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Will the Spurs bring back their key role players?

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The Spurs won it all this past season, their fifth title in franchise history, but now come the questions… will they bring that key role players – Patty Mills and Boris Diaw – next season?

Mills was instrumental in the Spurs’ postseason run including his deft shooting touch from beyond the arch. As for DIaw, well, he absolutely changed the course of the NBA Finals against the Heat as he showed he can do it all on both ends of the court.

But why should they return? Do the Spurs want them back?

Bloguin’s own Project Spurs broke it all down including Spurs fan’s reactions on Manu Ginobili’s decision to play for Team Argentina in Spain at the FIBA World Cup.

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Rudy Gay hopes to continue renaissance, to remain in Sacramento

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Rudy Gay is an often maligned and often criticized player in this age of analytics. The Grizzlies dumped him on the Raptors as they turned their front office more toward analytics — and also to free up possessions for Marc Gasol and Mike Conley. They got better. The Raptors traded him to the Kings the […]

Nobody knows Dante Exum in Foot Locker ads

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Foot Locker may very well have won the ad wars of the NBA Playoffs with their spot featuring Damian Lillard and several non-champions.

The shoe store got back at it again with likely top-three pick Dante Exum of Australia in the latest batch of ads.

You are excused if you do not know who Exum is. He spent the year training alone in Australia rather than playing one year of college basketball. He wowed at the U19 FIBA World Championship and at the Nike World Hoops Summit. But those were both at least a year ago. No one has seen him play since.

Life will certainly change after the Draft.

Click after the jump to see the rest of the spots:

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Crossover Chronicles Mock Draft Version 1.0

0 comments by on 6/21/2014

The NBA Draft is quickly approaching with the clock ticking down ever closer to the big gathering in Brooklyn for the Cavaliers and the number one pick. That decision for the Cavaliers got a whole heck of a lot tougher Thursday when Joel Embiid’s agent, Arn Tellem, announced Embiid has a stress fracture in his […]

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Question of the Day: Who should risk Embiid?

0 comments by on 6/20/2014

There are big questions in the NBA. And only one group can try to answer them. Every now and then, the Crossover Chronicles staff will tackle discuss the big issues in the NBA. Today we ask: What team should take the chance on Joel Embiid with the news of his foot injury? Matt Zemek: The team […]

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5 current players who could coach tomorrow

0 comments by on 6/19/2014

The Knicks hired Derek Fisher officially last week, making him the fourth coach in NBA history to play one year and move to full-time coach the next. He is the second player to do this in the last two years after Jason Kidd retired and then moved immediately into the lead chair for the Brooklyn […]

Potential top pick Joel Embiid suffers foot injury

Joel Embiid already faced injury questions thanks to a back injury that knocked him out of the end of last season with Kansas. He appeared to have answered many of those and cemented himself as the top pick in this star-studded NBA Draft.

Reactions are sure to run wild now that Embiid has been knocked out with a foot injury for at least a little while.

Foot and back injuries are not good signs for 7-foot centers.

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Relive the 2014 NBA Playoffs

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Remember the NBA Playoffs this year?

Those sure were great. Yeah, those last two months really seemed to fly by. It was only yesterday Damian Lillard was ending the series with the Rockets with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer and every night was a treat of the very best basketball.

The Spurs ended things on top. But, man, what a ride.

[h/t Kurt Helin of Pro Basketball Talk]

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Question of the Day: What is the Spurs’ place in history?

0 comments by on 6/18/2014

With the NBA season over, the Crossover Chronicles staff will flock out like the heroes at the end of The Avengers to their own heroic deeds and adventures. Unlike Marvel, we will pull them together now and then to answer some big questions about the league. Philip Rossman-Reich: What does the future hold for this Spurs […]

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LeBron James: 50 percent ain’t half bad

0 comments by on 6/17/2014

LeBron James is facing the legacy question as his team failed once again to win a championship. Yes, Miami reached four straight NBA Finals — something that had not been done since the Celtics of the 1980s. Yes, the Heat were on the verge of a three-peat and won back-to-back titles. But James was the […]

The 5 Teams Facing The Most Pressure Next Season

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Most professional sports teams that face a truckload of pressure heading into a given season are saddled with championship expectations or something close to them. The following list generally adheres to that statement. There’s only one exception. As this top-five list unfolds, we’ll mention the teams that — while belonging to slots six through 10 […]

The 10 Questions That Will Define The Coming Season

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How will the Boston Celtics evolve in year two under Brad Stevens? Can the Phoenix Suns continue to grow under Jeff Hornacek? What will Stan Van Gundy do with the Detroit Pistons? These and other questions are certainly intriguing, and they’ll have their own places in shaping the 2014-2015 season. Yet, there are 10 questions […]

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Too tall for the NBA?

0 comments by on 6/16/2014

Evaluating talent in the NBA is an inexact science. The NBA Draft is littered with mistakes and miscues that have set franchises back decades. Portland will never live down drafting Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan or Greg Oden over Kevin Durant. Both those picks followed the age-old adage: You can’t teach size. And in basketball history, […]

The 5 Greatest Coach-Player Combos Of All Time

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Some “all-time” lists are really hard to arrive at. Yet, as the San Antonio Spurs celebrate another NBA championship, the thought is striking in its obviousness: The top five coach-player relationships in NBA history aren’t very difficult to determine. The order might be a source of debate, but the noteworthy aspect of these five relationships […]

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