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We're hours away from one of the most highly anticipated playoff series in awhile: the Oklahoma City Thunder at the San Antonio Spurs .

MAY 20: Tim Duncan #21 of the San Antonio Spurs looks on in the second quarter while taking on the Los Angeles Clippers in Game Four of the Western Conference Semifinals in the 2012 NBA Playoffs on May 20, 2011 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

Spurs point guard Tony Parker twists under Thunder center Kendrick Perkins for two of his season-high 42 points in the first half of the 107-96 victory over Oklahoma City on Feb.

The San Antonio Spurs are four wins away from heading back to the NBA finals for the first time since 2007, and at the moment it looks as if the dynastic franchise will maintain championship level for at least another five years.

The San Antonio Spurs are the best offensive team in basketball. But, really, their offense isn't that simple.

Whenever I walk into the visitor's locker room at the AT&T Center, home court of the San Antonio Spurs, two of the most common objects I see are a white marker board and a T.V. screen with Spurs footage being played continuously.

The Spurs finished off their second playoff sweep on Sunday and will face the Oklahoma City Thunder in this year's Western Conference Finals.

San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard was named to the 2011-12 NBA All-Rookie first team today, according to an announcement from the NBA .

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It's no longer good enough to measure San Antonio against the other teams left in the field, but to start rifling through the archives, examining cave walls for drawings of ancient races that might have once played the game so well.

Jason Dufner stood on the 18th green, his lips together seemingly trying to suppress a smile while his playing partner finished the hole to end the Byron Nelson Championship.

A prison guard has died and several other employees have been injured during what is being called an "an inmate disturbance" at a southwest Mississippi prison.

The San Antonio Spurs are one win away from sweeping the Los Angeles Clippers and making a return trip to the Western Conference Finals.

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The Spurs are a basketball purist's dream. Gregg Popovich's bunch spreads the floor with absurd precision, dissects defenses and let's Tim Duncan be Tim Duncan.

If you head West on Interstate 10 from Riverside, Calif., considered the far Eastern edge of the Los Angeles metroplex, it's just 55 miles to the off-ramp that leads straight to Staples Center , site of this afternoon's Game 3 of the Spurs-Clippers Western Conference semifinal playoff series.

Even if Tim Duncan should be in a retirement home and Manu Ginobili is losing his hair, the Spurs are still one of the best teams in the NBA playoffs.

So lop-sided was the Spurs first playoff series that point guard Tony Parker, in a moment of frustration over a week-long lack of playing time, haggled with head coach Gregg Popovich over a few more minutes of court time.

The San Antonio Spurs have 11 players who played 10-plus minutes per game this season.

The NBA postseason is nothing if not an opportunity for the league's best players to prove themselves on its biggest stage.