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The New Orleans Pelicans were the biggest winners of the 2019 NBA Draft Lottery when they surprisingly won the first pick despite only having a six percent chance. Pelicans General Manager David Griffin is expected to select Zion Williamson from Duke University to the chagrin of the Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks, and Cleveland Cavaliers. […]

Rapper Snoop Dogg spoke with ex-San Antonio Spurs star small forward Kawhi Leonard and says there was a lot of “disrespect in that locker room towards” Leonard last season. Leonard only played in nine games in 2017-18 due to a lingering quadriceps injury. Veterans Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili reportedly led a players-only meeting in […]

The San Antonio Spurs and the Cleveland Cavaliers will open the Salt Lake City Summer League this July. The NBA has released the schedule for the 2019 Salt Lake City Summer League which will take place from July 1 to 3. It will be a six-game showcase between three teams: the Spurs, Cavaliers, Utah Jazz, […]

ESPN insider Brian Windhorst says San Antonio Spurs shooting guard DeMar DeRozan could possibly “be on the trade block” this summer. DeRozan has two years left on his contract with the Spurs. He’ll make $27,739,975 next season and has a player option worth $27,739,975 for 2020-21. Windhorst wonders if the Los Angeles Lakers will try […]

For the first time since the 1996-97 season, the San Antonio Spurs didn’t have an All-NBA player. Tim Duncan, David Robinson, Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker, Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge are the players who made an All-NBA team for the Spurs during the 21-season streak. With Aldridge and DeRozan not making an All-NBA team, that […]

San Antonio Spurs forward Rudy Gay isn’t viewing the offseason as a vacation, as some NBA players do. Rather than lounging about on a beach somewhere, Gay has been hitting the gym to improve the strength and conditioning aspects of his game: https://www.instagram.com/p/BxxtwRWFULA/ Gay, now 32 years of age, will be up for free agency […]

The 2018-19 NBA season may have ended sooner than the San Antonio Spurs had hoped, but it appears they may have gotten some long-term security from point guard Dejounte Murray. Murray is among the notable players that are signed with Klutch Sports and has already started to deal with speculations about his future. And on […]

North Carolina small forward Nassir Little will head into the NBA Draft as a projected late lottery pick, with many reports putting him somewhere either outside of the top 10 or just near the bottom of it. While Little isn’t letting any of that get in his way, he did recently say that he feels […]

It was a roller coaster 2018-19 season for the San Antonio Spurs. They made the playoffs despite losing their former franchise player Kawhi Leonard to the Toronto Raptors. There were times when the Spurs looked like championship contenders (9-0 from late February to mid-March) and there were times when they looked like a lottery team […]

When Kawhi Leonard forced his way out of San Antonio last summer after playing just nine games during the 2017-18 campaign due to a mysterious quad injury, it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. Leonard reportedly wanted Los Angeles, but he did not get his wish, as the Spurs dealt him to the […]

The NBA Draft Lottery is set to unfold on Tuesday night, and the tanking gods will grace one of the league’s franchises with the first overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft. While this year’s draft may be pretty heavy at the top, there will be valuable players throughout most of the first round. This […]

The San Antonio Spurs could reportedly explore adding shooting guard Wayne Ellington this summer via free agency, according to Jabari Young of The Athletic. Ellington played for the Miami Heat and Detroit Pistons this season. He began the season in Miami, was traded to the Phoenix Suns, and then signed with the Pistons after getting […]

Charlotte Hornets point guard Tony Parker says it’s “50-50” if he’ll retire this summer. Parker signed a two-year, $10.25 million deal with the Hornets last offseason. The second year of Parker’s contract is non-guaranteed with a trigger date of July 4, 2019, and the veteran plans to tell the team his decision in June: “It’s […]

Longtime San Antonio Spurs icon and team shareholder David Robinson is optimistic about the team’s future after the franchise withstood a seismic change to start out the 2018-19 season. Under the leadership of coach Gregg Popovich, the Spurs survived the departure of their best player in Kawhi Leonard, the retirement of Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker’s […]

San Antonio Spurs legend David Robinson says it was “surprising and disappointing” that Kawhi Leonard wasn’t happy in San Antonio. Leonard requested a trade from the Spurs last summer after only playing in nine games in 2017-18. The three-time All-Star reportedly wasn’t pleased with how his quadriceps injury was handled. San Antonio traded Leonard, Danny […]

Way before the Golden State Warriors released their initial diagnosis of Kevin Durant’s leg injury, San Antonio Spurs forward Rudy Gay already had his own prediction — and it was right on the money. In response to a question by Rob Perez who asked whether Reggie Miller’s assessment is accurate or not, Gay shared his […]

Former NBA player Stephen Jackson says Kawhi Leonard “was being held back in San Antonio” during his time with the San Antonio Spurs. Leonard is dominating the 2019 playoffs with the Toronto Raptors. He’s averaging 31.2 points per game while shooting an efficient 57.4 percent from the field. Jackson, who played for the Spurs during […]

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich is one of the most respected coaches in the league, if not the most. Under his tutelage, several coaches have blossomed and become great head coaches themselves. Doc Rivers, Mike Budenholzer, and Brett Brown all worked under Popovich. Pop is known for his championship pedigree and milking the […]

Kawhi Leonard credited his playoff experience as a member of the San Antonio Spurs as a reason he’s been able to pick apart defenses throughout the postseason, including a lethal average of 38 points per game and a surgical efficiency in his series against the Philadelphia 76ers, shooting a scorching 62% from the floor. “I […]

