duncan injuried

SAN ANTONIO -- San Antonio Spurs star Tim Duncan could miss most of the remaining regular-season games after spraining his right ankle, team officials said Monday.

Duncan, the Spurs' leading scorer, rebounder and shot blocker, was placed on the injured list Monday. Team officials said in a news release that Duncan is expected to miss two to four weeks after an MRI on Monday determined he had a grade 2 ankle sprain.


He crumpled to the floor in the opening minutes of San Antonio's 110-101 loss to the Detroit Pistons on Sunday after he scored inside and came down on Rasheed Wallace's foot under the basket. After the landing, Duncan's ankle turned in a gruesome fashion.


Duncan missed two games earlier this month with a sprained right ankle.


San Antonio, currently the top team in the Western Conference at 50-16, has 16 more games over the next 30 days before the playoffs start. The Spurs play Monday night in New York against the Knicks.


The Spurs clinched a playoff spot last week and are battling Miami and Phoenix for home-court advantage throughout the postseason.


Duncan, a two-time NBA MVP, went into Sunday's game averaging 21.2 points, 11.5 rebounds and nearly three blocks in 62 games.


He flew home to San Antonio on Sunday to begin treatment, while the rest of the Spurs went to New York.


The Spurs activated forward-center Sean Marks from the injured list to take Duncan's roster slot. The 7-foot Marks, a New Zealander, has averaged three points and one rebound in seven games this season.

i hope he gets back soon, i really hate seeing star players go down

The good news is that their Schedule looks a little weak

hes out for the rest of the regular season.

mark my words.

this is the third time hes sprained this ankle this year.

Sean MArks will shine! Hooray.. good things are happening for Kiwi basketball!

the ankle injury was nasty as hell.. i've had the same thing happened to me only i was still able to walk on it a little bit after.. he had to be wheeled to the locker room, good god thats brutal.. the thing w/ ankle injuries is they take a LONG time to heal.. my foot was still hurting a year later

you might have torn a ligament there or two.......i have mine bothering me for the a year and a half......now there's a lot of cracking noise in there.....
anyways why is timmy having so much ankle injuries in his career....the tape man's not doing his job well in the locker room i guess

damn it. hope it's not that serious...hopefully he'll still do well in the playoffs

I guess tis mean bye bye best NBA and West record for the Spurs this year. Miami will probably get to the 60 win mark first and clinch homecourt at the end...

I saw the injury on ESPN Motion, and I almost felt it. Watching it and reading that article, I wouldn't be surprised if he missed the rest of the regular season (or close to it). I sprained my ankles a few times when I played in the junior league here in Newcastle, a couple of times really badly, but I never turned my ankle like that. That was sickening.