Kings Pick Jon Brockman in the Second Round
Sactown Royalty — ... deal. DeJuan Blair -- who had thought to be lottery pick in recent weeks -- went one pick earlier to San Antonio. Brockman's selection over Patrick Mills, Chase Budinger and Derrick Brown proves that ...

Deep Threat: Bucks take Jodie Meeks 41st
Brew Hoop — Meeks had a 10 minute highlight reel against Tennessee I was desperately hoping DeJuan Blair might slip a few more spots, but instead the Bucks settled on Kentucky scoring machine Jodie Meeks.  Especially with Richard Jefferson gone, the Bucks are short on perimeter scorers so Meeks could certainly play a role as a floor-spacer off the bench.  Meeks led Kentucky with 23.7 ppg on .463/.406/.902 shooting, including three games of 45+ points.  At ...

The NBA Draft: Once again, the Wizards try to have it both ways
Bullets Forever — ... The Wizards, for the past few days, have tried to be both, getting more talent for the short term (the Foye/Miller trade) while still saving some money long term (the trade, selling the 32nd pick when you could have had DeJuan Blair, which is exactly what you need as an interior guy).  That doesn't get you far enough in either diretion.  The draft today drove that point home very clearly. ...

Making Sense of The Draft
Blazersedge — ... One option for the Blazers is to keep Victor Claver.  This is the option the Blazer bigwigs are insisting they are taking.  Ben Golliver got it from the horse's mouth at Blazer HQ tonight.  Kevin Pritchard insisted that Claver was the target all along.  He said VC was the number one international player on Portland's board.  (By comparison Nate McMillan said that DeJuan Blair, a popular pick at that point, was not on Portland's board at all.)   The trade up to 22 was specifically to ensure that the Blazers could get ...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Collison
At The Hive — ... Lots of haterade being drunk in re: this Darren Collison fellow ("9th best PG", etc). You know what? It was a great pick. This really isn't spin or anything. Last thing I'm going to do is spin the Hornets' front office after the disaster that was Summer 2008. First, consider the options. It was down to DeJuan Blair or a point guard. Marcus Thornton wasn't in the equation at 21, because no other teams valued him that high. If the Hornets really wanted him that high, they'd have traded down and gotten a 2nd rounder ...

I Love You Rikkido, But Gimme a Break
Pounding The Rock — ... wasn't on the team. If he wanted Luis bad enough (and judging by Scola's play in the '04 Olympics, how can you not?) he would've made it happen, some how, some way. You think if the Lakers owned Scola's rights they wouldn't have found a way to bring him over? Please. And all that bullshit afterward about how Scola and Duncan's styles wouldn't mesh. How insulting. Anyway, all is forgiven now. Holt's paid for his mistake. Water under the bridge. As for the DeJuan Blair drafting, that's just perfect. For so long I've cast envious ...

(2009 NBA Draft) Hangover; Pop Quiz!
Ridiculous Upside — ... 1. What the hell happened to DeJuan Blair?  Didn't scout know he didn't have knees when he was a lottery projection in March? ...

The Five Stages Of Accepting Tyler Hansbrough
Indy Cornrows — ... Denial With the 13th pick in the 2009 NBA Draft, the Indiana Pacers select...Tyler Hansbrough from the University of North Carolina. Before the Pacers made that pick, I had been frantically scanning the draft board for the player who the Pacers were going to draft. I needed to update Indy Cornrows as soon as the pick was made, so I loaded all of the YouTube highlights of players who might be drafted by the Pacers. I had each one tabbed: Eric Maynor, DeJuan Blair, Jrue Holiday, James Johnson, Jeff ...

Rumor: Danny Made Numerous Offers To Memphis
CelticsBlog — ... In theory Ainge could have picked up DeJuan Blair or another decent prospect with that high 2nd round pick.  ...

John Schmeelk: A Few Insights From Being At the NBA Draft
Rufus on Fire — ... Many people watching from home were shocked that DeJuan Blair fell as far as he did. Was anyone on the inside saying anything about that? ...

The San Antonio Spurs NBA Summer League Preview
Pounding The Rock — ... DeJuan Blair - Be a bully.  I know that's what I want to see him do.  Be a bully in the paint without committing stupid fouls.  Don't be a ...

