The Ice Man, a four-timescoring champ with a careerNBAaverage of 26.2 points, waspartofaSpursteam that squandered a 3-1 leadto the WashingtonBulletsin the 1979 Eastern Conference finals.
The NBAscoringchamp will take four or five weeks to allow the injury to heal on its own first in an effort to avoid surgery, which would likely sideline him for three to four months and possibly threaten his ability to report to training camp.