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San Antonio Spurs – Tim Duncan & Tony Parker Too Good for the Most Overrated NBA Team
The 2013 NBA Playoffs are split into two kinds of series – those that will be ending in sweeps, and the tight ones. The San Antonio Spurs are too good of a team this season, with Tim Duncan playing like a much younger man, and Tony Parker doing much better in terms of his health, to be the kind that gets itself mixed up in a troubling series.
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San Antonio Spurs – Abusing a Helpless Team
The San Antonio Spurs don’t have to be at their best to make this first round series a pretty easy one to get through, with an opposition that’s not really the deepest team around. Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili don’t have to give it their all, while Tony Parker is healthy enough once again to shoulder the load, especially in the crucial minutes to create enough separation to get by.
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Manu Ginobili Doesn’t Let Injury Get in the Way of Beating the Los Angeles Lakers
The San Antonio Spurs are usually known for their passing game and offensive fluidity, but in the postseason opener against the Los Angeles Lakers, it was about their defense, forcing the Lakers to try and win the game from the outside, and a resurgent and hopefully long-term healthy Manu Ginobili with some special moments of basketball that led them to take a 1-0 lead in the series.
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San Antonio Spurs – Tim Duncan Rises Above Dirty Clippers Antics
The San Antonio Spurs have been pulled by Tony Parker for most of the season, but Tim Duncan has been their man over the last few weeks, keeping his excellent form and even improving it with a game winning 3-point play, that almost makes it a certainty the San Antonio Spurs will finish on top of the Western Conference for a second consecutive season.
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San Antonio Spurs – Tim Duncan Makes Sure the West Stays Beneath
It’s about making sure teams know who the best team around is with the playoffs so close. Tim Duncan knew it was on him, with the Denver Nuggets focusing so strongly on Tony Parker. So he came up with another impressive, almost vintage-like performance on both ends of the floor to keep the San Antonio Spurs on top of the Western conference.
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San Antonio Spurs – Tim Duncan Clears the Way for Tony Parker
They couldn’t make it easy for Tony Parker on his return game, playing for the first time in three weeks after being taken out by an ankle injury. He still was the best player on the court, the MVP if you will (like San Antonio Spurs fan love to chant about), helping the best team in the Western Conference make it through a tough overtime game against a team that’s moving further away from the NBA playoffs.
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Are the San Antonio Spurs the Luckiest Team in the NBA
While the word luck in sports is hard to capture, and most often agree that the harder you train, the more lucky you get (as the old cliché goes), there’s still a way to measure it, and when looking at the 2012-2013 NBA season, there’s a good chance the San Antonio Spurs have been the luckiest team so far of them all.
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San Antonio Spurs – Tim Duncan on Best Big Man in NBA Mode
It has been harder on Tim Duncan at certain moments this season to shine, but still, you don’t expect a 36 year old man to turn on the time machine so often and play like these are his MVP days every night. And still, without Tony Parker, it seems that’s just what the San Antonio Spurs need him to be doing.
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San Antonio Spurs – No Longer a Fair Rivalry
The big Texas rivalry that was probably the most consistent in the NBA over the last decade or so is no longer a fair fight, with the San Antonio Spurs not really needing their best player (injured Tony Parker) to beat and sweep their season series with the Dallas Mavericks; not when Tim Duncan plays one of his best games of the season.
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Longest Active Double-Figure Scoring Streaks in the NBA
As the Miami Heat picked up their 16th consecutive victory, LeBron James notched his 200th consecutive game for the Miami Heat with 10 points or more, extending his franchise record. While Kevin Durant is usually heralded as the top offensive force in the NBA, no one is remotely close to James when it comes to consecutive games of scoring in double figures.