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The San Antonio Spurs today announced that a MRI had revealed that Brent Barry suffered a grade II strain of the medial head of his gastrocnemius muscle in his left calf. The injury occurred during the third quarter of the Spurs-Miami Heat game on 1/24. He is expected to miss three-to-four weeks.

Barry had previously torn the plantaris muscle in his left calf on 12/26 against Chicago. He missed nine games due to the injury

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Sucks. Not what hoped for... but at least it's now rather than late in the season.

Brent Barry is breaking down before our very eyes, Brent's extremely useful in combination with Manu - he should be back in late Feb-March, not good but at least it's not season ending stuff.

Well this sucks. We need him to spread the floor. He provides us with energy example vs the Lakers. I think most important is that he is efficient with his shoots and can handle the ball.

I'm wondering if this might cause Barry to be the odd man out later in the year on Pop's rotation.

The history on Pop is that he likes using a 8/9 man rotation going into the playoffs with the exception of last year where the Spurs go 10 deep on nearly every game.

So if Pop goes 10 deep again with Oberto and Elson upfront, Duncan will be joined by Horry cause Bonner is already losing minutes now. Bonner is one of our odd man out. Parker and Vaughn will most likely share the PG. Bowen and Manu is a lock to play. Who's the backup SG/SF? Finley is the starter. Udoka is very productive so far and this injury might cement Udoka's place on the rotation.

brent will be misssed... watched the entire laker and spurs game and brent was money the whole game..

well i hope udoka gets to continue to impress us while barry is out.

Udoka has to be a lock for the rotation..he's been more consistent than Ginobili, Bowen, Finley and pretty much anyone else other than Duncan and maybe Parker lately..