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Open Thread: Spending Sunday with the San Antonio Spurs
Sunday, October 4, was my official kick off into the new season of the San Antonio Spurs. From noon until 3pm, the organization held the second annual Gregg Popovich Coach the Coaches Clinic. Organized in part through the Positive Coach Alliance, they held a quick ice breaker before introducing Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson. Johnson […]
Three takeaways from the Spurs Silver and Black open scrimmage
The unofficial start to the 2026-27 San Antonio Spurs season arrived on Sunday night, as nearly 15,000 fans packed the Frost Bank Center for annual the Silver and Black open scrimmage, their first look at the squad since its run to the NBA Finals just over four months ago. Here are three takeaways from the […]
Tobias Harris out for preseason with calf strain, questionable for season opener
Not long before the Silver and Black scrimmage, the Spurs announced the first injury of the season. Lone free agency acquisition, forward Tobias Harris, suffered a left calf strain during training camp and will be reevaluated after the preseason. He is considered questionable for the regular season opener. Harris was signed in free agency after […]
Open Thread: Tobias Harris trained with George Gervin
Tobias Harris joining the Spurs seems like a perfect summer acquisition, and it just got better. Tobias Harris described his bond with George Gervin: “When I was young, I used to come to San Antonio to train with George Gervin. He and my father (Torrel Harris, an NBA agent) are very close. George is practically […]
Wembanyama’s refusal to endorse betting companies makes him a bigger man off the court
Just when I thought Victor Wembanyama couldn’t get any cooler, he took a firm stance against athletes getting involved with betting companies when asked if he would partner up with one on Thursday. “Absolutely not, I will never do that,” Wembanyama said. “ Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it…” […]
Open Thread: Julian Champagnie has an undisclosed nickname
The Spurs are back to having fun with each other. After surpassing expectations and making the NBA Finals in 2026, the core of the team have returned for training camp looking closer than they did before having a break. Overall, there always seemed to be camaraderie in some form or fashion all summer long. From […]
Rebuild-era Trades: How they impact the Spurs today and going forward
Since Kawhi Leonard and Tony Parker left and Manu Ginobili retired in the summer of 2018, ending the Spurs’ long era as a championship contender under the Big Three and preventing a Kawhi-led era (or at least ending a short one), there have been several mini-eras. They tried to start a new chapter led by […]
Open Thread: Spurs release promotional schedule
There are 41 Spurs home games…but one is being played Paris and three are being played in Austin, so make that 37 home games here in San Antonio. While that seems like a lot, it isn’t. Not for a season as exciting as this one promises to be. So we’re going to all want to […]
Open Thread: Watch the Media Day video addressing Spurs players by their full names
Normally, middle names are saved for when a parent is calling a child (usually loudly and from a distance) to inform said child that he is, in fact, in trouble. If I heard “Jeffrey David Duarte” a tinge of fear shot through my entire body. (In fact, any time I’ve been referred to as “Jeffrey” […]
The Spurs should give the three-guard lineups a real chance
The Spurs held Media Day on Monday and, as expected, one question that kept coming up was how the guard rotation would shake up. When asked about it, Johnson said that it would be the only way for them to build chemistry, and he expects to have them on the floor more than last season. […]
Open Thread: Dylan Harper continues to roll back his “I ain’t coming off no bench” comment
The GQ Hype article that spotlights Spurs guards Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper has left some fans wondering if Harper will be comfortable coming off the bench this season. In the article, Harper comments that he is going to be this season’s Sixth Man of the Year. Castle immediately tells Harper he will not. When […]
It seems like Dylan Harper will start for the Spurs
Media day is usually pretty boring. It’s hours of PR-gated answers that don’t say much about what will happen when the regular season games start. But this year, something was different at the San Antonio Spurs media day. If you read all the tea leaves, it sure would seem like San Antonio will have a […]
Open Thread: Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper grace GQ Hype
