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Domantas Sabonis Dunks On Dewayne Dedmon, Yells In His Face<em></em>
Oklahoma City Thunder young’un Domantas Sabonis is doing big boy stuff now. With the Thunder leading the San Antonio Spurs 33-30 in the first half, Doug McDermott found Sabonis on the baseline. The rookie took one step and rose up for a monster one-handed slam over Dewayne Dedmon. More like DEAD-mon...
Hey, Everybody, Let Kawhi Leonard Talk To You About The Virtues Of Alkaline Water
Kawhi Leonard offered up some good tidbits in a GQ interview about his diet published today. No, he’ll never be caught eating at Subway. Yes, his mom moved to San Antonio during his rookie year and cooked most of his meals for him. No, he is not going to take any advice about drinking water at face ...
Get A Load Of This Incredible Game-Winning Sequence From Kawhi Leonard
The Rockets went to San Antonio tonight to play the Spurs and give us all a preview of what the Western Conference semifinals will be like. For most of the game, Houston was in control. James Harden scored 18 points in the first quarter and the Rockets led by double digits from early in the first qu...
Wait, How Did Manu Ginobili Do This?
Manu Ginobili is old as hell but still capable of dope basketball moments, and this no-look dime from last night’s game against the Magic has me all fucked up....
Gregg Popovich Gave An Insightful Monologue On White Privilege And Black History Month
The San Antonio Spurs are putting together another excellent season that is flying completely under the radar. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, however, has spent the year righteously fired up about the spate of horrific things that have befallen our country and he’s given speech after speech before game...
Emmanuel Mudiay Helped Gregg Popovich With His Ejection
Wow, Emmanuel Mudiay’s most accurate shot of the season....
Tim Duncan's Retirement Ceremony Was Charming And Delightful
The Spurs retired Tim Duncan’s No. 21 last night in a muted, charming ceremony, proving that you can still celebrate a guy’s legacy even if that guy’s central myth is his complete absence of flash, ego, or pomp. That image of Duncan can sometimes feel reductive or parodic, but last night it was just...
Gregg Popovich Talked About Craig Sager Instead Of Basketball Tonight
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is a famous curmudgeon who expresses his open disgust with the NBA’s stipulation that coaches give sideline interviews during nationally televised games. Nobody drew his ire more than Craig Sager, and the pair’s welcome-back hug was one of the most touching moments during ...
Gregg Popovich Still Isn't Happy With His Team's Effort
A few weeks ago, after the San Antonio Spurs nearly coughed up a game to the Dallas Mavericks, Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich unleashed a mini-rant about his team’s “pathetic performance.” After dropping a road game to the Bulls last night, Pop was similarly perturbed....
Gregg Popovich Goes Off On His Team After "Pathetic Performance"
The San Antonio Spurs held off a very resilient, shorthanded Dallas Mavericks team by five points tonight at home. Dallas was without Dirk Nowitzki and Andrew Bogut, but Seth Curry and Harrison Barnes each scored 20 or more and pushed San Antonio until the very end of the game. As for the Spurs, the...
UTSA's Josh Stewart Makes Incredible Touchdown Grab
Frank Wilson proved himself to have the best musical taste among FBS head coaches when he named Trombone Shorty his favorite act, and the UTSA head coach had to be jazzed when Josh Stewart hauled in this one-handed grab to narrow heavy favorite Texas A & M’s lead....
Gregg Popovich Blasts Donald Trump's Election In Lengthy Monologue: "We Are Rome"<em></em>
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who has long given well-thought-out responses to a host of social and political issues, spent six minutes of his press conference before tonight’s game against the Pistons harshly criticizing President-elect Donald Trump, and the fact that people voted for him after the c...
San Antonio Cop Reportedly Fired For Feeding Homeless Man A Literal Shit Sandwich
Our American law enforcement system enables its officers to abuse their power and harass the citizenry in ways both petty and outright barbaric. Here’s a particularly cruel example, from down in San Antonio: a cop was fired this week after he fed a homeless man a shit sandwich. I do not use “shit sa...
So, The Warriors Got Their Asses Kicked
Let’s briefly acknowledge all the required caveats: that this was just the first game of a long season, that recent history has proven super teams always take time to gel, that the Golden State Warriors are still going to kick tons of ass this year....
Jonathon Simmons Flushed Steph Curry Down The Toilet
Perhaps the most humiliating moment of the Warriors’ ignominious collapse in the NBA Finals came when LeBron James soared out of the sky and pinned Andre Iguodala’s shot to the backboard in utter defiance of gravity and everyone....
Gregg Popovich Offers Touching Story Of His Friendship With Steve Kerr
In his first game without Tim Duncan since the Mesozoic Era, Gregg Popovich got wistful and told a touching story about his relationship with old friend Steve Kerr....
Gregg Popovich Lovingly Booted Boban Marjanovic Away From The Spurs
The Pistons have signed three former Spurs players in the past two offseasons. Aron Baynes signed in 2015, and Ray McCallum (most recently of the Grizzlies) joined the team this year. Additionally, 7-foot-3 Serbian Hulk Boban Marjanovic signed a three-year, $21 million deal with the Pistons in July....
Tim Duncan Is The Spurs' New "Coach Of Whatever He Feels Like"
The Gregg Popovich-Tim Duncan relationship one has been magical for a long time:...
Gregg Popovich Explains America
If Colin Kaepernick wanted to get people talking—or, rather, to amplify the conversation for the benefit of those who wish to avoid it—he succeeded. Just about every sports figure has been asked their takes on the national anthem protests, and on the issues at stake, and yesterday, at Spurs media da...