Manu Ginobili News

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

The beauty of San Antonio's offense is its effortless appearance, as if the players aren't so much forcing the ball to another player but rather guiding it along to its next natural stop until it reaches its final destination, the hoop.

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.

Manu Ginobili has been one of the most exciting players in the NBA for the past decade, and has helped the San Antonio Spurs win three championships in that time.

Mike Conley wouldn't let Zach Randolph take the blame for the Memphis Grizzlies' blowout loss in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.

But they did get repeatedly name-dropped Saturday by the San Antonio Spurs, which made sense considering the frontcourt duo the Spurs face in this round of the playoffs somewhat resembles the Lakers' tandem they quickly dispatched in the first round.

Danny Green failed to step up quickly enough on a pick, allowing Golden State's Stephen Curry to hit an open 3-pointer. The roar of the Oracle Arena crowd Thursday night was nothing compared to Tony Parker's tirade at Green over the defensive lapse.

The San Antonio Spurs closed out their series against the Golden State Warriors last night in Oakland.

The Miami Heat have LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. The Spurs have dominated for years with the trio of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili.

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.

San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili will not participate in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifiers according to Team Argentina head coach Julio Lamas .

While San Antonio Spurs fans have been showering former Spur Richard Jefferson with boos every time he has checked in for the Goflden State Warriors, there wasn't anything there to show any tension between Jefferson and his former teammates, until now.

San Antonio stifled the Splash Brothers and Tony Parker carried the load for the Spurs in a dominant second half.

May 12, 2013; Oakland, CA, USA; General view of the interior of Oracle Arena after game four of the second round of the 2013 NBA Playoffs between the Golden State Warriors and the San Antonio Spurs.

Some fans are clamoring for Pop to make some adjustments. But which moves would be beneficial and which would amount to throwing out Patty Mills with the bathwater? The Spurs and the Warriors are now going to battle it out in a best of three series with the Spurs having home court advantage.

And no one has been more open about his approach to treating those injuries and rehabs, or more self-critical, than Jensen was.

If you have been following along closely, the NBA playoffs sparked a sudden and heated debate on King James and his epic flop to the ground at the frustrated hands of Nazr Mohammed.

Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson goes to his pet phrases about "staying true to the process" and remaining "tied together" so often that it's easy to let them flow from ear canal to ear canal without registering in your brain.

The top seeds in the Western Conference, the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs, both lost over the weekend.

The San Antonio-Golden State series has been very entertaining and has provided some great drama, including two overtime games.