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Open Thread: The greatness of Tony Parker
I moved to San Antonio (technically back to San Antonio) from New York in the summer 2013. The Spurs had just been upset in the Finals. I immediately plunged into my fandom and embraced the team I grew up adoring. Somewhere over the next couple of years, the Spurs beat the Portland Trail Blazers. When […]
2025-26 Spurs Player Reviews: Victor Wembanyama
Welcome to Pounding the Rock’s 2025-26 player reviews! The series will look at the players who finished the season with the San Antonio Spurs on guaranteed contracts and who played consequential minutes and/or a vital role (so no two-way players because we hardly saw them this year, no players who were traded away, and none of the […]
Open Thread: Victor Wembanyama spent another offseason dabbling in non-basketball activities
Victor Wembanyama is all about basketball…during the season. From the tip off of preseason until the fateful end of the NBA Finals, Wemby is locked in and focused on the Spurs winning as many games as possible. When he is not in the heat of competition, he seeks out ways to better himself. During off […]
San Antonio’s starting five dilemma
Champagne problems make for interesting offseason conversations. Coming off an NBA Finals run, the San Antonio Spurs are returning a stacked roster with some minor additions. The signing of Tobias Harris gives the Spurs another option in their starting lineup, alongside De’Aaron Fox, Stephon Castle, Devin Vassell, and Victor Wembanyama. But Julian Champagnie was a […]
Determining the biggest Spurs villain of all time
It’s August, free agency is all but done, the schedule has been released, and therefore we are in the official doldrums of the NBA offseason. At Pounding the Rock, we often like to find fun projects or series to do to pass the time. We’ve especially enjoyed bracket-style tournaments over the years that have included […]
Open Thread: San Antonio City Council rejects second arena funding vote
Over the past few weeks, San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones has been publicly calling to include a vote on the November ballot concerning the city’s $489 million financial contribution toward the new downtown arena. The arena, predominantly designed to house the San Antonio Spurs, has previously been through a vote which locked in a […]
2025-26 Spurs Player Reviews: De’Aaron Fox
Welcome to Pounding the Rock’s 2025-26 player reviews! The series will look at the players who finished the season with the San Antonio Spurs on guaranteed contracts and who played consequential minutes and/or a vital role (so no two-way players because we hardly saw them this year, no players who were traded away, and none of the […]
Open Thread: Video of David Robinson playing bass goes viral
Long time fans of the San Antonio Spurs know that David Robinson has a gift for music. Back in 1989, he sang backup along with Sean Elliott, Willie Anderson, and Johnny Moore on Terry Cumming’s “It’s That Christmas Time of Year.” As local music legend Joe Reyes recalled, Robinson adeptly played the keyboard while in […]
Open Thread: Devin Vassell reveals his least favorite OKC player
On Saturday, Devin Vassell hosted a pair of basketball camps at Wagner High School, a morning session for elementary and middle school aged players and an afternoon for the high schoolers. During his morning session, a camper asked Vassell who his “least favorite player on OKC” was. Before the Florida native could respond, the campers […]
The Spurs have a lot of wings. How will they play them all?
