San Antonio Spurs News and Rumors
Kobe Can’t Close Against OKC; Pierce Leads A Rampage In PhillyDime Magazine, dimemag.com So much has been made about age in this year’s NBA playoffs that everybody is overthinking the obvious. Here’s all you need to know: Young teams (Clippers, Thunder, Sixers) don’t win championships without experience, while old teams (Spurs, Lakers, … |
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Shaving a picture of Matt Bonner in his head could net a young Spurs fan an in-school suspension15 hours ago
Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com A young San Antonio Spurs fan faces an in-school suspension on Thursday if he doesn't somehow find a way to alter the image of Matt Bonner that was shaved into the back of his head. You read the previous sentence correctly. The Spurs forward, who is ave… |
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Tim Duncan Hates Kevin Garnett22 hours ago
Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com The Spurs were supposed to be dead two years ago. Tim Duncan was too. But in just a few months, they’ve gone from an afterthought to a probable champion, an undefeated playoff team led by one player who may turn out to be one of the three greatest ones … |
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Are the Spurs Invincible?22 hours ago
Jim Cavan, nytimes.com The Spurs aren't high wattage, but their excellence seems eternal. |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com Along the same lines as that bro who wanted to express himself as the only living member of Spurs Nation by getting Tony Parker, Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili etched into his haircut as well as the girl who felt the need to cover herself in Gary Payton g… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com One night after the Oklahoma City Thunder convinced a lot of people that they were the team to beat in the Western Conference by walloping the Los Angeles Lakers, the San Antonio Spurs offered their retort: A measured, professional destruction of the Lo… |
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Spurs roll past Clips in West semi opener24 hours ago
SAN ANTONIO (AP) The San Antonio Spurs had just taken Game 1, and Manu Ginobili didn't want to hear another word about winning 15 in a row or not losing in more than a month. |
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Paul musters just 6 pointsMay 16 (yesterday)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) So much for getting rusty: The San Antonio Spurs didn't miss a beat after a weeklong break, extending a winning streak that few NBA teams have ever sustained in the playoffs. |
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Fresh Spurs wear down Clippers, win Game 1May 16 (yesterday)
Associated Press, ESPN.com Tim Duncan had 26 points and 10 rebounds and the San Antonio Spurs, recharged after a weeklong layoff, wore down the busy Los Angeles Clippers to win Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinals series, 108-92 on Tuesday night. |
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One For The Ages: The Spurs gave the Clippers a rough welcome to th…May 16 (yesterday)
The Spurs gave the Clippers a rough welcome to the second round of the playoffs. Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili were in vintage form and got plenty of help in a 108-92 win in Game 1. |
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LeBron & Wade Can’t Deliver; The Spurs Have Won 15 Straight GamesMay 16 (yesterday)
Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Indiana gave the Heat enough chances, missing more freebies than a Ben Wallace practice session, and yet the two best players in the world (supposedly) couldn’t finish the job. At home. With mismatches all over the court. The Pacers worked off a terribl… |
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How San Antonio Contained Chris PaulMay 16 (yesterday)
Despite having the best regular-season record, the San Antonio Spurs had some problems on defense — particularly containing ball handlers in pic... |
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About Last Night: Spurs Run on DuncanMay 16 (yesterday)
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Tuesday. Tim Duncan scored 26 points and grabbed 10 boards as the... |
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One For The Ages: The Spurs have been here before, plenty of times.…May 15 (yesterday)
The Spurs have been here before, plenty of times. The Clippers? Not really. Follow here as a series full of attractive matchups (Tim Duncan-Blake Griffin, Tony Parker-Chris Paul) gets started. |
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Former NBA Coach Plagiarizes Spurs Message Board For ESPN.com ColumnMay 15 (yesterday)
Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com John Carroll was the head coach at Duquesne for six years, and an assistant coach in the NBA for nine—including a 36-game stint as interim head coach for the Celtics in 2004. He's now sharing his expertise for Scouts Inc., which was purchased by ESPN in… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com For every postseason matchup, Ball Don't Lie's resident dummy will offer a topically appropriate entry from the best-selling series of "Deep Thoughts" books written by legendary humorist Jack Handey, plus some of his own original thoughts on t… |
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NBA Playoffs Fan Fiction: San Antonio Spurs vs. Los Angeles ClippersMay 15 (2 days ago)
Eric Freeman, yahoo.com In which Tim Duncan solves a mystery in Lob City. It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid May, with the sun brightly shining and a look of dry heat in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my dark black suit, with gray shirt, tie and dis… |
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Rested Spurs relieved to finally know next foe: ClippersMay 13 (4 days ago)
Six days later, the San Antonio Spurs finally know who they're playing next. |
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Z-Bo and the Griz force Game 7; LeBron wins another MVPMay 12 (5 days ago)
Dime Magazine, dimemag.com The beast is back. The monster from Marion (Ind.) that carried the Memphis Grizzlies to last year’s incredible first-round playoff upset of the top-seeded Spurs had been relatively quiet this season — thanks to a major knee injury and his team’s off… |
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The San Antonio Spurs fretted all season about not getting enough rest. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com The San Antonio Spurs eliminated the Utah Jazz on Monday night, finishing off a four-game sweep that pushed them one step closer to making Al Jefferson look like a prophet. As Kelly Dwyer wrote after the game, the Spurs are on a hellacious run right now… |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com The Utah Jazz couldn't even take a game in the team's opening-round series with the San Antonio Spurs. It took a furious rally in the fourth quarter of Game 4 for the Jazz to even lose a game by single digits; they lost the four games by an average of 1… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Manu Ginobili broke out of his shooting slump with 17 points to lead the San Antonio Spurs to an 87-81 victory over the Utah Jazz on Monday night and a sweep of their first-round Western Conference series. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com The first three games of the playoffs have been pretty rough on the Utah Jazz. The plucky group of hardworking youngsters and thought-past-it veterans that scrapped their way to the No. 8 seed in the season's final week have found themselves blitzed and… |
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In Game 3 of their series against the Utah Jazz, the San Antonio Spurs were trailing by one point toward the end of the first half. Following a Jazz s... |
