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Dave D’Alessandro writes in the Sporting News: If memory serves, this season was supposed to be about the Spurs’ coronation — as what, we may never know. A team for the ages, perhaps. Or maybe the last great dynasty until a new era of parity sets in. Or at least “Team of the Decade,” given that they could have been going for their fourth straight championship this spring, if not…
I’m not the only one who thinks the US should have better athletes playing soccer. Neither am I alone in thinking that soccer players are revolutionizing the way basketball is played in the US. Imagine if Americans were able to do for World Cup soccer what Europeans have done for the NBA? Here in America, a German was marking basketball with a kind of creative progress. And there in Germany,…
After the Spurs went down 3 games to 1 in their series with the Mavericks, most of the sports media wrote them off. We here at SpursDynasty had our doubts, but never lost faith. And now that the series has gone to 7, fate and the odds are back on the Spurs side. The dynasty continues. NBA teams are 77-17 at home in Game 7s Starting with the 2001 postseason,…
Newsworthy? Not really, but this stuff is interesting as long as Eva sticks with Tony Parker. Eva Longoria tops Maxim’s seventh annual “Hot 100″ list of the most successful women in film, TV, music, sports and fashion for the second year in a row. “I was actually really shocked last year when I made the list,” said the 31-year-old Longoria, who ranked No. 91 on the 2004 roster. “So 91…
I know there are people out there reading this who think they’re Spurs fans. You go to some games, you own a Spurs shirt or two and maybe even a jersey, you cheer good plays, you read some articles. (And you obviously haven’t taken the SpursDynasty Purity Test.) Let me break this to you gently: If the Spurs are eliminated from the playoffs tonight by the _allas motherfucking Mavericks, it’s…
It was a great game last night … Should Dallas win again, fans might be disappointed to see the series end. Expectations have been building since it became obvious in December this would be a second-round matchup, and four games later it’s close to being a classic. This was the third one decided at the end, the first that required overtime. It’s been exhilarating to watch the two best teams…
Last year I read an interesting book by James Surowiecki, “The Wisdom of Crowds.” In it, he offers an accessible, entertaining “introduction to applied behavioral economics and game theory”: If four basic conditions are met, a crowd’s “collective intelligence” will produce better outcomes than a small group of experts, Surowiecki says, even if members of the crowd don’t know all the facts or choose, individually, to act irrationally. “Wise crowds”…
From The Onion: SAN ANTONIO—In a move typical of the style that has made them famous league-wide, the San Antonio Spurs issued a brief press release Tuesday concerning their elimination of the Sacramento Kings from the playoffs in six games. “The San Antonio Spurs have advanced past Sacramento to the second round of the playoffs,” the 100-word announcement read in part, failing to mention the 22-point margin of victory in…
TIM DUNCAN, 8th place, 2006 MVP balloting (Tony Parker finished 9th… can you feel the dynasty?) PS The Mavs are finally Dallas again, since they have D. Too bad scoring under 90 puts them in a strong statistical likelihood of losing to the Spurs.
Even more interesting than the news that Tim Duncan woke up at 6am on Sunday and had one of his best offensive performances of the season, was this bit about Bruce Bowen: With a little more than two minutes remaining, Bowen took a pass from Parker and buried the go-ahead 3-pointer. It was the only shot the Spurs made in the last 5:21 and one of only three 3-pointers they…
