Being deep is always a good thing, but how much depth do you really have if an entire skill set (creating shots) is provided by only one player?

Nick Young has picked up the slack from Wall’s injury and Arenas’ departure. How should the Spurs match up against him?

Manu’s charge on Melo preserved a win last Thursday. With the return of Billups, K-Mart and Andersen possible, what should SA do to beat the Nuggets this time?

Manu Ginobili is an MVP candidate and exhibitionist.

If you haven’t been checking out Hardwood Paroxysm’s recurring feature, Have Ball, Will Travel, do yourself a favor and start. In each edition, the prolific and precocious Rob Mahoney breaks down a controversial traveling call or no-call, as the case may be. This morning he took a detailed look at Manu Ginobili’s last second game-winner from last night’s game against the Milwaukee Bucks.

Before their November 30th meeting, I called for the Spurs to force GSW to pass out of pick and rolls, while attacking with isolations. How did it turn out?

The San Antonio Spurs are the most entertaining team in the NBA. Don’t believe me? Shame.

The last time the San Antonio Spurs were consistently mentioned among the list of top backcourts in the NBA, Chauncey Billups and Rip Hamilton were still a relevant tandem. Coincidentally, it also happened to be the last time the Spurs won an NBA title.

For the Spurs, it was their second ugly win in as many games. The box score would tell you it was a classic Gregg Popovich vs Larry Brown duel: the Bobcats were leading the Spurs 48-44 at half and the pace of the game was closer to calcifying than blistering.

In announcing his timetable for retirement at the start of training camp, Tim Duncan accomplished a feat so rare that few of the all-time greats have ever achieved it. In signing Tony Parker to an extension-along with Manu Ginobili last year-that keeps the Spurs All-Star backcourt intact through their primes, the San Antonio Spurs [...]

A night after the most ballyhooed Big Three in NBA history made their historical debut, an 80-88 loss to the Boston Celtics, the league’s most accomplished Big Three quietly opened their season in San Antonio. For the first time in what feels like ages, a healthy Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, and Tony Parker shared the [...]

Richard Jefferson spent months preparing for this moment, working through weeks and weeks of repetition until it became second nature, muscle memory taking over. So with eyes on him, and with an assist from Manu Ginobili, the Spurs small forward locked in, squared up, and….laughed? Surrounded by a few remaining beat writers , Jefferson, standing in [...]

Last Tuesday, Andrew wrote about the winter of the Duncan Dynasty in San Antonio. His article was pessimistic about how much the current core could contribute to an additional championship, saying “the league passed San Antonio by.’ Of course, this pessimism is not entirely unfounded. The Spurs haven’t won the vaunted NBA title since 2007. [...]

Andrew Niccol is usually associated with The Truman Show. But Gattaca (1997) is his best film. Gattaca imagines a (not so) future world where discrimination no longer grows in the soil of, say, racial prejudice. The preeminent ism of the future is genoism-discrimination against one’s genetic make-up. In Gattaca, all of society is organized around [...]

The thing about predicting endings, do it long enough and eventually they will prove pretty accurate some day. Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs have made fools of such scribes for so long most are afraid to write the eulogy until after Duncan and Gregg Popovich ride off together into the sunset. If ever [...]