Spurs coach Gregg Popovich says the team sent James Anderson down to the D-League to work on his conditioning.

“I think that will do him a lot more good than seeing if we’re up 20 or down 20 and putting him in for three minutes,” Popovich said of playing in Austin. “We want to get him back ready to be put in a game.”

Popovich called Anderson "grossly out of shape" after the rookie missed 40 games with a stress fracture in his right foot.