Spurs

According to The Athletic, DeMar DeRozan and the San Antonio Spurs are still quite a ways apart on contract extension talks. The Spurs initially landed DeRozan during the summer of 2018 as part of a package deal they received from the Raptors for Kawhi Leonard. But after an unsuccessful season where the Spurs were out [...]

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Gregg Popovich, the San Antonio Spurs head coach has yet to determine whether he’ll coach the San Antonio Spurs for the 2019-20 season. The 69 year-old coach has led the Spurs to 5 NBA championships yet he could be close to calling it quits. Should he decide to continue coaching, Popovich would become the fourth [...]

Toronto Raptors star Kawhi Leonard spoke out Sunday and addressed critical comments from Spurs coach Gregg Popovich that Leonard was not a leader during his time in San Antonio. Popovich understands Leonard’s value, having coached him for seven seasons but he did comment that leadership wasn’t his forte. “Well, Kawhi [Leonard} was a great player, [...]

With Dejounte Murray likely done for the season after suffering a tear in his right ACL, the San Antonio Spurs have a gaping hole at point guard to cover up. Really, the Spurs have holes everywhere. They were already tasked with replacing three of their most important defenders following the departures of Kawhi Leonard, Danny [...]

It was a rough weekend for the San Antonio Spurs on the injury front. First, they lost their 1st round pick and likely contributor at the shooting guard position Lonnie Walker IV for 6 to 8 weeks as he underwent a surgery to repair a torn meniscus that he suffered in the Spurs preseason game [...]

After 16 years in the NBA, Manu Ginobili is calling it quits. Please take a moment or a few jillion moments to bask in your subsequent sadness. I know I will. This is a big loss for the NBA. Ginobili, 41, remained exciting to watch even as he ebbed out of his heyday. Anywho, Ginobili [...]

Get ready to have a really bad case of the sadz: Manu Ginobili may be ready to retire from the NBA. Nothing has been determined, it seems, at the moment. However, according to ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the 41-year-old future Hall of Famer will meet with San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich to discuss his [...]

Kawhi Leonard has spoken, sort of, for the first time since joining the Toronto Raptors. In a statement that, surprisingly, spanned more than six syllables, the two-time Defensive Player of the Year thanked the San Antonio Spurs and their fans for the seven mostly wonderful years they spent together: [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1027517878587846657] As a housekeeping note, [...]

At least one NBA executive sounds like they believe Kawhi Leonard’s divorce from the San Antonio Spurs may have been a long time coming—longer than even the year-long soap opera that persisted before his trade to the Toronto Raptors. From Bleacher Report’s Ric Bucher: The Spurs, as they had with other stars—Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili [...]