Golden Age for S.A. Sports

[SenorSpur]

Let's tap the brakes a bit guys. There seems to be some major assumptions that a big man will simply up and leave his current team to come and join the Spurs. Don't bet on that happening.

Remember, the current NBA rules are deliberately setup to favor the team that currently owns a player's rights. Meaning a potential FA player can make more money by staying with his current team because the home team can offer more money than any other team.

Other than the Shaq situaion, when have we seen a big-time, FA big man leave his current team to go elsewhere - especially for less money? Sign and trades are always possible, but you tend to have to give up a lot in return.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love for the Spurs to get either one and keep this 20-year run of success going. All I'm saying is that this talk about the Spurs eventually landing Howard or even Oden is pipe dream - at best. We'll be better off landing our own new version of Oden or Howard - whoever the he is.

As has been said already by some, we'd better appreciate and enjoy the Duncan era and the championships that it brings.

[Shred]

Pretty amazing actually when you consider that there are a lot of other cities that have, football, baseball, and basketball and still have not had a golden age of sports.

Cleveland, I'm looking at you.

[Dingle Barry]

We just need to tank and get lucky again.

[longrod]

A Golden Age that includes no NFL, no MLB, no Division I-A college sports, not even a NHL team. But don't forget the Rodeo and Livestock Show. Maybe we can claim the Luling Watermelon Thump.

More is not always better.

[Shred]

More is not always better.

Didn't say it necessarily was, but "Golden Age of Sports" sort of implies at least 2.

[longrod]

Didn't say it necessarily was, but "Golden Age of Sports" sort of implies at least 2.

LOL! True.

I think it is just a matter of time when someone with money shows up who is shrewd enough to play the "hispanic" game. Mexico is already the primary reason why SATX is booming and there's no reason why major league sports would be an exception.

[SpursFanFirst]

A Golden Age that includes no NFL, no MLB, no Division I-A college sports, not even a NHL team. But don't forget the Rodeo and Livestock Show. Maybe we can claim the Luling Watermelon Thump.

I haven't heard that in ages!!! Good times

[FromWayDowntown]

HOWARD is a beast and will only get better.

Come on -- we all know by now that Dwight Howard is a fluke player who made a fluke shot.

[blaze89]

Some advice to fans who may be a little spoiled: Savor the good times while you can, because when the Spurs' run ends, San Antonio may never reach such glorious heights again.

"Back when I first came aboard, things like this right here seemed unlikely," said Bass, 78, who began his 20-year association with the Spurs in 1974. "There was so much to do and we had so far to go."

Fans who remember the hard times know whereof he speaks.

I've believed that for so long...granted I don't get to see as many games as I go but these are great times we are living in and we never know when days like this will come around again.