38-Year-Old Manu Ginobili Drained A Buzzer-Beating Three To End The First Half
Manu Ginobili at the buzzer. pic.twitter.com/RUMUgWUgXd — ⓂarcusD (@_MarcusD_) July 23, 2016 Team USA had their first tuneup for the Rio Olympics with a friendly game against ’04 gold medalists...
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Raja Bell Details Why Manu Ginobili Was Harder To Guard Than Kobe Bryant
Getty Image Raja Bell’s battles with Kobe Bryant are legendary. One of basketball’s most aggressive wing defenders and a notorious hothead, the former Phoenix Suns guard went toe-to-toe with the Los...
View ArticleAn Emotional Manu Ginobili Had To Cut An Interview Short After His Final...
Argentina’s run at Rio came to end on Wednesday at the hands of Team USA, and so too did Manu Ginobili‘s legendary international career after announcing prior to the games that the 2016 Olympics would...
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In Praise Of The NBA Players Who Are Far Too Talented To Start Games
Getty Image Necessity is certainly the mother of invention, but it’s been so much more than that for Steve Kerr. The circumstances surrounding Draymond Green’s promotion during the reigning Coach of...
View ArticleManu Ginobili Knocked Down A Long Three To Beat The Halftime Buzzer
Manu Ginobili continues to defy his age. Even at 39, the Spurs legend is a threat every time he sets foot on a basketball court. He reminded the Wizards of that on Friday night. With time winding down...
View ArticleManu Ginobili Set Up A Kawhi Leonard Dunk With A Slick No-Look Pass
Confirmed: Manu Ginobili has eyes in the back of his head pic.twitter.com/rTqyybe8uL — San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) February 16, 2017 Manu Ginobili made the most of his notations in the scorebook on...
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Manu Ginobili Will Surely End Up On Shaqtin’ A Fool For This Botched Free...
@cjzero on Twitter Clearly, Manu Ginobili is just too good to miss free throws. The San Antonio Spurs veteran botched an intentional free throw miss in crunch time on Wednesday night, making the...
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Manu Ginobili Stood Out In A Wild Game 5 Win And The NBA World Celebrated The...
Getty Image The San Antonio Spurs were “supposed” to win Game 5 at home against the Houston Rockets, and they did just that. However, things got wild during a game that featured an early exit (due to...
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The Spurs Took Control Against The Rockets Thanks To Their Eclectic Role Players
Getty Image When Kawhi Leonard exited Game 5 between the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets with 34 seconds remaining in regulation, it felt as if a death blow had been struck for the home team....
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Spurs Fans Gave Manu Ginobili A Massive Ovation As He Checked Out For Maybe...
Getty Image It seems like we do this every year, but this might finally be the end of the road for Spurs guard Manu Ginobili. One of the greatest international basketball players to ever live,...
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Manu Ginobili Will Take His Time Deciding Whether To Retire Or Return To The...
Getty Image Manu Ginobili may have walked off the court for the last time for the San Antonio Spurs, but we won’t know for sure until after the NBA Finals. Ginobili and the Spurs were eliminated by...
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Manu Ginobili Looks To Be Coming Back To The Spurs For A 16th Season
Getty Image Manu isn’t done just yet. Reports indicate that Manu Ginobili will not retire and instead is ready to return to the San Antonio Spurs this fall. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on...
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Tony Parker Is Running ‘A Little’ But Won’t Be Back For The Spurs Just Yet
Getty Image Tony Parker is getting better, but he won’t be ready to play for the San Antonio Spurs debut their new jerseys in the preseason. The Spurs guard is recovering from an injury he suffered...
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Manu Ginobili Is Very Confused About How Much Kawhi Leonard Is Smiling In China
Twitter/@spurs Kawhi Leonard is the NBA’s most stoic star. The Spurs forward has become a perennial MVP and Defensive Player of the Year candidate, and while his skills on the court are undeniable, he...
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Manu Ginobili Will Return To The San Antonio Spurs After Flirting With...
Getty Image San Antonio Spurs fans made it a point to make Game 4 of the 2017 Western Conference Finals special. That’s because the game might have been the last one of Manu Ginobili‘s fantastic...
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Spurs Deny Ginobili Permission To Play In FIBA World Cup
Manu Ginobili (Brendan Maloney, USATODAY Sports) Manu Ginobili had hopes of continuing his stellar international basketball career this summer at the FIBA Basketball World Cup. But the Spurs have...
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Us And Them: A History Of The Term “The Big Three”
Kevin Love, LeBron James, Kyrie Irving (Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports) Now that Kevin Love has joined forces with LeBron James and Kyrie Irving in Cleveland, NBA fans can rest easy that this season will...