NBA Draft 2009 Aftermath: Now Who Ends Up In The D-League?
Ridiculous Upside — ...             See Taj Gibson - By the way, how were these two guys taken before DeJuan Blair.... ...

San Antonio Spurs Announce Summer League Roster
Pounding The Rock — I know this because Timothy Varner over at 48 Minutes of Hell told me.  Thanks.  Check out his post for his take.  I'll try not to plagiarize the whole thing.  For some reason, his opinion and my opinion are similar.  What's that opinion?  Clickety, clickety, to find out. The "As Expected" Group George Hill Ian Mahinmi DeJuan Blair Jack McClinton James Gist The "ATS Had The Inside Scoop" Group ...

So much for putting that money acquired from selling the draft pick to good use...
Bullets Forever — ... So if we were just going after someone cheap, wouldn't it have made sense to, you know, draft the best rebounding big man in college basketball in the last 10 years and pay him $500,000 or so?  Obviously we don't need DeJuan Blair when we can sign ...

Josh Childress visiting the Bucks today
Peachtree Hoops — ... a starting position may be available. Not sure if the Hawks can convince anyone that they may actually match an offer to Josh after all the hurt feelings and bad blood that boiled into a nice little stew over the last year, but at the very least, Childress' cap hold will no longer be held against the Hawks' cap. Tough to say what to expect here, but even a second round pick would be nice for the Hawks sixth pick overall. Just for the record, I would still take DeJuan Blair for him too.... Update...Brew Hoops thoughts: ...

The Bar Has Been Raised
Pounding The Rock — ... (Mr. Glass Ankles), and DeJuan Blair(rookie with no ACLs). We'll address the frontcourt situation further below. ...

Why overpaying for Trevor Ariza makes sense in the long-term
The Dream Shake — ... , and then somehow found DeJuan Blair in the second round of the NBA draft.  Rumor has it that they could be the frontrunners in the ...

Is there a plan?
Bullets Forever — ... They're going "all in" for the next couple of seasons to see if this core can compete. Ok, I get it. So that's why they didn't take a flier on DeJuan Blair. Even though Blair seemingly has some tools the Wizards need, and even though the trade made the Wizards roster unbalanced - and the roster is now light on big men (or rather, they have a few light big men). Drafting Blair and hoping he could develop quickly and contribute right away was probably a pipe dream. So I soothed my ruffled fan feelings by telling myself that by selling the pick for ...

Spurs Hire Dream GM
Pounding The Rock — ... or DeJuan in to this deal to make it work.  I'd have to be bowled over with Marvin to put George in it.  Our 2010 roster is: Up front Tim Duncan Manu Ginobili Tony Parker Richard Jefferson Rasheed Wallace Marvin Williams George Hill Michael Finley Ian Mahinmi James Gist (at 800K) DeJuan Blair(at 800K) Jack McClinton (if he can make the ...

Reevaluating the Phoenix Suns off season options
Fanster.com — ... to jump up and get Dragic turned into DeJuan Blair. I hate to wish for anyone's knees to implode, but for the sanity of all Suns fans it would be best if Blair doesn't have a good NBA career. ...

Spurs Reach Agreement With Free Agent PF Marcus Haislip
Pounding The Rock — ... is assumed to be at the veteran's minimum, which is around $1.3M/yr, and does not impact the MLE or BAE.  That means the Spurs are still free to pursue marquee free agents like Rasheed Wallace and Antonio McDyess, among others. So, here's how the roster is shaping up so far: Players Currently Signed or Pending contract offers Center:  Tim Duncan, Ian Mahinmi Power Forward: Matt Bonner, Marcus Haislip, DeJuan Blair Small Forward: Richard Jefferson, ...

Flexibility for later
Bullets Forever — ... It's a silver lining of sorts.  The Wizards still missed an opportunity to make a major move for long-term salary when several players were available for peanuts on draft day.  They still need to make a move to unbalance their roster, and they still made a terribly stupid decision to sell a pick that could have been DeJuan Blair.  ...

Phoenix Suns Summer League: The Game Plan
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... and Julian Wright NY Knicks - Nikoloz Tskitishvili (!), Jordan Hill, Blake Ahern and Mouhamed Sene OKC Thunder - James Harden!, Russel Westbrook, Shaun Livingston, BJ Mullens Portland - Jerryd Bayless, Jeff Pendergraph, Patty Mills Sacramento - Tyreke Evans, Jason Thompson, Spencer Hawes, Omri Casspi, Donte Green (this team is loaded!) San Antonio - DeJuan Blair, Malik Haiiston, George Hill, Nando De Colo ...

