"It's not good", Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said when asked after the game about the severity of Parker's injury.
When the longest-tenured Spur went down in the fourth quarter of Game 2 on Wednesday, trainer Will Sevening, teammates and even the Rockets' Pat Beverley, left, expressed concern for Tony Parker's welfare..
The Spurs' LaMarcus Aldridge, who scored 26 points, shoots over Clint Capela and James Harden. We haven't gotten together to talk about who's going to play instead.
"What is hard is to see him limping and hurting now", said Manu Ginobili, who has played 15 seasons with Parker. That is a tough blow.
The San Antonio Spurs lost Tony Parker for the remainder of the season.
Patty Mills will likely play a much larger role with the injury to Parker. And when the six-time NBA All-Star and future Hall of Famer was at his best, the Spurs looked every bit like a legit championship contender. That means he did not take the big win for granted and wanted to come back just as big in their second game in San Antonio before the action headed home to Houston.
Leonard showed in Game 2 that he may well be in a class now occupied by only LeBron James and himself.
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The response was not what Dedmon - or the San Antonio Spurs - wanted to hear. It certainly wasn't a pretty game to watch, as the Spurs shot 45.3 percent from the field and won thanks to the Rockets' 36.4 shooting percentage. "Then when he wasn't moving and he couldn't put weight on it to come back to the locker room, that's when we all got anxious". In Game 2, the Spurs adjusted and James Harden struggled massively, invalidating Houston's huge advantage when their superstar starts cooking against their slow-footed bigs.
San Antonio got revenge for their very bad opening game of the series by destroying the Rockets 121-96 in a complete blowout in game two on May 3. Gasol had 12 points and nine rebounds.
Luckily for the San Antonio Spurs, their forward player, Kawhi Leonard, stepped up his game last Wednesday and made 34 points, seven rebounds and eight assists.
The Spurs and Rockets will resume their second-round playoff series Thursday when they travel to Houston for Game 3.
"It's unusual and a little bit sad", Ginobili, a 15th-year pro, said of not having Parker, a 16th-year pro, and fellow member of the Spurs' vaunted Big Three by his side.
The Spurs will miss more than Parker's steady execution on the court, Mills said. Whatever the case may be, San Antonio probably won't win Game 3 or the series if things with Aldridge don't change.
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