Ankle sprain may sideline Spurs’ Parker for week

We all know dallas sucks! they shouled get to the finals and" win it" this time, before you start talking all that crab. i think the dallas team shouled go to anger classes to control that problem, take mark cuban also. the only good thing that dallas had and lost was avery johnson.

TJ= Jealous Laker hater who has seen the Lakers beat his team too many times. On the subject though, the Spurs have been getting pretty old these last few years. Duncan seems to be on the decline and Parker and Ginobli are always hurt...

We all know dallas sucks! they shouled get to the finals and" win it" this time, before you start talking all that crab. i think the dallas team shouled go to anger classes to control that problem, take mark cuban also. the only good thing that dallas had and lost was avery johnson.

Man you flaker chumps have to comment on everything Spurs related don't you? Get off the sack weasels, you guys are the defending champs but you are like an insecure girlfriend! I won't mess with you haters today, My Cowboys are looking good so I'm on cloud 9 right now. The NBA season doesn't start for me until January, but hell yeah I will be watching tonight! Go Spurs

TJ Styles... if you knew anything about the Lakers, you'd know that they play down to their competition sometimes. You talk about if they had played the Celtics or the Cavs then it would have been a different story but if you have forgotten the Lakers were 4-0 against those 2 teams last season.

its funny how so many people here talk about the spurs when in reality if you were put on the court to play any nba player you would be no comp...so what if parker is hurt this season has just started and like it was mentioned before they made the third seed last year and that was with ginobili out for most of it and duncan even sat a couple games out....take out two of the top players from any team and tell me how many teams would be able to do what the spurs did last yr im not saying no one else can do it but not to many...so im gonna end this here and let haterz do what they do hate

jose calderon for mvp

raps are for real spurs suck

@ TJ Styles zzzzZZZZzzz zzzZZzzz ZZZzzzzz

GO SPURS GO ... to the retirement home where you belong. One of the most over hyped teams in awhile. Nearly all the media has them contending with Lakers, but they are getting run out of the gym. Don't play McDyess or Blair too much or they are likely to get injured too.

I'd love to swoop up that balla Hill for my fantasy squad, but he doesn't pass worth jack.

good games.... all in the spirit of fun with one goal.... the big larry o'brien trphy... the spurs know this and play for this... go spurs go... they do it simply, quietly and effectively..... go and do it again..... go spurs!!!!!

Who cares if the Spurs are boring. I'm a Laker fan and the object of the game is to win...not entertain. The Spurs win a lot of games and quite few championships to boot. The Vlade / Van Excel / Eddie Jones teams were fun to watch, but couldn't win jack. I'll take boring championships any day.

Speedy recovery to Parker and i'll be looking forward to see Spurs win the next game. GOOO SPURS.

i forgot kate is taken but maybe he could take my ex girlfriend michelle trachtenberg.

number 127 eva is too ugly . tony made a big mistake marrying her . he should marry kate hudson or kristen kreuk.

Spurs know how to play the game! Big basketball IQ!! Stacked team!! Pg.. 2g... sm fw.... big tim!..... Spurs doin it!

I love it, an article about Tony Parker's ankle has posts about how great the Lakers are. What a bunch of insecure emo fans. I would be insecure too, though, if my team was hyped up like the Lakers and focused around a poser like Bryant. Don't get me wrong, he is one of the best shooting guards in the game. But he doesn't hold a candle to LeBron James or Dwayne Wade. Kobe is good, but not the best in the league, and he won the title because he has one of the best rosters in the league. If you swapped Kobe and LeBron, I would be surprised if the Cavs even made it to the Eastern Conference Finals, but I would think the Lakers would still be the favorites to win it all (though I believe Boston are the real favorites to win it all, anyway).

And, while Johnny D is obviously insane or trolling to say some of the stuff he has said about Parker and Duncan, he does have one point I like. While I am not a fan of Mark Cuban as a person, I feel that the league (and sports leagues in general) need more owners like him. He is clearly a fan of the team he owns, and its good to have an owner that takes that much pride in his team. While I admittedly don't follow owners that much in the news, it seems like a lot of them just want to put "owner of a professional sports franchise" on their business card.

That being said, I think its completely ridiculous to point out that a "bench point guard" defends Tony Parker better than your starter. All that means is that your starting point guard does not play as good of defense than your bench. All players in the league have strengths and weaknesses. Take Dahntay Jones from the Nuggets last season, he was a defensive specialist. When he was on Kobe in the Western Conference Finals, Kobe was pretty ineffective. Does that mean that Kobe isn't good? On the Suns, Dragic plays better defense than Nash, but that does not mean that someone Dragic can defend is bad. I don't know what the Mavericks looked like last year, so I don't really know who you are referring to, but just because a player does well defending someone doesn't mean that player is not good.

