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Collin Sexton, Jordan Clarkson help Jazz nip Spurs
Collin Sexton scored 23 points and Jordan Clarkson canned four key free throws in the final 12 seconds to help the visiting Utah Jazz beat the San Antonio Spurs 111-110 on Saturday.,The score was tied when the fourth quarter began and was still even at 95 with five minutes to play. The Jazz used a r...
Collin Sexton, Jordan Clarkson’s late heroics help Jazz nip Spurs
Collin Sexton scored 23 points and Jordan Clarkson canned four key free throws in the final 12 seconds to help the visiting Utah Jazz beat the San Antonio Spurs 111-110 on Saturday.,The game was tied when the fourth quarter began and was still even at 95 with five minutes to play. The Jazz used a ri...
Spurs hold off late Rockets rally to get first win
Victor Wembanyama scored 29 points and rookie Stephon Castle hit a key free throw with 7.2 seconds to play as the San Antonio Spurs outlasted the visiting Houston Rockets 109-106 on Saturday in the first of a pair of games in three nights between the Lone Star State rivals in the Alamo City.,San Ant...
Until There's A Contract, There's No Contract
Here is some weapons-grade stoogery, from The Athletic’s Jared Weiss:...
The Denver Nuggets' Great Romance Is In Full Bloom Again
“Their chemistry is almost romantic,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said after an 18-point rout of the Spurs in Game 5 on Tuesday. “They care about each other, they love each other. They play for each other. That’s when we’re at our best.”...
Gregg Popovich Wasn't That Impressed With The Spurs Mascot's Bat Capture
Bats invading the San Antonio Spurs’ home arena is such a common occurrence that “the Spurs’ mascot caught a bat in a fishing net while wearing a Batman costume” is an accurate description of what happened last night, but also a Deadspin headline from 2015. So while it was amusing to watch various S...
Spurs Win At The Buzzer, Get Crapped On By Gregg Popovich
The 11-42 Phoenix Suns are a putrid basketball team, and their purpose in the NBA ecosystem is to roll over every night and hand out career-best performances to opposing players who aren’t actually all that good. They are so bad, in fact, that just beating them by two points is grounds to get you a...
Come On, Kawhi Leonard Can't Blame The Media For This
Kawhi Leonard played in San Antonio last night for the first time since being traded from the Spurs to the Raptors, and he was booed heartily every time he touched the ball. The home crowd even whipped up enough bile to hit him with a “Traitor!” chant while he was shooting free throws. Leonard, some...
Sleepy Dad LeBron Got His Rest And The Spurs Paid The Price
Last week LeBron James went on wine-drunk lifehacker Tim Ferriss’s podcast to talk about the day-to-day maintenance of one of the most natural wonders on earth: that is, his body. Among other fine-grained details, James said he listens to the “rain on leaves” sound all night long, and that he sleeps...
Goodbye, Boris Diaw
The fact that Boris Diaw was still out there somewhere in this large world playing basketball in public, even if I wasn’t around to look at it, lit a happy little flame in my brain. If I was in a good mood at any given time, it could be attributed in some barely measurable way to that fact. Yesterda...
An Extremely Informed And Credible Analysis Of The Kawhi Leonard-DeMar DeRozan Trade
So if you haven’t seen by now, the San Antonio Spurs traded disgruntled and vaguely hobbled star swingman Kawhi Leonard to the Toronto Raptors this morning, in exchange for not-previously-disgruntled-but-now-extremely-upset star swingman DeMar DeRozan. It’s hard to know exactly what to make of the t...
The Raptors Seem To Have Put A Knife In DeMar DeRozan's Back
Players are often understandably unhappy about being traded, because nobody much likes suddenly learning that they are going to spend the next few months or years living and playing in a city that they did not plan on living or playing in. Trades lead to hard feelings, but usually those are effectiv...