This past week, the Spurs started strong with a win at the AT&T Center against the top-seeded Houston Rockets, then headed out and dropped back-to-back games in Los Angeles. The trip out west put an end to the franchise’s 18 year run of 50-win seasons. Meanwhile, returning home proved positive as the Spurs spurned Portland’s hopes of locking in the 3rd seed.
The Western Conference standings remain a logjam to the point that predicting the seeding is still impossible. But there is much to discuss.
This week, PtR contributors Jesus Gomez, Marilyn Dubinski, Mark Barrington, Bruno Passos, and editor-in-chief J.