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Sparks Lisa Leslie Questionable For WNBA All-Star Game

08 July 2009
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Sparks center Lisa Leslie, who in early All-Star balloting was leading all WNBA centers, still wasn’t sure Tuesday whether her knee injury would keep her from playing in the July 25 game.

Leslie, the league’s all-time leading scorer, has missed four games since spraining her right knee June 19 against the Phoenix Mercury and isn’t on the three-game trip that starts Thursday against the New York Liberty. In early returns, released last week, she had 24,305 votes. Voting ends today.

Leslie said that if she doesn’t return to the lineup before the All-Star game that “I’m sure the organization wouldn’t like it if I played.”

She still hopes to be back playing as early as July 22, when the Sparks visit Seattle, but still has not been given medical clearance to take part in running drills.

The three-time most valuable player is, however, participating in shooting drills and recently moved from the stationary bike to the elliptical machine. She has been exercising for 20 minutes at a level-10 incline and plans on running in deep water Wednesday during physical therapy.

“I’m there every morning at 6 a.m.,” Leslie said. “I do whatever they ask me to do. They say I’m well ahead of where they thought.”

Before spraining her knee, Leslie averaged 10.4 points and 7.4 points per game while battling a swollen thumb that she jammed during training camp. Leslie said she hasn’t had extra treatment for her thumb while she’s been sidelined.

“My knee hurts more than my thumb,” Leslie said. “Therefore, my thumb feels better.”

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