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» Sunday, April 28 2013

Unofficially, the team’s medical staff estimates it could be a week to 10 days for Splitter to return, a timetable that would make him available for most if not all of the second round. “He’s been really special for us,” Popovich said before Saturday’s practice at a gym in Santa Monica, Calif. “Hopefully, we can get him back as soon as possible. Somebody else will have to step in and guard their big guys.” San Antonio Express-News

Though it left him with blurred vision, point guard Tony Parker seemed unconcerned about a scratch to the white part of his right eye, suffered when Darius Morris reached for a steal midway through the second quarter Friday. “It was a little bit blurry in the second half, it’s a little bit blurry this morning,” Parker said before Saturday’s workout. “The doctors say (Sunday) it should be fine.” Parker made three consecutive jumpers after the poke but said his vision got worse as the game went along. “I was not really seeing the rim,” Parker said. “I asked the doc, ‘I think something’s wrong with my right eye.’” Parker is on a three-day regimen of special drops in the eye to promote healing. His latest injury is opposite the eye scratched in the infamous New York City nightclub brawl last summer and is significantly less severe. San Antonio Express-News

 

» Saturday, April 27 2013

Coach Gregg Popovich says starting center Tiago Splitter is out indefinitely after spraining his left ankle late in the third quarter of the Spurs’ 120-89 Game 3 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night. Unofficially, the team’s medical staff estimates it could be a week to 10 days for Splitter to return, a timetable that would make him available for most if not all of the second round. “He’s been really special for us,” Popovich said before Saturday’s practice at a gym in Santa Monica, Calif. “Hopefully, we can get him back as soon as possible. Somebody else will have to step in and guard their big guys.” San Antonio Express-News

Against Gregg Popovich, Tim Duncan, and Tony Parker. And in this universe, that can only mean one thing: Final score, 120-89, the worst home playoff loss in franchise history. San Antonio up 3-0 in the series. “I thought our guys played as hard as they could play,” head coach Mike D’Antoni said after. “but they ran out of gas toward the end.” SheridanHoops

Starting power forward Tiago Splitter is expected to miss 7-10 days with a sprained left ankle, according to a Twitter post by Express-News columnist Buck Harvey. San Antonio Express-News

A pair of fans got into a brief fist fight as the crowd spilled out of the AT&T Center after the Spurs’ 102-91 victory over the Lakers Wednesday in the second game of their first round playoff series. The fight, shown on video at kens5.com, lasted less than a minute. A Spurs spokesperson told KENS 5 that the organization, which hires off-duty Bexar County deputies to augment security at games, is reviewing the situation. San Antonio Express-News

 

» Thursday, April 25 2013

“It is the toughest award they give away because players don’t vote,” Ginobili said. “It’s the player that (goes) against other players who know. Sometimes the best rebounder is not the best defender; or the best in steals is not a great defender. He just gambles a lot. It could be (an award for players to choose), but it’s been going on for so many years. It’s not that I’m complaining, but probably we do know better than the media.” San Antonio Express-News

A guy the Spurs had tried to go away from, came back. Matt Bonner, relegated to comedic relief this season, best known for indie groups and his Red Mamba nickname, found unfamiliar footing. He made shots Wednesday, which is what he does best. But he mostly made Dwight Howard work when he didn’t make him mad. Bonner called it, for those who would like to Google the phrase, “Chumbawamba defense.” San Antonio Express-News

No Spur is as entertaining, whether he’s the fictional Coach B or just a man on the street with an opinion. He’s at his best when he’s making fun of himself, and he did last fall when the Spurs were going through some drills with the local boxer, “Jesse” James Leija. Someone joked that all of this must be new to him, and he objected with a straight face. “You don’t understand,” he said. “I grew up in the mean streets of Concord, New Hampshire.” San Antonio Express-News

 

» Wednesday, April 24 2013

Spurs center DeJuan Blair has agreed to pay back more than $53,000 he owes a local jeweler who let him take merchandise on credit three years ago, lawyers for both sides said. “Mr. Blair thought this was being handled,” his attorney Alex Nava said. “It kind of fell threw the cracks and when he got wind of it he took appropriate actions to take care of the matter as quickly as possible.” San Antonio Express-News

 

» Tuesday, April 23 2013

 

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