San Antonio Spurs Rumors & News

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "LeBron James had to dig deep to help salvage the Heat season and ward off another offseason of undeserved vitriol, and he had to do it mostly without his right-hand man, Dwyane Wade. Despite a shaky first three quarters, James finished with a triple-double of 32 points, 10 rebounds and 11..." June 19

Boston Herald "The sly smile on Erik Spoelstra's lips said it all. If only this once, the Miami coach couldn't wait to field questions. This was just minutes after a magical Game 6, when the memories of how his Heat defied the longest of odds to steal a win in overtime were still fresh: Down five points with..." June 19

USA Today "LeBron James went from goat to hero to goat to hero in the span of 50 exhilarating and exhausting minutes against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday. It was a microcosm of James' NBA Finals performance against the San Antonio Spurs: great one game, not great enough the..." June 19

ESPN.com "Hoping in part to push along sales of NBA jerseys, more teams will wear uniforms with sleeves next season. An NBA source told ESPN.com that as many as five teams will wear the short-sleeve jerseys as an alternate jersey for as much as 12 games during the season. "We are interested in doing..." June 19

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel ""Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted, one moment, would you capture it or just let it slip?" -- Eminem, "Lose Yourself" At one point, before there was a Big Three, before Pat Riley's championship-or-failure proclamations truly took residence at..." June 19

New York Post "Lost in the midst of Manu Ginobili’s stunning resurgence in the Spurs’ 114-104 victory over Miami in Game 5 of the NBA Finals Sunday night was Tony Parker showing no ill effects of the right hamstring strain he suffered in Game 3, which slowed him down in the second half of Game 4. Thanks to..." June 18

San Antonio Express-News "Tony Parker was in his second season and naïve as could be in 2003, the year he won his first NBA championship. It came so quickly that Parker figured Larry O’Brien trophies were a birthright that came with playing for the Spurs. “I was 21, and it came kind of fast,” the All-Star point guard..." June 18

CBSSports.com "San Antonio Spurs shooter Danny Green already has 25 made 3-pointers through the first five games of the NBA Finals. It broke Miami Heat guard Ray Allen's record of 22 threes, that he set with the Boston Celtics back in their 2008 championship run. Green has been open on a lot of his looks..." June 18

San Antonio Express-News "The Spurs are one victory away from their fifth NBA championship after punishing the Heat in Game 5 of the NBA Finals Sunday at the AT&T Center. The series shifts to Miami for Game 6, where the Heat will attempt to become only the eighth team in NBA history to recover from a 3-2 deficit in the..." June 17

San Antonio Express-News "Danny Green drilled six more 3-pointers in Game 5, giving him 25 in the Finals to break Ray Allen’s record for most makes from beyond the arc in a championship series. It’s been a remarkable performance from the former D-Leaguer, who was cut multiple times before finally sticking with the Spurs..." June 17

Pro Basketball Talk "This really doesn’t impact the Spurs on the court in the Finals, but it will sadden the basketball fans of Australia. Spurs reserve guard Patty Mills — best known in this series for his enthusiastic towel waving — is out for the remainder of the postseason after having surgery on his foot, the..." June 16

Fox Sports Florida "Before the NBA Finals began, LeBron James let it be known Danny Green once was his "rook" in Cleveland. Well, the "rook" sure has grown up. The play of the San Antonio Spurs guard against James' Miami Heat has been the biggest surprise in the series. Green, who averaged 10.5 points and..." June 16

San Antonio Express-News "Danny Green has hit five 3-pointers through three quarters of Game 5, giving him 24 in the series to break Ray Allen’s record for most makes from beyond the arc in a Finals. Allen made 22 3s in six games with Boston in the 2008 Finals. Green is 5 for 8 in Game 5, and 24 for 36 in the series." June 16

San Antonio Express-News "Given his first start in more than a year, Manu Ginobili has made Spurs coach Gregg Popovich look like a genius through two quarters of Game 5. Ginobili has 11 points and six assists in 16 minutes of action, a driving force behind the Spurs’ 61-52 lead over the Miami Heat. It was Ginobili’s..." June 16

San Antonio Express-News "Miami head coach Erik Spoelstra insists he has no interest in playing chess with Spurs counterpart Gregg Popovich. Any moves he makes is strictly for the benefit of his team, rather than forcing the Spurs’ hand as the two teams vie for the NBA championship. “We’re not trying…to see if they..." June 16

San Antonio Express-News "It was little more than two weeks ago that Manu Ginobili issued what seemed to be a definitive statement about his NBA future. “I’m not planning on retiring,” Ginobili told the Express-News. “There are some days, you’re depressed because you’re hurt and you want to say, ‘The hell with that.’..." June 16

