ESPN Weekedn Dime Blurb on Timmy, Manu and People Crowding the Court

[BillMc]

An interesting blurb on Timmy in ESPN's Weekend Dime:

2: When San Antonio's Tim Duncan rumbled for 28 points, 13 rebounds, six assists and three blocks in Wednesday night's win at Milwaukee, it marked the second time this season that TD has reached all four of those statistical minimums in one game. No other player has done so once, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Duncan also had 31 points, 18 rebounds, six assists and five blocks at Denver on Dec. 18.

http://espn.go.com/nba/dailydime/_/page/dime-130104-05/nba-mark-cuban-anniversary

Not that it needs repeating, but the "old man" can still play. With any justice, Duncan should be no worse than 2nd Team All-NBA this year.


Also, in the same Weekend Dime page was an interesting short interview with Manu (not closing the door on Argentine national team play, by the way) and a point that the Spurs were NBA leaders in the movement to back seats farther away from the court side, even before Jackson's run in with the infamous MSG waitress.

[Splits]

Thanks for the link. I found this funny:


"Coaches are never happy. Happy is not a word in the vocabulary."-- San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich, responding to a question about his level of contentment after his team swamped its old friends from Dallas for the Spurs' second rout of the Mavericks in a span of seven days.

The words, of course, should have a ring to them. Popovich famously bristled (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpZP4m-j4VI) during a between-quarters interview with TNT's David Aldridge way back in the opening week of the season that featured a similar line of questioning.

So why highlight this sort of exchange again?

Two reasons:

1) Couldn't believe that there was still a reporter in circulation who, out of fear, hadn't purged every urge to ask Pop anything happiness-related.

2) Couldn't believe, furthermore, that the question in question from last Sunday's postgame scrum at American Airlines Center generated no hoopla afterward. I was under the assumption that all awkward Pop/reporter interactions always made headlines.