Yesterday was Media Day for the San Antonio Spurs. The players decked out in their uniforms and met with members of television, magazine, newspapers, and on-line sports broadcasting. The team members were in their home jerseys which underscores their unity but diminishes their individual style. Fortunately, GQ took some time to engage Stephon Castle and […]
Takeaways from the Spurs 2026 Media Day
It’s finally that time! After a shorter offseason than any other this decade but still a long 3 1/2 month wait, it’s finally Media Day for the 2026-27 Spurs. There was definitely a different vibe than recent years with the team fresh off a trip to the Finals but with a chip on their shoulder […]
Open Thread: Justin Verlander’s heartwarming farewell
I get it, baseball news does not necessarily belong on Pounding the Rock, a Spurs fan site. During the offseason — when content can be few and far between — I may from time to time veer away from the Spurs and share some basketball-oriented news. If there is absolutely nothing going on in the […]
The lineups that will define the Spurs’ season
Training camp is nearly upon us. Now is the time for Mitch Johnson and the rest of the San Antonio Spurs coaching staff to see how roster plans will come to life. That means experimenting with lineups in practice and the preseason before the season starts on October 20th. This season should be a lot […]
Open Thread: Tony Parker’s brother Pierre is hosting a skills camp
For those of you who have been involved with the Open Thread over the years might recall that from time to time I moonlight as a musician. Last night I had a gig at this great spot in Leon Springs and I saw this flier posted: Pierre Parker, younger brother of Spurs legend Tony Parker, […]
Open Thread: Stephon Castle “rates” his fellow Spurs
Found this post on Instagram. Hope you enjoy it: Stephon Castle was asked in an NBA2K interview about which teammate he’d rate a “99” for various skills and personality traits. When asked who the best scorer on the team is, Castle immediately named Julian Champagnie agreeing that he should have made the NBA’s list of […]
ESPN ranks Victor Wembanyama as the second-best player in the NBA
Victor Wembanyama’s rise in the eyes of experts outside of San Antonio continues. The Spurs’ big man finished second, behind only Nikola Jokic, in ESPN’s 2026 NBA player rankings. Wemby was ranked fifth in the 2025 edition, but his great season, which included a unanimous Defensive Player of the Year award and a trip to […]
Open Thread: The NBA world mourns the passing of Bob Pettit
There are players who leave their stamp on the sport of basketball and then there are those who become synonymous with the sport itself. The NBA world lost a quintessential legend on Wednesday. Bob Pettit, 93, was one of the earliest superstars of the game. In 1954, the LSU standout was drafted second overall by […]
The Spurs’ Keldon Johnson conundrum
The Spurs got to the Finals last season mostly on the strength of their core players. It’s typically how things go for contenders, since they are not expected to field a deep rotation as the playoff rounds go on. The strange thing is that the reigning Sixth Man of the Year was one of the […]
Open Thread: The Spurs will play two sold out games in Europe this season
It was inevitable that the NBA games being played overseas were going to sell out. Of course European basketball fans come out in droves to catch a glimpse of NBA stars. But what wasn’t a certainty was the demand for the tickets to the games. “The NBA Paris Game 2027 presented by Tissot and The […]
Yes, Devin Vassell is a top-100 NBA player
This week, ESPN released its list of the top 100 NBA players. The San Antonio Spurs had three players in the top 50: Dylan Harper (50), De’Aaron Fox (43), and Stephon Castle (38). It’s safe to assume that Victor Wembanyama will be in the top 1o, revealed later this week. One player was notably missing […]
Open Thread: Dylan Harper rookie card sets auction sales record
Dylan Harper may have not been crowned the 2026 Rookie of the Year, but he had some of the best stats from his draft class, not to mention making his way to the NBA Finals. Ata recent auction, his rookie card went for a whopping $320,860. According to Goldin Auction, 2025-26 Bowman Chrome Autographs SuperFractor […]
Open Thread: Gregg Popovich won more playoff games than two-thirds of his rivals
It’s not that he’s the winningest coach in NBA history. It’s not how he created a culture in San Antonio that continues to grow as the next generation of enter the fold. It’s not who he is at his core. It’s all of that and then some. From time to time, we have to remind […]
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