To all those who wants to Fire Pop and Trade all the players after every loss.

[ca®lo]

this one's for you.

heres something to get u guys back on track.

http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2006/03/20/newscolumn1.html?page=1

[Vingianx]

this one's for you.

heres something to get u guys back on track.

http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2006/03/20/newscolumn1.html?page=1
Read that in the morning, it makes you appreciate the Spurs even more

[LilMissSPURfect]

:wow

WOW
Painting my CAR today !
GO SPURS GO!

[Duncanoypi]

Spurs for life!

[SAGambler]

Makes some good points. But we have to remember this is the Spurs, who for some reason or another seem to always find the right pieces to the puzzle in the damndest of places. It's amazing the work that front office must do to keep coming up with superb players. Sure the whole thing right now is built around Tim, and Tim's not getting any younger. But you just have to know that they are already looking for the next piece that will replace him when he hangs it up. With Utah, it was Stockton and Malone, year in and year out. They never added to the puzzle. So when those guys were gone, so was their caliber team.

Call me crazy, but I just don't see that happening here.

[ShoogarBear]

Makes some good points. But we have to remember this is the Spurs, who for some reason or another seem to always find the right pieces to the puzzle in the damndest of places. It's amazing the work that front office must do to keep coming up with superb players. Sure the whole thing right now is built around Tim, and Tim's not getting any younger. But you just have to know that they are already looking for the next piece that will replace him when he hangs it up. With Utah, it was Stockton and Malone, year in and year out. They never added to the puzzle. So when those guys were gone, so was their caliber team.

Call me crazy, but I just don't see that happening here.

Okay, you're crazy.

Just like the Jazz were Stockton and Malone, the Spurs are Tim Duncan. Despite what various Churches will tell you, everyone else is just a piece to fit around him.

The Spurs are an elite team, as opposed to one of the pack, only because of Tim Duncan, even with him at 70%. Unless the Spurs are exceptionally lucky again when it's time for Tim to hang them up, they will no longer be an elite team. It's as simple as that.

[myhc]

Unless the Spurs are exceptionally lucky again when it's time for Tim to hang them up, they will no longer be an elite team. It's as simple as that.

bingo. you're deluding yourself if you think we're going to continue challenging for titles once tim is gone. i love tony and maybe ian turns out to be good and maybe we find some more gems. but bottom line, we ain't shit without #21.

[gospursgojas]

good read... but what did it have to do with San Antonio business

[drivanroca]

Read that in the morning, it makes you appreciate the Spurs even more

:tu

[LilMissSPURfect]

good read... but what did it have to do with San Antonio business

Everything.

[Obstructed_View]

If the timing had been slightly different, the Spurs would have ended up with Michael Olowokandi. The paths of fate diverge a lot from there.

[ducks]

people said the spurs were not going to be contenders win david returned
hello spurs got duncan
the spurs could do the same thing

tp could be that special player. he has to prove himself still but he also is JUST 23 and has not even came close hitting his prime

people the spurs will not be condenders every year but they seem to know how to draft and how to get lucky in the draft and that goes along ways
they also do not spend money foolishly

[zocool16]

go Spurs FUCKING GO!!!!!!!!!!

[ChumpDumper]

Had Utah picked Chris Paul or Ray Felton instead of Deron Williams, he couldn't use them as an example. Still trying to figure out that pick.

[exstatic]

Two big differences between us and Utah: They never won shit, and they aren't NEARLY the Euro scouting team that SA is. If Utah had drafted the players we have over the last 5-7 years, and for the most part they could have, they wouldn't be languishing in lotto land. They've also turned their character-meter off to sign bad eggs like Carlos Boozer, he of the year long pulled hamstring. When you sign shitheads, they don't reform, they remain shitheads.

[DET]

San Antonio is not winning because of Parker and Ginobili. You are not listening. It is because of Tim Duncan and only Tim Duncan! You could place any number of point guards and shooting guards and they would still compete. The reason it relates to business is if San Antonio ever starts to lose, the franchise is in big trouble. Owners start to feel the pinch and will either sell or leave the city. Then with new ownership comes new coaches and etc. Small market teams have to win or they will lose their team.

[ChumpDumper]

Ah, Mavfan chiming in with the financials -- which he obviously picked up vicariously from Cuban.

If you knew anything about the arena lease the Spurs have, you wouldn't have posted so ignorantly.

[easjer]

Meh. Part of the problem with Utah was that Karl Malone jumped shark. I don't think they really anticipated that. It would also appear that they were not quite as forward thinking as the Spurs; although it seems more commonplace now to develop overseas talent, it was not as common a few years ago. So we have an edge there.

Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think we're going to be championship contenders the year after Duncan retires. I do not expect that we'll have another freak year where we end up with the number one pick. I do expect that we will not be a lottery team, because the powers that be are already preparing for that future without Timmy, without Bruce, without Manu, and possibly without Parker. They are developing players and locking in what they can. I do not expect our playoff appearances to drop by that much.

A good club looks ahead to the future in addition to working on the present. The Bulls did not do that. And the Spurs paid attention to it. We are already becoming less and less reliant on TD (by which I do not mean to imply that he is not crucial, nay central, to the team), but you do it in stages and with one eye on the future and you don't experience that same drop off.

In the post-Timmy era, I do not expect that 2/3 of the seats will be claimed by ticket holders, as many of the bandwagoners will jump the ship, but there is still a huge group of fans that waited for 26 years to see the first banner hung, and they'll remain loyal.

[sanman53]

Win or Lose, Im proud to be a Spurs fan! My banner will still be in my window here in Louisville! But I am looking forward to hanging a 2006 Champs banner in my window! GO SPURS GO!

[Extra Stout]

Gregg Popvich almost certainly will follow Tim Duncan into retirement.

That tells you all you need to know about what the Spurs will become once Tim becomes old and gray.

The party ends for every team. Enjoy it while it lasts.

[Peter]

Makes you realize that anyone can write for the SA Business Journal.

[kalikot_boy_kr]

:elephant suck go suck!! :lol

[Brutalis]

people get paid for writing small ass articles such as?

[spurs=bling]

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[SequSpur]

WGAF, the only thing that matters in when the clock starts on the scoreboard and when the clock stops.

[ShoogarBear]

WGAF, the only thing that matters in when the clock starts on the scoreboard and when the clock stops.

Just ask Derek Fisher.

[SpursWillOwn]

wtf why him?