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Bill Simmons ranks the most cost effective player contracts in the NBA (“The Best Bargains in the NBA: With the NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement in full swing, it’s all about the contracts“). Guess which 3 Spurs made the list. 15. Danny Green (Spurs): 3 years, $11.3 million You can always find cheap perimeter guys who can defend and shoot 3s. They’re always kicking around. If you have…
San Antonio Spurs 114, Detroit Pistons 75 (47-14, 24-3 home) With a loss in Detroit last month being one of only a few blemishes on the Spurs season, and tonight’s game being the first without Parker, there was no doubt that the team was going to come out focused and hungry. The real question was: how well would they play? And while you might have to subtract a few points…
San Antonio Spurs 130, Sacramento Kings 102 (46-14, 23-3 home) Why should Spurs fans care about Friday night’s Spurs-Kings game? Going into the game, the Kings were in a three-way tie with the Phoenix Suns and the New Orleans Hornets as the worst teams in the Western Conference. The Spurs had something to make up for, coming off an overtime loss to the Suns that snapped their 18-game home winning…
Phoenix Suns 105, San Antonio Spurs 101 (45-14, 22-3 home) …and the prayer of a desperation pass and shot are answered, and suddenly we’re in OT of a game that should have never even gotten that close. And that OT might have been the ugliest 5 minutes of basketball played all season. 1 measly point. Putrid offense. Bad fouls. Not a single good look, solidly executed play, or wide-open shot….
Even playing without Tony Parker, in the 9th game of the Rodeo Road Trip that has taken the team on the road for the better part of 2-1/2 weeks, after a dispiriting loss Friday night, this game seemed an awful lot like a formality. And after a close first quarter, the Spurs opened up a double digit lead early in the 2nd that they never relinquished. The game had a…
Thursday night, the Spurs beat one of the best teams in the league, a Clippers squad which owned them in their previous two contests. It was especially satisfying to see the Spurs win so decisively, leading by as many 33 points before three quarters had even been completed. The Spurs were sharp and precise on offense, shooting almost 60% for the night and nearly 50% from behind the arc. On…
Like most players in tonight’s game, I haven’t really participated in any meaningful NBA action in almost a week, so let’s ease our way back into the first post-vacation game with a simple “bullet points” recap: –After a week off, tonight’s game looked it. Lots of energy, lots of rust. The Spurs played well, and are just a much better team than the Kings. At any given point, they could…
Whoa. What a fun win. It’s always great when the ‘kids’ win and play great to boot. Too much going on, we’re going straight to the bullet points: –Some insane numbers from the box score: The Bulls outrebounded the Spurs 49-26, with 17 offensive rebounds. That’s insane. They also held an 18-2 second chance point edge. However, the Spurs won the turnover battle 19-8, and scored 29 points on turnovers,…
Last night’s loss to the Pistons was a long time coming. The team hadn’t been playing great for a while, but had been getting wins mostly by executing down the stretch and playing passable to good defense in stretches. But missing 2 of your 3 most important players, you’re going to lose some games, particularly on the road in February in the middle of a blizzard against a team that…
Another night, another ugly win. Showing no real predilection to win this game–other than Danny Green’s barrage of 3-pointers, obviously–it was an old friend that helped us finally pull away in the closing minutes: execution. With the game tighter than it should be and no team willing to seize control, the Spurs were able to generate several shots that were either wide open, at the rim, or both. The Timberwolves,…
