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San Antonio Spurs (42-8) vs Los Angeles Lakers (11-41)
•Saturday, 6th February, 2016
•5:30PM PT | 8:30PM ET | 1:30AM GMT - AT&T Center, San Antonio, TX
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Lakers - Spurs Preview Per NBA.com
By KEVIN CHROUST
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If Kobe Bryant ever took the time to contemplate his final trip to San Antonio, the current state of the Spurs is probably the way he drew it up.
The future Hall of Famer may have also pictured his Los Angeles Lakers perched on a similar plateau and ready to go at it one last time in the regular season before a postseason matchup that was once an expected encounter in the NBA playoffs.
The fact that Saturday night will play out without that kind of drama might make the farewell that much more memorable in a city that's home to one of his greatest rivals.
If there's any positive to his San Antonio farewell, it's that Bryant has turned in three strong games leading into it. The Spurs (42-8) won 116-90 in Dallas on Friday for their third straight, but the bigger news is that the Lakers (11-41) won 99-96 in New Orleans on Thursday and are in position to match San Antonio's streak.
Bryant had 27 points, and in three games since missing two of three with a sore shoulder, his numbers might be confused with a stretch from, say, 2007: 29.3 points per game while hitting 15 of 30 from 3-point range.
Suffering through a lost season is beginning to have its positives.
"I wasn't going to quit," Bryant said. "At the end of the season, if these games never came around, I could look myself in the mirror and be comfortable with the fact that I tried everything."
His coach sounds less surprised about him reaching this point.
"He's finally got his legs back," Byron Scott told the team's website. "When you play 20 years in this league, sometimes it takes a while to get them back, and obviously right now, the last couple of weeks he seems to have everything up under him again."
The teams will meet one last time in Los Angeles on Feb. 19, but no matter how the last two shake out, he'll come up short against the Spurs. Bryant has faced San Antonio more than any team and gone 43-46, including the postseason and a 18-27 road record.
Then again, you might call it a draw because of what happened when it mattered most. The Lakers and Spurs have met in seven postseasons in Bryant's career, and Los Angeles won four of those series and was swept in 2013 when he didn't play.
This season hasn't even been close with San Antonio winning the first two meetings by an average of 27.5 points while limiting Bryant to 8.5 on 33.3 percent shooting. The Spurs have won three straight and 15 of the last 18 meetings, including the 2013 sweep.
Bryant's main contemporary still might not be ready to go. Tim Duncan, who entered the league a season after Bryant, has missed the last six games with a knee injury and could remain out until after the All-Star break.
The Spurs have found a formula after dropping two of the first three without Duncan. Friday's win was their 14th by 25-plus points, which leads Golden State by eight.
"Guys are just locked in," said LaMarcus Aldridge, who has averaged 23.6 points on 61.8 percent shooting in his last five.
And so is one of the greats from the storied franchise they'll face next.
"I knew the amount of training that I had put in over the summertime. I mean, I worked like crazy," the 37-year-old Bryant said. "It becomes more frustrating because you're not seeing those results.
"It becomes: 'Maybe this is what happens (when you're older). You put all the work in and still there's nothing to show for it and you can't do anything about it.' And I had to be really stubborn and say, 'No. You've got to continue to stay with the process,' as I always have, and see what happens."
Let's see what happens one more time. San Antonio is the only Western Conference city where Bryant has never had a 40-point regular-season game.
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LET'S GO LAKERS!!! 
>>>>>>>> SPANK THE SPURS!!!  |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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Ginobili out, Tim Duncan isn't likely to be playing either. Hopefully winnable.
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| I think we get blown out in this one. Nothing has really changed fundamentally. We've managed to make shots the last two games. I don't anticipate the spurs letting that happen. |
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easy win! SPURS SUCK
GO LAKERS
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DShotMaker1824
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Only way we win this is if Kobe goes for 50.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:29 am Post subject: |
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| I think we'll be lucky to see another win in the next 10 games. Tough stretch coming up starting tomorrow. |
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| TooMuchMajicBuss wrote: | | I think we'll be lucky to see another win in the next 10 games. Tough stretch coming up starting tomorrow. |
The upcoming schedule is tough and wins will, indeed, be very hard to come by.
