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Vacation beckons while looking for a Sioux Falls Skyforce t-shirt

The NBA lockout is in full swing and free agency isn’t happening across the NBA.

It’s a great time to take a short vacation.  

I’m going to take off a couple of weeks as me and my family restage the Griswold’s trek across the nation’s heartland. We’re going much farther north — to a dream location for my 6-year-old in South Dakota that consists of bison hunts, trips to Mount Rushmore and even a stop by the Corn Palace. And by leaving now, we’ll miss all of the congestion at Sturgis, too.

So I’m going to take a cue from Artis Gilmore over in the picture and just chill for a couple of weeks.

We won’t be hanging up a “Gone Fishing” sign here at Spurs Nation.com. My able senior mates on the Spurs beat, Mike Monroe and Jeff McDonald, will keep the blog humming while I’m gone.

I’ll be like the rest of you checking on what’s happening with the team and the NBA by checking out Spurs Nation.com frequently.

Even when we’re in the jeep in the middle of the buffalo herd next week or hunting for an elusive Sioux Falls Skyforce t-shirt.

Report: Raptors to target Lindsey for GM opening

For the third time in as many summers, Dennis Lindsey’s name has come up in connection with another team’s general manager search.

, the Toronto Raptors are preparing to target Lindsey, who just finished his fourth season as the Spurs’ assistant GM, as a candidats in their front-office hunt.

Bryan Colangelo currently holds dual titles of president and GM in Toronto but, according to the report, is willing to surrender GM duties to the right candidate.

Lindsey is believed to be on that list, along with former New Orleans general manager Jeff Bower and Philadelphia GM Ed Stefanski.

According to the Yahoo! report, Toronto has not scheduled interviews with any candidates, and might not commence with a formal search until next month.

Lindsey has been a hot commodity almost since joining the Spurs prior to the 2007-08 season. In the past two summers, he turned down GM positions in Minnesota and Phoenix.

Brown adds Person, Snyder to his Lakers’ coaching staff

Former Spurs assistant and Cleveland head coach Mike Brown dug into his connection with the Spurs with two hirings to his new staff with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Former Spurs player Chuck Person and former Austin Toros coach Quin Snyder will join former Detroit coach John Kuester on Brown’s staff with the Lakers.

Person was a member of Phil Jackson’s staff last season with the Lakers where he received rave reviews coaching the team’s defense. He was a member of the Spurs from 1994-96 and still holds the franchise’s record for most 3-pointers in a season with 190 in 1995-96.

Snyder was most recently was on Doug Collins’ staff at Philadelphia this season as an assistant. He coached the Spurs’ developmental league team in Austin from 2007-10, taking the team to the playoffs in each season and was coach at Missouri from 1999-2006. Earlier this week, Snyder interviewed for the vacant head coaching job with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

“I’m very pleased to add Chuck to my coaching staff,” Brown said in a statement. “I’ve seen firsthand his dedication and his desire to making the players he coaches better. … With the addition of Quin to my coaching staff, we’ve added someone with an extremely intelligent basketball mind.”  

It’s interesting that one of the Spurs’ fiercest traditional rivals now has such a strong connection with Gregg Popovich and his staff with the Spurs.

Will Spurs Nation still have an intense dislike for everything Purple and Gold of the Lakers with such familiar faces running the team?