Game 53 @Detroit: Spurs 103, Pistons 92 Record: 41-12
1st in Southwest Division, 2nd in Western Conference Streak: W-2
Man, I’m going to miss Dewayne Dedmon.
It’s part and parcel with the Spurs fan experience, a gift and a curse. Their coaches are so good, their culture so established, their stars so tuned in to the principle of making their teammates better that year after year they bring in raw, unpolished randoms, largely unknown, unloved and unwanted, and turn them into valuable contributors. Every once in a while, like with a Danny Green or a Patty Mills, they find and cultivate guys who are so young, so talented and so vital, that they do what it takes to keep them, resulting in tough sacrifices elsewhere.