Antonio McDyess to the Spurs?
Motown String Music — ... The Spurs were given a ton of credit for their draft a few weeks ago, particularly for landing DeJuan Blair when they did in the second round.  The ...

Site Note, and a Comment Starter: Your Rookie Sleeper
Rufus on Fire — ... was the best available shooter, and that DeJuan Blair (knees notwithstanding) was drafted ridiculously late. But who's the one guy you think is being underrated, and you just don't understand why? ...

How the Wizards can use the lower-than-expected 2010 cap projection to their advantage
Bullets Forever — ... Crittenton (1.47 million) for Houston's, New York's and maybe Orlando's exceptions (Keith Bogans) So those are all options as well.  There may also be more trade exceptions that pop up in the next year or so that we could take advantage of.  That isn't going to shave off $8 million dollars, unfortunately, but it could get us close.  Close may be good enough considering the following windfalls Abe Pollin has. $2.5 million for selling the DeJuan Blair pick (and you could argue the $750,000 from selling the ...

San Antonio Spurs NBA Summer League Basketball Game One Preview and Live Thread
Pounding The Rock — ... have been hanging out with this week.  Jordan Sams of Liberty Ballers and Frank Madden of Brew Hoop.  Please go check out their stuff and show them some love.  They are good guys. Your San Antonio Spurs Still no word on Spurnando, but I seriously doubt I will get to see him.  This is who I expect our starters to be: PG - George Hill SG - Jack McClinton SF - Malik Hairston PF - DeJuan Blair C -Ian Mahinmi Bench - James ...

Vegas Summer League Recap: Day 3
Ridiculous Upside — ... shot the ball very efficiently, making seven of his 11 field goals, and both of his three-pointers, on the way to 16 points.  He didn't do much else even though he's a pretty good rebounder.  That's likely because DeJuan Blair did most of the rebounding for the Spurs.  Blair made a statement in his first game, grabbing 10 boards in 22 minutes.  ...

The Real Recap - San Antonio Spurs Summer League Game One
Pounding The Rock — ... Sure, DeJuan Blair was a beast on the glass.  Yes, Malik really had it going in the second half.  But, the Spurs' Summer League opener was all George Hill all the time.  ...

Catching up with Stampler...
Pounding The Rock — ... forever (more on that below); 3) I met this jaw-droppingly beautiful girl whom I'm unfortunately sort of related to and have no shot whatsoever with but who cares she's jaw-droppingly beautiful, and 4) my favorite basketball team had what is widely acknowledged as the most kickass off-season in the NBA, shrewedly trading for a top-8 starting SF in Richard Jefferson, signing Antonio McDyess in free agency to finally give Timmy some help inside and finding DeJuan Blair, a PF out of Pitt who led college basketball in rebounds ...

NBA Summer League Day Four Recap - The D-League Shines
Pounding The Rock — ... AND the pick that we used to draft DeJuan Blair.  He looked pretty poor.  Our best guess is that he didn't feel to good.  Maybe a stomach flu or something.  He bares some watching because he is slated to be the Suns backup PG this year. ...

San Antonio Spurs Summer League Game 2 Postgame Discussion Thread
Pounding The Rock — ... And so ends game 2 of Summer League play for the Spurs.  There were definitely some promising signs, and some mystery as well.  As in, nobody knows what the real reason was for DeJuan Blair's DNP-CD.  Also, there were the players.  Just like last time, let's find out who made the biggest impact on the game for our Spurs.  Box score after the jump. ...

Too Early? It's Never Too Early To Speculate
Pounding The Rock — ... - it seems that McDyess wasn't given the full MLE, but the Spurs took a bit of it out and gave it to DeJuan Blair.  It also seems(from the comments on that story) that Blair may have been given a four year contract rather than the 3 years that were originally reported. ...

NBA Summer League Day Six and Day Seven Recap - Spurs still undefeated
Pounding The Rock — ... these games.  However, he really turned it on late getting 5 points and 4 rebounds in his 5 minutes of the 4th quarter.  Those were his only points and rebounds. Ian Mahinmi - Ian was much more solid defensively.  I don't know how he only ended up with 2 blocked shots.  He was very good about moving his feet early and getting his arms up straight as he only had 3 fouls.  He had 13 points on 4 field goal attempts and 5 rebounds. DeJuan Blair - He had 20 and 5.  See the DeJuan Blair ...

