Toronto FC announced Monday that striker Jermain Defoe has suffered a groin strain and will be out approximately two-to-three weeks.
Paulo Garces Jersey . ?The team travels to Columbus to meet the Crew on Saturday. The news comes a day after it was
announced that Defoe would miss Wednesdays MLS All-Star Game that pits the
Leagues best against Bayern Munich. Defoe has scored 11 goals in 15 appearances
with Toronto FC this season and has been one of a number of new additions that
have the club on pace for their first ever MLS Cup Playoffs berth. Toronto FC
currently sits third in the Eastern Conference with 29 points through 20 games
played. "Hes been feeling his groin for a few weeks now," said Toronto FC coach
Ryan Nelsen after the clubs 2-0 Saturday victory over the Montreal Impact.
"Remember, hes been going for over a year, pushing on. Its just to get these
little niggles of your body, being worn down. Hopefully its nothing too bad,
nothing too major." Sporting Kansas City forward Dom Dwyer was been selected to
replace Defoe for the All-Star Game.
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Sunday five weeks after heart surgery.
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32 of Europes secondary competition.Spurs victory, secured by Benjamin
Stamboulis 49th-minute winner, was overshadowed by a succession of pitch
invasions that forced the referee to halt the game after 41
minutes.Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - Russell Westbrook had 27 points
and the Oklahoma City Thunder led wire-to-wire in a 103-91 win over the
Philadelphia 76ers on Friday night. The Thunder were coming off a loss in New
Orleans on Tuesday that spoiled Kevin Durants return from offseason foot surgery
and ended the teams first winning streak of the season at two games. The
reigning NBA MVP scored 27 points while playing nearly 30 minutes in his season
debut. He played 29 minutes against the Sixers, scoring 10 on 3-of-11 shooting
as Westbrook, in his third game back after missing 14 with a broken hand, led
the way. Thunder coach Scott Brooks agreed Durant looked rusty, but stressed
that he was just getting his game legs back, and that the team as it looked
Friday has only practiced together three times. Hes not going to have 30 points
every night, Brooks said. Hes still two games in. I believe that the work he
puts in is going to give him a better rhythm. What you see now is a player who
hasnt played in six or seven weeks. Hes going to continue to improve. Serge
Ibaka added 19 points for the Thunder and Jeremy Lamb scored 15 off the bench,
including a couple of 3-pointers that thwarted an attempted Sixers rally late in
the fourth quarter. The Sixers fell to 1-18, landing right back in the losing
column after getting their first win on the road against Minnesota on Wednesday
night. The victory kept them from matching the 2009-10 Nets for the worst start
to a season in NBA history, but they remain winless (0-11) at home. Robert
Covington scored a career-high 21 points off the bench to lead the Sixers.
Michael Carter-Williams had 16 points and 14 assists working against Westbrook
all night and Nerlens Noel aalso posted a double-double, scoring 11 with 10
rebounds.
Erick Pulgar Chile Jersey. Westbrook and Carter-Williams jawed often, including after Westbrook airballed a 3-pointer in
the third quarter, when the second-year Sixers point guard had something to say.
It came during a 7-0 Sixers run that trimmed Oklahoma Citys lead to 72-60. The
Thunder went more than five minutes without a field goal, but stretched their
lead to 18 with 1:25 left in the quarter. They carried an 82-67 advantage into
the fourth and had another long field goal drought as the Sixers pulled within
10 points on Noels alley-oop dunk from Carter-Williams and later got as close as
seven with three minutes left. There was no back down, said Sixers coach Brett
Brown. We had one lull in the third quarter. ... But I thought after that, there
was a lot of fight in that young group. But Lamb knocked down back-to-back
3-pointers around a Philadelphia turnover to cap an 8-0 Thunder flurry and put
the game out of reach. Earlier, Westbrook had eight points and four of his seven
assists in the first quarter and the Thunder shot better than 56 percent,
leading by as many as nine. Reserve forward Covington kept the Thunder from
pulling away, scoring seven points in the quarter for Philadelphia. Hollis
Thompson hit a 3-pointer to cap a 9-0 Sixers run in the second that cut into a
16-point Oklahoma City lead, but the Thunder pushed it back to 14 and led 57-47
at halftime. Game Notes The Thunder have won 11 straight meetings since the last
Sixers win in the series on Nov. 15, 2008 ... The Thunder will finish a
three-game road trip in Detroit on Sunday ... The Sixers start a three-game road
trip on Saturday in Detroit.
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