Pro Basketball Talk "With the Finals deadlocked at two games apiece, and with the scene shifting to Miami for what will be the deciding games of the series, Tim Duncan wasn’t afraid to put Sunday’s critical Game 5 in its proper context. “It is a must‑win,” Duncan said after practice on Saturday. “We don’t want to..." June 16

San Antonio Express-News "There's a pecking order to the media interview sessions on NBA Finals practice days — order out of chaos determined by relative importance. For the Spurs, that means coach Gregg Popovich, team captain Tim Duncan and All-NBA point guard Tony Parker answer questions in an interview room, their..." June 16

San Antonio Express-News "Tony Parker’s strained right hamstring continues to mend, but the All-Star point guard said after Saturday’s practice that he remains at risk for a more serious injury as the Finals wear on. “My hamstring can tear at any time now,” he said, “so if it was the regular season I would be resting...." June 15

Pro Basketball Talk "The lack of job security for head coaches in the NBA has seemed to reach an all-time high level of silliness this year, and the two who are still playing for a championship believe that the consistency shown by their respective organizations is a big reason why they’re still competing at the..." June 15

SportingNews.com "Perhaps there shouldn’t be so much surprise around what has happened to guard Manu Ginobili here in the NBA Finals. He is, after all, 35 years old, and no matter how much he insists on wanting to continue his career, it’s become obvious that he isn’t the player he was even two years..." June 15

San Antonio Express-News "Tony Parker sent a text to veteran Yahoo! Sports reporter Marc J. Spears that he’s feeling no extra pain after testing his strained right hamstring for the first time on Thursday in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. Parker was scoreless in the second half, finishing with 15 points as Miami crushed the..." June 15

San Antonio Express-News "If Manu Ginobili were a poker player, he’d be classified as a maniac: fearless and unpredictable, courting risk on seemingly every hand and pushing chips into the middle with zero regard to the odds. When it works, the maniac is liable to dominate the entire table. When it doesn’t? You get..." June 15

Pro Basketball Talk "The Spurs have been remarkably efficient in these playoffs, and have lost just four times in total through 14 postseason games. After a San Antonio loss in Game 4 of the Finals evened the series at two games apiece, Gregg Popovich was asked on Friday if there was a common thread he could see as..." June 15

Yahoo! Sports "The NBA announced Friday afternoon that it has fined Miami Heat center Chris Bosh $5,000 for violating the league's anti-flopping policy during Game 4 of the 2013 NBA Finals on Thursday. Well, duh. Bosh is the eighth player to receive a flopping fine this postseason. He joins Derek Fisher,..." June 14

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "Now, this was more like it. Dwyane Wade was scoring. So was LeBron James. And even Chris Bosh got into the act on occasion. Call it the return of the Big Three. The Heat got productive games from all three All-Stars to defeat the San Antonio Spurs 109-93 Thursday in Game 4 of the NBA..." June 14

San Antonio Express-News "Hampered by a strained right hamstring, Spurs point guard Tony Parker expressed hope he’ll be closer to full strength for Game 5 of the NBA Finals after fading badly in Thursday’s Game 4. Parker, who was injured in the second half of Game 3, started off well, scoring 11 points in the first..." June 14

ESPN.com "Those interminable nine days off waiting for the start of the NBA Finals, openly decried as "a little bit too long" by Tony Parker, were supposed to help Manu Ginobili more than any other Spur. They haven't. As for that hopeful pre-series prediction from Parker that Ginobili has actually..." June 14

CBSSports.com "Spurs point guard Tony Parker participated in the Spurs' shootaround Thursday morning and says he's "ready to go" for Game 4 against the Miami Heat. "I feel ready to go," Parker said three different times. An MRI revealed that Parker had a Grade 1 hamstring strain after tweaking it in the..." June 13

Fox Sports Florida "Pardon Tracy McGrady if he sometimes forgets to use “we’’ when talking about the San Antonio Spurs. “Give San Antonio some credit of defending (LeBron James),’’ McGrady said Wednesday as if he were talking about some team in the league other than his own. But McGrady actually is a member..." June 13

Fort Worth Star-Telegram "San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker sat and watched as his teammates practiced Wednesday afternoon. The Spurs hope Parker won't be doing the same during Thursday night's Game 4 of the NBA Finals. The Spurs officially listed Parker with a grade 1 right hamstring strain – the least severe – and..." June 13

Yahoo! Sports "With 5:43 remaining in this epic NBA Finals beat-down, Gregg Popovich decided to pull off his two pit bulls. The San Antonio Spurs' eventual 113-77 rout of the Miami Heat for a 2-1 series lead was, by that point, a mere formality. Might as well let them bask in the cheers as they sat and watched..." June 12

