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cowboyfan40

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Just curious to see how many Spurs fans there outside SA? From the owners to the players, there has never been a professional sports team that won with so much while displaying dignity and class.
 
Not a Spurs fan though I agree with your statement. I have been a Clippers fan since 1987 and that is a lot of years of hurt. I'm not overly big on our new winning ways however I am sooooo hoping the Spurs beat the Heat.

Go Spurs! And here's hoping my Clips can go back to being awful. Low expectations are best when it comes to sport.
 
This one hurt. But, hey, you always feel pretty good splitting the first two as the road team.

Back to the AT&T Center for three.
 
Things look pretty good.

But Parker may be out for game 4; mild hammy strain. I'm thinking if Doc Schmidt and the trainers say okay, he's playing.

And as much of a rout it was in game 3, it was still just one win.

Miami won't go down without a fight. Let's see if it happens Thursday. If it doesn't, I see things ending happily on Sunday night. My guess is that the Spurs split the remaining two at home and head back to Miami up 3-2. And it'll be a war they'll have to win on the road.

But it's a task they can do.
 
Ready for a SPURS win tonight in Game 6 and an NBA Title. GO SPURS GO!

There is a six-man link to the SPURS. The team is named after the hometown of one of the initial investors, B. J. "Red" McCombs, who was born in SPUR, TEXAS in 1927.

The Spurs are 12-1 in playoff series when they are up 3-2. I remember the solitary loss, in 1979, soon after I moved to San Antonio ... went to a couple of those playoff games in the old Hemisfair Arena ...


http://www.expressnews.com/sports/colum ... 605631.php

Spurs may be staring at basketball karma again

Mike Monroe
NBA/Spurs reporter/columnist

San Antonio Express News, June 18, 2013

MIAMI — Thirteen previous times in franchise history, the Spurs have taken a 3-2 lead in a best-of-7 playoff series.
Twelve times, they have emerged with a series victory.

The lone failure is a sad bit of franchise lore, a loss to the Washington Bullets in the 1979 Eastern Conference finals.
Eastern Conference? That's no typo. When the Spurs were taken into the NBA in the merger with the ABA in 1976, they spent their first three seasons in the East.

Doug Moe was in his second season as coach in 1979. George Gervin averaged 29.6 points, winning a second straight NBA scoring title. Massive Billy Paultz, “The Whopper,” manned the middle, a setter of great screens and a solid rebounder. Forward Larry Kenon averaged 22.1 points and 9.8 rebounds.

Those Spurs averaged 119.3 points per game.

The defending NBA champion Bullets had home-court advantage, but the Spurs split the first two games in Landover, Md., then won both games at HemisFair Arena. Gervin scored 42 points in the Game 4 win that put the Spurs up 3-1.

After that Game 4, Bullets coach Dick Motta co-opted a witticism the late Express-News columnist and KENS-TV commentator Dan Cook had uttered the previous season, when the Spurs had trailed 3-1 in a first-round series against the Bullets: “The opera isn't over 'til the fat lady sings,” Motta said, shamelessly stealing Cook's line.

Motta's Bullets won three straight to advance to a second straight NBA Finals.

To this day, Moe seethes at the memory of some of the calls that went against Paultz and Gervin late in Game 7 — a 107-105 loss on the Bullets' home court. His team, he believed, then and now, had the series unfairly snatched from their grasp.

Since then, no Spurs team ever has blown a 3-2 lead in any playoff series.

Could it be basketball karma?
 
Game 7 Tonight!

As Mel Brooks said, (History of the World, Part I): "Send in the Nuns!"

http://www.expressnews.com/news/local_n ... 611021.php


By the way, as much as I love Coach Pop, I put the Game 6 loss squarely on his shoulders. Going small at the end, as well as not fouling the Heat immediately on inbounds ... when you're up 3 with just a couple seconds left, send the other guys to the line to shoot 2. They make them both, there's still a little time off the clock, you're still up by 1, and YOU HAVE THE BALL. Never figured why that wasn't standard operating procedure in that instance. High School, College or pro.
 
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