The admiral is the reason I became a Spurs fan.
I remember when we got the #1 pick in 1987, Bob Bass was asked about drafting The Admiral and waiting for his commitment to the Navy. Bass said, "We've waited 14 years, what's 2 more?" He set the tone for what we did going forward all these years. Here we are 29 years later and look at what this organization has accomplished. We owe a lot to him and we're not done yet.
LeBron in 2008-09, top 10 in:
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Same here......before he even played a game for the Spurs.The admiral is the reason I became a Spurs fan.
Drob was a beast that season. Won DPOY. This was the year before he became a full fledge Christian. He was never the same aggressive player after that. Still great, but the anger and aggression he used to play with was no longer there. If not for that, we could easily being talking about DRob being the greatest C of alltime.
This is completely inaccurate. He was brought up in a Christian household, and was more aggressive as his career went on, particularly when Avery Johnson joined the team and told him that not playing as hard as he could was a waste of his God-given abilities. If he'd played as hard in his first five years as he did in his last five, his numbers would have been amazing, but he wouldn't be remembered differently because his teammates absolutely sucked for the first half of his career.
Porker leads the league every year in gluttony, fat rolls, pregame meals per game, times outplayed by own backups, and playoff vanishing acts. Does that count?
Dude, go back to his interviews. He said he became more deeply religious AFTER the Olympics and really didn't take religion too seriously before then. He himself even said he wasn't as aggressive after this point in his life. Here is the interview noting just that. He played w/ a lot of anger his first 2-3 years w/ the Spurs. And noticeably shifted the year following. He was still highly skilled and an unbelievable athlete. But that anger and aggression wasn't there. I think it's great that he found his inner peace. But it did shift his focus as well.
I'm not sure how you infer any of that. I scoured this video and nowhere does he say anything close to your characterization. Not just one part is missing, but everything you said just doesn't exist. You'll need to point it out, if not here, then in one of the many other interviews you seem to think exist.
I watched David play his entire career. He was so good early on at a sport he hadn't really cared about that I don't think he really put it all out there when everything was on the line. Usually the great players are damaged in some way to be driven to succeed, and Robinson simply didn't need that validation enough to work for it. As he got older, the game mattered more to him, and you could see the change in him. He barked at officials when they made bad calls, he defended himself when people tried to be physical with him, and he played his guts out in big games, even when his body was failing him. The Spurs have two fewer championships for sure without him.
I know when Dave first joined the Spurs he wasn't religious at all. Word was he was every bit the horn dog that Magic Johnson was.
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