Game 5 could be Ginobili's last Spurs home game
| |Sunday, Jun. 16, 2013
SAN ANTONIO — Win or lose, Sunday marked the final home game of this season for the Spurs. The series shifts back to Miami for Game 6 on Tuesday night, and the winner will be decided on South Beach.
Spurs, Heat defined by stability at the top
| |Sunday, Jun. 16, 2013
SAN ANTONIO — Front offices across the NBA seem to be panicking a bit these days. Job security has long been an oxymoron for coaches in this league, but even by that what-have-you-done-for-me-lately standard, this offseason has been a particularly volatile one.
Clippers, Celtics at impasse over Rivers
| |Sunday, Jun. 16, 2013
LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES-Talks between the Los Angeles Clippers and Boston Celtics on a possible deal to bring Boston Coach Doc Rivers to Los Angeles reached a stalemate when both sides refused to budge on their offers, several NBA executives said Saturday.
Heat's fate on LeBron's wide shoulders
| |Sunday, Jun. 16, 2013
SAN ANTONIO — Here's the cold, hard, mathematical difference between LeBron James in 2011 and the confident, swaggering, self-assured version who leads the Heat into Game 5 of the 2013 NBA Finals: 25 points.
Tony Parker says his hamstring is prone to a tear
| |Sunday, Jun. 16, 2013
SAN ANTONIO — Spurs point guard Tony Parker said Saturday that even though his hamstring injury has improved, it "can tear" at any time and he would not be playing for a while if this weren't the playoffs.
Greg Cote: For Heat, it's time for two in a row
| |Sunday, Jun. 16, 2013
SAN ANTONIO - How thoroughly bizarre. We are speaking of a Heat team that won a club-record 66 games, that won 27 in a row at one point, that features the best player in the world, and that is close now to winning a second consecutive championship and being vaulted and exalted among the greatest teams of all time.
Kings hire Pete D'Alessandro as new general manager
| |Sunday, Jun. 16, 2013
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kings majority owner Vivek Ranadive found his new general manager Saturday by reaching an agreement to hire Denver vice president of basketball operations Pete D'Alessandro, a source confirmed.
Linda Robertson: Heat coach Spoelstra learned many values from dad
| |Sunday, Jun. 16, 2013
Jon Spoelstra never pictured his son as a professional basketball coach. He was acquainted with coaches in his job as an NBA marketing executive and always regarded them as competition junkies, high when winning, strung out when losing, jittery between games.
Spurs hope to stay in alternate reality
| |Saturday, Jun. 15, 2013
SAN ANTONIO — Four NBA Finals games, three blowouts, two re-energized Miami stars and one acerbic San Antonio coach.
Higher education: Heat, Spurs go to school on each other
| |Saturday, Jun. 15, 2013
SAN ANTONIO — Erik Spoelstra insists this is not about trying to outsmart anybody.
