Over at Kosarka.si, Erazem Lorbek, Slovenia’s most sought-after basketball player on the free-agent market cleared the air a bit vis-à-vis Spain-based reports that he’d already reached an agreement with the San Antonio Spurs for the 2012-13 season. Lorbek stated that he’d heard the reportage from Spain that he’d signed a deal to play in the NBA, characterizing it as “false [...]
Today’s edition of France-based L’Equipe has a brief bit on Les Bleus/Valencia guard Nando de Colo with regard to his immediate future. De Colo was selected by the San Antonio Spurs at no. 53 overall in the 2009 draft and, now that the Valencia BC season has ended at the hands of FC Barcelona, the man they call “Aladdin” awaits [...]
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Behind outstanding performances from Kevin Durant and Serge Ibaka, the Thunder came out Saturday night and took down the Spurs, evening the series at two. Naturally, swingman Stephen Jackson wasn’t too happy with what he saw out of his teammates, and he’s got an idea or two about what San Antonio needs to do to swing the momentum back in [...]
It’s a catchphrase likely coming soon to fan T-shirts, Internet memes and the lexicon of the NBA playoffs for the foreseeable future. “I want some nasty!” Gregg Popovich didn’t just coin it. He snarled it, and the way his San Antonio Spurs obliged has the Western Conference finals off to a thrilling start. Manu Ginobili scored 26 points and the [...]
Gregg Popovich may be overseeing a basketball juggernaut that mows down opponents with extreme prejudice – the San Antonio Spurs have posted a stunning record of 30-5 since March 1st – but the brilliant head coach continues to fret over their fortunes as they go deeper into their postseason run. From the Express-News: “Coaches torture themselves over success, and Gregg [...]
Gregg Popovich can’t win like the old days. No longer can the San Antonio Spurs simply feed Tim Duncan the ball, let their defense do the rest and ride that game plan to NBA championships. But the new way Popovich has them winning isn’t bad, either. That acknowledgment came Tuesday when Popovich was honored as the NBA’s Coach of the [...]
The rap on Kawhi Leonard coming out of college was that the kid could play, but he sure couldn’t shoot. Leonard projected to be a great rebounder and defender for his position and at just 29 percent from the college 3-point line, he projected to be a project on the offensive end. Look at him now. Starting for the second [...]
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps 100 times without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone on before. The words of [...]
The Spurs and Stephen Jackson are reunited. Sources tell Yahoo! that the Spurs have acquired Jax in exchange for Richard Jefferson a conditional first-round draft pick: “The San Antonio Spurs have reached an agreement to acquire Stephen Jackson from the Golden State Warriors in exchange for Richard Jefferson, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.” Via (SlamOnline)
Spurs point guard T.J. Ford abruptly retired Monday following the latest scare to his surgically repaired spine that once sidelined him for an entire NBA season and hampered the dazzling promise that made him a college star. Ford told reporters that lying motionless March 7 on the court against the New York Knicks wasn’t the first time it had happened, [...]
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