The San Antonio Spurs had a tough loss over the weekend but have a pretty easy schedule coming up.
Check out the latest news and rumors below.
Spurs Waiting for Injured Players to Return
The Spurs may be one of the deepest teams in the league but are still missing three rotation players--Tiago Splitter, Marco Belinelli, and Patty Mills, none of whom have definite returns listed soon.
Tony Parker addressed not having the players after the close 94-91 loss to the Sacramento Kings on Saturday night.
“Definitely, it’s going to be like that for awhile,” he said.
“It’s still a great road trip, 3-1 is still a great one. We wanted to be greedy and wanted to be 4-0 but 3-1 especially with the Clippers going into a back-to-back. It’s tough with back-to-backs for our teams especially with all the injuries. Just have to stay positive and start another series.”
Parker also noted how the team failed to make crucial stops in the last few minutes.
Kawhi Leonard was asked about the extended minutes for the veteran players, a factor because of the three injuries.
“I mean we had two days off between our back-to-backs. I felt like that’s why they played and last night they didn’t play much minutes. So I had a sense that they were going to play tonight,” he said.
“Probably later on as we get into game 30 or 40 he [coach Gregg Popovich] will start sitting the guys or someone tells him something will be bothering them.”
“We ran out of juice a little bit,” Popovich said, reported the San Antonio Express. “A couple of guys were probably tired at the end of the road trip. But everybody goes through that. We had a chance to win the thing and we just didn’t.”
Spurs Missing Splitter