Spurs - away
Pacers - away
Cavs - away
Spurs - home
Bulls - away
Bucks - away
Grizzlies - away
Grizzlies - home
Nets - home
Nuggets - away |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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(bleep) SAN ANTONIO
(bleep) SILVER AND BLACK
(bleep) THE BASELINE BUMS
(bleep) THE AT&T CENTER
(bleep) SKIP BAYLESS
(bleep) MANU GINOBILI
(bleep) CHARLES BARKLEY...
#derekfisher.4FTW
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Damn we play again tonight. Gonna get destroyed. |
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| Tomorrow night - they're probably running wind sprints tonight. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| TooMuchMajicBuss wrote: | | Tomorrow night - they're probably running wind sprints tonight. |
"going back to the basics" |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Spurs are gonna tear us apart. 
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62-26 SA over Dallas at the half
Boban da gawd with a 32 PER
prepare yourselves |
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No Manu.
No Duncan.
And they're on a second night of a back-to-back.
Maybe the lakers have a chance?
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Nah. |
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Dallas getting killed by the Spurs tonight.
They still have Aldridge, they still have Leonard, they still have Parker, they still have Green, they still have West, etc.
Oh, and they have Greg Pop to counter tank commander Scott.
No, they will (bleep) destroy us.
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| This could be a bit painful to watch. Or perhaps a slight numbing sensation is in order... |
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If we play together, with intensity & great effort on both ends of the court, we won't get embarrassed. If we come out lazy we will get blown out.
I just want to see some type of overall improvement.
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| defense wrote: | 62-26 SA over Dallas at the half
Boban da gawd with a 32 PER
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Boban is a beast!
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| As good as Kobe has been playing lately, I'm expecting Kawhi to shut him down completely. |
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| Come on Kobe, time to break the Spurs' home winning streak. |
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| K2 wrote: | | Come on Kobe, time to break the Spurs' home winning streak. |
Kobe will have a rough night with leonard all over him. |
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| diando wrote: | | defense wrote: | 62-26 SA over Dallas at the half
Boban da gawd with a 32 PER
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Boban is a beast! |
He seriously is. I don't understand what in the blue hell are the Spurs thinking by not playing this guy more. Everytime he plays, he fills up that stat sheet in each minute he plays.
And he's huge! 7'3 and 290 pounds! With probably the biggest hands in the NBA.
In 8.7 minutes per game, he is 5.8 pts and 3.6 Rebs. That's actually quite a freaking lot for a guy that averages a little less than 9 minutes a game. Per 36 minutes, he averages 24 points and 15 rebounds. Oh and his godly near 31 PER. 
And when he does play 15+ minutes, he would be pretty close to a double double already.
It's a crime that the Spurs don't play him more and treat him like a third string center. He can really play. I even talked to my Knicks fan friend and how he would even trade Robin Lopez for him and start him immediately there. (Two 7'3 players in with Boban and KP...that's the biggest twin towers I have ever heard of if it ever happened)
Wish Mitch would get on the phone and talk to the Spurs for him. I would literally give them anything besides Russell/Randle/Clarkson/Larry Nance for him and start him on this team. Give them Lou Will, give them Bass, give them Hibbert to replace Boban there, I don't care.
I'm a big fan of Boban, and apparently he also has a cult following from the country he played for overseas, as well as a whole sub Reddit page made for him to show how huge his hands are. Do it Mitch! 
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Calling Boban a beast is a big time stretch. He looks like a decent backup center nothing more. He's too slow to play big minutes for them. That's why he's not starting. He's not very mobile and probably can't handle big minutes. He can rebound, block shots, and finish around the basket which makes for a quality backup center but definitely not starting material.
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