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Open Thread: Analytics reveal the Spurs had the best odds of winning the NBA Finals
The 2026 NBA season has officially ended and the New York Knicks were crowned the 2026 NBA Champions. After Game 5, Victor Wembanyama stated, “Our domination stints are absolute. We absolutely dominated for most of the series. But our errors, our mistakes, are punished so hard that we can’t have ups and downs like this.” […]
Why the Spurs might not bring back any of their own free agents
Free agency won’t start until June 30th, but as soon as the Finals ended, teams have been able to negotiate with their own free agents. It’s an exclusive window that, on paper, allows incumbent franchises the opportunity to lock up guys they want to keep around before they get on the market. In some years, […]
The Spurs’ 2025/26 season brought back expectations, success, and heartbreak
The beauty of the 2025/26 Spurs season was that it brought back expectations. For half a decade, San Antonio lay dormant as it recovered from the Kawhi Leonard fiasco, putting together respectable but unremarkable teams as it seemed to look for a sign, a path. Some beloved veterans and homegrown young guys had to leave […]
Open Thread: How about a PtR Summer Book Club?
Good day, Pounders. I was scrolling through social media and found this post: I remember early in Wemby’s NBA career seeing him enter press conferences with a book. I have asked a few times what he was reading and considered reading along. I found his creating a book club with the Spurs to be on […]
The NBA Draft prospects who have worked out for the Spurs
The 2025-26 season ended disappointingly for the San Antonio Spurs. Despite outperforming expectations and making it all the way to the NBA Finals, San Antonio has to feel it came up short after losing to the New York Knicks 4-1. The time for licking wounds should be brief, though, especially for the front office. The […]
Open Thread: Victor Wembanyama and Julian Champagnie visit Methodist Children’s Hospital
This just warmed my heart: Just two days after a heartbreaking ending to their 2025-2026 campaign, Victor Wembanyama and Julian Champagnie visited Methodist Children’s Hospital. They brought smiles and lifted the spirits of several young patients. Wembanyama, who has broken records and exceeded expectations all season, had comparisons to the greatest all-time players at each […]
Despite the painful ending, the Spurs’ season was a success
The Finals are over, and the Spurs lost. If you could describe how you feel about how they went in one word, what would it be and why? Marilyn Dubinski: The first word is “excruciating,” considering how easily the outcome could have been reversed if the Spurs simply could have executed down the stretch of […]
The end of a remarkable and unexpected season
Before the 2022-23 season, I wrote a piece about the importance of the Spurs learning from losses. The title was “Watching for small victories in a season that won’t feature many Spurs wins”. I ended the piece with this: In our lives, and watching this Spurs team struggle through this season, let’s all try to […]
Key dates Spurs fans should know this summer
The 2025-26 season may have ended in disappointment as the Spurs stumbled their way through 4 fourth-quarter collapses in the NBA Finals, turning what could have been four victories and a championship into four excruciating losses in five games. However, when you look at the broader view, it helps to remember this is nowhere near […]
Open Thread: David Robinson helps celebrate Habitat for Humanity’s 50th anniversary
Per a Spurs press release: “The San Antonio Spurs, alongside Friends of the Carver/IDEA and the David Robinson Fellowship Program, joined Habitat for Humanity of San Antonio on Friday, June 12, for a volunteer build day celebrating Habitat’s 50th anniversary. Nearly 250 volunteers participated in the effort, helping advance Habitat’s mission of creating affordable homeownership […]
Box Grades: Spurs’ glorious season ends with a hard lesson
I must admit, the way this series has gone, I felt pretty certain heading into the fourth that San Antonio was going to lose this game. Simply put, the Spurs showed time and again that they could play well enough to hold a lead against the Knicks late in the game, but inevitably that edge […]
What we learned from the Spurs gut-wrenching, soul-crushing, series-ending Game 5 loss the Knicks
I was a big fan of Roger Ebert. I suppose, in a way, I still am. Any time I watch a film that I know was made prior to April of 2013, I scramble to look it up after the movie is over, curious to see if our assessments are in the same ballpark. About […]
Highlights: Spurs make valiant effort behind Harper and Wembanyama in Game 5
