Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ nba ’

Manu Ginobili is a champion, and perhaps the most successful Sixth Man in the history of the game. But he’s one of the NBA’s most hated players outside of San Antonio for a reason: He’s a shameless flopper. In fact, it could be argued that the league’s decision to institute flopping fines this year...
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Isn’t it amazing what happens when the San Antonio Spurs decide to run their offense through Tim Duncan and move the ball? Actually, it’s not; it’s utterly fucking predictable. Unless they’re facing the ghosts of Bill Russell’s Celtics, the Spurs are going to win. And win they did Friday night in Oakland by a score of...
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If you thought the NBA’s youngest team might come out demoralized after blowing a 16-point lead with four minutes to go in Game 1, you wouldn’t have been alone. But you’d have also been dead wrong, as the Golden State Warriors won in San Antonio (100-91) for the first time since 1997 to even...
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In a 129-127 game in which the guy you’re guarding goes for 44 points and your famously clutch teammate hits a three-pointer with one second to go for the win, it’s tough to single out a defender’s effort as the key to a team’s success. Yet once Kawhi Leonard switched on to Steph Curry,...
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Recent All-Star Weekends in Texas have had a distinct flavor when it comes to proponents of the San Antonio Spurs. Houston in 2006 was an urban-themed coming out party for Tony Parker as a baller and fledgling rhyme-sayer. Dallas in 2010 was dominated by the excess of Cowboys Stadium, aka Jerry World and the...
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In a continuing trend of the San Antonio Spurs 40th anniversary season, Tim Duncan once again turned back the clock to post up quality numbers in a Spurs win. On Sunday night it was Ricky Rubio and the Minnesota Timberwolves that bore witness to vintage Timmy who patrolled the paint with 12 points, 9...
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The San Antonio Spurs finished up their recent four-game home stand with a spirited 122-116 victory over James Harden and the Houston Rockets on Friday evening. Houston’s dynamic duo of Harden and Jeremy Lin did not disappoint, combining for 54 points, 15 assists, and 6 steals, but San Antonio’s big three ultimately sealed the...
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“Does anybody know we have a game against Memphis tonight,” asked Coach Gregg Popovich facing a scrum of reporters in the bowels of the AT&T Center on Saturday night. After expressing disappointment in the quarter of a million dollar fine handed down by NBA commissioner David Stern to the Spurs organization, Coach Pop was...
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On Monday afternoon Tim Duncan was named the Western Conference Player of the Week for the 21st time in his storied, often stone-faced career. Duncan averaged 20 points, 12 boards, and 3 dimes in four contests taking his game back to 2009, which was the most recent year he earned Player of the Week...
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Going into training camp the biggest surprise from the Spurs was the last minute addition of Eddy Curry to their roster. Although the veteran center won a NBA Championship with the Miami Heat last season, he wasn’t exactly a key contributor. Through four exhibition games though, it was French 6-5 rookie guard Nando De...
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The Kawhi Leonard show officially kicked off in Las Vegas Sunday night when the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Atlanta Hawks 82-76, in the first contest of their five-game Summer League stint. Overcoming a slow start, Leonard finished the night with 23 points, 4 boards, and 3 dimes, displaying the overall skills that made...
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DJ Scream opens Stephen Jackson’s latest mixtape, “Trill Mixes,” with the booming proclamation that Jackson, aka Stak5, is back in the vocal booth and bigger, badder, doper, and richer than ever. After a solid debut last winter with “What’s a Lockout,” Stak5 returned to the studio to spit bars that further opine on the...
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