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich wants the franchise to re-sign small forward Rudy Gay. Gay becomes an unrestricted free agent this summer. “We are hoping we can figure out a way to keep him here,” Popovich said, via Tom Osborn of the San Antonio Express-News. “Rudy is a scorer. He’s somebody who changes […]

For NBA legend Kevin McHale, the Denver Nuggets’ series win over the San Antonio Spurs validates the Mike Malone-led squad. For him, the Nuggets play basketball the right way. Per Sean Keeler of the Denver Post, McHale pointed out that the rise of Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic has turned the Nuggets into basketball team […]

San Antonio Spurs veteran small forward Rudy Gay becomes an unrestricted free agent this summer, but there’s reportedly a good chance he’ll come back to San Antonio. According to Jabari Young of The Athletic, Gay is loved by his Spurs teammates and head coach Gregg Popovich. Young says it makes too much sense for the […]

The San Antonio Spurs are expected to sign head coach Gregg Popovich to a three-year contract extension, putting an end to any speculation that Popovich would retire this offseason. But what does Popovich’s new deal mean for the the Spurs? Will it alter the way they build going forward? Well, here is what Pop’s extension […]

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich is expected to come back for his 24th season and soon expected to sign a three-year contract to keep him as the highest paid coach in the NBA, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. This contract extension has been on the works for quite a while, but Popovich, as […]

The San Antonio Spurs just saw their season come to an early end yet again for a second consecutive season in the form of a first-round playoffs exit. Despite pushing the second-seeded Denver Nuggets all the way to a Game 7, San Antonio would eventually come up short, and are now headed to another early […]

It looks like San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich will be coming back for his 24th season after all, and maybe some more after that. While Popovich joked with the media about being in negotiations with teams other than the Spurs, he did mention that he is talking with San Antonio about a new […]

One anonymous San Antonio Spurs staffer reportedly has “no doubt” head coach Gregg Popovich will return next season, according to Mike Finger of the San Antonio Express-News. Popovich’s contract expired at the end of this season. The Spurs lost to the Denver Nuggets in seven games in the first round of the playoffs. I expect […]

For the first time in Gregg Popovich’s 23 years as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, the Spurs were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in back-to-back years. Last spring, the Spurs fell to the Golden State Warriors in five games. This past weekend, San Antonio lost a tight seven-game series to […]

The Denver Nuggets were able to secure a win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 7 to move on to the next round. Head coach Gregg Popovich feels center Nikola Jokic is a major part of the reason why. Jokic was able to impose his will on the Spurs throughout the series. According to […]

Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic recorded a triple-double in a 90-86 Game 7 victory over the San Antonio Spurs, giving him his second triple-double of the first-round series. By notching his 21-point, 15-rebound, 10-assist triple-double, Jokic joined Magic Johnson and LeBron James as the only players in NBA history with multiple triple-doubles in their first […]

It has been a long time coming, but the Denver Nuggets have finally moved past the first round. Denver finally booked its ticket to the Western Conference semi-finals after their 90-86 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 7. The last time the Nuggets won a first round series was in 2009. Moreover, this […]

The San Antonio Spurs closed out their 90-86 Game 7 loss to the Denver Nuggets in bizarre fashion, failing to foul on the Nuggets’ final possession as time basically ran out. After Nikola Jokic grabbed a rebound with just under 26 seconds left following Torrey Craig’s block of DeMar DeRozan, Jokic wound up with the […]

Over the course of his career back when he was with the Toronto Raptors, DeMar Derozan has had a reputation of fizzing out in the playoffs. Now, as part of the San Antonio Spurs, Derozan once again was not able to put his team over the top. With their season on the line and knock […]

The Denver Nuggets and Michael Malone are moving to the second round. They booked their ticket to the Western Conference semifinals after dispatching the San Antonio Spurs in a nail-biting 90-86 victory in Game 7. After the series-clinching win, Malone applauded Denver’s improvement on defense, especially on threes, per David Aldridge of The Athletic: This […]

What. Just. Happened? Game 7 of the Denver Nuggets-San Antonio Spurs series had a weird conclusion. Now, Nuggets fan will only care about the end result. After all, Denver won the series and will advance to the Western Conference semifinals to face the Portland Trail Blazers. However, Spurs fan might still be trying to understand […]

The Denver Nuggets didn’t have a great win, but what matters is that they are now moving to the second round. Denver took down the San Antonio Spurs in their do-or-die Game 7 showdown, taking a 23-13 lead in the first half and never looking back to win 90-86. On to the next!#MileHighBasketball https://t.co/jCZbl9upIy — […]

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich spoke to reporters before Game 7 of their first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets, and one of the issues he discussed was Jakob Poeltl’s alleged illegal screens. Popovich told Nuggets’ beat reporter Harrison Wind that Poeltl is just like any other NBA player. There are times when […]

If there’s one thing Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone proved in their first round playoff series against the San Antonio Spurs, it’s the fact that Nikola Jokic has what it takes to be a Hall of Famer one day. The Nuggets are in a do-or-die situation as they head to the must-win Game 7 against […]

The Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs are playing the only Game 7 of the first round of the NBA Playoffs on Saturday night, and one of the Spurs’ players has come under scrutiny for the physical nature of his screens. Jakob Poeltl, the hulking seven-foot center from Austria, has leveled Nuggets point guard Jamal […]