2009: A Summer League Odyssey
Pounding The Rock — ... DeJuan Blair had some gaudy numbers, but his decision making didn't impress me at all.  On multiple occasions, he decided he was going to shoot the moment he got the ball and seemed like he got tunnel vision.  One particular play sticks out where DJB pulled down an offensive board and immediately went up for a shot that was contested by 3(count 'em, 3) Portland players.  The Blazer players knew exactly what he was going to do, and left Gist WIDE open underneath the rim(Dejuan was about 4-5 feet out).  Did DeJuan adjust and make the pass ...

This Week In San Antonio Spurs Basketball: Monday Edition
Pounding The Rock — ... and DeJuan Blair are easily rotation players in the NBA. Last week I might have softened that statement, but there is no need for that kind of downplay this morning. If the Spurs needed to upgrade their role players, they’ve done it." ...

2009 Phoenix Suns Summer League Wrap Up
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... - For me, the jury is way out on Clark.   As Phoenix Stan pointed out, the players at Summer League who were driven and want to excel clearly stood out.  DeJuan Blair, ...

The Spurs Aren't Done Making Moves This Summer - What Comes Next?
Pounding The Rock — ... An inane attempt to make sense of this, below the fold. Oh, Yawn, we hardly know ye. [photo from Ridiculous Upside] The Frontcourt Logjam Why do the Spurs have to make a trade? Because there are now 7 big men on the Spurs roster, and even though we don't yet have the details on what Ratliff is getting(likely the minimum), there's no way in hell the Spurs head into next season with all of these guys: DeJuan Blair Matt Bonner Tim Duncan Marcus ...

Fabricio Oberto is a Washington Wizard
Bullets Forever — ... or one of the other big men that were signed by other teams.  You could also say that the Wizards should have kept waiting for somebody to sign for the minimum, since the market gets cooler every day.  Finally, you could argue that DeJuan Blair for $400,000 or whatever his second-round salary would be is better than Oberto for $2 million.  ...

Introducing the "Bring Kevin McHale to DC" movement
Bullets Forever — ... , but bringing McHale aboard won't cost more than bringing a player aboard.  The Wizards still have $500,000 left from the cash prize they got for selling the DeJuan Blair pick (although you could look at it another way and say they're down $1.5 million because of the luxury tax hit).  McHale, ...

The Spurs Roster and Front Office - Method? Or Madness?
Pounding The Rock — ... on these until after training camp.  However, that is just speculation on my part.  I'm not sure when their contract guarantee dates are.  The current roster is: Tim Duncan Tony Parker Manu Ginobili Richard Jefferson Antonio McDyess George Hill Roger Mason Michael Finley Matt Bonner Ian Mahinmi DeJuan Blair Marcus Haislip Theo Ratliff ...

On Schedule Difficulty
Sactown Royalty — ... me thinking. Brad used his 2009-10 projections to assert the Kings will have the fifth most difficult schedule next season. I imagine the projections closely link to 2008-09 performance with adjustments made for the biggest personnel moves; for instance, Brad notes the Spurs are his system's current 2009-10 favorite, and I have no doubt replacing Bruce Bowen, Fabricio Oberto and Kurt Thomas with Richard Jefferson, Antonio McDyess and DeJuan Blair is a big part of that. Zach at CK linked the BP ...

Yet another "How will the Rockets do?" Post.
The Dream Shake — ... This shouldn't be too surprising. Morey clearly values "reboundy" (if undersized) power forwards (enough that I was fairly surprised that the Rockets didn't trade for DeJuan Blair on draft night), and the Rockets tended to outrebound their opponents last season. They play good defense, so they get more chances to rebound, and so the Daryl Morey Rockets (except ABZ) looks a lot like a WoW team. ...

RU's Movie Quote Offseason Roundup Spectacular Part 2
Ridiculous Upside — ... Let's hear it for the NBA Draft.  While this year's event had some interesting storylines - the group of guards may be stronger than previously thought, DeJuan Blair improbably (and probably disastrously for everyone else) falling to the Spurs in the second round, ...

