duncan228
04-15-2011, 05:34 PM
Piece is also out with a different headline.
Spurs look to regain royalty starting with Grizzlies (http://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/story/2011/04/15/sp-nba-sa-mem.html)
Spurs begin playoffs in familiar spot—No. 1 (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-spurs-no1again)
By Paul J. Weber
Chris Bosh was never signing with San Antonio. At least, that’s what everyone figured.
“At one time we had certainly considered going after Bosh,” Spurs owner Peter Holt recently recalled. “We didn’t spent a lot of time on that. We didn’t feel like we could compete.”
At the time, who didn’t think that about the Spurs?
Yet one year after San Antonio appeared to be fading NBA royalty—barely making the playoffs, constant injuries to an aging core, a roster overhaul that never worked out—the Spurs open the playoffs back atop the Western Conference.
San Antonio hosts Memphis in Game 1 on Sunday as the No. 1 seed for the fifth time in the Tim Duncan era. It’s a 14-year span that includes four championships and the highest winning percentage in the NBA (.700), but the team appeared on the downside last spring after the worst season yet.
Six months later, Tony Parker arrived at training camp predicting this would be the last shot for the Spurs. It was a now-or-never declaration that sounded almost brutally honest at the time.
Now it looks like the Spurs could have more chances ahead of them.
“Every game, every playoff is special right now. I understand that,” Duncan said Friday. “This is the end of my career, the last couple of years. I’m not taking anything for granted. Every year we’re given our last chance (to win a title). We’ll take this as it is.
“Maybe we’ll get another one. Maybe we won’t.”
Keep reading... (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-spurs-no1again)
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-spurs-no1again
Spurs look to regain royalty starting with Grizzlies (http://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/story/2011/04/15/sp-nba-sa-mem.html)
Spurs begin playoffs in familiar spot—No. 1 (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-spurs-no1again)
By Paul J. Weber
Chris Bosh was never signing with San Antonio. At least, that’s what everyone figured.
“At one time we had certainly considered going after Bosh,” Spurs owner Peter Holt recently recalled. “We didn’t spent a lot of time on that. We didn’t feel like we could compete.”
At the time, who didn’t think that about the Spurs?
Yet one year after San Antonio appeared to be fading NBA royalty—barely making the playoffs, constant injuries to an aging core, a roster overhaul that never worked out—the Spurs open the playoffs back atop the Western Conference.
San Antonio hosts Memphis in Game 1 on Sunday as the No. 1 seed for the fifth time in the Tim Duncan era. It’s a 14-year span that includes four championships and the highest winning percentage in the NBA (.700), but the team appeared on the downside last spring after the worst season yet.
Six months later, Tony Parker arrived at training camp predicting this would be the last shot for the Spurs. It was a now-or-never declaration that sounded almost brutally honest at the time.
Now it looks like the Spurs could have more chances ahead of them.
“Every game, every playoff is special right now. I understand that,” Duncan said Friday. “This is the end of my career, the last couple of years. I’m not taking anything for granted. Every year we’re given our last chance (to win a title). We’ll take this as it is.
“Maybe we’ll get another one. Maybe we won’t.”
Keep reading... (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-spurs-no1again)
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-spurs-no1again