Tough road stretch awaits Los Angeles; Parker out approximately six weeks
The key word in seeing Candace Parker's prognosis after a knee injury suffered Sunday was this: weeks.
Six of them. That's what is projected as the recovery time for a torn lateral meniscus in her right knee. And while there's frustration to see one of the WNBA's marquee players out for a significant time again after missing most of last season with a shoulder injury, there had to be collective sighs of relief, too, that the news wasn't worse.
At least the recovery time is not expected to be months and cost Parker this season. Because that would have been pretty devastating to not only her Los Angeles Sparks, but the WNBA as a whole. Even fans of other teams very much want to see Parker in action.
She won't be, though, Tuesday, as the Sparks visit Connecticut (ESPN2, 8 ET) in a battle of two 4-3 teams that are coming off two-game road skids. The Sun fell at Chicago and Indiana, while Los Angeles lost at San Antonio and New York.
Parker had to endure the cross-country flight back to California after the loss to the Liberty in which she was injured Sunday, and an MRI on Monday revealed the damage.
Of course, there is another word in the prognosis for Parker: approximately. As with any injury, there isn't any guarantee that six weeks of recovery will do it. But it's what the Sparks are hoping for as they try not to lose much ground in what appears to be a Western Conference race that will not be forgiving, to say the least.
The Sparks are going to be without Parker for an extended stretch of their schedule that is mostly away from home. In fact, they have just two games at the Staples Center (back-to-back, July 17-18) between now and Aug. 3. If they can get through that without too much damage, the schedule is then backloaded with home games. In August and September, the Sparks play 11 of their 16 games at Staples.
Considering that defending champion Seattle also will be without its biggest star -- center Lauren Jackson is out at least three weeks with a labral tear in her left hip -- it's not as if the Sparks are the only team that's hurting now. And consider the misfortune of the Washington Mystics, who lost Monique Currie in the offseason to a knee injury and are still in limbo about Alana Beard's status due to a persistent ankle injury that forced her to miss all of last season.
Injuries are just part of the landscape in every sport, an unpredictable X factor that no team can fully prepare for. In the WNBA, the relatively short regular season (34 games) can mean a key injury can devastate a team.
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