My Team Is Better Than Yours: Toronto Raptors Edition
Pounding The Rock — ... .  I have no clue who that is but he has twice the "De"  DeJuan Blair has.  He went to USC so he is probably a really great athlete and a good player.  He is 20 years old, 6'7" and 207 lbs.  That sounds pretty solid for a number 9 pick.  He is a 2-3.  Draft Express confirms all of my USC stereotypes listing things like "lateral quickness, athleticism, size for position, and solid frame" as strengths and "lacks offensive polish, defensive fundamentals, not ready to contribute immediately, and average ...

Why the Wizards need an in-season trade to upgrade the frontcourt
Bullets Forever — ... Ernie Grunfeld has taken the wait and see approach with this weakness.  He didn't draft DeJuan Blair, he didn't pony up the cash to sign ...

Get to Know Your New Spurs #6: DeJuan Blair
Pounding The Rock — DJB: Is that a wine stain? RC: Well, Pop said he was just going to try it on for size... So, last week, silverandblack_davis gave us an interesting look at the most enigmatic new Spur added this offseason - Marcus Haislip. Now it's time to find out more about PtR's choice for most exciting new addition to the Spurs: Mr. DeJuan Blair, whose nickname could be any one of 30 different things proposed on this site. Obviously, we're all very happy that DeJuan slipped down to ...

Poll: My favorite "not-new" Spur is . . .
Pounding The Rock — In a Ptr Poll conducted last week we learned that DeJuan Blair (45%) barely edges-out Richard Jefferson (38%) as the favorite or most exciting "new" Spur this season.  So to follow that up, this week we're asking: Who is your favorite "not-new" Spur? Not-new is the best term we could come up with.  God knows we didn't want to use "old" and Spur in the same sentence. And "used" or even "previously owned" didn't seem right either. So we started with the roster on Spurs.com and deleted out anyone who was not ...

Around the Association: 2009-2010 San Antonio Spurs: An Apple A Day...
Golden State Of Mind — ... the heavily-favored Lakers and the Spurs. Nobody else is seriously in that conversation. But the Spurs title hopes are a precarious one and require things to go just right. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Offseason Additions VIA FREE AGENCY Keith Bogans (from Milwaukee) Theo Ratliff (from Philadelphia) Marcus Haislip (from Spain) Malik Hairston (from NBDL) Antonio McDyess (from Detroit) VIA DRAFT DeJuan Blair (No. 37) Jack McClinton (No. 51) Nando De Colo (No. ...

Division Matchup Preseason Preview: The Spurs
Mavs Moneyball — ... In the draft the Spurs landed a big bruising forward in DeJuan Blair he will help take alot of the pressure off of Duncan, and between those two they can make life real difficult, not only on the Mavs, but on anyone attempting to get to the basket. ...

Roster Reality For The 2009-2010 Spurs: The New 4 (or 5)
Pounding The Rock — ... for me was the New 4.  I went into media day thinking about all the new faces and all the young faces.  What I wasn't prepared for was the concept of the New 4.  The Spurs presented it to me as "the New 4" in describing the day's activities.  Manu, in his interview, references the New 4 and then throws in a "five with Bogans".  The New 4 are: Richard Jefferson Antonio McDyess Theo Ratliff DeJuan Blair Conspicuously missing, to me anyway, was 48MoH ...

PtR Preseason Quick Cap: Houston Rockets 99, San Antonio Spurs 85
Pounding The Rock — ... DeJuan Blair  -  What can I say?  He's a beast.  An epic, legendary debut not seen since, well, maybe Timmeh's days.  The stat line: 16 points, 19 rebounds (8 offensive!) with 2 assists and 1 steal to boot in only 22 minutes.  The 6-15 shooting was skewed with several missed tip-ins to the basket, so forgive the young stud. ...

Open Gameday Thread vs. New Orleans Hornets (in Greensboro)
Rufus on Fire — ... That means all of this fails the basketball smell test. Did you see what DeJuan Blair did the other day? He was the consensus Best Second Round Draft Pick, and we all kind of acknowledged he was ...

Phoenix Suns Season Preview Series, Part 4: The Competition.
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... JSun: I don't know why PSun didn't mention the draft. I've seen non-Texas papers say that DeJuan Blair is the next Paul Milsap. Isn't that the perfect complement to this roster? If he's able to be that, he will give Duncan the rest needed to get through the season. I had this great joke a couple of weeks back when the Arizona Wildcats finally admitted they were a joke and hired Bill Murray's relative. It was much funnier when I told my boss at happy hour. Hating the Spurs and the Cats, I fear much woe in the household come June. ...

