Fine post. Thanks for joining and thanks for the info. As for your questions/points:

1) I’m not sure. I don’t know if a team can prohibit a player from playing for their team. It does seem like a gray area.

2) The Spurs front office would always prefer that their guys not play. However, they have had enough international players to know that many of those guys REALLY want to play.

3) I don’t think it reflects on their depth. I think it reflects on the fact that he is an all-star point guard. You can’t win in the NBA without your best players.

4) My guess is that they will handle him fine. I think they are probably pretty familiar with his personality after 7 years.

Interesting. Unless they saw something that made them think twice about letting him continue playing(I’m sure Spurs scouts are there watching De Colo anyway), I don’t think the Spurs would have done this. Cross your fingers, folks.

This is precautionary. He had a minor ankle sprain but also thigh injury. Tony would had to play heavy minutes and he would have to carry the team, its is very diferent from the guys at team usa, for them is like an all star game.

we don’t want to see this again

Parker rentre à San Antonio
Info L’Equipe : Tony Parker rentre aux Etats-Unis. En effet, après avoir pris connaissance des examens médicaux passés par le meneur français, le staff des San Antonio Spurs lui a demandé de revenir au club.

Sa participation en doute pour Italie-France

Les dirigeants de San Antonio veulent donc que Parker rentrer au Texas afin de "subir des examens complémentaires", alors que, toujours d’après le communiqué de la FFBB, "les soins prodigués en équipe de France devaient permettre un retour rapide du joueur à la compétition". En effet, le meneur français "marche normalement" et avait recommencé à courir. Ce voyage aux Etats-Unis laisse planer de sérieux doutes sur la participation de “TP” au match de repêchage contre l’Italie, le 5 août à Cagliari. Le staff des Bleus "ne sait pas s’il sera de retour pour (ce match) et pour les matches qui suivent".

Parker : "Je ne comprends sincèrement pas cette décision"

Le forfait du joueur n’est donc pas certain, mais, même si les Spurs laissaient Parker repartir vers l’Europe un jour après son retour à San Antonio, cela ne constituerait pas une préparation idéale avant un match d’une telle importance, avec 22h d’avions dans les jambes et trois jours sans entraînement. Les rares personnes qui ont pu croiser “TP” à sa sortie du stade de Coubertin, l’ont vu très contrarié. Le joueur n’a pu s’exprimer que par le biais du communiqué de la Fédération : "Je ne comprends sincèrement pas cette décision, après tous les test effectués en commun" entre l’équipe de France et les Spurs. "Je regrette ce qui se passe. Je suis obligé de suivre les injonctions de mon club, poursuit Parker. J’espère revenir au plus vite pour disputer les matches de qualification".

Parker s’envole vendredi matin en direction de San Antonio, en compagnie de l’osthéopate des Bleus, dépêché par le staff tricolore afin de "continuer les soins entamés" et de "permettre le retour" du joueur. Affaire à suivre.

Using Yahoo Babel Fish Text Translation (it really sucks):

The leaders of San Antonio thus want that Parker to return to Texas in order to "undergo complementary examinations", whereas, always d’ after the official statement of the BFR, "the care lavished in team of France was to allow a rapid return of the player with the competition". Indeed, the French leader "walks normally" and had started again to run. This voyage to the United States lets plane serious doubts about the participation of " TP" with the match of fishing out against l’ Italy, on August 5 with Cagliari. The staff of Blue "does not know s’ it will be of return for (this match) and the matches which follow".

Parker: "I do not include/understand sincerely this decision"

The fixed price of the player n’ is thus not certain, but, even if Spurs let Parker set out again towards l’ Europe one day after its return to San Antonio, that would not constitute an ideal preparation before a match d’ such an importance, with 22:00 d’ planes in the legs and three days without drive. The rare people who could cross " TP" at its exit of the stage of Coubertin, l’ saw very opposed. The player n’ s’ could; to express that by the means of the official statement of the Federation: "I do not include/understand sincerely this decision, after all the test jointly carried out" between l’ equip with France and Spurs. "I regret what occurs. I am obliged to follow the injunctions of my club, continues Parker. J’ hope to return as fast as possible to dispute the matches qualification

Parker s’ fly away Friday morning in direction of San Antonio, company of l’ osthéopate of Blue, dispatched by tricolour staff in order to "continue the started care" and "to allow the return" of the player. Business to be followed.

RC and Pop are just trying to get more minutes for Nando so he is ready to come over next year.

Crossing my fingers.

Yikes. I hope this is quickly resolved with a minimum of hurt feelings and hurt ankles.

Sounds like a proactive defensive tactice by the spurs….

" We want to fly you back to the states to SEE FOR OURSELVES if your ankle is really only merely sprained ( and if you happen to miss a game or two, then tough SH%T,Mr. Ten Million dollar poing guard man.) "

Me likes this.

I’ve often heard complaints by owners/organisations when their star players want to play for their country. Their national team then has to pay some 100k for the injury police.

Yet i’ve never ever heard anything of that kind when the country they want to play for is the USA.

Let’s see what happens when LeBron blows out his knee in London…

according to Spurstalk, Tony and Holt had a very unfriendly conversation in SA and Parker’s pretty pissed. He feels like the Spurs have disrespected French medicine and that even though their doctors sent the Spurs 300 MRIs and X-Rays, and even though he saw a doctor in France that was approved/rec’d by the Spurs, they still wanted him to fly back to SA.

I think Tony’s going to wind up resenting our FO and Manu after this…

yeah. Tony will think that because of what happened with Manu, they’re going to be way too overprotective of him and not give France a chance to qualify for the olympics.