It’s the quarterback controversy that never happened. Increasingly, the San Antonio Spurs offhandedly refer to Tony Parker as their leading playmaker. Parker’s budding status as team pace setter began last season, and in some ways it was foist upon him because of the injury-hampered seasons of Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili. The team needed Parker [...]
University of Pittsburg head coach Jamie Dixon was in San Antonio yesterday, taking in DeJuan Blair’s first practice. I’m hopeful he and Coach Popovich were able to have a long conversation about Blair. DeJuan Blair is an all-world force on the boards. He’s especially good on the offensive glass. And by especially good, I mean [...]
Back in July I wrote a post called A Note of Caution: Work to be Done. In the post I outlined a handful of concerns for the Spurs, even with their super-recharged roster, going into the season. One of those concerns was the notorious difficulty of learning the Spurs’ system in a single season. It [...]
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One of the noteworthy discussion points from yesterday’s media session is the news that Tony Parker will sit out the first few weeks of camp, with the exception of shooting drills and strength conditioning. This, of course, is Gregg Popovich in fine manager-of-minutes form, a role he’s performed with great success in previous seasons. Tony [...]
Up until yesterday, for very personal reasons I had mixed feelings about the beginning of this season. I’m currently in graduate school, studying journalism. That means I write all day and, when I get home, write some more. Then I start working on pieces for 48 Minutes of Hell. The offseason’s tempered pace is manageable, [...]
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I can’t pin the quote down, but G.K. Chesterton once chased after the meaning of our “propensity to indulge in the monotonous.” This is how he explained it: If a father throws a child into the air, the child returns to his father’s arms all wide-eyed and full of wonder with a simple request, “Do [...]
Our readers are probably familiar with Jack McClinton’s recent tweets. He explained his release from the Spurs in this way: bc there was not an open spot 4 me, I asked to be released to pursue my dream elsewhere.Thank u 2 the san an fans for all of your support! A source close to the [...]
Zach Lowe has a nice article over at Celtics Hub asking whether the ’08 Celtics were one of the greatest defensive teams of the modern era. And of course, if you are having a conversation about dominant defenses, the Spurs are sure to make an appearance. Lowe makes an excellent point about the two-tiered history [...]
The current lockout of NBA referees has provoked a handful of thoughtful responses. Howard Beck reminded us of the 1995 lockout, a process which revealed that NBA players secretly adored their whistle-blowing adversaries. Things haven’t changed much since then. We’re only a few days into the current standoff and, once again, it’s all winks and [...]
Recently, my good friend Jared Wade, of Eight Points, Nine Seconds and Both Teams Played Hard, hit me up with a free ticket to the Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II release show in NYC. In return, he asked me to pen a few words on the Spurs logo, which he considers one of [...]
Tony Parker, Eva Longoria and a group of animated street ballers will storm the cartoon hardwood in 2011. The premise of a proposed cartoon, which is being reported by the French site Premiere, sees Parker as a coach attempting to lead his team through a North American street ball tournament. And the French think Americans [...]
Today at Ball Don’t Lie, Kelly Dwyer revealed his list of the top 10 NBA GMs of the last decade, and R.C. Buford comfortably came in at number 1. Here’s an excerpt: There’s no denying Buford’s impact on the Spurs’ rise to power this decade. Even though he technically wasn’t the team’s personnel boss (that [...]
