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Sports Central May 28, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
The Main Event Let's be honest. This year's NBA playoffs haven't been anything special. While the game often slows down and scoring drops once the second season starts, this year has had a litany of ugly rock-fights.  |
Sports Central May 7, 2012 Stephen Kerr |
Why the Spurs Could Capture the Title Now that the NBA postseason is underway, speculation abounds as to who will be crowned the next champion. The San Antonio Spurs could have something to say about who grabs the brass ring.  |
Sports Central February 26, 2013 Robert Campbell |
Spurs of the Moment As of February 25th, the San Antonio Spurs have posted an overall record of 45-13 -- three games better than both the Oklahoma City Thunder and the defending champion Miami Heat.  |
Sports Central May 20, 2013 Corrie Trouw |
The More Things Change The San Antonio Spurs opened the Western Conference Finals Sunday with a dominant 105-83 win over Memphis. It was a satisfying win for the West's elder statesmen, especially compared to the last time these two teams met in the postseason.  |
Sports Central January 24, 2011 Ross Lancaster |
San Antonio: The League's Best Even though the Spurs have been setting club marks for best start after X amount of games after each game, and approaching some of the league's best starts ever, it doesn't feel as though the Spurs are being given the treatment that their record deserves.  |
Sports Central June 4, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
NBA Finals Are the Spurs' For the Taking The 2014 NBA Finals will feature the first rematch of the previous year's championship series since the Bulls and Jazz met in 1998.  |
Sports Central May 30, 2007 Kiarash Banisadre |
Inside the NBA Western Conference Playoffs Although the Phoenix/San Antonio series was mired in controversy, the outcome was fair and square... Tim Duncan receives all the credit for how good the San Antonio Spurs are... It may be pretty tough for the Utah Jazz to win it all this year, but this team is for real... etc.  |
Sports Central March 27, 2009 Jon Hamelin |
The Sun is Setting on the Phoenix Suns Even if the Suns manage to squeak out a birth in the postseason, it is unlikely the will pose a challenge to the powerhouse teams in the West.  |
Sports Central June 17, 2014 Brad Oremland |
2014 NBA Finals Aftermath Despite so many major events across the sporting landscape, I'm going to focus on the NBA Finals, because it presented a lot of interesting questions.  |
Sports Central July 9, 2007 Parimal Rohit |
Why the Spurs Are Not a Dynasty The San Antonio Spurs are just that team who won at the right time, when nobody else wanted to win.  |
Sports Central April 12, 2010 Jonathan Lowe |
Is it the End of an Era? Are the San Antonio Spurs the team of the 2000s?  |
Sports Central June 18, 2007 Brad Oremland |
Are the Spurs a Dynasty? To help answer that question, here's a look at the NBA's most dynastic teams ever.  |
Sports Central May 15, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
Grizzlies Roaring to New Heights The NBA playoffs, versus the postseason in any other major American sport, and especially those with single-elimination formats, are thought to be the most chalk-stained and uncompelling by many.  |
Sports Illustrated May 18, 2001 Phil Taylor |
Look past the stars Role players will be a key factor in Spurs-Lakers series...  |
Sports Central December 20, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
Forgotten Mavericks, Spurs Are Rising Two NBA teams flying under the radar are the San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks.  |
Sports Central May 4, 2006 Vince Grzegorek |
NBA Playoffs: The Suffixer The playoffs are a special breed of basketball, and the language to describe them needs to be just as special -- as the meanings of some of the words coming out of the postseason will attest.  |
Sports Central June 11, 2005 Vince Grzegorek |
NBA Finals: Playing the Game the Right Way The Spurs and Pistons share a distinctly team-oriented style.  |
Sports Central May 16, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Keys to the NBA Conference Finals The 2011 NBA conference finals are underway and this final four gives us youth, age, and plenty of superstar power.  |
Sports Central May 3, 2012 Gary Flick |
X-ceptional This year's NBA playoffs have already given us epic comebacks, suspensions, MVP season-ending injuries, confrontations with refs, confrontations with fire extinguishers, and (my personal favorite) superstar game winners ... and no team has played more than two games.  |
Sports Central March 20, 2013 Matt Thomas |
Fact or Fiction: Heat the Best Ever? If you spend any time watching that four-letter all sports network these days, you've undoubtedly noticed that the Miami Heat are on a run for the ages. Though the verdict is still open on how far this win streak will go.  |
Sports Illustrated April 23, 2003 Ian Thomsen |
Sun Block Eighth-seeded Phoenix is creating tough matchups for the Spurs.  |
Sports Central April 15, 2004 Mason Williams |
2004 NBA Playoffs Preview It's time for the NBA playoffs to take center stage.  |
Sports Central June 24, 2009 Matt Thomas |
A New Laker Dynasty? There is far too much parody to consider with any sort of reasonability the fact that a single win in a single championship series is anything other than a great season worth remembering.  |
Sports Central March 21, 2005 Joseph Sammour |
The NBA's Elite Eight We're going to be focusing on the second round of the NBA playoffs, which will involve the NBA's answer to the Elite Eight. For each team, I'll explain who they will beat in the first round, and how much further they can go.  |
Sports Central April 17, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
