Appreciation is usually something that grows after the fact, and not during. Perhaps that will happen to you with the San Antonio Spurs, or perhaps, it will happen now, as they make what looks to be their final run.
They are a constant in our lives, where striving for continued excellence isn’t merely a cute cliché but in fact an attainted, real thing. What they have done (“they” is perhaps used to broadly here, lets confine it to Tim Duncan, Gregg Popovich, and general manager R.C. Buford)
has never been done before: 13 consecutive years of .610 ball or better – .610 cons uting a 50-win season – which is something even the game’s winningest, like Russell’s Celtics or Magic’s Lakers, cannot lay claim to.