In the lead up to the NBA season, I’m taking the time to slowly but surely go through every player who is likely to suit up in the silver and black this year and at least give some brief thoughts on their likely contribution. I know some of these players better than others, so some [...]

The thing about Media Day photos is that they are always awkward. And I don’t just mean the forced, 3rd grade yearbook photo smiles. I mean, those are awkward, and make them almost difficult to look at. But on top of that you have the ridiculous poses. If anything, the Spurs poses this year are [...]

In the lead up to the NBA season, I’m taking the time to slowly but surely go through every player who is likely to suit up in the silver and black this year and at least give some brief thoughts on their likely contribution. I know some of these players better than others, so some [...]

According to the New York Daily News, via SLAM, the Spurs may be taking an interest in Stephon Marbury: The Spurs might not see Manu Ginobili until late December as he recovers from foot surgery, so if Tim Duncan and Gregg Popovich think they can get Marbury to buy into their system, San Antonio is [...]

In the lead up to the NBA season, I’m taking the time to slowly but surely go through every player who is likely to suit up in the silver and black this year and at least give some brief thoughts on their likely contribution. I know some of these players better than others, so some [...]

Basketbawful: “[Robinson] led the league in scoring in 1993-94 and is one of only five players to have ever scored more than 70 points in a single game (with 71 points against the Los Angeles Clippers on April 24, 1994). He is one of only four players to have recorded a quadruple-double (with 34 points, [...]

Ziller, NBA Fanhouse: “For a few easily ascertained reasons, Manu Ginobili almost never gets mentioned in the same breath as the league’s top two-guards. He gets ignored in favor of fellows like Michael Redd and, prior to last season, Ray Allen. Manu gets respect — don’t get that twisted. But it’s always as a sixth [...]

In the lead up to the NBA season, I’m taking the time to slowly but surely go through every player who is likely to suit up in the silver and black this season and at least give some brief thoughts on their likely contribution. I know some of these players better than others, so some [...]

Although I will be a part of a couple of season preview projects, including Spurs previews for both Celtics blog and Hardwood Paroxysm, I wanted to take the time and do an extended breakdown of the roster the Spurs have assembled heading into this upcoming season. I’ve watched some of these players countless times, others [...]

So the Spurs’ acquisition of Salim Stoudamire has generated a little bit of buzz around the interwebs, which is a testament to how absolutely little NBA news there is right now (actually between the Knicks waiving Marbury and Shareef Abdur-Rahim’s retirement this has been a pretty busy 48 hours, comparatively). Either way I figured I’d [...]

According to the Arizona Daily Star (via Slam via Ziller), Salim Stoudamire is now a Spur. Which is fine. Stoudamire seems to fit the mold as far as Spurs role players go, i.e. he shoots the three ball. Ziller noted that Salim shot anywhere from 42 to 50% from outside while in college, while his [...]

I honestly have nothing to say about basketball right now. My ability to think lucidly about sports has been paralyzed by the anger and confusion I feel in regards to the current state of the general election, and more broadly the nature of media in the United States. But, alas, other people still find the [...]

Yesterday I briefly addressed the death of David Foster Wallace, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the article he wrote for the the New York Times Sports Magazine and the ramifications of his insights regarding aesthetics and sports. Subsequently, I wrote this. In some ways it is an extension of this piece, but it addresses [...]

As many of you may already know, David Foster Wallace passed away this past weekend in tragic fashion. He was a brilliant novelist as well as an insightful cultural critic. He also was an accomplished tennis player and an avid fan of the game. Although an NBA blog, I have always tried to recognize great [...]

If you haven’t been checking out Ball Don’t Lie’s Blog Association posts, you really should. I consider myself reasonably well-versed when it comes to the NBA blogosphere but Dwyer, as he goes through naming the top three team blogs for every team in the Association, has introduced me to some sites I will definitely be [...]