Coming off one of the worst losses in franchise history, the Spurs faced elimination for the third time this postseason in Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks. At the Frost Bank Center, the crowd was split almost 50/50 between Spurs fans and Knicks fans. Nonetheless, like all five games of […]
Open Thread: Spurs Head Coach Mitch Johnson “We weren’t ready to win an NBA Championship”
Lots of emotions flowed through Frost Bank Center last night. An estimated 44% of tickets purchased for Game 5 were done so by New York Knicks fans, so when the final buzzer reigned in a champion, their fans were there to cheer them through the trophy presentation. In the press room, Spurs Head Coach Mitch […]
Spurs’ season ends with Game 5 loss to Knicks in NBA Finals
For the majority of the NBA Finals, it looked like the San Antonio Spurs had found an answer to slowing down the New York Knicks, the Spurs had built double-digit leads only to collapse in the game’s final minutes to see New York grab the win. That formula was the same on Saturday night. Facing […]
San Antonio vs. New York, Final Score: Spurs collapse late in 94-90 loss as New York captures NBA title
The New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs in Game Five of the NBA Finals to win their first NBA Championship since 1973. Despite building a 16-point lead, the Spurs allowed the Knicks to storm back in the fourth quarter in a 94-90 loss. It’s the first time in franchise history that San Antonio […]
It’s time for Finals Basketball: San Antonio Spurs vs New York Knicks, Game 5
Welcome to the Game Thread. Veterans of the Game Thread know how we do things around here, but for all you newbies we have a few rules. Our community guidelines apply and basically say be cool, no personal attacks, don’t troll and don’t swear too much. The rule against trolling also applies to members of this site […]
Open Thread: Spurs are hosting Game 5 watch parties in France and Mexico
The 2026 NBA Finals has received some of the highest viewership in recent NBA history. These Finals are a global event, and as the Spurs continue to connect with their growing international fanbase in their mission to grow the game of basketball throughout the world, they have added watch parties in international markets. Already, viewership […]
Game Five Preview: San Antonio Spurs vs. New York Knicks
How do you recover after one of the worst losses in NBA history? The San Antonio Spurs are going to have to figure out the answer to that question quickly in Game Five of the NBA Finals, or their season will be over. After blowing a 29-point lead in Game Four, the Spurs are back […]
Spurs’ Luke Kornet (illness) listed as questionable for Game 5 against Knicks
The Spurs could be without their backup center for a must-win Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Knicks. Luke Kornet has been listed as questionable in the injury report due to illness. Kornet has not had a good playoffs and has only averaged a shade under eight minutes per game in the Finals. […]
A silver linings playbook for the Spurs
These playoffs have been the ultimate back-and-forth for the young Spurs. When they win, experience doesn’t matter, and talent and comradery trumps all. When they lose, all the conversations about inexperience start up again. By now, it may finally be impossible to ignore, as the list of their failures to execute in the clutch in […]
The young Spurs find themselves fighting for their lives, once again
The Spurs melted down in the second half. What was the play that let you know the loss was coming? Marilyn Dubinski: There were several plays within the downward spiral that had me losing hope, from Wemby missing three threes in one possession and two clutch free throws, but the moment for me was when […]
Open Thread: Two special events for local Spurs fans on Friday night
First of all, thanks to all of you who came out last night to see Bill Schoening & Friends, Jacob Tobey, and me perform at Sam’s Burger Joint. Jacob is a gifted singer-songwriter whose songs draw the listener in. Bill’s storytelling blends so well with his Philly-based rhythms, his band really takes his sound to […]
Anatomy of a Fall
When a writer tells a story from beginning to end, proceeding in order, it is called linear narrative or chronological narrative. More formally, it’s referred to as ab ovo narration (Latin for “from the egg”), a term from Horace’s Ars Poetica, meaning the story begins at the very origin of events and unfolds in sequence. Conversely, starting from the […]
Highlights: Victor Wembanyama and Dylan Harper stand out in heartbreaking loss Game 4 loss
What a game. What a team. Those players and us fans wish we could have those last seconds back, or heck, even the entire fourth quarter. The roller coaster ride of emotion had a lot of peaks but the downward swirl there in the fourth makes you almost want to erase it from your memory […]
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