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The reigning Most Valuable Player in Russell Westbrook was not happy with himself after a disappointing fourth-quarter stretch wound out as a key loss for the highly-talented yet utterly-inconsistent Oklahoma City Thunder, surrendering their fourth place in the Western Conference playoff race to the grizzled and battle-tested San Antonio Spurs. During crunch time, the ball […]

The San Antonio Spurs have found themselves in unfamiliar territory. Normally a franchise that flies under the radar and happily goes about their business behind the scenes, the storied organization has been a part of one of the more peculiar ongoing storylines in recent memory – the Kawhi Leonard health saga. After hurting his ankle […]

The San Antonio Spurs got some much-needed leg room in the Western Conference standings after they eked out a hard-earned 103-99 win at home against the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday. With the win, the Spurs managed to improve their record to 44-32, which is good for fourth in the conference. They also tied […]

The San Antonio Spurs are fighting tooth and nail this late in the season as they are trying to keep their position inside the playoff picture in the Western Conference. A playoff appearance has a greater importance this season for the Spurs. While they are not among the favorites to win a title this year, […]

Manu Ginobili is the biggest thief in the San Antonio area. Of course, we are strictly talking about his activity on the basketball court. During Thursday night’s home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Ginobili reached a new milestone in his decorated career, as he became the new all-time steals leader for the Spurs. In […]

NBA salaries are some of the most lucrative in all of sports, with the best players’ contracts amounting to more than $200 million. The salary cap has hit the roof to the point where teams are able to offer huge contracts to today’s players. It’s never been better to be an NBA player than today given […]

NBA fans have their opinions about which teams are championship contenders. Popular choices include the San Antonio Spurs, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Houston Rockets. However, as long as a 33-year-old trend continues, only five teams have a chance at winning this year, and they have NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal to thank. Yes, even though […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder will try to maintain their narrow one-game lead over San Antonio in the Western Conference standings when they visit the Spurs on Thursday night. The Thunder opened as 1.5-point road favorites for Thursday’s game, although the status of Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge (knee) could cause the line to move leading up […]

The San Antonio Spurs have already been missing Kawhi Leonard for the season, and one player they simply cannot afford to be without is LaMarcus Aldridge. Unfortunately, Aldridge appeared to suffer a minor knee injury against the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night and did not return to what was eventually a Spurs loss. According to […]

In the midst of a fierce Western Conference playoff race and doing his best to keep his team’s chances afloat, San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich promised to keep speaking out on President Donald Trump and other social issues that plague the nation. Most would offer that Popovich has plenty to worry about, with […]

San Antonio Spurs big man LaMarcus Aldridge suffered a bruised left knee late in the first half of Tuesday night’s 116-106 loss to the Washington Wizards due to an on-court collision with Otto Porter Jr. After making his way to the locker room for an evaluation, the six-time All-Star did not return to play. As […]

All things considered, the San Antonio Spurs are doing an admirable job of staying in playoff contention despite going through a carousel of injuries to their key players. Any other team with health issues as serious as that of the Spurs would probably have been eliminated by now. That being said, the Spurs can’t afford […]

For the San Antonio Spurs, it is just another day and yet another that head coach Gregg Popovich’s team did not have the services of star forward Kawhi Leonard. This has been the case now for most of the season, as Leonard has missed all but nine games during the 2017-18 campaign due to his […]

What makes Gregg Popovich a great coach is that not only does he know exactly when and what play to execute, but he also has an excellent understanding of life itself. His life does not revolve around basketball alone. He is completely aware of the social issues at hand and is not afraid to address […]

The San Antonio Spurs have been without star Kawhi Leonard for all but nine games this season, and they’ll continue to be without him on Tuesday. The Spurs official Twitter account announced that Leonard would miss Tuesday night’s game against the Washington Wizards. Kawhi Leonard (return from injury management) is out for tomorrow night’s Spurs-Wizards […]

The NBA announced Monday that LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers and LaMarcus Aldridge of the San Antonio Spurs were named Players of the Week, per the league’s PR relayed by ClutchPoints’ Tomer Azarly. The NBA has announced that Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James and San Antonio Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge have been named the […]

The Washington Wizards will have to trot it out once again without star point guard John Wall on Tuesday, according to Candace Buckner of The Washington Post. The team is in dire need of a win, going 4-6 in their last 10 games, including three straight losses that have mired it in sixth place, with […]

The March For Our Lives rally took place all across the country on Saturday with the main event happening in Washington, D.C. The march called for common sense gun control laws so that these shooting tragedies will stop happening all across the country. It brought out hundreds of thousands of young adults trying to make their […]

The San Antonio Spurs took on the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday afternoon, once again without star forward Kawhi Leonard. With the Spurs locked up with teams like the Oklahoma City Thunder, New Orleans Pelicans, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Utah Jazz for playoff positioning in the final 10 games of the season, LaMarcus Aldridge could use all […]

Originally the eighth overall pick in the 2006 NBA Draft, Rudy Gay has had a solid career, averaging 18.0 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 2.2 assists in 801 games. However, at this stage of his career, the 31-year-old is pursuing team success in the playoffs. Coming off a ruptured Achilles injury, Gay signed a two-year, $17 […]

