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Join Joel Brigham this Thursday at 1:00pm ET to chat about all things NBA, from the Conference Finals to the NBA Draft and everything in between.

The San Antonio Spurs are up 2-0 on the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference Finals as the scene shifts to Memphis for Game 3. However, Game 2 wasn't an easy win for the Spurs.

May 16, 2013; Chicago, IL, USA; Glen Rice Jr is interviewed during the NBA Draft combine at Harrison Street Athletics Facility.

Kawhi Leonard may have slipped to the 15th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, where the San Antonio Spurs promptly grabbed him in a draft day deal, but he has already garnered league-wide respect for his rapid development -- improving upon his college 3-point percentage by nearly 13 points .

TONY PARKER: From last year's series to this year, we seem to have benefitted, playing with a lot more confidence, guys like Danny Green and Kawhi Leonard, Corey Joseph, they're all playing great basketball, and we all know if you want to go far in the Playoffs, if you want to go all the way to the title, your bench and your role players, they have ... (more)

At the top? Yes. There are NO franchise players in this draft. Usually, the team that wins the lottery throws a party.

Despite uncharacteristically losing their way for a critical time, the San Antonio Spurs regained their championship form when it mattered most to put the Memphis Grizzlies in an unwanted position in the franchise's first-ever Western Conference finals trip.

Over at Grantland, Andrew Sharp has written an article lamenting the fact that the Spurs were able to get a player as good as Kawhi Leonard with the 15th pick.

I was asked on a radio interview yesterday what went wrong with the Grizzlies in San Antonio on Sunday afternoon.

It's good strategy for a small forward whose career three-point accuracy in the playoffs is better than that of Ray Allen, Stephen Curry and Steve Nash.

Tuesday is the next deadline to sign up for Indiana's Do Not Call registry. Since January, the state attorney general's office says it has received more than 5,000 complaints about telemarketing calls The Rev.

If you're accustomed to free parking in Speedway during the Indianapolis 500, you may have to rethink your plans.

San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan grabs a rebound as Memphis Grizzlies' Mike Conley and Tony Allen look on during the first half on Sunday in San Antonio.

Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled.

I wrote this for Blue Man Hoop, Fansided's warriors blog, but I'd like to hear spurs fans opinions of this analysis.

With a bullet still in his body, the police officer who survived a showdown with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he's determined to return to duty.

May 14, 2013; San Antonio, TX, USA; San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich during the post game interview of game five of the second round of the 2013 NBA Playoffs against the Golden State Warriors at the AT Recently Air Alamo Lead Editor, Michael Rehome, had a chance to interview co-founder Jeff Garcia of Project Spurs.

On the best playoff run in their short history, the Memphis Grizzlies refuse to be satisfied with just reaching their first Western Conference final.

The San Antonio Spurs and Memphis Grizzlies clashed four times during the 2012-13 regular season and faced off in a memorable playoff series in 2011.

Let's get the "Arghh" out of the way first. The national narrative of the series will likely go that the Spurs ' savvy veteran experience won the day - that it wasn't quite our kids' time - but I can't shake the nagging feeling that the series was right there for the taking.