It’s a difficult question. One that refuses to die. Eventually a team owner will play Bartleby to David Stern’s perplexed narration, and maybe that time has come. The NBA technically forbids its teams from interfering with their players participation in summer events. If a player wants to play for his country, it’s his prerogative. But [...]
The Boston Globe’s Peter May has written a solid article about the Spurs offseason.
May covers a lot of the same ground as Johnny Ludden’s August 8 article, but it’s still a fresh read.
It’s humorous that when the Spurs make a major roster move, Gregg Popovich is careful to note Tim Duncan’s approval. May reminds us [...]
In a recent post, I made a couple suggestions that are regarded with suspicion by some of our readers. First, some readers scratch their heads over my categorization of Andrew Bynum as a star player. Second, they question whether the league really has moved to a place where the elite teams place 4 star players [...]
Adrian Wojnarowski broke stories left and right this summer. Apparently he takes little vacations from news breaking to offer thoughtful commentary on already existing stories. Today Wojnarowski contributed a scathing critique of Rick Pitino, who comes off as an anti-Popovich in the piece.
And there is actual Popovich content in the article too. Future biographers take [...]
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I’m curious to see what Austin holds for the Spurs this season. Recent Toros Ian Mahinmi, Marcus Williams and Malik Hairston will vie for court time in San Antonio. Player development in Austin may take a peculiar flavor this year. At least two players from last year’s team were not Spurs, but proved worthy of [...]
Tomorrow’s game between France and Italy is crucial for both teams.
France, and Spurs Tony Parker, Ian Mahinmi and Nando De Colo, will qualify for play in September with the victory.
The always provocative Wendell Berry is good at digging for disease, never becoming arrested at the surface, staring at symptoms. He wants to get beneath all that. In a thoughtful Harper’s piece dated May, 2008 -Faustian Economics: Hell Hath No Limits-Berry takes on the disease of limitlessness. Early last year, Berry was responding to the [...]
I subscribe to the theory that most things are more complicated than we assume. Things tend to converge in a messy tangle of perspective and circumstance-knots require careful hands before they massage loose into a coherent clump of strings. But the complexity of the 2009 offseason finds a simple solution in Peter Holt. He’s the [...]
Ole is running a short but fun interview with Fabricio Oberto, newest member of the Washington Wizards. The most important take away from the article is that Oberto is fully recovered from the atrial fibrillation which caused him to miss games last season. The fun stuff is a portrait of Fabricio as a tourist, his [...]
The France-Finland match is available online, but it might be short lived. Over at SpursTalk, Bruno has kindly pointed our browsers in this direction.
This alert comes to you post tip-off. So if you want to watch, scurry on over. France 14, Finland 6. And yes, Tony Parker is playing. My understanding is that Ian Mahinmi will [...]
Johnny Ludden continues to lead the Spurs coverage pack. His latest piece for Yahoo! is can’t miss, with plenty of helpful details about the motivations and factors that made this summer’s makeover possible. Read it here. What I learned:
The Spurs’ were motivated by the challenge of overcoming the Lakers, not from a desire to avenge [...]
Tony Parker has rejoined the French National Team after being recalled to San Antonio for a medical examination and short rehab stint. In his absence, the team lost Joakim Noah to Chicago (as planned) and upset the Italian team. So long as they perform well against Finland, the French are in prime position to advance.
This [...]
The upcoming season’s schedule is officially available. Games of note: We open the season at home against the Hornets. We close the season at Dallas. The rodeo road trip begins February 3rd and includes games against Portland, the Lakers, Denver, and Detroit. Not including NBA TV broadcasts, the Spurs have 20 nationally televised games.
Also, for [...]
As some of you may already know, The Spurs demanded that Tony Parker return to San Antonio to be given a second medical examination by the Spurs medical staff. Parker seemed confused by their request. In a quotation included in a statement by the French team, the Parker said (translation via Ziller-bot 9000), “I sincerely [...]
