jmard5
11-01-2007, 08:25 AM
The champ is here…
If you played high school sports at all, you know what it means when your squad is scheduled to be someone else’s homecoming opponent. That was the Blazers last night. The Spurs were in victory-lap mode, picking up their championship rings in front of the home crowd, unveiling the banner and rocking jerseys with the Larry O’Brien trophy stitched on. Are they gonna wear those all year? That’s just evil to make everyone look at the trophy all the time, especially when they play the Suns …
It was light work early on for Tony Parker (19 pts) and Tim Duncan (24 pts, 13 rebs) and crew, to the point where Francisco Elson was looking like Amare Stoudemire dunking on Portland’s collective head. You could tell Nate McMillan chewed his team out at halftime, though, because the Blazers came out in the second half pumped up and playing well. Portland cut the lead to four by the end of the third, and got within three with two minutes left, but San Antonio hit the shots they needed and pulled it out …
Of course, the Spurs own the top spot in the season’s first NBA Hit List, which we dropped before yesterday’s action tipped off …
And you can add San Antonio to the list of NBA teams/players getting into the boxing craze. Ex-featherweight champ Jesse James Leija ran the Spurs through boxing classes over the summer, and apparently Manu (16 pts, 8 asts, 5 stls) can throw blows with the best of ‘em. Consider that the next time you wanna say he’s soft. Guess Kobe was lucky he didn’t catch a Chris Childs flashback after karate-chopping Manu last year …
http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/DimeMagazine/2007/10/31/Homecoming_Kings
If you played high school sports at all, you know what it means when your squad is scheduled to be someone else’s homecoming opponent. That was the Blazers last night. The Spurs were in victory-lap mode, picking up their championship rings in front of the home crowd, unveiling the banner and rocking jerseys with the Larry O’Brien trophy stitched on. Are they gonna wear those all year? That’s just evil to make everyone look at the trophy all the time, especially when they play the Suns …
It was light work early on for Tony Parker (19 pts) and Tim Duncan (24 pts, 13 rebs) and crew, to the point where Francisco Elson was looking like Amare Stoudemire dunking on Portland’s collective head. You could tell Nate McMillan chewed his team out at halftime, though, because the Blazers came out in the second half pumped up and playing well. Portland cut the lead to four by the end of the third, and got within three with two minutes left, but San Antonio hit the shots they needed and pulled it out …
Of course, the Spurs own the top spot in the season’s first NBA Hit List, which we dropped before yesterday’s action tipped off …
And you can add San Antonio to the list of NBA teams/players getting into the boxing craze. Ex-featherweight champ Jesse James Leija ran the Spurs through boxing classes over the summer, and apparently Manu (16 pts, 8 asts, 5 stls) can throw blows with the best of ‘em. Consider that the next time you wanna say he’s soft. Guess Kobe was lucky he didn’t catch a Chris Childs flashback after karate-chopping Manu last year …
http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/DimeMagazine/2007/10/31/Homecoming_Kings