Manu Ginobili included a hashtag as a nod to Tim Duncan in the tweet announcing his return to the San Antonio Spurs—mostly in jest.
But once you get past the profound joy over the certainty of one more year with everyone's favorite basketball genius from Argentina, you start to realize there was a grain of truth to the joke.
Duncan, Tony Parker, Gregg Popovich and the rest of the Spurs machine—though now possessed of new parts—need Ginobili. Perhaps more than ever. And that's why this next season, maybe Manu's last, has to be about much more than ceremony.
Judging by the snippets from his full announcement in Argentina's La Nacional, via Mike Monroe of the San Antonio Express-News, Ginobili might not have come back at all if that weren't the case:
Ginobili wanting his return to mean something shouldn't be a surprise. It's hard to think of a more competitive player. It's even harder to come up with one whose entire career has been played in realistic pursuit of championships.
And as Glenn Yoder of the Washington Post noted, "after the Spurs f ...
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