Utah will be without their leader Andrei Kirilenko for at least the next week to ten days after Kirklenko suffered a sprained knee early in the second quarter of Utah's loss to the Spurs.
According to Phil Miller of the Salt Lake Tribune Kirilenko was standing near the left side of the lane with 9:08 to go in the second quarter when Howard Eisley drove toward him. Eisley collided with defender Beno Udrih, and the Spurs rookie bounced backwards, into Kirilenko. The contact bent Kirilenko's right leg from the side, and he crumpled to the ground.
"I don't think it's so [bad], but might take some time," said Kirilenko, who was hobbling around with a crutch after the game. "Feels like unstable walking side-to-side, but straight is not bad. I don't feel anything like hurting."