Homecoming Kings (Dime Mag's Blog)

[jmard5]

The champ is here…

If you played high school sports at all, you know what it means when your squad is scheduled to be someone else’s homecoming opponent. That was the Blazers last night. The Spurs were in victory-lap mode, picking up their championship rings in front of the home crowd, unveiling the banner and rocking jerseys with the Larry O’Brien trophy s ched on. Are they gonna wear those all year? That’s just evil to make everyone look at the trophy all the time, especially when they play the Suns …

It was light work early on for Tony Parker (19 pts) and Tim Duncan (24 pts, 13 rebs) and crew, to the point where Francisco Elson was looking like Amare Stoudemire dunking on Portland’s collective head. You could tell Nate McMillan chewed his team out at halftime, though, because the Blazers came out in the second half pumped up and playing well. Portland cut the lead to four by the end of the third, and got within three with two minutes left, but San Antonio hit the shots they needed and pulled it out …

Of course, the Spurs own the top spot in the season’s first NBA Hit List, which we dropped before yesterday’s action tipped off …

And you can add San Antonio to the list of NBA teams/players getting into the boxing craze. Ex-featherweight champ Jesse James Leija ran the Spurs through boxing classes over the summer, and apparently Manu (16 pts, 8 asts, 5 stls) can throw blows with the best of ‘em. Consider that the next time you wanna say he’s soft. Guess Kobe was lucky he didn’t catch a Chris Childs flashback after karate-chopping Manu last year …

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[Lebowski Brickowski]

" Consider that the next time you wanna say he’s soft"

Who in their right mind would say that?

LAUGHABLE MAN! HA!

DIME sux worse than ESPN mag.

[Reggie Miller]

I wonder what game this guy was watching, becuase it wasn't the same one I saw on TNT. As much as I hate Microfracture Jesus and his game, there is no way in Elson looked like him that night. Also, talk about a dunk mentality...

Would there be any earthly reason to single out Elson? Yep, if you only watched a particular stretch early in the game (first dunk) on televison and didn't watch the remaining 30+ minutes. Piss poor reporting on every level. Thanks for phoning it in...