Spurs PF LaMarcus Aldridge underwent an arthroscopic subacromial decompression and rotator cuff debridement on his right shoulder and will miss the remainder of the 2019-20 season, the team announced today.
The successful procedure was performed in Dallas, Texas, on April 24.
Aldridge injured his shoulder at Utah on February 21. After playing at Oklahoma City on February 23, he missed the next six games rehabbing before returning to score 24 points in San Antonio’s win against Dallas on March 10. The next day the NBA suspended gameplay on March 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The seven-time All-Star is expected to be fully cleared for all basketball activities before Spurs training camp to start the 2020-21 season.
When the season resumes, which is expected on July 31, the Spurs will be four games out of the 8th and final playoff spot. The season restart would begin with eight “seeding games” for each returning team and include the possibility of a play-in tournament for the eighth and final playoff seed in each conference depending on combined records across regular-season games and seeding games.
If the team with the eighth-best combined record in its conference is more than four games ahead of the team with the ninth-best combined record in the same conference, then the team with the eighth-best record would earn the eighth playoff seed.
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