Spurs Not Using Injuries as an Excuse
The Spurs were already down one starting small forward before they even walked into the AT&T Center on Monday night. Eleven minutes and nine seconds into the game against the Los Angeles Clippers, they lost another one.
No Kawhi Leonard, no Stephen Jackson, and the Spurs still battled one of the NBA’s hottest teams to the wire before falling 92-87.
That the game began to unravel for the Spurs not long after Jackson — making his second start in Leonard’s spot — broke his right pinkie in a loose-ball scrum with Willie Green was not lost on his teammates.
Already absent Leonard to start the game — he’s out at least another six games with quadriceps tendinitis — the Spurs will be without Jackson for the next four-to-six weeks.
“Every team goes through injuries,” said point guard Tony Parker, who had 11 points and six assists. “We’re just going to have to have a lot of guys step up. Kawhi does a lot of stuff for us and Jack too, but we’re going to have to play without them.”
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