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Kevin Durant & Russell Westbrook Ready to Make Thunder the New Western Conference Dynasty
Usually, when young teams rise in hope for contending for the NBA title, they have to go through the old guard. Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant didn’t just go through the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks. They ripped them to pieces, en route to meet the San Antonio Spurs.
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Tim Duncan Made it Look Easy; San Antonio Spurs Prepared For Much Tougher Conference Finals
The Clippers didn’t make it easy in Game 4, with Chris Paul having his best game of the series. But it wasn’t enough. Tim Duncan missed the conference finals too much apparently, and the Spurs just have too much depth and basketball to get beaten by a one dimensional team like the Clippers. Nearly a month of playoff time, and the Spurs are still undefeated.
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San Antonio Spurs – No Deficit is Too Big For This Team
When Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili are on the floor together, nothing’s too difficult or impossible for the San Antonio Spurs. Even a 33-11 deficit in the first quarter, which didn’t prevent the Los Angeles Clippers from going down 0-3 in their Western Conference Semi Final Series.
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Nothing Old About the 2012 Tony Parker & San Antonio Spurs
Tony Parker joined the big three’s 30 something club by leading the San Antonio Spurs to a 105-88 win over the Los Angeles Clippers, so far cruising in their Western Conference Semi Final series to a 2-0 lead.
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Tim Duncan Turning Back the Clock
The last time Tim Duncan had a playoff game with 26 points and 10 rebounds was two years ago, when the San Antonio Spurs were getting swept by the Dallas Mavericks. Thirteen postseason games later, and the Clippers were forced to suffer through one of Duncan’s best games in recent years, leading the Spurs to a 109-92 victory.
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Los Angeles Clippers, Despite Everything, Still Alive & Kicking
I don’t think too many people expected the Clippers to be in the Western Conference Semi Finals. Not when Chauncey Billups went down. They do have Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, but the bench, role players and defense weren’t supposed to be enough for a playoff series win; not against everyone’s favorite dark horse, the Memphis Grizzlies.
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Shaving Tony Parker Into Your Head
Tony Parker for MVP? Unlikely, because Kevin Durant and LeBron James seem to be the more popular choices for the top individual award in the regular season. But San Antonio Spurs fans look at things a little differently, and one of them even gets a Tony Parker haircut, in appreciation of the All-Star point guard.
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Spurs Look Like NBA Title Favorites Again
If finishing first in the Western Conference wasn’t enough for some people (including me), their dominant sweep of the Utah Jazz in the first round of the playoffs, winning by an average margin of 16 points, might be the final piece in convincing doubters that this team isn’t what last year’s San Antonio Spurs were about.
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Manu Ginobili With the Best Assist of the NBA Season
Manu Ginobili, like the rest of the San Antonio Spurs, has been in excellent form of late. During their very impressive 121-97 win over the Los Angeles Lakers, Ginobli was one of three Spurs players to score at least 20 points, impressing the most with a bullet of an assist to Matt Bonner.
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San Antonio Spurs, The Best Team in North America For the Last 15 Years
The San Antonio Spurs, despite not usually considered among the three teams to win the NBA title this season (Bulls, Heat, Thunder), despite not having any MVP caliber players, might just finish on top of the Western Conference with home advantage chances heading into the postseason.