A few months back, a sportswriter of some note published an article entitled ‘The 19 Boringest Athletes of All Time’, and unsurprisingly, two former Spurs players made the list. Now, I’m aware that as a San Antonio Spurs homer I’m prone to certain biases, but I’ll willingly concede that the Spurs teams of the early-to-mid aughts (a.k.a. the 2000’s) were not the most exciting examples of basketball played in the history of the NBA, particularly when compared to Michael Jordan’s prime and the latter years of Magic Johnson’s Showtime Lakers. However, what I’m not willing to concede is that there isn’t a beauty in styles of play that might be “boring to watch but brutally effective.
Tim Duncan and the Spursiest
