Tag: MRI

Spurs prepping for rough Game 3 in Memphis

PG Parker set for MRI before Tip off

When the San Antonio Spurs face off against the Memphis Grizzlies Saturday night don’t expect not to see PG Tony Parker there even though he is scheduled to have an MRI

“just to make sure,” Parker said.

To make sure that his healing from an injury that kept him from 100% late in the regular season.

The Spurs know that they will be playing in an hostile environment in which no playoff team has one in.

“We went on the road in every series and lost and have had to come back. We’re at home and we want to come out and play much more aggressive and confident, which teams normally do at home,” Head Coach Lionel Hollins said after practice on Thursday. “[But] as I’ve told our team, being at home isn’t going to win anything for us. We have to play much better”

Game 3 is Saturday May 25th at 9 PM

Blair has sprained wrist, but so what?

An MRI conducted Sunday morning confirmed Spurs center DeJuan Blair has a sprained left wrist, but it is not expected to keep him out of Monday’s game against Golden State.

Blair suffered the injury at some point during the first half of Saturday’s victory over Charlotte, but wasn’t immediately sure after the game how  it happened. The team’s medical staff examined Blair in the locker room and he played sparingly in the second half of a blowout, returning with his injured wrist heavily taped.

A starter for the first 63 games of the season, Blair is averaging 8.1 points and 6.8 rebounds. In six games since shifting to the  bench in favor of Antonio McDyess, Blair is averaging 7.3 points and 5.7 rebounds in 14:48 per game.