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This afternoon, and much to coach Gregg Popovich 's chagrin, the Spurs will board a team charter flight from New York to Detroit, ending a five-night, stress-free stay in Manhattan that included the hassle of only one game to play.

San Antonio's offensive has been successful so far without Manu Ginobili, currently ranked 8th in the NBA averaging 98 points per game.

So I mentioned what I figured would happen to the Sixers over the course of 7 games.

Luol Deng vs. Paul Pierce, Bulls at Celtics, Sunday. Deng will be the first guy to admit that Pierce has always been one of his toughest covers.

Despite career-high averages across the board in his first full season as a starter and a 16-11 record for the overachieving team he commanders, Houston Rockets' point guard Kyle Lowry was egregiously left off the Western Conference All-Star reserves list when it was announced last Thursday.

After surrendering 42 points to the San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker, 39 to the Porland Trail Blazers' LaMarcus Aldridge and 48 to the Golden State Warriors' Monta Ellis, the Thunder did not surrender more than 22 points to any player from Sacramento or Utah.

Ginobili, who has missed more than a month with a broken left hand, will likely come off the bench and play limited minutes according to coach Gregg Popovich as the Spurs shoot for a 17th win in their last 18 meetings with the Nets.

There was a time, before an Asian-American point guard took over New York City, when a French-American point guard was in line to try the same.

A small crowd of students gathered outside the nondescript community college gym in midtown Manhattan on Friday, straining for a glimpse of the NBA team that had invaded their school.

Over the past nine seasons, the mythology of the Spurs' rodeo road trip has taken on a life of its own.

San Antonio Spurs Manu Ginobili of Argentina looks up as he plays with an injury to his eye during Game 3 of their NBA Western Conference semifinal basketball playoffs against the Phoenix Suns in San Antonio, Texas, May 12, 2007.

Manu Ginobili is active and expected to play Saturday night against the New Jersey Nets , according to Jeff McDonald of MySanAntonio.com It will be his first return to the court since he broke a bone in his left hand back on January 2. The San Antonio Spurs ' star shooting guard is most likely going to come off the bench and see limited action in ... (more)

I've been watching a fair amount of college basketball lately. Now that we're in conference play, there's been a lot of meaningful games and it also means the NCAA Tournament isn't too far away so I have to do some research for my March Madness brackets so I don't completely lose my ass.

Even with this wacky compressed NBA schedule and its extended road trips and homestands and three-games-in-three-nights grinds, there are some constants that carry over.

San Antonio's Tony Parker scored 37 points to lead the Spurs to a 100-90 win over the Philadelphia 76ers in Wednesday's clash of two NBA divisional leaders.

The Dallas Mavericks may not be matching their championship-caliber performance from last season, but Dirk Nowitzki is still playing well enough to make the Western Conference All-Star team.

'I WAS WATCHING this TV show recently," the ever-entertaining Evan Turner was saying before last night's game between the Sixers and the San Antonio Spurs.

Magic beat writer Josh Robbins gave you his picks for the Eastern Conference reserves earlier today, and here are mine for the West: PG Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma City, 22.3 ppg, 5.9 apg.

Six wins on the trot for the San Antonio Spurs and a 2-0 record thus far on the Rodeo Road Trip .

This is the fifth installment of the State of the Spurs series, and this is going to be the most difficult one to write.