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I'd rather the Spurs won les that left everyone else butthurt than win forgettable championships, tbh.
To commemorate the asterick that this year's championship will have considering the Derrick Rose Injury, this "footnote guy" decided to rank the top 20 asterick/footnote championships in NBA History. And guess what... all 4 of our championships are on the list. #14 2003 spurs, #13 2007 spurs, #10 2005 spurs, and #2 1999 spurs.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...footnote- le
Discuss...
My opinion... The best team in basketball has the talent, dedication, and discipline to become great and healthy.
Time to go out there and try to win an asterisk for the thumb.
1987 Lakers Honorable mention
#18 2010 Lakers
#16 2009 Lakers
#12 2002 Lakers
#5 1988 Lakers
Simmons be trollin'
All of the Spurs' rings are in the list. What are you talking about?
asterisk franchise
Lebron would stop wearing his headband if it would mean a ring, asterisk or not.
Son, just some fan being butthurt really. You got solid takes, been seeing you around the forums for a long time tbh.All of the Spurs' rings are in the list. What are you talking about?
This guy is a ing idiot, how bout 2008 when as defending champs Manu got hurt and we got stuck sleeping on a ing airplane.
Blahhhhhh, he said our 07 team was our best team, I laughed there. 05 Pistons added Dyess, I can argue they were bigger and after a year together were tougher than 04 team. 03 Webber did get hurt, but he fails to mention the Spurs knocked out (He says Sac their biggest threat) the Lakers who were a three peat champ! Fails to mention that. Dirk got hurt as well, the Spurs were never really threatened that series though sides Dallas stealing game one (Spurs controlled that game) then they won the next three games (Two with Dirk in there and he leaves in the later part of game 4).
I could go on and on about his column, he fails to mention a few things there.
BTW Simmons is cool and respects the Spurs alot but dude is a flat out clown I disagree with at times.
As Culburn would say, "Only pussies & assholes make excuses."
Simmons will never let go of Boston not getting Timmy
Funny article tho.
They mad?
According to this list there were only 4 "legit" champs since 1991 that didn't have Michael Jordan on the team:
2000 Lakers
2001 Lakers
2004 Pistons
2011 Mavs
I wouldn't get too worked up about a list that found something wrong with every other champ of the last two decades.
That, and Lenny Bias.Simmons will never let go of Boston not getting Timmy
And no mention of Duncan's injury in 01 or Ginobili's injury last year. Ridiculous.
That would have merited a discussion, but...
a. 2001: You got absolutely ing destroyed
b. 2011: You didn't even get to advance in the second round
The Lakers owe two of their les to Juwan Howard and Scot Pollard. Every Laker fan knows that.
Pretty sure he meant 2000, when Duncan missed the playoffs.
I'm not convinced that the 2000 Spurs were going to beat either the 2000 Lakers or the 2000 Blazers, but it's much more plausible to me that the Duncan injury in 2000 cost the Spurs a chance to play for the le than it is that the Anderson injury in 2001 did.
This guy is a comedian, not an analyst.
Anyone expecting serious sports commentary out of him is nuts
You're just saying that because the Spurs are on the end of a Bill Simmons beatdown. He hates the Lakers more than any team and I respect his writing. You should, too.
The Spurs owe at least one ring each to Tommy Nuñez and Tim Donaghy.
In terms of entertainment value, he's probably the best sports writer out there. It's just hard to accept anything he says due to his obvious biases.
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