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Occupational Hazard: Spurs cautious with Duncan

By Guy Lake
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, December 14, 2007

T.J. Ford, PG, Raptors: When Al Horford delivered the hard foul to Ford on Tuesday, it resulted in another in a series of scary collisions for the young point guard and in Ford leaving the court strapped to a board. Let's start with a little background on Ford, so we can understand why nervous system trauma is such an issue for him. Ford has a condition known as spinal stenosis, which means the spinal cord does not have the same room to move within the vertebrae as do most people. This is not so ...

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