San Antonio Spurs

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tsk tsk tsk a blowout lost nasad sa among nuggets.. murag layu layu na ang spurs dah nya nagkaanam kaduol ang portland ug jazz... gudluck spurs inyu ra bha year ron kay every other year baya mo ma champ last year dli man so kamo nasad daku ug puruhan..

ato nang putlon...hahaha

btaw gud luck ninyo... God bless namo...hahahaha


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nindot man na sunod lang mo sa spurs para di mo kulata sa first round. lisod kung sikita daun ang kontra di ba. di ninyo ma enjoy ang playoffs.

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@tackielarla

pasalamat sad namo bro oi..hehehe...

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^ Aw.

Thank you thank you Boston Celtics.

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Shelved Ginobili tests Spurs again


The ballots have been cast. The results have been tabulated. No need for a recount.

When it comes to the issue of whether the Spurs would rather play with or without Manu Ginobili, the outcome is unanimous.

“We'd prefer to have Manu,” Tony Parker said. “That's a no-brainer.”

The latest problem for the Spurs seems to be that distal fibulas have no regard for the democratic process. A rogue bone in Ginobili's right ankle has shut him down for the near future, robbing the Spurs of their third-leading scorer and flouting the will of the people.

If there's any consolation for the Spurs, it's that they have been here before.

Ginobili was sidelined for the first 12 games of the season after offseason surgery to repair a ligament issue in his left ankle. The Spurs won half of those games, an impressive feat given Parker missed seven of them dealing with an ankle injury of his own.

Now, in February, the Spurs find themselves flashing back to October. Welcome to Life Without Manu, Part 2. It is not the life they would have chosen, if offered a choice.

“We know when the playoffs come, we need our horse back,” said guard Roger Mason Jr., the prime beneficiary of Ginobili's dalliances with the training room. “Nobody wants injuries to happen. We just have to turn it into a positive.”

It's a good thing Ginobili isn't a horse. Otherwise, there would be a more dire fate awaiting him than the injured list.

Tonight's game against Dallas will be the Spurs' fourth in a row without Ginobili, and it kicks off a rigorous stretch in which the league's reigning Sixth Man of the Year might come in handy.

If nothing else, the Spurs have learned to tread water with Ginobili out of the lineup.

They survived the first three games of Ginobili's second stay on the injured list, going 2-1 to close their rodeo road trip. Overall, the Spurs are 8-8 this season without him.

Most likely, Ginobili's latest injury dashes any remaining hope of catching the Lakers in the Western Conference. However, if the Spurs can win at a .500 clip until he returns again, they should still be in good shape for the stretch run.

“Whoever is available, that's who plays,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. “Everybody has injuries from time to time, and you deal with it. It's not something you dwell on.”

After struggling with inconsistency to start the season, Ginobili had just been getting his groove back when he hit the shelf again.

In his last seven games, Ginobili averaged 22.7 points. His last game was a 32-point outing in a loss at Toronto on Feb. 11.

The Spurs, however, know the situation could have been worse had the team not elected to shut Ginobili down when it did.

“Had it been a stress fracture, where it went all the way through the bone, we might have lost him for the season,” Popovich said. “We were lucky in that respect, so it's a big relief.”

Ginobili's first extended stay on the injured list this season seems to have given the Spurs ammunition to survive his second stint.

With Ginobili out to start the season, Mason and rookie George Hill were offered extra time and extra shots in the Spurs' backcourt and quickly assimilated into the system. Mason, an offseason free-agent signee, topped double digits in nine of his first dozen games.

“Usually when guys come in, it takes a year or so to adjust,” Parker said. “I think it accelerated his adjustment with our team. It made him feel comfortable.”

With Ginobili out again, Mason has rediscovered that comfort zone. He has three 20-point games during February, all of them with Ginobili shelved.

“We've had success without him before,” Mason said. “In the long run, we know we're a much better team when Manu is out there.”

There's no way of knowing for sure exactly how long the Spurs will be without Ginobili this time. Doctors prescribed two-to-three weeks of rest, but the distal fibula can be a fickle tyrant.

The Spurs get no vote in the matter.

“We're going to do the best job we can the next two weeks,” Parker said, “and hopefully he will be back soon.”

[tackielarla]

^ Thanks for that article bro.

Tonight tonight: Dallas at our home court! Let's go Spurs!

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One-On-One with Matt Bonner
by Rashad Mobley

The 2008-2009 season has been quite productive to the player affectionately known as The Red Rocket.

The San Antonio Spurs forward is averaging career highs in points, rebounds, minutes and games started. He and Roger Mason Jr. have become major three-point threats on the team, and Bonner has the distinction of leading the NBA with a 49.7% three point shooting percentage. During the Spurs eight game, 20-day road trip that started in San Francisco against the Golden State Warriors and ended in Washington D.C. against the Wizards, Bonner was a key contributor averaging 10 points and 6 rebounds in eight starts. The Spurs went 5-3 during that span.

Right after the Spurs 98-67 blowout victory against the Wizards, Matt Bonner talked to Hoops Addict about the importance of the win, the special field trip Coach Popovich took them on, and on the advantages of a long road trip.

Rashad Mobley: How important was it to get that last road win before you go back home?

Matt Bonner: Oh, it’s very important, you know? It’s easy after all the travelling you’ve done to have an emotional letdown going into your last game before we finally get to home. But we stayed focused and played a great game.

RM: Was there a conscious effort tonight to get Roger Mason Jr. (scored a game high 25 points, on 5-of-9 from the three-point line in his return to D.C.) the ball tonight?

MB: No, I mean, not anything different than normal. I think that’s always the case when there’s a great shooter, we’ve gotta’ find him, and he was definitely on tonight.

RM: Coach Popovich said you went to the Holocaust Museum (in Washington D.C.) yesterday, can you talk about that a bit?

MB: That was amazing. I’d never been there before, and for me it was great because I’ve been to the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis; I’ve been to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa last summer, but this takes the cake. It was unbelievable. You know you learn about it in school, but until you’re there and you actually see what happened with the displays, it doesn’t really hit you.

RM: How important is it to get away from basketball like that every now and then?

MB: It’s great because it puts things in perspective. We play a game that entertains people and a lot of times I think its easy to get caught up in the pressures of that and experiences like this help keep that in perspective.

RM: How do you compare this long road trip you’ve had to the others the Spurs have had? You’ve been gone for so long, and you had the All-Star break in between.

MB: This is for me the first time, this my third season with the team, where we were actually gone for a week after the All-Star break, so it kind of makes it longer. A lot of guys obviously went away for the All-Star break, and came home just to go away for another week, so it seemed like it was extra long this year, but I like it. I think it brings us together and gives us some adversity to overcome during the home stretch of the season.

[tackielarla]

Tony lighting it up with 16 pts with 4:12 left in the 1st quarter!!!

[tackielarla]

18 points! Tony-Freakin-Parker-Rampage watch on-going!!!

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grabe jd ni si popovich bah. partida kaau, wa man gipa starting five si tim duncan. nya labaw pa jd sila by 10 points vs dallas