Did the Spurs tank in 1997?

[Seventyniner]

Didn't they shut him down after the elbow to the temple by Karl Malone.....he hurt his knee and and back as he fell to the ground. Malone should have been suspended, the dirty piece of .

D-Rob got called for a defensive foul on that play iirc. Dirty ass mother ing Malone.

[MultiTroll]

D-Rob got called for a defensive foul on that play iirc. Dirty ass mother ing Malone.

Stern the Enabler in Chief at the time.

[Dex]

In the famous words of Bill Clinton, it depends on what your definition of the word "is" is.

Did the Spurs lose many games because of injuries to Robinson, Elliott, and co? Yes.

COULD they have brought Robinson back at the end of the year to play in some meaningless games after the season was already sunk? Probably.

I think the injuries led them down the path of a bad season, and then they embraced the tank realizing that there was no benefit to winning when the other option was the chance of Tim ing Duncan.

Also worth noting that the Pop of then (25 years ago) is very different from the Pop of now.

[Biggems]

Didn't they shut him down after the elbow to the temple by Karl Malone.....he hurt his knee and and back as he fell to the ground. Malone should have been suspended, the dirty piece of .

My bad, this happened once we already drafted Timmy. Still. that dirty, filthy, cheap-shot, cheating, pedo POS Malone.

[Poolboy5623]

Of course they did.