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In a season full of change, Tim Duncan and the Spurs are showing that a little continuity can still go a long way.
Spurs band together for another run
By Johnny Ludden, Yahoo! Sports
Tim Duncan smiles as he surveys the shifting NBA landscape. “New age,” he says, and if it sounds like he isn’t quite sure where he stands after all this tectonic movement, that South Texas clay beneath his feet seems as stable as ever.
He’d spent the summer like everyone else, watching and wondering what it all meant. LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined Dwyane Wade in Miami. Amar’e Stoudemire signed a $100 million contract with the Knicks. Carlos Boozer left Utah for Chicago. Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony even toasted their dream union.
“To each their own,” Duncan says, and he’s still smiling.
“Sometimes you take an easier route. But the easier route isn’t always guaranteed anything.”
Duncan won’t pass judgment, but perspective. There’d been a time when he, too, considered leaving the only NBA team he’d ever played for. He stayed, and the decision delivered three more les. Continuity worked for him. Some 10 years later, it apparently still counts for something.
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Twenty victories and three losses into their season, the San Antonio Spurs own the NBA’s best record and the franchise’s greatest start ever. To anyone who had seen them a year ago – most of all themselves – this comes as some surprise. Then, they limped through the season’s first three months, preparing for a turbulent summer that threatened to scatter them. Manu Ginobili questioned whether he would return, and he was right to do so: The Spurs were wondering whether they should bring him back. Tony Parker was slowed by a foot injury and, at times, looked disinterested enough that the Spurs debated whether to trade him, going so far as to inquire about Paul’s availability.
Together with Duncan, they had made a nice run, sharing ownership of the previous decade with the Los Angeles Lakers. Maybe it was time to start something new.
Or not.
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Last edited by duncan228; 12-15-2010 at 12:40 PM.
nice read
No one covers the Spurs better than Ludden. Props.
whatta go Tim
I always look forward to these Ludden articles relating to the Spurs. Like it's been said before, he brings something more personal and maybe something we didn't know instead of the current hacks in the EN who just take post game quotes and right around them.
Anyway I like this line: "Nearly a week before Christmas, and the Spurs are looking down on the NBA. New age?
Or same old one?"
You know a lockout season does wonders for an old guy on shaky knees. If we lose basketball for a year, it will give his knees a lot of time to heal and probably give him an extra two years of play.Duncan turns 35 in April and has one year left on his contract, which could be swallowed by a possible lockout. Spurs officials can envision him continuing to play on a short-term deal, and Duncan said he’d be willing to commit to something longer if he could guarantee his troublesome left knee will continue to hold up. But he can’t.
“I would love to play until the wheels come off, but that’s not how it goes,” he said. “I want to play at a high level and I want to be able to play well. If that’s not the case, then it might be better for me to walk away.”
Another good one by Ludden.
That's Ludden for you.
Spurs nwo
Where's the I miss Ludden dog?
Great read, Ludden's always got the goods
yep. ludden is money
ya Ludden! in A!
"Get me a ing bench." - Pop
Now this is intellectual property. Great read.
Awesome read! I think the spurs are going to still be contention in the next 5 years. then after that i don't know. But they have a great front office and they know how to put things together.
Spurs never say die. Spurs fight til the end.
I think this is the best insight we have had, in quite some time, about what Pop and Tim might do after their contracts expire.
Last edited by Libri; 12-15-2010 at 02:01 PM.
Nice article
Ludden >>> Woj.
Great read
And very nice to know Pop extension is close
Good read
And I mean it this time
Fantastic article! Ludden does it again.
there are a lot of insights in this article
about pop contract, the internal debates about trading (ginobili, parker, paul..), and i loved the quotes of duncan and about him
spurs have the best human resource management I've seen in any company; )
We have a bleeping bench now.
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