I am a Timberwolves fan first, Celtics fan second (well, KG fan second), and a Suns fan third (I live in Phoenix now), so I am not too big on the Spurs. The Spurs are also my girlfriends' team, so I get to give her a hard time every time they lose. But, I think they are the favorites in the West this year. Lakers are good, but the Spurs are better. You don't see the Spurs take games off like the Lakers did throughout the playoffs last year. You don't see repeated breakdowns in the defense of the Spurs like you do with the Lakers. Granted, the Spurs can't turn on the offense with the flip of a switch like the Lakers can, but I think the Spurs have boosted their roster big time without losing anything critical.

I also don't think the Lakers should have won last year. I think that the Cavaliers should have won, but LeBron lost them the Eastern Conference Finals. I think LeBron is clearly the best player in the game. I watched more Cavs games this year than any other team because it is simply amazing what he can do (and he was on my Fantasy team last year). But, I cannot for the life of me figure out why in several games against the Magic with Howard under the rim with 4 and 5 fouls, LeBron decided to become a jump shooter. What the hell? Take the ball at Howard and make him either foul out or back off and give you the free points. Granted, LeBron is getting much better with his jump shot, but it is still not his best offensive weapon. West had the presence of mind to cut to the hole on every possession, but LeBron was content to hoist up bricks. And I cannot figure out why Mike Brown just let LeBron do that. Call timeout and take control of your team. It is LeBron James' and Mike Brown's fault that the Cavs lost, plain and simple. And because of that they go and pick up Shaq to clog the lanes and make LeBron even more reliant on the jump shot. They never needed someone bigger to deal with Howard, they just needed James to play his game.

Besides that, though, the Lakers were never as "dominant" as the hype or record seemed to suggest they were. Granted, they had the hardest schedule by far, but they didn't seem to show up half the time. The Jazz are not push overs, but the Lakers played lazy against them several games. The Rockets are good, but without Yao and McGrady, the Lakers should not have gone to 7 games against them. The Nuggets I thought were possibly the best team in the West (I still feel that way, but now I think the Spurs could be), but again the Lakers seemed to be sleeping on their feet a lot against them. I didn't really watch the Lakers/Magic series, cause I really don't care for either team. Going 7 games in the playoffs is not necessarily a bad thing. You are going to lose games, opponents will have good games, etc. But, the Lakers just seemed to not show up more frequently than most other teams. The Celtics got beat in a lot of games in their title run two years ago, but there were not many games where I thought they didn't give it their all. The Lakers were a different story this last year. Some may say that shows how good the Lakers really are when they can take days off and still win; I say that shows the Lakers' weakness. The Lakers were lucky they faced teams that could not capitalize on their off-nights. The Spurs, Celtics and Cavaliers would have made them pay severely for taking a night off. The Rockets almost did make them pay, and they were missing two of their star players.

I decided to check back on some of the comments posted by other people and I became depressed. Johnny D-your comments are pathetic. The Spurs will be "bottom seed"? Duncan "was never really that good"? Parker only has speed? Come on! Don't let your hate for your division rival cloud your judgement. First of all, the Spurs were the second seed with Duncan playing on one leg and Ginobili sitting on the bench. Let me repeat that: THIRD SEED. Where do you think we'll be at with all our new players AND a healthy Ginobili? Even if, God forbid, Ginobili continues to be a degenerative case, we will still be where we were at last season if not higher. About Tim Duncan, anyone with any basketball IQ readily admits Duncan is the greatest power-forward of all time. He's older now, yes, but he can still play (age is inevitable). As for Parker and Ginobili, those two players have made the Spurs (as well as Duncan of course). Parker was our 2007 Finals MVP and Ginobili, one of the most underrated and underpaid playes in the team, has helped in so many ways (three point shooting, driving to the paint, making countless good steals). He brings PASSION, the word you would use to desribe the scrub of a human being named Mark Cuban. The Spurs can go all the way for championship #5 if they are healthy. GSG!

Tony Parker will be fine. If all the Spurs remain healthy, I'm sure we can beat the Lakers come playoff time. You fools say the Spurs are old? The average age has dropped because we have brought DeJuan Blair (aka The Steal), Ian Mahimi, Marcus Haislip, and Ian Mahinmi. George Hill is returning and Richard Jefferson is only 29. As for the Spurs being boring, have you EVER watched Manu Ginobili play? Have you seen Parker blow by "defenders"? The Spurs have done so much and we'll be ready come playoff time. Dallas is a joke. The Spurs can beat any team hands-down if they're healthy; even the Lakers. GO SPURS GO!

who cares about the SPURTS they are old & FEAR DALLAS lmfao

Parker was mildly injured and was asked by the spurs to come back in the states for an exam. The truth is the spurs does not want him to play internationaly, and they try to find every excuse to keep him home. If they had any concern, they would have send a M.D. to check on him, instead of asking him to fly back and forth between europe and texas.

dr shock u better stop messing with tony parker his the best player on the spurs. we got two others too.

I repect the SPURS team because of TD, MANU, PARKER, now RJ. dallas slill trying to get a ring with marion in starting lineup, still trying to get somebody to guard WADE. buckner now ross.

past 3 seasons and more!!!