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After Puzzling Slump, Spurs’ Danny Green Is NBA’s Top 3-Point Shooter
January 14th, 2017
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Spurs shooting guard Danny Green has risen back to the top of the league's most accurate three-point shooters as the NBA regular season is roughly at its midpoint.
The 29-year-old from the University of North Carolina is back on track after what can only be described as ...
LaMarcus Aldridge Is Learning to Be Selfish on the NBA’s Most Unselfish Team
December 29th, 2016
SAN ANTONIO — It took only a few seconds for San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker to recognize the holiday gift the Chicago Bulls were hand-delivering to power forward LaMarcus Aldridge in the first quarter of Sunday's ABC game at AT&T Center.
When Aldridge stopped just left of the top of ...
Gregg Popovich and Spurs Stars Recall Tim Duncan’s Exemplary Career
December 19th, 2016
SAN ANTONIO — Gregg Popovich arrived at Tim Duncan's jersey retirement ceremony well prepared. In his suit coat pocket were several tissues, folded neatly, just in case.
The San Antonio Spurs coach nearly needed them when he expressed 20 years' worth of gratitude for what he understands was the singular trait that ...
Longtime San Antonio Spurs Reporter Reflects on Tim Duncan’s Career
December 17th, 2016
On Halloween night in 1997 at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, I had a courtside seat for the beginning of the Tim Duncan era. Little did I know that despite leaving childhood almost four decades earlier, I was in store for a treat that lasted most of the next 20 ...
Patty Mills Emerging as Sixth Man of the Year Candidate for Surging Spurs
December 7th, 2016
SAN ANTONIO — Patty Mills has played a significant role in the San Antonio Spurs' 18-4 start this season, so it’s hard to recall the time when his status with the team was in limbo.
He had become—in the words of the only person who really matters when it comes to playing ...
Spurs Continuing Homegrown Ways with Point Guard of the Future Dejounte Murray
December 2nd, 2016
SAN ANTONIO — The entirety of Dejounte Murray's rookie season played out, in a microcosm, during his first 15 seconds of action in his team’s 95-83 loss to the Orlando Magic on Tuesday night at the AT&T Center.
The San Antonio Spurs trailed by 13 when Murray replaced Patty Mills with ...
How the San Antonio Spurs Avoided the Post-Superstar Decline
November 22nd, 2016
SAN ANTONIO — Nearly a month into his first season in 20 years without Tim Duncan, Gregg Popovich still fields the same question whenever a team his San Antonio Spurs face for the first time shows up on the schedule.
“What’s it like walking into your locker room and not seeing Timmy?”
It happened ...
Critics, San Antonio Spurs Will Never Agree on Tony Parker’s True Value
November 16th, 2016
SAN ANTONIO — I asked rookie point guard Dejounte Murray a trick question during the 45-minute player-availability session before the San Antonio Spurs' victory over the Miami Heat on Monday night that was more difficult than it should have been.
Murray is an athletically gifted, 6'5" 20-year-old who is penciled in as the ...
Spurs 2-Way Star Kawhi Leonard Has Quietly Become an Iso Stud Too
November 3rd, 2016
SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs had just finished a comeback in downtown Sacramento, spoiling the Kings’ inauguration of their new Golden 1 Center with a 102-94 win on October 27.
In a visitors locker room roughly four times the size of the cramped cave that had housed visiting teams at ...
From Paid Tryout to Rotation Spark, Jonathon Simmons Has Earned His Spurs Spot
October 27th, 2016
SAN ANTONIO — The list of astonishments that played out in Tuesday's San Antonio Spurs-Golden State Warriors game before a sold-out Oracle Arena crowd and a TNT TV audience began with the outcome: a San Antonio win.
Also included? The extent of the Spurs' 129-100 domination of the Western Conference's supposed ...