22 is the atomic number of titanium. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
22 is the number Rudy Gay wears as a member of the San Antonino Spurs as well as Tiago Splitter before him. And if you go back to the earliest days of the Spurs, George Karl wore #22, the only NBA jersey he ever wore.
A catch-22, from the Joseph Heller novel, is a dilemma to no which there is no escape.
Last night there was a dilemma as the Spurs blew a double-digit 2nd quarter lead only to end regulation in a tie, but the Spurs found the necessary path to escape with an overtime win against a pesky Mavericks team.