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Just when I don’t think I can love him more he proves me wrong

Spurs Basketball is officially back in session tonight, as the team hosts an open scrimmage for fans at the Frost Bank Center ahead of their preseason debuts on Thursday.

Game time: 06:00pm CT

Official stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0xi_Qbuwhg

This is his first Sunday appearance (the largest and “most important” crossword of the week) and his third overall, alongside Thursday, 2025-07-10 and Tuesday, 2018-09-25.

As far as I can tell, he’s the only Spurs player to ever be mentioned in the NYT crossword; ROBINSON, TONY, and PARKER have appeared occasionally, but not in reference to our guys. “MANU” is the kind of word that’s convenient to fit in a crossword (short, with alternating vowels and consonants) and there aren’t many other ways to clue it, so it makes sense he’d get the mention when others wouldn’t.

“MANU” has also been clued as a nickname for a popular English football team (i.e., Manchester United) and as a prefix for “by hand”.

SPUR and SPURS have been used in reference to the team as a whole a few times, most recently in 2020.

Sorry to anyone who does the crossword and got a couple words spoiled by this! It’s a weird grid today.

For those asking where to watch. You can watch in spurs app, Facebook, and YouTube.

I always thought Nicolas Batum and Derrick Rose would end up on the Spurs for some reason. Rose obviously later in his career when he became somewhat of a journeyman. Batum after his time in Portland.

Some players just give off that selfless vibe that I feel the Spurs are looking for when they look at free agency signing or trades.

Who do you have as a player that you thought would at least give the Spurs a season but never did?

︀︀Hi! I wanted to share an article I wrote on the upcoming Spurs season, leaning more into analytics to contextualize the roster.

A deep dive on the roster strengths, weaknesses, how they addressed the looming questions, the development of the core players, and what the future for this roster looks like!

Please let me know if you have any thoughts and thank you for reading!

“We’re doing government names now”

Can’t seem to find a place to watch it on the Spurs app.

sucks i went two years ago and used two of my emails and still didn’t get picked

We got

PG: Dylan Harper

Yes i know we are giving deaaron fox another chance but dylan harper is already well above average and he is a great improvement in our lineup defensively.

SG: Stephon Castle

I don't personally think that this spot can be changed, he makes it almost impossible to shoot from the arch and midrange when he is guarding you and he is very aggressive in a good way offensively, and Keldon just isn't able to start over Steph, he is 6th man of the year for a reason.

SF: Devin Vassell

Just like SG, this spot probably can't be changed, but this is more because we dont have any small fowards with a skill like Devin that can start.

PF: Julian Champagnie

Alot of people in their lineup predictions have Tobias Harris there, but we don't have any tape with Harris playing with our team ingame, also Champagnie is a HUGE advantage from the arch.

C: Victor Wembanyama

I don't really have anything to say to defend this because it's already guaranteed and Wemby's already in the animation being handed the MVP award basically. My argument is that later days we could see if Tarris has the ability to replace Kornet, he had alot of skill playing for UConn.

Thank you, from someone who can’t read lips.

When Tobias was a clipper, Jovan Buha, their beat writer for the Athletic, wrote about Tobias being mentored by the iceman and training with him in San Antonio. Just some background to add to what Tobi told KSAT yesterday