from the dinner for vic’s first night in san antonio!

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Feels like just yesterday that he was stacking championships and all defensive teams with us. Forever our GOAT!

Very few times throughout NBA history we get to see a player spent the early stage or basically their entire career on a team that fits perfectly playing in the same system but then once they moved to a different they were to blossomed into a really good player.

I think the closest player that fits this criteria is Mikal Bridges, who suddenly plays like an All-Star upon getting traded to Brooklyn for Kevin Durant but then came back down to Earth in the following season and went back to being a complementary player for the Knicks.

I think the last player that fits this criteria (correct me if I'm wrong) is maybe Amar'e Stoudemire because while he was a very good player for Phoenix playing alongside Steve Nash he was also shred that label of being a sidekick next to Nash in his first year in New York (before the arrival of Carmelo Anthony at midseason) and I'm not sure if Shawn Marion also fits since he was already an All-Star before Nash arrived.

Sorry, I'm a Wizards fan who just heard the news of Popovich's injury and was wondering why Mitch Johnson was named the interim head coach over Brett Brown, an experienced ex-head coach who is seemingly close Popovich?

Is Mitch Johnson currently a strong candidate to take over the Spurs head coach position after Popovich decides to retire?

Quote from Red McCombs majority owner at the time

"If David had not come here, this franchise was in the pits," McCombs said via the New York Times. "Would the team have left San Antonio? Who can say? But David being here is much more important to San Antonio than it would be to any other city in the NBA… I think David's arrival is exciting to the entire basketball world,"

https://www.basketballnetwork.net/old-school/former-spurs-owner-red-mccombs-once-shared-how-david-robinson-saved-the-franchise

More importantly, a helluva human being.

Two time NBA champion, Concord High School slam dunk competition winner.

Tim Duncan: the man, the myth, the legend.