The San Antonio Spurs have won six games in a row over the last couple of weeks, and sixth man Manu Ginobili is somewhat confused. With all the drama has been going on with Spurs as of late, it would make sense if the team was a little bit distracted when it took the basketball […]

Pau Gasol has had quite a career. He won two championships with the Los Angeles Lakers under Phil Jackson, and then later got the opportunity to play under Gregg Popovich on the San Antonio Spurs. Both Popovich and Jackson are considered to be two of the best coaches in NBA history, with 16 NBA championships […]

David Robinson and Tim Duncan won several championships with the San Antonio Spurs, and were considered the “Twin Towers” during their reign. After Robinson retired, Duncan won even more titles with Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, and coach Gregg Popovich. The Spurs were considered something of a dynasty in all those decades of winning. In a […]

Brandishing a smooth midrange jumper with a slight fade as his primary weapon, a move steeped in finesse, it can be easy to forget just how strong LaMarcus Aldridge is. Only three years ago, Aldridge was the summer’s prize free agent. That’s long since been forgotten too. Three-pointers and perimeter proliferation have basketball chasing unicorns, […]

During the first half of the San Antonio Spurs’ game against the Utah Jazz on Friday night, Spurs All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge was simply a man on a mission. On an impressive 12-of-16 shooting from the floor in the game’s first two quarters, Aldridge exploded for 28 points in the first half to help the Spurs […]

A symbol of stability in the NBA for the past two decades, no one predicted any kind of drama surrounding the San Antonio Spurs franchise this season. But somehow, that hasn’t been the case. Kawhi Leonard’s quad injury has had him missing most of the season while the situation surrounding his return has caused the […]

San Antonio Spurs veteran Tony Parker offered some perspective in the never-ending saga of Kawhi Leonard’s injury, but his comments which were originally meant to relate to his teammate’s struggles, ended up sounding more like a testament to how different both players have treated a very similar injury. “I’ve been through it. It was a […]

The San Antonio Spurs recently held a meeting with their star player Kawhi Leonard regarding his injury and a probable return to the lineup. Though there was no actual video of the meeting, a fan posted a clip of what might have gone down in the meeting. Twitter user CJ Fogler tweeted: Exclusive video of […]

The most recent odds are out for the NBA Playoffs, and the San Antonio Spurs and L.A. Clippers are right at the center of them. Per the official Twitter account of Basketball-Reference, the Clippers dropped in the odds by a considerable margin. The Spurs, on the other hand, had a big uptick in the percentage […]

Brandon Paul has been at best a role player this year for the San Antonio Spurs, but on Thursday he might have had his most important contribution of the season, defending his teammates on Twitter. ESPN had reported that there was a heated players only meeting regarding Kawhi Leonard and his lack of coming back to […]

With Kawhi Leonard still not playing for the San Antonio Spurs, and the reported meeting imploring him to start playing again, things are shaky in that part of Texas, to say the least. Leonard has missed all but nine games this season due to a strange injury. He was reportedly eyeing a comeback in recent […]

The San Antonio Spurs are in danger of missing the playoffs for the first time in 21 seasons, thanks to a wild tornado of a race in the Western Conference and the injury woes they’ve faced all season long. Yet it’s the captain of this ship, head coach Gregg Popovich, who has shined the brightest […]

The never-ending saga of Kawhi Leonard’s impending recovery has shaken an otherwise quiet San Antonio Spurs organization into the same class as others, filled with rumors that question the veracity and transparency of what the franchise has to say. Endless reports of Leonard’s injury and the rift between him and the organization have made a […]

The San Antonio Spurs’ reported players-only meeting with Kawhi Leonard‘s has a slightly different tone than first suggested by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski‘s original piece. According to Jabari Young of the San Antonio Express-News, players did not implore Leonard’s return, but rather wanted to gauge the extent of his injury and getting a feel if he […]

San Antonio Spurs forward Danny Green didn’t take long to refute a report by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, which claimed the Spurs held a players-only meeting with Kawhi Leonard, inquiring and imploring him to return to the court, following his clearance for game action. Green took to Twitter, claiming the report “couldn’t be anymore incorrect” — […]

The San Antonio Spurs held a closed door players-only meeting imploring their star forward Kawhi Leonard to return this season and help the team make a final push for the playoffs, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The players, reportedly led by veteran point guard Tony Parker, who suffered a quad injury similar to Leonard’s, met […]

Despite missing all but nine games of the 2017-18 season so and his future with the team is completely up in the air, star forward Kawhi Leonard is still expected to be offered a max contract extension this summer by the San Antonio Spurs and qualifies for the designated veteran player contract extension, according to Spurs […]

The Golden State Warriors lost their very last All-Star remaining on the floor, as Draymond Green sat out after the 7:13 mark of the second quarter after receiving a shot to the groin by San Antonio Spurs forward Danny Green. Draymond Green went to the locker room because he got knee’d/kicked by Danny Green… pic.twitter.com/pRe2msKqnl […]

Despite the recent rumors of Kawhi Leonard making a return before the end of the season, his teammate Manu Ginobili isn’t holding his breath awaiting his return. “For me, he’s not coming back, because (thinking he is) is not helping,” said Ginobili, according to Tom Orsborn of the San Antonio News-Express. “We fell for it […]