Wed Jan 13 08:05am EST
SL: Bryant’s back spasms; TP playing through plantar fasciitis
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Mike Bresnahan, L.A. Times:“;Already without Pau Gasol(notes), the Lakers found themselves without Kobe
Bryant(notes) as well, a 1-2 punch that flattened them Tuesday against the San
Antonio Spurs. Bryant left the game late in the third quarter because
of back spasms and never came back in the Spurs’ 105-85 victory Tuesday
at AT&T Center. As if the Lakers needed more bad medical news, all
eyes move from Bryant’s injured finger to his back, which the team can
only hope will be sound enough for him to play tonight at Dallas. His
back initially seized up on a turnaround 14-foot bank over Manu
Ginobili(notes) with 3:27 left in the first quarter. Bryant briefly left
during a timeout 23 seconds later but returned to play the entire
second quarter, actually making three of four shots. Then his back
really tightened during halftime. [...] ‘I couldn’t walk. I literally
couldn’t walk,’ he said. ‘So that’s the only way I don’t play.’ Will he
play tonight? ‘I think so,’ said Bryant, who is usually much more
optimistic about playing with an injury. ‘Pretty sure. If I can walk,
I’ll play.”;
Mike Monroe, S.A. Express-News: Los
Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night at the AT&T Center, Parker revealed
he is suffering from plantar fasciitis in his left foot. Asked why he
has had occasional problems this season on drives to the basket,trx shop, Parker
volunteered the news about his injury. ‘I’m a little bit slower, that’s
why,’ he said. ‘I don’t think it’s much different. It’s just my plantar
fasciitis is killing me.’ Then, holding up a special sock designed to
lessen the effects of the painful injury, Parker said he will play
through the injury as long as he can. ‘I have to wear my sock, do
treatment every day: cold tub, ultrasound, same old, same old,’ Parker
said. ‘Just like TD (Duncan) in 2006. He had it the whole season. I
asked TD what I have to do. He said the sock is great.’ For now, Parker
doesn’t anticipate missing any games but said Spurs coach Gregg
Popovich will make the judgment on when he will play and when he will
rest”;
Tom Sorensen, Charlotte Observer ;
RealGM:“;Sources from both the Los Angeles Lakers and the Toronto Raptors
insist there have been no talks between the two clubs regarding an
Andrew Bynum(notes)-for-Chris Bosh swap. Sources continue to insist that
Toronto will not trade Bosh unless he tells the club that he will not
re-sign this summer”;
Marc Stein, TrueHoop: Dallas
Mavericks got the same message when they tested Utah’s resolve early
last week. The Mavs made a long-shot attempt to convince Utah to part
with Carlos Boozer(notes) by proposing an all-about-money trade that would
have provided the Jazz with another sizable chunk of payroll relief to
follow up the significant savings from their recent swap with Oklahoma
City, ESPN.com has learned. Yet sources close to the situation say that
the Jazz weren’t about to be tempted. Using Drew Gooden’s(notes) partially
guaranteed contract and two players it wound up trading to the New
Jersey Nets days later — Kris Humphries(notes) and Shawne Williams(notes) — Dallas
could assemble a package of contracts high enough to reach the salary
range of Boozer’s $12.3 million expiring contract to make the trade
math work … but low enough to net an initial savings of $2.5 million
for the Jazz. Waiving Gooden before last Wednesday — which was the last
day he could be released and still clear waivers — would have then
sliced another $2.6 million from Utah’s payroll to essentially take the
Jazz out of tax territory”;
Chris Tomasson, NBA FanHouse:
Jeff Rabjohns, Indy Star:“;Tyler Hansbrough said he felt a little dizzy after missing seven games
due to an inner ear infection, but the Indiana Pacers rookie power
forward doesn’t expect it to keep him out of the lineup moving forward.
Hansbrough played 12 minutes in Monday’s 105-101 victory over Toronto,
his first action since Dec. 27. He’s expected to be ready tonight
against Amare Stoudemire and the Phoenix Suns. ‘It’s just gradually
there,’ Hansbrough said of the dizziness. ‘It’s not there all the time.
It comes and goes.’ Hansbrough scored four points but missed 5-of-7
free throws. He said the impact of the injury on his shooting ‘is kind
of overhyped.’ ‘I feel a lot better,’ he said. ‘I’m just trying to get
back, get a game feel for everything. When you’re out and get back in
there, you can practice free throws a lot, but it’s not like the game.’
The viral ear infection could take six weeks to completely clear up,trx force kit,
Pacers coach Jim O’Brien said”;
Phil Jasner, Philadelphia Daily News: Allen Iverson(notes) would have such
a positive impact on Samuel Dalembert(notes)? Who knew that Dalembert, who
previously had talked openly of perhaps playing elsewhere and has known
the 76ers would be happy to move his contract, suddenly would find
peace and contentment in the post? ‘The pride, man,’ Dalembert said
after practice yesterday at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic
Medicine. ‘The game has been doing a lot for me, [to] take care of
myself, my family, everybody. It’s the least I can do, to respect when
I step on the floor, for the love of the game, the pride.’ [...] It has
been clear that Iverson has found a chemistry with Dalembert, involving
the center in the offense, knowing Dalembert would respond at the other
end of the floor. It’s almost as if Dalembert, pleased with being
included, doesn’t want to disappoint Iverson. ‘I told him that,’
Dalembert said. ‘I’m so glad he got back, because he knows what I’m
capable of doing, my style of game. [Our games] merge together; they
fit together. I’m a finisher; he’s the guy who’s going to start it.”;
Dave D’Alessandro, The Star-Ledger:“;Josh Boone, likely to be the next man shipped out as soon as they can
find a final resting place for his $2 million contract, had a long
conversation with Rod Thorn during free-throw drills. But the subject
of a trade never came up, he said. ‘I only know what I read, and
(reports) say they’re shopping me,’ Boone said. ‘I would love to stay,trx pro pack,
but I know how the business is.’ Remarkably, the longest-tenured Nets
player prefers to stay, even though most of his minutes will go to
Humphries; and even though he’d be better off getting a head start on
his pursuit of a new contract in some other team’s rotation. ‘We have
seen a few guys leave very quickly. But when you have a team that’s
3-34, changes tend to get made quickly,’ Boone said. ‘Still, I’d love
to stay.”;
Benjamin Hochman, The Denver Post:“;In Denver sports, there are few moments — a deep pass to Brandon
Marshall; Tulo up with runners on; Rocky attempting that backwards,
half-court heave — that spark more goosebump-growing anticipation than
when J.R. Smith(notes) comes ’round a pick, open for a 3-pointer. Out of his
hand, everything looks like it’s going in — and as the Nuggets guard
said recently,trx rip trainer, everything he shoots feels like it’s going in, and
that’s why he never feels he takes a ‘bad shot.’ But lately, he’s been
missing 3s at an astounding rate. [...] Is this a slump? Is this an
ongoing problem? Is this fixable? On Tuesday, coach George Karl was
asked if, strategically, he would ever change up a player’s mentality
and tell him to shoot less. ‘No,’ he said. ‘Yes, you want the mentality
to be team-oriented, but the options sometimes are taking him out of
the game or run different plays and put him in different places. And my
decision is J.R. is too valuable to take out of a game.”;
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