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Parker injury casts cloud over Spurs' Heat triumph
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June 13, 2013, Thursday
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THE San Antonio Spurs moved two wins away from a National Basketball Association title with a stunning 113-77 blowout victory over the Miami Heat on Tuesday but may have lost leading scorer Tony Parker to a hamstring injury.
Parker was to have a scan yesterday after tweaking his right hamstring during the victory that gave San Antonio a 2-1 lead over the NBA champions in the best-of-seven finals series.
"I don't know, I have no idea. We'll do an MRI tomorrow and hopefully it's nothing big and it's just a little cramping or it got tight on me," Parker, who contributed just six points in the win, told reporters.
The 31-year-old guard went to the San Antonio locker room in the third quarter and re-entered the game briefly in the fourth quarter before returning to the bench with the game's outcome all but decided.
The uncertainty about Parker's status for tomorrow's Game 4 in San Antonio, where the Heat have won just three of 25 games, dampened the mood at the raucous AT&T Center.
Danny Green and Gary Neal delivered career-best performances as the Spurs responded to Sunday's 19-point Game 2 loss in Miami.
The pair, each playing in his first NBA finals, combined for 51 points for the Spurs, who are in the finals for the first time since winning their fourth title in 2007.
Green had a game-high 27 points on 9-of-15 shooting, including seven three pointers, while Neal came off the bench to score 24 points, including six from beyond the arc. San Antonio set an NBA finals record with 16 three-pointers.
The Spurs defense limited four-time league most valuable player LeBron James to 15 points on 7-of-21 shooting.
Parker was to have a scan yesterday after tweaking his right hamstring during the victory that gave San Antonio a 2-1 lead over the NBA champions in the best-of-seven finals series.
"I don't know, I have no idea. We'll do an MRI tomorrow and hopefully it's nothing big and it's just a little cramping or it got tight on me," Parker, who contributed just six points in the win, told reporters.
The 31-year-old guard went to the San Antonio locker room in the third quarter and re-entered the game briefly in the fourth quarter before returning to the bench with the game's outcome all but decided.
The uncertainty about Parker's status for tomorrow's Game 4 in San Antonio, where the Heat have won just three of 25 games, dampened the mood at the raucous AT&T Center.
Danny Green and Gary Neal delivered career-best performances as the Spurs responded to Sunday's 19-point Game 2 loss in Miami.
The pair, each playing in his first NBA finals, combined for 51 points for the Spurs, who are in the finals for the first time since winning their fourth title in 2007.
Green had a game-high 27 points on 9-of-15 shooting, including seven three pointers, while Neal came off the bench to score 24 points, including six from beyond the arc. San Antonio set an NBA finals record with 16 three-pointers.
The Spurs defense limited four-time league most valuable player LeBron James to 15 points on 7-of-21 shooting.
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