Darrin
09-15-2007, 11:44 AM
Spurred On
by Keith Langlois
Friday, September 14, 2007
The San Antonio Spurs are the NBA’s Team of the Millenium, though with 993 years still left on the shot clock, things could change. Stick around.
The Spurs have won three of the eight NBA championships passed out since the big page flew off the calendar and averaged 59 wins a year in the seven seasons that have begun in this decade.
That’s a span that also coincides with Joe Dumars’ ascension to the Pistons’ big chair. Yeah, it’s been seven years already since Dumars – just one season spent as a GM in apprentice removed from his playing days – took the keys to a franchise groping to find its way since the Bad Boys ran out of gas nearly a decade earlier.
Throw out the 32-50 first year under Dumars – one undermined by the free-agent departure of Grant Hill, whose father Calvin implored Dumars to serve as his son’s mentor six years earlier upon entering the league – and the Pistons have averaged 54 wins over the last six...
http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/langlois_blog_070914.html
by Keith Langlois
Friday, September 14, 2007
The San Antonio Spurs are the NBA’s Team of the Millenium, though with 993 years still left on the shot clock, things could change. Stick around.
The Spurs have won three of the eight NBA championships passed out since the big page flew off the calendar and averaged 59 wins a year in the seven seasons that have begun in this decade.
That’s a span that also coincides with Joe Dumars’ ascension to the Pistons’ big chair. Yeah, it’s been seven years already since Dumars – just one season spent as a GM in apprentice removed from his playing days – took the keys to a franchise groping to find its way since the Bad Boys ran out of gas nearly a decade earlier.
Throw out the 32-50 first year under Dumars – one undermined by the free-agent departure of Grant Hill, whose father Calvin implored Dumars to serve as his son’s mentor six years earlier upon entering the league – and the Pistons have averaged 54 wins over the last six...
http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/langlois_blog_070914.html