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Photos: Lady Gaga Poses With Spurs’ Parker, Ginobili, & Larry O’Brien Trophy
Tony Parker, Lady Gaga (photo. ladygaga Instagram) We tried to come up with a few puns or sarcastic jabs to discuss the photos Lady Gaga posted to Instagram of her posing with the Larry O’Brien Trophy,...
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The Top 20 Shooting Guards In The NBA Right Now
James Harden, Klay Thompson (Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports) The NBA is a point guard driven league. Look at personnel on the top teams in the Association. With just a couple exceptions, the best teams...
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Manu Ginobili Says He’s Pain-Free But “Way Behind Basketball-Wise”
Manu Ginobili (Soobum Im, USATODAY) No team’s system is more effective or relentless than the San Antonio Spurs’. In the past two seasons alone, Gregg Popovich and company have turned cast-offs Danny...
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Manu Ginobili Kicks Shot In From Beyond Mid-Court
Spurs six man and Argentinian wing Manu Ginobili was having some at practice the other day. He was attempting to kick a basketball from beyond mid-court into the basket. This is no small feat. After...
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Spurs Stay Humble, Driven As Championship Rings, Regular Season Await
Gregg Popovich (Soobum Im, USATODAY) In just a few hours, the 2014-2015 NBA season launches with the San Antonio Spurs hosting the cross-state rival Dallas Mavericks. Before the game officially begins...
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Watch San Antonio Spurs Receive Championship Rings, Raise Banner
Spurs Championship Rings (photo. Spurs.com) The San Antonio Spurs open their title defense against the Dallas Mavericks tonight. Before they can get to business of this season, though, they had a final...
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Spurs To Rest Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili In Tonight’s Game At Rockets
(Kyle Terada/USA TODAY Sports) Tonight is the San Antonio Spurs’ first nationally televised back-to-back of the 2014-2015 season, and the game happens to be against one of the league’s two remaining...
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Surprise! Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili Questionable Tonight Versus Warriors
Manu Ginobili, Tim Duncan (Soobum Im, USATODAY) The reigning champs versus the league’s most impressive team of the young season. Tuesday basketball on NBATV! Except that the San Antonio Spurs almost...
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GIF: Manu Ginobili Nutmegs Jordan Hill For The Dime
Manu Ginobili (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports) There aren’t many players like the Argentinian Manu Ginobili. His zig-zagging forays to the rim earlier in his career even forced coach Gregg Popovich to...
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Watch Kawhi Leonard Actually Grin In The New Spurs H-E-B Commercials
If you’re not familiar, H-E-B is a privately owned grocery chain based in San Antonio, Texas. The Spurs, naturally, are a perfect for their ad campaigns, and a new set recently debuted featuring Tim...
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Manu Ginobili Posts Video Of Boris Diaw’s “Amazingly Fast” Coast-To-Coast Layup
Manu Ginobili, Boris Diaw (Bob Donnan, USATODAY) We already loved the San Antonio Spurs. Now they’re doing our job for us? We might commit to full-fledged black-and-silver fandom. Offering amusing...
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Memphis Grizzlies Beat San Antonio Spurs 117-116 In Triple Overtime Classic
Tim Duncan, Marc Gasol (Soobum Im, USATODAY) The Memphis Grizzlies led the short-handed San Antonio Spurs by 23 points in the second quarter and 17 points in the third. But Gregg Popovich’s team...
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Watch This Tongue-In-Cheek Animated Short: “Spurs Special Forces”
We’d always assumed the San Antonio Spurs were really a rag-tag band of elite Special Forces. Gregg Popovich is obviously a spy after earning a Soviet Studies BA from the Air Force Academy and...
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GIF: This Behind-The-Back Assist Proves Manu Ginobili Is A Warlock
The Spurs got crushed by the Bulls tonight with Derrick Rose performing a retro waltz at the United Center. The wily Argentinian Manu Ginobili got into the fun, too. This behind-the-back pass after...
View ArticleThe San Antonio Spurs Are Coming: And Gregg Popovich’s Big 3 Know It
Tony Parker is averaging 25 points on nearly 65 percent shooting in his last three outings. Kawhi Leonard is playing like a superstar: Leonard over the past four games: 22 points, 56 FG%, 7.8...
View ArticleManu Ginobili Will Miss Some Time After An Awkward Looking Ankle Injury
Manu helped off the floor by Timmy: http://t.co/3BDyI7LSbl— ESPN SA (@ESPN_SA) March 16, 2015 The San Antonio Spurs have been on a roll lately, winning seven of their last eight games — including...
