How the San Antonio Spurs Won the NBA Offseason

Ladies and gentleman. I present to you the most well run organization in pro sports.

San Antonio is no big market. Yet since Gregg Popovich has taken over, the Spurs just win championships or contend every year. They never go under.

The fans thought after they demolished the Miami Heat in 2014 that their time was coming to an end. Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, and Tony Parker were all getting old.

Kawhi Leonard is one of the few bright spots. I’d say he’s the most valuable player on the team now and reminds me of a young Scottie Pippen. He can defend and he can win games.

But one guy can not win it all for a team. The Los Angeles Clippers who took them out in seven games this year in the quarter finals were just flat out better as a squad.

So what did the Spurs do?

They won the offseason and became an even bigger contender next year.

David West took a one million a year contract in an attempt to win it all. He will be behind top five NBA player of all time Tim Duncan holding it down.

But who else did they get?

Lamarcus Aldridge. This guy just single handily changed the Spurs franchise around and will have them as big time contenders for years with Kawhi Leonard.

Wow. Not only is he damn good, is there a better big man player besides Anthony Davis hat can light it up outside the paint like Aldridge can?

He will fit Popovich’s system so well it’s not even funny. He can pass, he can shoot. He can even play inside and dominate.

He also came to San Antonio to just win.

Oklahoma City is a wild card and always a contender if Kevin Durant is healthy. Billy Donovan is a wild card as new head coach of the Thunder as well. I’m not quite sure I’d place money on them winning it all. Especially when they didn’t make the playoffs this year even with Durant on the sidelines.

Then you have Golden State who play the same style of game San Antonio does. I like to think the Spurs have heir number though in the games I’ve seen both teams play each other in. The Spurs would aim to shut the back court of Curry and Thompson down which leads Golden State ineffective. They could absolutely do it. I simply don’t see Golden State repeating again for those reasons. They will be a good team however.

And then there’s queen Lebron James and the rat pack in Cleveland. Whoever wins in the west will have a field day with that team. Like stated before, watching James lose in the NBA finals is a great past time for many. He simply won’t do it this year.

I’d like to throw in the Pelicans as a wild card. Anthony Davis may become the best player in the league soon.

So with these teams considered, I think the Spurs have a great shot at winning it all. Duncan thereafter will ride into the sunset with his six rings that put many players to shame and also the media who has never appreciated him. Yet they appreciate the losing culture on every Lebron James team.

To each his own.

Heat Fans Mock Tony Parker

Courtesy of the NBA Memes page on Facebook.

This is in response to the media mocking Lebron James of the Miami Heat for having to be carried off due to cramps in the first game of the series against the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA finals.

I wish I was joking around but I’m not.

I’m hardly a Lebron James “fan”, in fact I’d call myself a hater. But to mock him in game one for leaving due to a cramp or questioning his toughness is stupid. I could have cared less.

And he responded by having a monster game in game 2 with over or around 35 points. Without him the Heat would have lost by that margin.

However, what Heat fans are now mocking is how Tony Parker went down around the fourth quarter due to an elbow from Mario Chalmers while defending Chalmers that resulted in a flagrant one foul.

I admit, the elbow looked weak. But it connected. He survived in the end just like Lebron James did and will probably play well in game three.

This whole hashtag thing and mocking both for what happened is really stupid.

Game of Zones

Credit to BleacherReport for making this video.

I don’t visit that site often. I dug this video up because I always think of Game of Thrones (as a fan of the show) whenever I hear Lebron James’ nickname “the king”.

What better sport/league to do for a Game of Thrones video or interpretation than the NBA? What makes Game of Thrones such a great show is all the great characters. What makes the NBA such a popular league are it’s dominant stars such as James, Kobe, and the list goes on.

Enjoy.

We Should Be Rooting for the Spurs

Last year many people had the Spurs as underdogs and most considered the Heat repeat champions before the series began.

The Heat did repeat, but the Spurs put up a valiant effort. They should have won in six games had Ray Allen not come off the court and stayed in Boston.

You see, the Miami Heat are the image of what is wrong with the NBA today while the Spurs are a splitting image on what is right with the NBA.

Bandwagonning like Ray Allen and Lebron James did to South Beach is not cool at all. Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson who won multiple championships and had to battle the Pistons never did something so juvenile. I think Lebron James may have won a ring with Cleveland or have been close to it had he still stayed there. Instead he screwed the town over.

The Spurs are what every NBA franchise should model themselves to be like. A bunch of guys who on paper appear to be nobodies but just win. Every year since Popovich has come in to coach them (besides his first year) they have won at least 50 games and gone deep in the post season. That is amazing. He is most definitely up there with Phil Jackson and Pat Riley.

Danny Green, a guy who nobody wanted on their team lighting it up from the three point line every game. Tim Duncan, who not many talk about is quite easily a top five player of all time with his four rings that would put Lebron’s two to shame. The guy who outperformed his opposition in game six last year with close to forty points yet got screwed over.

We should be cheering for the Spurs and rooting against the Heat. Maybe then players will think twice about trying to bolt it for another team and leaving the league in such disparity. Why would fans even bother showing up to Milwaukee Bucks or Utah Jazz games these days?

America is Rooting for the Spurs

This is what I’m talking about.

On ESPN Sportsnation today they revealed who America is clearly cheering for in this seasons NBA finals.

Everyone seems to have the same opinion. Besides the fickle fans in Florida of course who will root for any team that is dominant or doing fine.

The Miami Heat are easily the team I despise the most in any sport. That arrogant, smug king Lebron James who thinks he’s the best player to ever grace the NBA, the decision, you could go on and on. Then there is the Spurs who every NBA basketball team should model their franchise to be. What a likeable group of guys. You have perhaps the best coach ever Popovich, the group guys who play so well together, players like Danny Green who were thought to have no future lighting it up on the back court.

And then there is that team full of band-wagonners. With no Ray Allen coming off the bench the Spurs would be the defending champions perhaps. Popovich could coach circles around Erik Spoelstra.

Credit where credit is due. The Heat are going for the three peat. They can win championships. The NBA finals are better to watch the the stanley cup finals due to the fact Lebron James is such a dominant player to watch and root against.

Last years finals between the Spurs and Heat was the best NBA finals I have seen in many years. Hopefully that can happen again.

Until then I will be cheering for the Spurs and rooting against James. And I can’t wait!