Tag: Los Angeles Clippers

Spurs drop Game 1

The Los Angeles Clippers came out swinging last night and delivered a 30 point first quarter, while holding the Spurs to 18, that set the tone for the rest of the game.  The Spurs are looking to rebound tomorrow night in Los Angeles.  Chris Paul led the Clippers with 32 points while Center Blake Griffin contributed 26 points and 12 rebounds.  The Spurs were led by Kawhi Leonard with 18.

“They’re still the defending champs, and they’re going to be the defending champs every night,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. “We have a lot of confidence in our team, but you just have to stay humble and respect who you’re playing.”

“We give them a lot of credit, because they sustained it longer than we did,” Spurs Forward Tim Duncan said. “They played harder longer. They had the energy with their home crowd behind them.”

Game two is scheduled for Wednesday at 9:30 at Staples Center.  Plenty of great seats and affordable tickets are still available so be sure to get yours now and help cheer on your San Antonio Spurs!

Spurs locked into first round against Clippers

Head to Head Record 2-2

The defending NBA Champion Spurs (55-27) road to a repeat Championship (and three-peat to the NBA Finals) begins in Los Angeles and this time the Lakers are nowhere to be seen.  This time, Doc Rivers, Blake Griffin, Chris Paul and the Los Angeles Clipppers (56-26) will provide the competition in the first round.  The match up, their first since the Spurs swept them in 2003,  should be one of the premier match ups of all the playoffs, especially in comparison to the East match up of Brooklyn (38-44) vs Atlanta (60-22).

“You probably never want to play the Spurs in the first round if you have a choice,” Griffin told the LA Times. “The Spurs are playing their best basketball, like they normally tend to do.”

Tickets for the first round are on sale now so be sure to get out and support your San Antonio Spurs as they make their way through the 2015 NBA Playoffs

 

Popovich inches closer to 1000 wins

In a night that the Spurs won their 6th game in a row, the celebration was not centered on the players. No, the players celebrated the 66th birthday of their head coach, Gregg Popovich after the game.

“He doesn’t like it (celebration); you’re going to get me in trouble,” PG Tony Parker said. “We sang for him, but yeah, he hates it. Yeah, it was after the game, the whole team sang to him.”

Parker sang during the game as well and helped the Spurs past a sluggish third quarter, scoring 17 points to get the Spurs past the Charlotte Hornets in a 95-86 victory.

“We went through a little dry spell in the third quarter,” Guard Danny Green said. “It seemed like there was a lid on the basket, but we kept moving, kept finding each other, and kept penetrating. Our defense is what kept us in the lead.”

The Spurs opponent talent level increases significantly as they prepare to host the Los Angeles Clippers this Saturday at 8.  The Clippers are coming off a 94-89 victory over the Utah Jazz.

Plenty of Great Seats and affordable tickets are still available so be sure to get yours today and help cheer on your defending NBA Champion Spurs  beat the Los Angeles Clippers.

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