Each year, fans continue to write off the San Antonio Spurs because they are an aging bunch. But they somehow continue to surprise the basketball world and are still relevant, even winning the Western Conference regular season title a year ago. But how will they cope without Ginobili now?
A serious injury was the last thing on anyone’s mind, but what the Spurs got was the worst outcome possible: a fractured fifth metacarpal on Ginobili’s shooting hand that likely will keep their top scorer this season on the sidelines for a number of weeks.
“In this kind of situation, you can’t predict it,” said Tony Parker, Ginobili’s backcourt running mate. “It happened to me in Memphis in 2010. You go for a steal, and it happens, but Manu goes for a steal so many times, I almost want to say it can’t ever happen to him.
“Why now? That’s an answer for the basketball gods.”
Spurs athletic trainer Will Sevening examined Ginobili’s hand and led him to the Wolves’ medical room, where Ginobili’s hand was X-rayed, revealing the fracture.
Source: mysanantonio.com
