Spurs sports and entertainment chairman Peter Holt said the team’s ownership group remains “100 percent committed” to staying in San Antonio, Jeff Garcia of FoxSanAntonio.com relays. Holt’s statement was issued after a report that the Spurs were selling a minority stake in the franchise. The Holt family is the majority owner. “As an ownership group we remain 100 percent committed to the city of San Antonio. … San Antonio is home and will remain home,” Holt said.
We have more from the Western Conference:
- Warriors coach Steve Kerr admits his franchise is already in offseason mode, ESPN’s Nick Friedell writes. In a Zoom conference call among Kerr, GM Bob Myers and the players last week, the conversation felt more like the team’s annual exit meeting, Kerr said. “It was just a chance to check in, but it was also a chance for Bob to update the players on his contact with the league and the latest news, but it also kind of felt like our annual team exit meeting,” Kerr said. “Our coaching staff and I have been undergoing staff evaluations, offseason plans, so we are absolutely in offseason mode right now.”
- In an in-depth discussion between The Athletic’s Gina Mizell and John Hollinger regarding the Suns future, Hollinger indicates the biggest question regarding GM James Jones is whether owner Robert Sarver is still calling the shots on basketball decisions. In recent years, Sarver has been heavily involved in the team’s moves, including most of the ones that set back the franchise, Hollinger continued. The team may have to move forward Kelly Oubre Jr. in the coming months due to the two-year, $30MM contract he received last year, Hollinger adds.
- Mavericks big man Dwight Powell was well prepared to stay in shape during the suspension of play, according to Michael Grange of Sportsnet.ca. After rupturing his right Achilles tendon in January, Powell was unable to drive to the Mavericks practice facility, so he invested in fitness equipment. One of those machines, a Concept 2 Skier, mimics the upper body motion of cross-country skiing while standing still. “Ten seconds on that at full bore will get you up to max heart rate,” Powell said. “I’m a push-up master and mixing in that cardio, so I’m actually in great shape, considering I’m not able to run right now.”
Pretty sure Warriors in off-season mode since November.
Why play and risk injuries? get a top 3 draft pick and be ready for next year’s playoff run.
Why play the RS at all, just play the post-season, right?
Oh boy! Can’t stand people who only cares about playoffs & avoiding injuries, load management… all these things have been made to suck the joy out of fans.
I wanna see all the 82 game RS, wish it was even longer! I wanna see all the playoffs, stars playing all the games & more minutes, just like enjoying hoops, who wins… you see that I don’t care so much, hoops is entertainment!
Give it up the regular season is over. Playing all the regular season games pushing next year back and another shorten season next year. Start next season in December shorten the 20/21 season. Does those 15 games matter? NO
I’d agree with you if you made this post when there wasn’t a plague going on.
Non-plague situations: yes.
But plague times: if they stupidly want to finish the year they should go direct to playoffs now.
Warriors are in tanking mode if they win the lottery after losing KD the lottery is a joke and rigged
How can you call the lottery rigged and a joke? Are you suggesting that after LBJ ended up in LA and the club tried to trade for AD throughout the 2018-19 season, the NBA ensured the Lakers would win the #1 pick, though they had the 11th best odds, to give the Pels the final piece to make a deal happen?
If they stupidly restart the season before December the bottom 10 teams should not be included. No point at all for the Warriors to play out the year.
Or just go to playoffs now.