PtR Preseason QuickCap: Olympiacos is Not an NBA Team
Pounding The Rock — ... DeJuan Blair must have switched brains with Ian, as he had 4 fouls to go with the 9 points(mostly on FT's), 2 boards, and 2 steals he picked up. ...

San Antonio Spurs Season Preview
Pounding The Rock — ... Manu Ginobili, and Michael Finley are just as likely to be on the court as a shooting guard as they are as a small forward.   The Spurs have seven players on the roster for the two front court positions.  Of those seven players, two played in a game for the Spurs last season:  Tim Duncan and Matt Bonner.  The Spurs added Antonio McDyess, Theo Ratliff, and Marcus Haislip in free agency.  They picked up DeJuan Blair in the draft.  Ian Mahinmi missed the season with ...

Michael Finley Shot in Zombie Confusion
Pounding The Rock — ... Even back in San Antonio, rookie forward DeJuan Blair expressed concern that, despite not actually bearing resemblance to any Hollywood creature of note, he might be a potential victim for "going hard in the paint like some kind of crazy ass wolfbear." Media outlets are still awaiting word on what a wolfbear actually is, but universal consensus seems to indicate that it would definitely be bad ass, and probably could eat some kids like hotcakes. ...

Preseason Game Preview #4: Los Angeles Clippers @ San Antonio Spurs
Pounding The Rock — ... Savvy   Post Haircut   DeJuan Blair   Bench Blake Griffin Griffin against Golden State: ...

Preseason Game Thread #4: Los Angeles Clippers @ San Antonio Spurs
Pounding The Rock — ...                                        DeJuan Blair                                ...

Clippers @ San Antonio (Pre-Season) - Open Thread
Clips Nation — ... , and second round pick DeJuan Blair has been tearing up the pre-season.  But don't kid yourselves - as always the Spurs will be all about ...

PtR Quick Cap: Los Angeles Clippers knock off Spurs 93-90: Pop Ians
Pounding The Rock — In a battle of the two best players from this year's draft, the Blake Griffin led Clippers beat the DeJuan Blair led San Antonio Spurs 93-90.  Both power forwards had big games, but so did a pair of veteran small forwards from each team and I bet the coaches liked what they saw of them. Box Score   ...

Last Night in the Preseason
Ridiculous Upside — ... points, three rebounds, two assists, a turnover and four fouls in 16 minutes.  Just stick with Lucas.  Both Shaun Livingston and Kyle Weaver struggled a little bit for the Thunder, combining for five points, all of which came at the free-throw line.  Weaver's calling card is his defense anyway, but he certainly hasn't been helping matters with his shooting so far. LA Clippers 93, San Antonio Spurs 90 DeJuan Blair has been making Ian Mahinmi's job tougher by ...

Building a Roster - How we Got This Clippers Team
Clips Nation — ... After the San Antonio game, Citizen Zhiv was riffing on DeJuan Blair and draft steals and the karmic circle that has brought us to this roster, and I think it's a topic worthy of it's own post.  And of course we have to make the obligatory preface that the team has yet to play a regular season game, and things could obviously veer horribly karmicly wrong at any moment now.  But even if that happens, I think it's safe to say that you don't have to be a member of Club Optimism to see that the ...

Preseason by the numbers
Bullets Forever — ... 46.9% from the field, a nice number of assists but with too many turnovers, blah, blah, blah.  But now, the good stuff-- The team leader in total rebounding.  Third on the team in offensive rebounding (not counting Paul Davis). The team leader in DRating (it was at 96.6 prior to last night's game). Maybe this is The Year We Have Waited For (on defense, anyway-his offensive numbers are much more Bulletproof-like). DeJuan Blair Dammit. Brendan ...

A PtR Moment: Manu's drive & assist to Blair vs OKC
Pounding The Rock — ... So Manu dribbles into the lane with his left, now with the ball again under his control, and while he's had to slow down to do so, he's still fast approaching Green. At this point, Manu leans back, comes to a complete stop directly in front of a frozen Green, and stands almost straight up as he executes a smooth, lefty, no-look, one-handed bounce pass to DeJuan Blair, who's standing to the left of the lane. Manu's pass leads Blair into the paint and DeJuan's first step (with his left) to meet it brings him into the lane as he receives the pass. ...

