Don’t look now but the long-running show that is the San Antonio Spurs, who were finally starting to look their age early in the season, are suddenly knocking on the door for the second-seed out west just behind the Houston Rockets.
At 52–26 (heading into Wednesday night) and with 33 wins in their last 45 games, San Antonio is past the early-season slump that put them at just 19–14 in late December.
It’s the same old story for the defending champs and their long-running “Big Three” of star veterans—Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili—all north of 30, yet still winning a young man’s game.
Maybe it’s time we call them the new “Big Three.”
Even more amazing is how the term “Big Three” was mainly used when discussing Boston’s former star-studded trio of Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett in 2008 and then popularized when Miami lured LeBron James and Chris Bosh to join Dwyane Wade in Miami two years later—with both dynasties happening after San Antonio won titles in 2003, 2005, and 2007.
