All-Star Voting: Spurs Need Your Help!
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The early all-star voting tabulation is out, and the Spurs need your help! Tim Duncan is the only Spur who has enough votes to be a starter, and he&#39;s still second behind Kevin Garnett in the Western Conference at the forward spot.
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The San Antonio Spurs are closing in  on their fourth title in the past nine years with a surge that  has impressed even LeBron James. &quot;It&#39;s awesome,&quot; the Cleveland  Cavaliers forward told reporters. &quot;They don&#39;t have the great  athletes in the world. They don&#39;t have the greatest shooters in  the world.
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The San Antonio Spurs are doing it with defense. For the third consecutive game, the Spurs held their opponents to 74 points, this time in an 88-74 victory Monday night over the Los Angeles Clippers to extend their season-high winning streak to nine games.
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As much as the individual talents of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili have frustrated the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference finals, the San Antonio Spurs have benefited from something else: their collective experience.
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Despite a sluggish start, the Rockets are on their way to being well-represented in the 54th All-Star Game in Denver on Feb. 20. The NBA released its first tabulation of fans votes Thursday
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Manu Ginobili scored 22 points and the San Antonio Spurs posted a 96-82 victory over Minnesota. The Spurs trailed by double digits in the first half, but they made 11 of their 18 shots in the 4th quarter to break open a tie game.
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Houston Rockets centre Yao Ming is the early overall leader in fan voting for the NBA All-Star Game. The Chinese star collected 881,223 votes in the first returns announced Thursday.
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In a season when more teams are self-destructing than improving, everyone is searching for the NBA&#39;s biggest surprise. I&#39;ve identified a serious candidate -- a 21-win team
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The San Antonio Spurs snatched their fifth straight victory in an away game against the Philadelphia 76ers. Tim Duncan led the Spurs with a season-high 34 points and 13 rebounds, China Radio International reported Friday.
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The San Antonio Spurs are closing in on their fourth title in the past nine years with a surge that has impressed even LeBron James. "It's awesome," the Cleveland Cavaliers forward told reporters. "They don't have the great athletes in the world. They don't have the greatest shooters in the world.
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The San Antonio Spurs held LeBron James without a field goal in the first half and led the Cleveland Cavaliers 40-35 in Game 1 of the NBA finals on Thursday night. Tim Duncan scored 14 points and Tony Parker had 12 for the Spurs, who mostly relied on their defense while occasionally struggling offensively in their first game in more than a week.
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Tim Duncan headed to the bench for a well-deserved break. Only nine minutes into Game 5 of the Western Conference finals, he already had the San Antonio Spurs well on their way to another NBA Finals berth.
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Talk about an East Coast bias! One look at the latest All-Star balloting is enough to make anyone outside New York and Boston cringe. The Mets, Yankees and Red Sox have dominated the fan vote so thoroughly this season that 10 of 16 starters &amp;#151; not including the two pitchers &amp;#151; on July 11 in Pittsburgh could come from those three teams.
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Kevin Garnett and LeBron James lead the way among voters for the National Basketball All-Star Game in balloting announced Thursday while Chinese center Yao Ming sets the pace among non-US players.
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Tony Parker scored 15 points, and the San Antonio Spurs had a 39-34 halftime lead over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night as they tried to sweep their way to a fourth NBA title. Again holding LeBron James in check, the Spurs were 24 minutes from adding to the titles they won in 1999, 2003 and '05.
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If coach Doc Rivers wanted game film that showed the kind of defense he wished the Celtics played on a regular basis, all he needed was a copy from Sunday night's matchup against San Antonio. That game featured crisp rotations and trusting teammates. The only problem? The Spurs did all the demonstrating, showing off the No. 1-ranked defense ...
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The trades that sent Pau Gasol to the Los Angeles Lakers and Shaquille O'Neal to the Phoenix Suns have turned the pressure up on the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs, their coach said on Friday.