2013-2014 NBA Season Thread - Congrats to the Spurs, DBD is still a buster

[Bert.]

Tim Duncan won

he hasnt lost since the day he got drafted

 

[EddieDoyers]

 

[osirus]

Missing an unleash Russell westbrook and pep talk up there.

 

[mronegative]

Damn, Tim's girl is flames. Absolutely zero hate on that one. Sheesh.

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My Virgin Island boy getting that Pum-Pum! That's how we Caribbeans do it

Wait...that's that ***** from Amazing Race.

 

[drewsone]

Dang okc

 

[ballinsam23]

that casio calculator watch

 

[friscostylez]

I want to PIIHB

 

[captainjackson]

thabo should just stay at home, he's useless to the thunder.

 

[Bert.]

 

[awwsome]

Tim just a born winner.

Even his ex wife couldn't stop greatness.

 

[Nawzlew]

He was just tryin' to make room for the 5th ring

 

[a-friend]

 

[xbiker47]

Both series will be tied going into game 3

 

[captainjackson]

Both series will be tied going into game 3

okc ain't winning game 2

 

[drewsone]

Pacers were built to dismantle the Heat. :x

Gonna be a tough series man.

 

[carver]

OKC got a nice looking box score.. until you see 3 starters have a combined 5 points 

Also DFish ain't dropping 16 ever again in his career 

Last but not least you can't give up 122 and expect to win.. and damb near 70 in the paint.

Scotty gonna have to make some adjustments.. but he prolly won't and we will see the same starting lineup and same bench lineup come in at the same time every game.. sit both stars at the same time.

 

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[h1]Spurs' Big 3 ties Showtime Lakers greats for most playoff wins by a trio[/h1][h1]By Eric Freeman5 hours ago[/h1]
Ball Don't Lie

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Jan 17, 2014; San Antonio, TX, USA; San Antonio Spurs players Tim Duncan (21) and Tony Parker (9) and Manu Ginobili (20) react during the second half against the Portland Trail Blazers at AT&T Center. The Blazers won 109-100. (Soobum Im-USA TODAY Sports)

The San Antonio Spurs  owe their historic longevity to a great number of factors, but perhaps none loom as large as the continued greatness of stars Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili  and Tony Parker. On Monday night, that trio hit a milestone that helps prove just how amazing they've been in the context of NBA history.

With the Spurs' 122-105 win  over the Oklahoma City Thunder  in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals, the trio of Duncan, Ginobili and Parker achieved their 110th playoff win together. That moves them into a tie with Showtime-era Los Angeles Lakers  teammates Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Cooper  for the all-time NBA record for playoff wins by a group of three.

The Spurs' trio came together in the 2002-03 season, when Ginobili went to the NBA after a very successful career in Europe. At the time, Duncan was about to win his second-straight MVP award and the 20-year-old Parker was just starting to hone his considerable talents and become a young star. The Spurs won the NBA title that season — the first of three for this group and the second of four in the history of the franchise.

Duncan, Ginobili and Parker achieved these 110 postseason wins in their 12th season together. Over that stretch, the Spurs have never missed the playoffs and lost in the first round three times. The trio of Johnson, Abdul-Jabbar and Cooper won their 110 games from the 1980-89 postseasons, over which the Lakers won five titles and failed to make the NBA Finals just twice. They also hit that mark despite playing several seasons in which the top two teams in a conference received a first-round bye to bypass a best-of-three first round. For the 1984 postseason, the NBA extended the first round to a best-of-five series for all playoff participants. That didn't change until 2003 — the first year these Spurs played together — when the first round became a best-of-seven competition.

Nevertheless, what the Spurs have done is arguably just as impressive, particularly when you consider that Duncan, Parker and Ginobili have been the team's top three scorers for all but their first and most recent two seasons together and figure to team up in at least one more postseason. Plus, their careers have occurred over a period of widespread player movement — it's pretty much unheard of for any three teammates to play together in 12 consecutive seasons.

This is not the first time that these two trios of teammates have been seen together in the record books. In March, the Spurs passed those Lakers for most regular-season games played together and moved beyond them for second-most wins, trailing only the Boston Celtics  trio of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish. If the Spurs team up again in 2014-15, they should be able to grab that record, as well.

 

[$tacy]

Spur and Jay Z fan? Where do you live? We should become best friends.

Lmao funniest **** I ever read

 

[jj watt]

Call me crazy. Okc won't lose again. If they do it will be game 5 in SA then they close it out back in Okc for game 6

Crazy.

 

[blastercombo]

Call me crazy. Okc won't lose again. If they do it will be game 5 in SA then they close it out back in Okc for game 6

You also said ibaka was meh

 

[mjsaver]

Kawhi Leonard is on a mission , probly still having nightmares about clutch free throws

He's giving them a Westbrook type energy which is scary for that team...they already got too many weapons.

 

[100027]

I don't think we should start drawing too many conclusions from either Game 1 win.

...But it probably will just be Spurs v. Heat at this point.

 

[hymen man]

Timmy D wins man. Just wins.

 

[imlive365]

Crawford doing the game tonight.

 

[blastercombo]

As much as I want Lebron to get another ring so I can see the tears from grown men and this thread collapse.

I need Timmy to be great and win a ring and walk off into the sunset, esp after last years debacle.

Either way, men will cry