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Wah.(AP Photo/Ben Margot) One would think I’d have been totally geeked for Monday night. My beloved Spurs were in town and my even more beloved Manu was on a bit of a roll. I had tickets, as always, and my girlfriend agreed to cover for me at work and I was finally going to see my SpursDynasty buds again after a long time apart (mostly my fault). But the whole…
Let’s see you make a three with Tim riding you like a pony, you cocky shit. (Photo by D. Clarke Evans/NBAE via Getty Images) This might be a little too much information about me, but for various reasons, the girlfriend and I, had our first sexual tryst in about two weeks Sunday night. In the, uh, afterglow, I asked her, embarrassed, “That went bad, didn’t it?” “Well, it wasn’t good,”…
“I knew what it was going to be out there, and I didn’t want our team to fall into that. We knew how it was going to be, especially going against the league darlings.”-Rasheed Wallace, Detroit Pistons Forward Game 17: Pistons 89, Spurs 77 Maybe he has been smokin’ again1. I don’t know. But I can say without hesitation that Rasheed Wallace is out of his fucking mind if he…
Game 10: Spurs 86, Clippers 83 Unbelievable. Roger Mason’s three-pointer with 8.4 seconds left against the Clippers? Yeah, that was great. What’s unbelievable, though, is that I watched last night’s Spurs-Clippers game on my computer! When Tim Duncan started playing for the Spurs back in 1997, we were still using VCRs to record games. (Bramlet needs a storage unit for all of his VHS tapes.) Now we watch games on…
The Spurs were trampled by the Mavericks last night, 98-81. (Thankfully those other mavericks were losers last night.) This loss made it three straight for our Spurs — their worst start ever, unless you count when they opened 0-4 in the 1973-74 season back in the ABA days. Since the Spurs joined the NBA in 1976, they’ve never lost three straight right out of the gates. I won’t be surprised…
I waded through more than a dozen prognosticators’ pre-season predictions to bring you the best takes on the 2008-2009 season. It’s not surprising that sports writers aren’t optimistic about the Spurs chances of winning a fifth title this year, but most don’t rule it out either. Back in June, the Sporting News’ Stan McNeal picked his “Top 5 Candidates for a championship parade in 2009″, ranking the Spurs fourth behind…
Game One: Spurs 98, Suns 103 The Spurs opened the 2007-2008 season with a win over the Blazers. This year the Spurs opened with a loss at home to the Phoenix Suns. When was the last time the Spurs lost a season opener with Tim Duncan? Never. In fact, neither Gregg Popovich nor Tim Duncan had lost openers before. What a difference a year makes. Last year, Manu Ginobili and…
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich trimmed his beard just in time to waive Salim Stoudamire and receive some accolades in the league’s annual general managers survey. The GMs named Popovich the league’s best coach, ahead of Phil Jackson and Jerry Sloan. They also cited him as the coach who makes the best in-game adjustments and the coach who is best in the final two minutes of a close game and the…
It’s hard to believe that the San Antonio Spurs 2007-2008 season ended just six days ago. It didn’t end where we thought it would, but it sure was one helluva ride. I’d like to thank my fellow contributors — Michael, Brantley, Jake, Kevin and Rene — for making this site a reality. More importantly, I’d like to thank you for reading and for joining us. We had over 100,000 readers…
Brent Barry’s days in the NBA are numbered, as they are for all players, of course. But Barry is 36 years old and his career will be over soon — maybe next week, maybe next year. Years from now, if anyone remembers last night’s game, it will not be for Barry’s heroic efforts on offense, scoring a career playoff high 23 points, but instead for Derek Fisher’s foul on Barry…