PtR Quick Cap: Spurs fall to the Indiana Grangers, 112-114 in the Preview-less Final Preseason Game
Pounding The Rock — ... Should we read too much in this game in terms of Pop's plans for the season? It's a mixed bag, if you ask me.  The first half rotation might be the one we'll see often during the course of the season, except that DeJuan Blair didn't get to play until the second half.  As for that second half, well, let's just be thankful that the bench won't be left on an island to regularly orchestrate comebacks for us. ...

Pacers 114, Spurs 112: Pacers Finish Preaseason On Winning Note
Indy Cornrows — ... DeJuan Blair didn't play until late in the third quarter as it appeared the Spurs ran through a full dress rehearsal for the first half through the early third quarter. ...

New article by Manu Ginobili - La Nación newspaper
Pounding The Rock — ... and DeJuan Blair. They were the best. I think Blair will be a huge surprise. He barely surpasses 6 feet 7 inches, but he has a lot of attitude, a special grit to pull down the rebounds and he scores easily. He is very intense and fights fiercely for every ball. If you are going after a ball with him, he pulls your arm down… It has been a while since we last had such an athletic and intense bigman in the team. Though he is the 4th of them off the bench, there is a lot of hope on what he could contribute. Anyway, I think the starter will be ...

2009/10 NBA Blog Preview: Washington Wizards
Bullets Forever — ... 19-63 Key Additions: Randy Foye, Mike Miller, Fabricio Oberto, Flip Saunders.  If you want to be clever: a healthy Gilbert Arenas, a healthy Brendan Haywood, a healthy DeShawn Stevenson and $2.5 million from selling the 32nd pick in the draft Key Losses: Darius Songaila, Etan Thomas (not key), Oleksiy Pecherov (not key), whoever was available with that fifth pick in the draft, the chance to draft DeJuan Blair. 1. What significant moves were made during ...

NBA Live 10 Regular Season Simulation #1: New Orleans Hornets at San Antonio Spurs
Pounding The Rock — ... Richard Jefferson and DeJuan Blair played well in the half.  I had some nice moves to the rim with Jefferson using his speed and got some nice shots for Blair.  In this game, though, Blair has no legs (dude can barely jump in the game). ...

San Antonio Spurs 2010 Season Preview
Pounding The Rock — ... 2010 season FINALLY starts on Wednesday.  I say finally because I have been stoked ever since the trade for Jefferson on June 23rd.  I sat and watched us snag DeJuan Blair in the draft.  I read about us signing ...

PtR Quick Cap: Spurs bench mauls Hornets in 113-96 scrappy doo-ing.
Pounding The Rock — ... DeJuan Blair:  14 points, 11 rebounds, and 3 assists in 22.5 minutes.  John Hollinger has now been set on fire.  Dare I say, en fuego.  ...

Perspective
The Dream Shake — ... Now, instead of watching a contender, I get to watch an experiment, albeit a fascinating one.  Now I get to see how good the supporting cast is, and who might be ready to step into a starring role.  Early odds are for Brooks, Lowry, Scola and Landry, but our genuinely enlightened owner opened the checkbook to buy some interesting picks as well.  Budinger looks like he belongs.  Taylor?  Nothing to go on yet, and I promise, I'll get over not taking DeJuan Blair at some point.  (Maybe soon, maybe in 15 years.)  In any case, ...

Game Preview #1 - Chicago Bulls vs. San Antonio Spurs
Blog a Bull — ... And the frontcourt they'll be facing now features DeJuan Blair! It's not an issue of teams regretting passing Blair. They all will, it'll be who regrets it slightly less. The Bulls had two shots at him, but it'll also depend on how Taj looks - I'm guessing ...

That Was Like Watching A Spurs Game, But More So
Pounding The Rock — ... right now I'll enjoy the win. Also, I like the idea of playing Manu the final last seven minutes of each quarter. To be honest, I'm just grinning from ear to ear like a doofus. We're gonna do it again this year, I'm sure of it. Three Stars: 3. George Hill - He's my fourth favorite Spur, but my love is harder to win than Pop's. 2. Tony Parker - You know I'm in a great mood when I'm full on gushing about Tony. 1. DeJuan Blair - Okay, he's already my third favorite. I can't help it. ...