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What is this person babbling about?
You jelly much?
May, 2012? Time to get over it.
How bad does the Eastern media hate Texas?
Word salad.
ridiculous... it is all part of the game... it is all part of each and every game that gets you to the play-offs and then to the championship... in any sport... you cannot disregard a win just because of "misfortunes," especially in championships where you play a number of games--best out of...
this is "sour grapes..."
Living in the Houston area, we’d gladly take an asterisk next to any team championship!!
Bill Simmons knows lots about basketball, BUT...
here he is talking out of his butt!
By Bill’s thinking, Brady’s championships should have an asterisk, since it took the old QB whom he replaced, Bledsoe I think, to get Brady into his first Super Bowl!
Injuries and incidents are part of sports. Championship teams work through and around these to still become Champions! There is no asterisk for making it to the top, unless you CHEATED (i.e., Barry Bonds)!!!
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I think we should get a copy of Sterlings investigation report of each team. We might come up with Spurs who got into fights in HS. Spurs who abandoned their national team to play in the US and on and on.
Meanwhile, here on earth, the Spurs are the best TEAM in basketball. Emphasis on team. A welcome win for those who enjoy that part of sports as opposed to the super-egos often found on teams like Miami.
BTW not a Spurs fan, but if my team can’t win, then good for them.
Show me any game, much less any 7-game series, that does not deserve an asterisk by this logic. Injuries, bad calls, and the unforseen are a part of every single game. The difference is, so teams accept them with grace and overcome, and some teams whine about them.
The whole concept of “tainted wins” is creation of desperate sports writers who can’t think of anything better to write but still want to collect their paycheck. The Spurs won, deal with it.
Based on this “logic”, the ‘93 Phillies was ROBBED!!! The Blue Jays need an * next to that title since Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams was truly wild.
Such “misfortune” for the Phillies and their fans...
Sheesh, what sour grapes...others have said what needs to be said.
Teams overcome adversity, even if that adversity resides on their team (Williams), if they don’t, they lose. Quite simple really.
Ha ha!
1. A great combination of players. Duncan, Parker and Ginobli are are headed to the Hall of Fame--Duncan certainly on the first ballot.
2. A great, stable front office organization who has started to nurture the eventual replacements for Duncan, Parker and Ginobli.
3. They can entice players to play for the Spurs not only from a winning organization, but the fact Texas has no income taxes.
4. They are one of the first teams to realize once the NBA banned hand-checking, players trained in the European style of play actually could be very effective when properly coached. It's not a coincidence the Spurs have a lot of great players that came from out of the country.
I would not be surprised that other teams start to realize modern NBA rules make it possible to play a more European-style game, and that could start to change the NBA over the next decade or so.
Dude, did you even read the article you posted? The author is arguing that the Spurs championships were well deserved and should not have an asterisk!!
I quote the end:
“A lot of things have to fall any champions way. That’s the beauty of the game, you can’t predict injuries or suspensions, but the fact the Spurs put themselves in position to win multiple titles over a decade is an accomplishment in itself.
Spurs fans, you have my permission to put a footnote on this Bill Simmons article.”