Is Now the Time for the Nuggets' Gold Rush? The 2013 NBA playoffs appear to be a by-the-book affair, with the conference finals as nearly premeditated matchups, based on the balance of the season. However, the on-fire Nuggets may have a lot to say about that inevitably.  |
Sports Central April 23, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Playoffs: Split Decisions With the first two games of each NBA playoff series in the books, an incredible five of the eight series are tied up at a game apiece.  |
Sports Central May 23, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
Things We've Learned From the NBA Playoffs The NBA playoffs are usually generous when it comes to player meltdowns, tearing up age-old adages, and having certain teams rise to the top.  |
Sports Central July 2, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Trade Grades An analysis of some of the biggest trades that went down this week in the NBA.  |
Sports Central April 11, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Three NBA Playoff Predictions The NBA playoffs have begun and this year the race to the finals looks more open than usual. Teams like the Bulls, Lakers, Spurs, Heat, and Magic all look like the favorites to reach the Finals.  |
Sports Central April 17, 2007 Corrie Trouw |
What We Learned From the NBA Season With March Madness in our rearview mirrors, let's sift through the regular season trash bin and find something that actually means something as we look toward the postseason.  |
Sports Central June 6, 2005 Chris Speckman |
NBA Playoffs: Score More, Bore Less For the first time in a while, the NBA playoffs have been memorable and exciting.  |
Sports Central June 25, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
Falling Down Just to Stand Up Over the last 20 years or so in the NBA, there's a fascinating trend that has developed: rarely do the league's biggest stars immediately find championship success on their first trip to the Finals or a grand, high-pressure stage.  |
Sports Central April 20, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Playoffs: Opening Statement Games After one game in each series, there's only one thing that we know for sure: we don't know anything yet.  |
Sports Central March 30, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 21 This week's Starting Five takes a look at the Western Conference playoff race as we try to sort through the madness that is taking place on the left coast and figure out which three teams will win the coveted home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.  |
Sports Central May 13, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
Team Disoriented in the NBA The best news for the NBA this postseason has been the emergence of two true megastars: Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.  |
Sports Central December 1, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 5 A look back at the first month of the NBA season.  |
Sports Central May 2, 2011 Bill Hazell |
Unstoppable Grizzlies From Graceland Nothing about the eighth-seeded Memphis Grizzlies of 2011 indicated there was anything other than the usual mediocrity to this team going into the postseason.  |
Sports Central October 2, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
SC's NBA All-Decade Team (Pt. 3) NBA's All-Decade Team: the best of the best.  |
Sports Illustrated April 2, 2002 Ian Thomsen |
Handsome Dividends Bruce Bowen wasn't a pricey pickup, but the Spurs are at a loss without him...  |
Sports Central October 29, 2008 Kenneth Dean |
NBA Offseason Review: West (Pt. 3) Find out which teams have dug their own grave this season, who we need to be looking out for, and who is simply treading water.  |
Sports Central April 22, 2009 Wailele Sallas |
Kobe vs. LeBron, At Any Cost? Would there be anything better than seeing the two best players in the NBA attacking each other for seven games?  |
Sports Central March 16, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 19 In case a week of watching college basketball has skewed what you remember about the game being played at its highest level, this week's Starting Five consists of a few friendly reminders from the NBA world to help you focus on what March basketball is all about: playoff seeding.  |
Sports Central November 17, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 3 This week's "starting five" is comprised of Olympians that have hit the ground running this NBA season.  |
Sports Central March 26, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
The Real Sweet 16 Here is the Real Sweet 16: 16 reasons to watch the NBA stretch run over the round of 16.  |
Sports Central April 26, 2006 Isaac Miller |
NBA 2005-06 Season in Review Top 10 Storylines of 2005-06... The MVP and other postseason awards... Playoff predictions... etc.  |
Sports Central January 4, 2012 Louie Centanni |
Why the 66-Game NBA Season Should Stay Between playing more frequently, forcing stars to show effort nightly, and reintroducing the concept of team basketball, the 66-game NBA season seems to be a great experiment - one that should become the norm for years to come.  |
Sports Central June 7, 2007 Bill Hazell |
NBA Finals Are a Slam Duncan San Antonio will have the NBA Finals wrapped up in six games or less and Tim Duncan will have his fourth Finals MVP award.  |
Sports Central May 31, 2006 Todd Beckstead |
The NBA's David and Goliath NBA teams recognize the edge gained by possessing the coveted center with the ability to take control of games.  |
Sports Central July 24, 2013 Andrew Jones |
14 Teams to Watch in 2013-14 The NBA season is still a ways away, but the offseason has been an interesting one. Here are 14 teams to watch in the upcoming season, some for obvious reasons ... others for not so obvious reasons.  |
Sports Central March 9, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 19 This week's Starting Five consists of five of the most prominent streaking teams in the NBA right now.  |