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Manu Ginobili On Daily Preparation For Rigors Of The NBA: ‘Everything Hurts’
Getty Image It’s easily forgotten by now, but many believe Manu Ginobili cost the San Antonio Spurs a title. Before he averaged 14.4 points and 4.4 assists on stellar shooting numbers in his team’s...
View ArticleManu Ginobili Calls ‘Old As Dirt’ Tim Duncan’s Performance ‘Ridiculous’
Kobe Bryant can’t stay on the floor. Kevin Garnett might as well be finished. And Paul Pierce and Vince Carter are shells of their former selves. Age has finally caught up with NBA superstars of a...
View ArticleHere’s DeAndre Jordan Swatting The Daylights Out Of Manu Ginobili
Despite Doc Rivers’ best and most annoying efforts, DeAndre Jordan will more than likely not win Defensive Player of the Year. There are too many superior candidates, and the evidence is too damning...
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The Clippers’ Game 7 Win Over The Spurs Is Somehow Bigger Than Chris Paul’s...
Getty Image This is what it takes to beat the San Antonio Spurs. The career-defining performance of a future Hall-of-Famer. A massive triple-double from the game’s most underrated all-court force....
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Why We Should All Aspire To Be More Like The Spurs After The Brutal End Of...
Lose with grace. That sentiment still leads one to believe the person(s) in question is/are complicit in their defeat. San Antonio, meanwhile, failed to concede anything to the Clippers last night,...
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Gregg Popovich On The Spurs’ Big 3: ‘When They’re Not Here, I Probably Won’t...
Getty Image Their season is over, and the San Antonio Spurs as we know them could be, too. 39 year-old Tim Duncan and 37 year-old Manu Ginobili will consider retirement. Danny Green will be one of the...
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A Former Teammate And Friend Thinks Tim Duncan Will Return, And Manu Ginobili...
USA TODAY Sports During the 2014-15 season, Tim Duncan averaged 13.9 points, 9.1 rebounds, and 3.0 assists in under 29 minutes a night. He shot 51.9 percent from the floor and was named an All-Star...
View ArticleTim Duncan And Manu Ginobili Will Allegedly Return, But The Spurs Will Still...
Gone is any chance they’ll repeat as champions, after losing a humdinger of a Game 7 to Chris Paul and the Clippers, but Ric Bucher of Bleacher Report says San Antonio’s two core players who will be...
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Tony Parker Thinks Manu Ginobili And Tim Duncan Are ‘Both Going To Play One...
USA TODAY Sports Now that the NBA Finals are over, all attention turns to an offseason of mock drafts, crazy rumors that — for a brief moment — seem feasible, and hours spent on trade machines. This...
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Report: Spurs And Tim Duncan Could Agree To ‘Wink-Wink’ Two-Year Contract
Getty Image Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs are essentially one and the same. It’s hard for a younger generation of NBA followers to believe that team could exist without player and vice versa,...
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Manu Ginobili Says He’ll Return Next Season Because Tim Duncan Would’ve...
Getty Image It’s all but official: The San Antonio Spurs’ long-term core of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili are all coming back next season, accompanied by Kawhi Leonard and their new...
View ArticleThe NBA Impersonator Is Back And He’s Taking On Manu Ginobili
Brandon Armstrong, better known as the NBA Impersonator, has become an internet sensation with his spot-on parodies of basketball players and referees alike. Among those to be lampooned include...
View ArticleManu Ginobili Is Back On The Court And Just As Sly And Amazing As Ever
After having testicular surgery following a win over the Pelicans on Feb. 3, Manu Ginobili missed the next 13 games of San Antonio’s season. Sure, they went 12-1 in that time, but they still missed...
View ArticleThis Kawhi Leonard Touch Pass Is Just The Latest Example He’s An MVP Candidate
Leave it to the Spurs to run a fast break that includes as many passes as dribbles. As tremendous as the dish from Leonard is — the concentration it takes to track the ball, catch it and still know...
View ArticleThe Spurs Lost To The Thunder After One Of The Most Inexplicable No-Calls Ever
The ending of Game 2 between the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs was wild enough without an absolutely egregious no-call by the officials. Considering Dion Waiters’ blatant push off on...
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Manu Ginobili Says He’s Playing Another Season In A Post On His Personal Blog
Getty ImageWhen you Saving for their low-key role in the Kevin Durant sweepstakes, the San Antonio Spurs have been their typically quiet selves in this summer’s NBA free agency period. With a lot of...
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Manu Ginobili Doesn’t Care About His Spurs Legacy, Whatever It May Be
Getty Image Manu Ginobili is back with the San Antonio Spurs this season, but he’s making it clear there’s nothing to prove here other than that he still wants to play. Many fans thought Ginobili...
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