Throughout the Tim Duncan era the Spurs have operated on a certain stonecutters credo. Ironically, they now operate between a rock and a hard place. With a broken chisel.
The rock? Richard Jefferson’s burdensome contract. The hard place? The NBA Salary Cap. In the short term, there will be those who are disappointed that the Spurs [...]

Via the Express-News:
“We’ve talked to teams, teams have talked to us,” Popovich said. “That goes on all year long. It just intensifies come trade deadline. That’s what teams do. You’re always trying to make yourself better.
“As we all know, though, very few things actually happen at the trade deadline, and I wouldn’t expect anything to [...]

Breaking news can now be done in less than 140 characters.
Adrain Wojnarowski tweets that the Spurs will seek to accommodate a Roger Mason Jr. trade request.
Mason wants more minutes.

Leaving the All-Star weekend, perhaps no theme encapsulated the Spurs more perfectly nor enemy loomed so big–well, maybe the Laker’s frontline–as time.
And not just time, as in the amount of time left in their stars’ careers, but timing. Timing is everything.

Yesterday’s All-Star game featured nine new participants. That’s good for the league. The Spurs sent one man, who was, of course, not new to the festivities. I wonder, when will the Spurs next send a new participant to the All-Star game? Someone not named Tim Duncan, Tony Parker or Manu Ginobili.

Two Western Conference teams intrigued by Thomas are the Nuggets, patiently seeking a big man to contend with the Lakers, and the Spurs, who were characterized by two rival executives as desperate to acquire an athletic big man. “They feel like they have to do something, like they’re behind the eight ball a little bit,” [...]

The Spurs enter their annual rodeo road trip with a disappointing loss in what has been a frustratingly inconsistent season. While the Spurs have been okay, the moves made this summer were done with grander plans in mind than okay.
Today and tomorrow each writer here at 48MoH will play devil’s advocate for one of four [...]

According to Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, they’re giving it a shot:
Multiple league sources say the Spurs’ front office has researched and debated pursuing Stoudemire to play alongside Tim Duncan.
There are questions for the Spurs to answer: Would they be willing to part with the personnel – including possibly Manu Ginobili – to make a deal [...]

ESPN’s John Hollinger–after asserting that the Lakers are weaker than expected, vulnerable to quick guards, and not very deep–says San Antonio’s best chance of leapfrogging them includes the following trade scenarios:

Yesterday I ran a piece that attempted to point out an obvious development that some have missed: Tim Duncan is playing very well this season. Some want to qualify this by saying Duncan is receiving less double-teams, to which my response is “so what?” and “is he really?” Honestly, I’m not sure that assertion is [...]

There are a lot of things I want to talk about in the Offseason Breakdown series. And, judging from the comment thread under the first installment, you have a lot on your mind too. Here’s what’s ahead: my thoughts about what direction the team should go with its backcourt, how to address the small forward [...]

In his end of the season exit interview, Gregg Popovich said the Spurs’ front office plans to use the unusually long summer to…work. One of the first major scouting assignments he named was the Euroleague Final Four, which begins streaming today on ESPN360. Outside of the Bulls-Celtics series, it’s the most compelling basketball of the [...]

ESPN’s Daily Dime has Spurs Nation talking about San Antonio’s alleged interest in Nick Collison. Nick Collison? Really?
Positives

excellent rebound rate
good defender
high FG%

Negatives

at what price?
compromises the 2010 Cap Strategy

One member of a Spurs message board fired up The Trade Machine and discovered that a salary dump of Vaughn, Oberto, and Udoka for Collison satisfies the CBA. [...]

The trade season begins in earnest on Monday. On the 15th, players signed this summer are eligible to be traded. In all likelihood, the Spurs won’t make any headlines. Simply put, they don’t have the assets, players, or contracts to fetch an impact player. Still, I’m going to sketch the lay of the land, and [...]