This feels pretty bizarre to type, but Tony Parker is no longer the starting point guard for the San Antonio Spurs. Parker, 35, is in his 17th season with the Spurs and has essentially been the starting point guard the entirety of his career, but due to his decline as a player and his drop [...]
January 22, 2018
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Ryan Bawek
Tony Parker returned to the San Antonio Spurs on Monday night after missing the start of the season with a torn quad he suffered near the end of last year—and he came bearing more than the six points and four assists he dropped in the team’s victory over the Dallas Mavericks. To hear the 35-year-old [...]
November 28, 2017
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There are three things that are absolute certainties in life: death, taxes and the San Antonio Spurs making the playoffs. That is of course a play off of the quote by current Washington Wizards Head Coach Scott Brooks, who said a version of that a few years back, which is a play on the quote [...]
November 27, 2017
Anou Enright
Ryan Bawek
Longtime Spurs point guard and future hall of famer Tony Parker is rehabbing his torn left quadriceps this off-season, an injury he suffered against the Rockets in the western conference semi-finals last season. While initial prognosis for the injury was for Parker to return around or even after the all-star break, Parker has said numerous [...]
September 5, 2017
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The San Antonio Spurs opted not to add an impact point guard this off-season despite the fact that their incumbent starting point guard is 35 and will be coming off of a torn quadriceps. Parker suffered the injury during game 5 of the 2017 western conference semi-finals against the Rockets and is now targeting a [...]
August 10, 2017
Anou Enright
Ryan Bawek
Tony Parker’s torn left quad will not keep him out of the San Antonio Spurs’ lineup for all of 2017-18—or so he says. In an interview with L’Equipe, Parker said he believes he’ll be ready for action sometime in January (via Eurohoops.net): “I will play my best basketball when I return in January”, Parker told L’Equipe. After his injury during [...]
The news on Tony Parker’s left knee injury is in. And, as expected, isn’t good. Word came Thursday afternoon from the San Antonio Spurs that their point guard is done for the playoffs after suffering a ruptured left quadriceps tendon. Here’s more details from ESPN.com: San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker has a ruptured left [...]
During the fourth quarter of the San Antonio Spurs’ Game 2 drubbing of the Houston Rockets, Tony Parker went down with a left leg injury and needed to be carried off the court. It wasn’t a pretty sight. And the news afterward wasn’t any better. Though the Spurs didn’t clarify his status, head coach Gregg Popovich [...]
Tim Duncan is already retired. Manu Ginobili might follow him into the sunset this summer. Tony Parker will be right behind them. Or maybe not. Parker, 34, has two years (including this one) and nearly $30 million remaining on his current contract with the San Antonio Spurs. When it ends, he will be 36, with [...]
December 1, 2016
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Manu Ginobili, 38, has seen better days. Much better days. Way better, less painful days. After having surgery to repair a “testicular injury,” the San Antonio Spurs guard is expected to miss at least one month of action. Here’s the team’s full announcement, courtesy of CBS Sports: Manu Ginobili underwent surgery earlier today in San [...]
February 5, 2016
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