Tag: Jeff Garcia

Blog brothers analyze Spurs’ 2K12 playing grades

To a big segment of the NBA’s viewership, the release of the ratings for NBA 2K12 games was a big deal.

Twitter accounts were buzzing as the ratings across the league were released Wednesday. LeBron James had the highest score of any NBA player with a 98. Dirk Nowitzki, who thoroughly outplayed James as his team won the NBA Finals, claimed an 85.

Jesse Blanchard of 48 Minutes of Hell.com has a little better handle on these ratings than me. He breaks down what the Spurs ratings mean in this that accompanies the recent release of the game. Project Spurs  analyst Jeff Garcia also provides his.

While we’re in suspended animation today as the Rosh Hashanah holiday has shelved lockout negotiations for the day.

Here are a few Spurs-related posts from across the blogosphere to get you ready for Friday’s return to the negotiating table.

  • Robby Lim of Spurs World.com writes that cutting Richard Jefferson for the rumored amnesty provision of the league’s new collective bargaining agreement .
  • The posters at Real GM.com weigh the merits of Tim Duncan as the .
  • We missed this one during our engrossment with the Big 12 realignment saga, but Michael DeLeon of Spurs Nation.com provides his ever-cogent analysis in .
  • Graydon Gordian and Andrew McNeill of 48 Minutes of Hell.com take to the podcast platform to once the lockout ends.
  • BJ1dr of Pounding the Rock.com for the Spurs  future.
  • Bill Simmons of Grantland.com analyzes that no team would be as in the upcoming season as the Spurs.
  • Spurs director of media services Tom James to catch up with one-time Spurs fan favorite Tom Copa.   
  • Steve Kerr tells Ryan Kartje of USA Today of the , including his 1999 and 2003 rings earned with the Spurs.
  • Nate Timmons of the always entertaining Denver Stiffs.com provides a tidy blog  roll of, including the Spurs.
  • Shawn Cayley of the Toronto Star was there when , Pickering High School in the Toronto area.
  • Nigel Broadnax of the Bleacher Report of every Spurs player.
  • Jefferson’s name popped up in Robin Leach’s gossip column in the Las Vegas Sun after he participated in a at the Cosmopolitan Casino.

Younger Spurs planning organized workouts during lockout

Several of the younger Spurs have met and plan to start organized workouts soon.

Spurs guard Danny Green told Jeff Garcia of Project Spurs.com that he has been in contact with several of his teammates . Several of them recently returned to San Antonio to map plans during the workout.

“I saw them actually about a week or two ago,” Green told Garcia. ” We all went back. We talked about dates we want to go back and work out with each other.”

The organized work could be a boon for Green, a former North Carolina standout who appeared in eight game during two stints with the Spurs last season after spending most of the season with the Reno Bighorns in the NBA’s Developmental League. Green scored a season-high 13 points against Phoenix in the regular-season finale on April 13 and averaged 8.7 points in his final four games with San Antonio. He also made the Spurs’ playoff roster, averaging 1.3 points in seven minutes of playoff action over four playoff games.

“The main guys we worked out with at the end of the summer were mostly the young guys,” Green said. “James Anderson, Da’Sean Butler, Gary Neal was there for a little bit, George Hill before he got traded. I’ve seen him (Hill) about two weeks to when I was in San Antonio for the WNBA All-Star game was there. We saw that game.

“Cory Joseph, I’ve kept in touch with him. Hopefully we will go back again, I think in about a week or two, to go workout again with each other. Me, Cory, Da;Sean Butler, James Anderson mostly the young guys. We keep in contact with each other, stay in shape, and we’ll see what happens from there on.”

The organized work will be critical for the young players, who will miss an opportunity to work with Spurs coaches and trainers during the lockout.

Green’s late-season spurt could help him challenge for a roster spot at either shooting guard or small forward if he keeps improving.

That’s why his summer work with other Spurs players will be so critical for him.