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Nice. Play in the Olympics, but miss time with the team that pays you.

This is exactly what Mark Cuban was talking about.

"Crash-test dummy" Ginobilli is always an accident waiting to happen. The way he flops and flails around the court has to be nerve-wracking for Greg Popovich. Every year he misses about 15 games or so with a variety of little injuries.

What's amazing about this guy is that these injuries may actually help him come playoff time. The crazy, kamikaze style he plays has to dictate some rest for the body. I guess his injuries are nature's way of ensuring it. He always seems to be rested for the playoffs, which is what's important...

gee, isn't 8 weeks the same as two months?

Hey, Tell It Like It Is, his ankle was okay when he played for Argentina. He's die for his country, but do you think he'd die for the NBA? Which would you do?

this may be a blessing in disguise. better to happen in the summer than in december.

they just say 8 weeks to scare spurs fans but it look like ginobili is trying fart.......and its pretty painful

when your a flopper it comes 2 bite u in the but while your on the injured list take care of that bald spot will u your in your early 30s & u seem 2 be hiting fourty!

Haha.
He's going to be fine next year, he'll miss the first 5 games max.

Hey, Tell It Like It Is, his ankle was okay when he played for Argentina. He's die for his country, but do you think he'd die for the NBA? Which would you do?
twangganger | 08/30/08, 10:25 AM

If I was getting paid millions, I'd listen to my bosses, nimrod.

Haha.
He's going to be fine next year, he'll miss the first 5 games max.

ahung | 08/30/08, 01:33 PM
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I kinda agree..A couple weeks max and he'll be the same Ginobilli looking like Sterve Urkel on amphetamines, flailing aimlessly about the court....

The Spurs should have traded him. That ankle is not going to get better, and I knew once he started regressing everyone was going to start claiming it was the injury.

I hate to say it but the Spurs have screwed up. We could have washed our hands of this mess but somehow we managed to keep a declining star in Manu and let a rising star like Scola get away.

The Spurs management is slipping, they are making mistakes that can ruin a good franchise. Manu is damaged goods, he is done. Even if he comes back he will not be a threat, because no one will allow him to shoot that stand still 3ptr of his if they don't respect his drives to the basket he will just get in the way.

With all the money they are paying him the only way we are going to get good decent players is if we are not carrying dead weight. What many of you don't understand is Manu is OLD, he is no young buck, injuries like this can end an older player's career if they don't take the time to properly heal, which obviously he didn't do. So now the Spurs are going to suffer unless they shop him on the trading block.

Im definitely NOT a Spurs fan, but if Ginobli only misses a few weeks of the regular season, I think the SPurs will be okay. He missed three weeks of the regular season and is back full strenght before mid-season, the Spurs will be back in the mix as usual. And this is from a die hard LAKERS fan.

How long has this guy been playing on a bad ankle? He's seriously putting his career in jeopardy. Anyone remember Grant Hill playing in the playoffs after he f'ed up his ankle? Not the same exact injury but the ankle isn't something to just say I'll suck it up and play through the pain. You only make things worse doing that.

Tell It Like It Is, tsk, tsk, calling people names. I wouldn't necessarily do what someone told me if I was being paid millions. This has nothing to do with him NOT doing what he was asked. It has to do about an injury that he received early in the playoffs (Suns round) and which was aggravated. Pop let him go. If someone paid you millions to jump off the Empire State Building, would you? Depends on what the millions are for, eh?

The guy signed a contract to play basketball, man. Not jump off a building. And the Spurs didn't want him in the Olympics. They have a right to be a little piszed at him.

I would be pissed.
They pay him millions, the least he can do is listen to them.

Spurs will be fine. They're in cruise control until the spring anyway. PLUS, I seriously don't think they need Ginobili to be successful in the West.