Game 45 @Toronto: Spurs 108, Raptors 106 Record: 36-9
1st in Southwest Division, 2nd in West Streak: W-5
This is going to sound like a hacky sports radio hot take, but I don’t care.
For a few years now we’ve heard pundits debate —on the rare occasions they’ve even chosen to discuss the Spurs, mind you— about whether Tim Duncan or Gregg Popovich was the more essential component in San Antonio’s two-decades-and-counting run of sustained excellence. If you’ve read me at all you know I’ve always been a staunch advocate of Duncan on that topic.