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No Conclusion tonight/this morning. I don’t feel like I had a good handle on the individual performances of all the Spurs players, so we’re going with a Gordian/Mahoney-style Margin recap. The format for The Margin is one topic per differ...

Having swept the Los Angeles Clippers, the San Antonio Spurs return home awaiting the outcome of another Los Angeles series. A quick guess: the Oklahoma City Thunder will find The Popovich System far more troubling next series than they will The Kobe...

AT&T CENTER — It was just a number written on a dry erase board. Just two simple motions with a marker all alone in the top right corner. Somehow, though, it was huge. The number 10 sat there, waiting to be erased and replaced with a 9. The...

AT&T CENTER–The possession begins simply enough, with a high screen presented to point guard Tony Parker by longtime friend and new NBA teammate Boris Diaw. Determined not to allow Parker into the lane with impunity, the Los Angeles Clipper...

So lop-sided was the Spurs first playoff series that point guard Tony Parker, in a moment of frustration over a week-long lack of playing time, haggled with head coach Gregg Popovich over a few more minutes of court time. “I’m 29 years ol...

Game 1 of Spurs-Clippers went pretty much how we expected. The Spurs came out fairly rusty, the Clippers banged up, and San Antonio took a 1-0 lead in the series. What about Game 2? Well, we brought in D.J. Foster of ClipperBlog, who was nice enough...

When Tim Duncan began to decline (some decline, huh?), the popular line had it that the Spurs’ decline would mirror that of their franchise player. The logic was straightforward: as Duncan goes, so goes the Spurs. We’ve learned that isn&#...

AT&T CENTER–Sixteen years separate the San Antonio Spurs oldest and youngest playoff participants, yet to gaze at their equally stone-faced facades is to be convinced that the two had been somehow separated at birth. Be it approach, demeano...

Los Angeles Clippers 92 FinalRecap | Box Score 108 San Antonio Spurs Tim Duncan, C 35 MIN | 12-20 FG | 2-2 FT | 10 REB | 2 AST | 26 PTS | +26Vintage minutes, vintage performance. Kawhi Leonard, SF 29 MIN | 5-8...

AT&T CENTER — For all the talk of Lob City and Lobs Angeles (my personal favorite), the Los Angeles Clippers aren’t quite the high flying team you’d expect. The other LA played at a pace (92 possesions per game) that ranked near...

Chris Paul and Tony Parker finished third and fifth in MVP voting. They share a position. One could make an argument that they were the league’s best two point guards this season. Coming into this series, it will be fun to speculate whether Par...