San Antonio Spurs

Manu Ginobili is a good dude. No, I’ve never met him, or even interviewed over the phone. I’ve yet to even see him play in person. There is so much I don’t know about him, I shouldn’t draw any conclusions about the person he is off the basketball court. To me, he should just be [...]

LaMarcus Aldridge is set in his ways—which is important, because his ways aren’t yet the San Antonio Spurs’ ways. After nine years with the Portland Trail Blazers, Aldridge decided to journey elsewhere in free agency over the summer. It seemed like a no-brainer decision. The Blazers started stripping down their contention-ready roster and gearing up [...]

Hi, LaMarcus Aldridge. This is your new coach, Gregg Popovich, speaking. Welcome to the San Antonio Spurs. Now, sit down and shut up. Sounds about right, doesn’t it? The Spurs’ newest championship cog missed a training-cap workout on Tuesday with what San Antonio called “leg tightness.” For the record, it was not his decision. He [...]

Kawhi Leonard doesn’t do celebrations. Not even when there’s almost $100 million involved? Not even when there’s almost $100 million involved. The 24-year-old signed a massive extension with the San Antonio Spurs this past summer, one worth nearly $95 million over the next five years. And when he finally put pen to paper on said [...]

I grew up amidst the basketball eras of Magic, Bird, and Jordan, when finding a great European player in the NBA was about as rare as the L.A. Clippers making a good draft selection or the playoffs for that matter. I grew up in a time where the Lakers Vlade Divac was literally considered the [...]

NBA legend and trailblazer of the game, Moses Malone passed away early Sunday morning at the age of 60. It is truly a sad day for basketball fans and historians around the world as the basketball world lost one of the best players to ever grace the hardwood regardless of era. “The Chairman of the [...]

The NBA has long since outgrown its divisions, and it’s starting to show. Though there are still divisions, the first step in marginalizing, if not eradicating, them will begin next year when the seeding of conference playoff teams is decided by record. Kurt Helin of ProBasketballTalk was the first to bring confirmation: It's official: NBA [...]

So we’ve already established that Tim Duncan is super generous by NBA standards. But, as it turns out, his friendliness extends to his opponents. Duncan won the Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award on Wednesday, a distinction that recognizes preeminent leaders, serial selflessness and phenomenal mentors And, from a San Antonio Spurs perspective, it’s easy [...]

Tim Duncan is pretty generous. It’s easy to be generous, of course, when you’ve raked in nearly $235 million in career salary and aren’t even done playing yet. But, relative to the NBA’s financial stratosphere, Duncan has gone above and beyond and then back again—756 times. This all started with yours truly traveling down a [...]

Boris Diaw knows the deal: Tim Duncan is forever. The 39-year-old Duncan is prepping for his 19th NBA season with the San Antonio Spurs. He will be just the third player in league history to spend at least 19 years with one team, joining John Stockton and Kobe Bryant. Though he signed a two-year deal [...]