San Antonio Spurs

One of the most difficult playoff series of the Spurs' championship era was less than an hour behind him, but Bruce Bowen, the Spurs' defensive stopper extraordinaire, already was thinking about what lay ahead in the Western Conference finals. "Kobe," Bowen said. "Kobe, Kobe."

Neither time nor distance could ever sever the emotional ties Bob Bass has with the franchise he was associated with for 20 years, including four different stints as its coach.

After the Los Angeles Lakers' 89-85 victory over the Spurs in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals Wednesday, everyone took a turn at describing Kobe Bryant's first half.

Kobe Bryant scored all but two of his 27 points after halftime, including a go-ahead, 10-foot jumper in the lane with 23.9 seconds remaining, and the Los Angeles Lakers rallied from a 20-point deficit to beat the San Antonio Spurs 89-85 on Wednesday night

The Spurs-Lakers rivalry has been on hiatus since 2004 for one simple reason: The Lakers haven't been very good. They are now. So the NBA's dominant teams of the past decade meet again.

Manu Ginobili scored 26 points, sending the Spurs to the Western Conference finals with a 91-82 victory over the New Orleans Hornets on Monday in Game 7 of their second-round series.

Before the season began, I made a preview that was compiled with others from around the blogosphere at CelticsBlog.com. Now I’m going back and looking at how my predictions panned out. Thanks to the predictability of the Spurs, I actually sound pretty smart right now. I said they would finish with a record of 57-25, and [...]

I expect the majority of readers to disagree with this post, and I expect a good portion of the comments to tell me how stupid I am, at least in some form. That’s fine. I am writing this because something had to be said. I am tired of listening to people blow everything Bruce Bowen does [...]

The Spurs did not start a tough five-game stretch well, losing to the Denver Nuggets 109-96. San Antonio actually held an eight point lead at halftime and were playing okay basketball, but was outscored 34-19 in the third quarter and 29-23 in the fourth quarter. Things started to fall apart in the third quarter when Pop [...]