the Mavs as to whether or not they will be better this year, but none of them thought they were serious contenders. They said that Denver (and I totally agree with this) made its big push last year. I’ve said for a few weeks that I thought Denver’s high water mark was the 2008-2009 year. They didn’t get any better in the offseason and they played about as well as they could in the playoffs. They won’t have the element of surprise this year and they have no real upside besides the rookie they traded for.

    Anyway, I thought this was good news! Check out the podcast if you have 90 minutes to kill.

  • Robby

    As much has been said that the Spurs are one of the early favorites to win this upcoming season, we still need health (Tim, Tony, Manu this is your best chance to win 1-3 more titles!) and a little luck to win the championship… Spurs has been always been relevant for atleast past 12 yrs. so this news is not really new. But i have to admit that as a spurs fan, i haven’t been more excited for the season to start! with all the changes that we made, we have everyreason to be optimistic! Go Spurs Go!

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