Hold Hands and Bow Your Heads

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Spurs Unable to Bring in Young Brazilian Tweener With Good Skills, Great Hair
Published 5/28/2008 at The Sporting Blog
[image] If this well-formed elegy is right, and this series is the Spurs starting to unravel, it might be a good (or, for some people, bad) time to bring up Luis Scola and Tiago Splitter. Scola, as you may know, was traded to the Houston Rockets and eventually became a key part of their runaway win streak. He was even mentioned as a dark horse candidate for Rookie of the Year. Splitter, the Brazilian big man who has been in the draft every year since I was born, went to the Spurs last summer. Tiago was expected to sign this off-season; in fact, that's got a lot to do with ...

Reading is Great! Wednesday’s NBA Rumors, Breaking News, and Blog Links
Published 5/28/2008 by Andrew Thell at Empty the Bench
- Awful Announcing - Everybody agreed Joey Crawford wouldn’t be a factor. He was. - FanHouse - Brett Edwards can’t imagine giving the Spurs that call 30 feet from the basket. - Basketball 24/7 - NBA.com to broadcast the playoffs for free in the UK, but not the US. - Straight Bangin’ - The Spurs weren’t much fun, but they were wonderful for basketball. - Draft Express - Say it ...

Lakers Blow The Final Whistle
Published 5/28/2008 by Daniel Sagal at LABallTalk.com
... are popping up from all over the place. I don’t quite undersatnd why though. Let it go. The Spurs have been on top for so long and it’s now time for them to take a collective bow and step down . Another interesting article came up at ...

NBA Essentials: Mourning the Spurs
Published 5/28/2008 by Brett Edwards at FanHouse
... 1. Straight Bangin': In light of their imminent departure from the playoffs, respect for the Spurs. ...

Pour Some Out For Spurs, But Not Too Much
Published 5/30/2008 by Tom Ziller at FanHouse
... But, yes, you're done. The games were close, but the series was not. Most eulogies started coming in Tuesday night, though everyone who knows stuff correctly insisted the Spurs wouldn't be punking out tonight. But as the finality of what is very likely the end of dynastic/dynamic run set in late in the fourth quarter, some extra emphasis on -- as Marv said -- the model franchise is required. ...