Salute to the Spurs!

Despite my previous post regarding the inability to stay awake for an NBA basketball game, I spent last night watching the San Antonio Spurs defeat the New Orleans Hornets to advance to the Western Conference Finals. I say this every year at this time, but the Spurs have to be the most under-appreciated great time I've ever seen. They've won four of the last nine NBA titles, and they've done it in an era where most experts think someone else is better every year. This season, all the talk was the Shaq trade to Phoenix and Jason Kidd to Dallas. Um, both those teams are out. The Spurs just quietly go about their business, and they just plan win. San Antonio may very well lose to the Lakers this week (they will almost certainly be an underdog). But even if they do, they've still won four of ten titles, made the playoffs every year, and gotten almost no recognition for it. Their players aren't flashy. They don't load up on endorsements. They just play great basketball, every year. Oh, and they don't wind up in mug shots either. Maybe that's why we don't talk about them. I, for one, would love to see the Spurs capture a fifth title in ten years. Maybe then we'll start thinking of them as a dynasty.