Empires fall. The history books are littered with them. The Greeks. The Romans. Spain. Britain. Maybe someday even America. The same holds true for nearly every major power that’s ever risen to the top, be it nation, corporation, or basketball team. Especially basketball teams. After all, unlike nations or corporations, basketball teams rely solely on [...]

Andrew Kamenetzky of the ESPNLosAngeles.com Lakers blog Land O’ Lakers and I had a email exchange about tonight’s San Antonio Spurs-Los Angeles Lakers tilt. For my end of the conversation, visit Land O’ Lakers. The game tips at 9:30 from the AT&T Center.

This afternoon’s Spurs-Lakers match-up was frustrating for fans of the silver and black but offered a pretty concrete guide of what needs to happen for this Spurs team to be considered a real contender rather than just receiving the obligatory “never count the Spurs out” remarks. We’ve got a lot to discuss so let’s get [...]

Make no mistake about it, the title of this post isn’t merely a Tupac reference (I am far too young to earnestly be referencing the movie). The fate of the Spurs will be decided on the star-studded hardwood of the Staples Center. I believe we will see a rematch of last year’s Western Conference Finals [...]

As a Spurs fan, it is somewhat heretical to act as if anything other than the postseason has any substantive value. The regular season exists so that the postseason may, and the postseason exists so that a champion may be crowned. Of all franchises, few are as unwaveringly teleological as San Antonio. And then a [...]

This is the first edition of a new feature here at 48 Minutes of Hell entitled “Reflections on a Rival.” Some teams deserve more than a discussion of a single match-up. The Lakers are one of those teams. During the last decade the San Antonio Spurs have been one of the most successful franchises in [...]