CBSSports.com "LeBron James wasn't holding back in his media availability Wednesday about his individual performance the previous night in Game 3. "I played like shit," he said. LeBron went 7-21 for just 15 points in Game 3, and worst of all, his Heat got pummeled by 36 as the Spurs took a 2-1 series lead...." June 12

San Antonio Express-News "Tony Parker posted on his Facebook account Wednesday that he has a slight hamstring “stretch,” seemingly putting his availability for Thursday’s Game 4 in question. Parker’s message, as translated via Google: “I just had MRI. Result: I suffer from a slight stretch to the hamstring. We’ll see..." June 12

USA Today "LeBron James delivered the message multiple times in the sullen and stunned losing locker room. "I've got to be better," James said after the San Antonio Spurs crushed the Miami Heat 113-77 in Game 3 on Tuesday. He said it no less than five times during a six-minute postgame interview at his..." June 12

USA Today "Gearing up for the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Spain, USA Basketball selected a wide-ranging mix of experience, youth, size, speed and shooters for its 27-man roster that will train in July 22-25 in Las Vegas. The past two NBA rookies of the year — guards Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers and..." June 12

USA Today "Tony Parker warned Gary Neal for a week: The San Antonio Spurs would need a big performance from the backup guard to beat the Miami Heat in one of these NBA Finals games. The Heat had been trapping Parker on pick-and-rolls, preferring to leave shooters such as Neal and Danny Green open. The..." June 12

CSN New England "Blowing out the Miami Heat in Game 3 gave the San Antonio Spurs a much-needed edge in the NBA Finals. But it may have come at the cost of point guard Tony Parker who suffered a hamstring injury which limited him in the fourth quarter of San Antonio's 113-77 Game 3 win. Parker, who had six..." June 12

San Antonio Express-News "Hard to imagine, but Game 3 of the Finals was once tied at 44-all. That was before a 29-8 run blew the doors off, from which point the Spurs continued to pour it on…and on, and on, until they’d taken a 2-1 series lead with one of the most thoroughly dominant postseason performances in franchise..." June 12

ESPN.com "Could LeBron James become the first player in history to average a triple-double in the Finals? It’s more than just a historical question; it also is a central factor in how this series might end up playing out. Because the San Antonio Spurs may be just fine with it -- in fact, it might be an..." June 11

Miami Herald "Somebody brought Heat fans the heads of Eva Longoria for Sunday’s Game 2 of the NBA Finals. Then, security collected those heads after a few minutes. The reason for Longoria’s head on a stick? A potential distraction for San Antonio star point guard and Longoria ex-husband Tony Parker when he..." June 11

ESPN.com "The NBA will allow advertising on the court for the first time next season. The league sent a memo to its teams saying they will be permitted to sell space on what is referred to as the apron. The space covers the out-of-bounds area on the sideline between the baselines and the coaches' box..." June 11

San Antonio Express-News "Spurs guard Danny Green had one of the best shooting nights in NBA Finals history, hitting all six shots and all five 3-point attempts. Green’s big night set a Finals record for most threes without a miss. The previous record was four, held by Boston’s Scott Wedman in 1985 against the Los..." June 10

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "The box score offered no delineation about a Big Three or a Chosen One. The shots were evenly distributed, as were the points. As, now, are the victories in this series. And after this Sunday night performance at AmericanAirlines Arena, it could be argued the Heat lead 1-1. Because..." June 10

CSN New England "Cory Joseph is a young player on a veteran San Antonio Spurs team, so playing time isn't going to be plentiful, especially on the biggest stage of them all - the NBA Finals. In San Antonio's 92-88 Game 1 win, Joseph played just two minutes - down from the 10-plus minutes per game he played in..." June 09

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "His name rarely surfaces in the conversation. Mention the subject "G.O.A.T," and it's usually Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson from the past and LeBron James and Kobe Bryant in the present. Even Kevin Durant tends to join the debate ahead of the player who is trying to cement his legacy among..." June 09

Toronto Sun "Tracy McGrady’s glory days are well behind him. He might not even play a second in this NBA final, yet, he sure still talks a world-class game. Supremely confident, honest, and unafraid to speak his mind, it was no surprise that McGrady was surrounded by media on Friday afternoon throughout a..." June 09

USA Today "Critics of the NBA's age rule that forces young players to attend one year of college before playing in the NBA often mention Tracy McGrady as an example of why prospects should be able to enter the league straight out of high school. McGrady has had a successful 16-year career, winning two..." June 09