Entries Tagged as 'Dallas Mavericks'

Monday, January 11th, 2010

High Stakes and Low Margins in the Contemporary NBA

In this weekend’s Dime, Marc Stein drew attention to the fourteen teams that have luxury tax payments looming this July. The list includes perennial heavyweights such as the Lakers and Spurs (although, given their success, San Antonio pops up on this list infrequently), as well as the ashen remains of the Isiah-era Knicks.
The list is [...]

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Playing the Matching Game

Whenever teams in the Texas Triangle tussle (alliteration is fun), it’s not hard to get excited. There’s no motivation needed as most fans of the Spurs, Mavericks and Rockets intermingle. Fans of the Texas teams work with, are friends with and, hell, even date fans of their enemy teams. Everyone wants that one win to [...]

Monday, October 19th, 2009

On Winning the Division

During today’s live chat, 83% of readers said the Spurs would win the Southwest division. Given that it was mostly Spurs fans tuning in, that isn’t terribly surprising. But the general consensus throughout the league seems to be that the Spurs are the best team in the division.
The response reminded me of a conversation I [...]

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Ordering the Acronyms: Are FIBA and FIFA Useful Analogues?

What hath Barca to do with basketball? Based on our recent posts, much, and in every way.  On Monday I took a stab at the vexed question of whether NBA owners should restrict their players from international competition. My post was inspired by Kevin Arnovitz and it, in turn, inspired a number of insightful comments [...]

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

In Appreciation of Peter Holt

The presumed net worth of Peter Holt, CEO and owner of Spurs Sports & Entertainment, is around $80 million, making him one of the least wealthy owners in the NBA. Mr. Holt’s wealth derives from HOLT CAT, the nation’s largest authorized dealer of caterpillar machines, of which he is also CEO. Given the housing crisis [...]

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

All Things Old Are New Again

It wasn’t that long ago. May 22, 2006. The Spurs were facing an elimination game against the Mavericks. Game 7. Western Conference Semifinals. You remember it, I’m sure. They lost.
Tonight the Mavericks have the Spurs on the brink of elimination once again. The national press, with a few exceptions here and there, are writing nice [...]

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Smelly Old Men in Gym Socks

One of the things I’ve loved about this season is the work Spurs.com and the Express News beat writers have done keeping us close to the team. Spurs.com introduced practice and shootaround video, which was always must-watch viewing.  And they’ve done a bang up job this postseason. The E-N writers have kept a pulse on [...]

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Buck Harvey Marks the Time

The Express-News’ Buck Harvey has written a timely column that deserves your attention. The cliff notes version goes like this:  tonight might be Bruce Bowen’s last game as a Spur.  Yes, Bowen is under contract. But if you read the column you’ll see that Harvey’s rationale runs down a coherent line. I’m not going to [...]

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Other People: Game Two Bullets

Spurs.com has video of Pop saying that there will adjustments tonight, J.J. Barea burned them, and the Spurs need to rebound.
LatinD, PtR: Tony’s The Man right now, and while he wasn’t chopped liver, we really need him to play at a higher level.
Grand Prince Rob Mahoney, Two Man Game: I will say this: for as [...]