The San Antonio Spurs are getting a key contributor back just in time for their post-All-Star run to the playoffs. Guard Derrick White is probable for Friday's game against the Toronto Raptors, Michael C. Wright of ESPN reports.

The second-year guard missed the Spurs' previous five games leading up to the All-Star break with plantar fasciitis in his right heel. He first sat out of San Antonio's game against the Sacramento Kings on February 4th, and the team announced shortly thereafter it expected White to be out through the All-Star break. The 24-year-old was sidelined for the first nine games of the season with an injury to his other heel.

A late first-round pick in the 2017 NBA draft, White has been a breakout performer for the rebuilt Spurs in their first season without dynasty holdovers Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, and Kawhi Leonard. Though he averages pedestrian numbers of 9.6 points, 3.4 rebounds, 3.6 assists, and 1.0 steals per game, the Colorado State product's impact looms larger than the box score suggests. White has a solid true shooting percentage of 58.0, routinely draws the defensive assignment of the opposition's top ball handler, and has the second-highest on-off net rating on the team, an indication of his imminent two-way worth for one of basketball's deepest teams.

San Antonio, 33-26, is currently seventh in the Western Conference, but just two games ahead of the ninth-placed Sacramento Kings and four games in front of the 10th-placed Los Angeles Lakers. Gregg Popovich's team limped into the All-Star break without White, losing four games before eking out a one-point win over the tanking Memphis Grizzlies on February 12th.