DENVER -- The Spurs want to beat Nuggets star Allen Iverson on the court -- but they'd rather not see him get beaten up unfairly.
The Spurs have severed ties with San Antonio's KTKR-AM 760 afternoon talk show co-hosts, Jeff Vexler and Walter Pasacrita, after the airing of a controversial skit Wednesday that included a fake interview with the Denver guard.
In the segment, which ran just before Game 2, an Iverson impersonator responded to questions with answers that sounded alarm bells in the Spurs' front office and among some staffers at the station, owned by Clear Channel Communications.
Many of the scripted responses in the spoof, which was overseen by afternoon producer Eric Gray, were perceived to be incendiary at best and racist at worst.
"We thought the skit was highly offensive and very inappropriate," Spurs spokesman Tom James said Saturday. "As a result of that skit, we don't want them involved in any way, shape or form with Spurs programming."
With that in mind, head coach Gregg Popovich will no longer make his weekly appearance on KTKR, at least through the postseason.