SAN ANTONIO — With the NBA season down to its final 20-plus games, Thursday night’s meeting at Frost Bank Center between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder looked as if it would have a greater impact on this season’s NBA Rookie of the Year race than anything related to the upper reaches of … Read more
This is the digital version of The Bounce.If you want it earlier, start every day with The Bounce delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Shoutout to Kevin Harlan and his daughter, Olivia Harlan Dekker, for being the first father-daughter duo to call the Super Bowl. MVP Conversation How many players are in it? Let’s discuss … Read more
The NBA trade deadline has passed, but that doesn’t mean the league’s roster-churning is done. Teams are still reworking rosters in the wake of trade deadline deals, cutting some players loose where they’ll have an opportunity to latch on in other places. This takes two forms. The first is when a team must waive a … Read more
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2024 NBA trade deadline. Follow along for updates. It’s finally here: NBA Trade Deadline week. Pencils go down after Thursday. The first dominos fell early this year with the New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors setting aside their ongoing litigation to complete a deal involving OG Anunoby, RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley. The second big one fell in January as the Raptors … Read more
Editor’s Note: Pascal Siakam, originally the No. 1 player on this list, was traded to the Indiana Pacers on Jan. 17. We’ve passed Jan. 15 on the NBA calendar, which opens up a large number of players to be traded who re-signed with their previous team last offseason. It’s a more important group of players … Read more
As the NBA calendar turns to Dec. 15, the start of NBA trade season kicks off in earnest. Why does Dec. 15 matter so much? That’s the date many of the players who agreed to free-agent deals over the summer are eligible to be moved, thus opening up a significantly larger number of possibilities for … Read more
click to enlarge Sanford Nowlin The commission to create the new Spurs mural came with a $100,000 honorarium. At 76 feet tall and visible from the busy Houston Street thoroughfare, the new mural by San Antonio artist, creative director and educator Andy Benavides is literally one of downtown’s highest-profile pieces of public art. Despite its … Read more
Victor Wembanyama’s father was a triple jumper. Wembanyama’s mother is a former basketball player who became a coach and helped teach the sport to a 7ft 4inch generational talent who would eventually be praised as an “alien” by LeBron James. 3 Victor Wembanyama has been destined to be a No. 1 player since his childhoodCredit: … Read more
Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama has been sensational to begin his rookie year, recently joining the likes of LeBron James and Stephen Curry. Just five games into his NBA career, Victor Wembanyama already looks like an All-Star in the making. The San Antonio Spurs have their new superstar talent and he has been everything they have … Read more
click to enlarge Wikimedia Commons / Chensiyuan NBA legend and TNT sports commentators Charles Barkley has a habit of talking smack about San Antonio fans’ weight. NBA legend and sports commentator Charles Barkley is ribbing San Antonians again over their love of fattening foods — only this time he tried to pull Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama … Read more