The Thunder built a huge lead, then held off a Spurs comeback to win Game 6 and eliminate San Antonio. Oklahoma City for the fourth time in six years is in the Western Conference Finals, where they will face the defending champion Warriors.
Tim Duncan faces his basketball mortality
Tim Duncan was going for what would have been an incredible moment given the stage and point in his career. Serge Ibaka did not give one single, solitary shit.
Sorry, Timmy. Time comes for us all.
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Gregg Popovich is usually short for words in his in-game interviews. Thursday night was no exception, but he made them count.
Short, sweet, to the point. Have to love it.
Read Article >The ageless Tim Duncan has finally aged
Ronald Cortes/Getty ImagesThere is no farewell tour. There are no slick video montages. No rapper will be sitting courtside wearing a sweatshirt adorned with Duncan’s name and the date and the phrase “St. Dunstan’s Episcopal’s Finest.” If Thursday indeed marks Duncan’s final NBA game, or if it’s Sunday or next month or even next year, no one will know until after the fact when the greatest power forward of all time and one of the five greatest basketball players in history just simply isn’t there. When it happens -- whenever that is -- the sports world won’t stop to bask in his afterglow.
But that’s just part of the reason that Duncan’s possible exit has generated so little public emotion and longing from the basketball world. Kobe was all bombast, ego, spotlight excellence and brashness. Duncan is not. Big men will never get the attention guards and wings receive, and while Kobe was the quintessential marquee guard, Duncan is the perfect embodiment of what an NBA big man should be.
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