If there is one thing the NBA has taught teams over and over again, it is the importance of depth. Injuries happen (knock on wood). So it’s best to have a solid 10 to 12 players you can trust to varying degrees. The San Antonio Spurs come into the 2025-26 season with a boatload of […]
Open Thread: Spurs Draftees supported fifth annual Back to School Bash
On Saturday, August 8th, the Spurs hosted the fifth annual Back to School Bash. The event supported over 3,000 local students as they prepared for the 2026-2027 school year with school supplies, haircuts, and a variety of health screenings as well as information booths for extracurricular activities and support services. Spurs Sports and Entertainment shared […]
2025-26 Spurs Player Reviews: Devin Vassell
Welcome to Pounding the Rock’s 2025-26 player reviews! The series will look at the players who finished the season with the San Antonio Spurs on guaranteed contracts and who played consequential minutes and/or a vital role (so no two-way players because we hardly saw them this year, no players who were traded away, and none of the […]
Open Thread: Gregg Popovich speaks at Don Nelson’s funeral
This post is going to be short and sweet. Here’s the video of Gregg Popovich speaking at Don Nelson’s funeral on Thursday in Dallas. It speaks for itself: Pop looks and sounds as if he continues to progress in his recovery. Really great words. It was 100% Pop, classic, and still classy given the the […]
Spurs 2026-27 regular season schedule released
We have finally hit Day 3 of the NBA’s schedule release. We already knew that the Spurs would open at home against the Thunder on October 20 and get hosted by the Knicks on Christmas, as well as their NBA Cup schedule, and now we have the complete regular season schedule. Observations Other than that, […]
Open Thread: Spurs announce new partnership with Heybike
Per a Spurs press release: “The San Antonio Spurs today announced Heybike as the organization’s official e-bike partner, uniting the two brands through a shared vision for connection through sports and movement. This marks Heybike’s first agreement with an NBA team, as they seek to align with strong, internationally recognized sports brands like the Spurs.” Heybike, a […]
Spurs draw winnable group as Emirates NBA Cup schedule announced
It’s day two of the NBA’s schedule drop for the 2026-27 season (why is this necessary?), with the Emirates NBA Cup groups being announced today. The Spurs wound up in Group C, along with the Lakers, Warriors, Kings and Trail Blazers. After seemingly always ending up in the “Group of Death” in past years, this […]
2025-26 Spurs Player Reviews: Stephon Castle
Welcome to Pounding the Rock’s 2025-26 player reviews! The series will look at the players who finished the season with the San Antonio Spurs on guaranteed contracts and who played consequential minutes and/or a vital role (so no two-way players because we hardly saw them this year, no players who were traded away, and none of the […]
Open Thread: Carter Bryant’s guest spot on the Road Trippin’ Show
I originally saw this yesterday in a dozen cut up tweets (xs…what do we call these, Pounders?). Thank you to Karatestyle who shared the link with the entire interview. It was recorded last month during Summer League and released on YouTube Monday. It’s 34 minutes and 19 seconds long, so…see ya in a little while. […]
Spurs host Thunder on opening night, visit the Knicks on Christmas Day
The NBA has begun releasing the 2026-2027 schedule, beginning with the opening week and Christmas match-ups today. They’re wasting no time in getting the Spurs back against their opponents of the final two rounds of the playoffs, beginning with a Western Conference Finals rematch against Oklahoma City Thunder at home on opening night. Tip-off will […]
Open Thread: Remembering a heartwarming moment involving Maurice Cheeks
I saw this on X recently and had to smile. As it just so happens, I had caught Untold : Jail Blazers on Netflix. The documentary discussed the early 2000s Portland Trail Blazers and their quest for a title. It featured Rasheed Wallace, Bonzi Wells, Damon Stoudamire, and Shawn Kemp (but for reasons unexplained not […]
Patty Mills to play for Tony Parker at ASVEL
It’s a Spurs reunion! Well, sort of. Two members of the 2014 Spurs Championship and longtime teammates are teaming up again, this time as player and coach over in France. ASVEL of the French LDLC and Euro League has announced it has signed Patty Mills for the 2026-27 season, and he will be coached by […]
2025-26 Spurs Player Reviews: Julian Champagnie
Julian Champagnie 2025-26 stats: 82 games, 27.6 MPG, 11.1 points, 5.8 rebounds, 1.5 assists, 38.1 3FG%, 6.2 3PA Contract Status: 3 years, $45 million remaining (no options) Age: 25 Julian Champagnie has overcome the odds and contributed at a high level throughout his career with the San Antonio Spurs. He was a diamond-in-the-rough success story, signing a full […]
End of Summer Disjointed Basketball Thoughts: Part Deux
Last year at this time, I wrote a piece entitled End-of-summer Disjointed Basketball Thoughts. Among other things, I wrote that school should start after Labor Day as God intended, questioned the NBA’s “max” and “supermax” contracts (how can something be more than the maximum?), and (most importantly), why the Spurs’ three excellent guards was a good thing, […]
Open Thread: The basketball world mourns the death of Don Nelson
The basketball world lost a giant. The great Don Nelson died on Sunday at the age of 86 after suffering a stroke three weeks ago. Nelson was drafted by the Chicago Zephyrs in 1962. A year later he headed to Los Angeles to join the Lakers and the Zephyrs moved to Baltimore to become the […]
Open Thread: NBA’s rule change on buzzer beaters yields increase in attempts
I saw this post recently. “NBA’s rule change last season to not count last second heaves as missed FGs for players had a big effect on their behavior. A new research paper by 2 Texas Tech professors, James W. Kemper & Noah Liptack, found players took that shot 94% of the time last season after […]
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