The San Antonio Spurs have defied NBA conventional wisdom by apparently reloading on the fly. After getting swept out of the playoffs by Phoenix in 2010 and getting ousted in the first round by Memphis last year, many thought it was time to trade their top talent and rebuild through the draft.
Net Cords: San Antonio Spurs, Still Villains Of The NBA
Instead, the geniuses running one of the best organizations in the game ignored the fans and critics and kept their aging core while ading a variety of pieces, from castoffs like Danny Green and Boris Diaw to non-elite young players like Tiago Splitter and Kawhi Leonard.
The result is a Spurs team in the top echelon of the NBA among the likes of Miami, Chicago and Oklahoma City.
Perhaps because their advice went went ignored, or maybe because they are just tired of the Spurs, but the national media has mostly ignored the success in San Antonio.
SB Nation’s Spurs site, Pounding the Rock, has it’s own unique and hilarious take on the situation.
The San Antonio Spurs: Villains of the NBA - Pounding The Rock
I know the importance of narrative. Humans need a story to help them understand the world. In this lockout-shortened season there’s a dearth of storylines for fans to latch on to, and the small-market Spurs barely get a mention because the pundits don’t have a convenient role into which they can force them.So far they’ve gotten away with it ... but it’s plain to see that the time is coming when ignoring San Antonio will no longer be an option.
[...]For us, it’s a good old-fashioned heroic epic. For the rest of the league, it’s a horror story. And we’re the monsters.
Tony Parker as Hannibal Lecter. Tim Duncan as The Terminator (T-1000 model). Whatever it takes, the Spurs fans are more than willing to embrace their role in this story, even if it's as the villain.
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