De’Aaron Fox will miss Game 2 of the Western Conference finals in Oklahoma City on Wednesday as he continues to deal with a right ankle injury. While the Spurs‘ official designation for Fox on their injury report is right ankle soreness, Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link) refers to the injury as a high ankle sprain.
The Spurs were without their All-Star point guard in their Game 1 victory, and they turned to 20-year-old rookie Dylan Harper to fill his shoes. Harper contributed a historic game for a player his age, with 24 points, 11 rebounds, six assists, and seven steals.
Justin Martinez of The Oklahoman notes (via Twitter) that the Spurs are starting the same group in Game 2 that they did in Game 1.
While San Antonio was said to be optimistic that Fox would back for Game 2, the team’s road win in Game 1 on the road accomplished an important goal of eliminating the Thunder’s home court advantage for the series. As a result of that win, the Spurs may have felt less urgency to get Fox back on the court for Game 2, suggests Rylan Stiles of Locked On Thunder (via Twitter).
Fox’s next chance to suit up will be Game 3, which will be played on Friday back in San Antonio.
It would be nice for Fox to take some of the ball handling away from Castle. Kid had 11 turnovers in game one. I expect him to improve, but it would be great if Fox could share the burden. Sounds like game 3 is likely.
That suxx . Spurs already took away hm court. So they can afford this. Hope Castle and Harper learned from gm1. Thunder are going to change it up. So you need leadership on the floor. Spurs D needs to show up again.
NBA talked about Chet in Wenby. That’s a laugh. Be physical they said, OMG I cannrun over Chet.
So we all see who is on Wemby —. smart