Tim Hughes
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Bad Cop: When in the entire history of the Spurs have they had a franchise player who that felt that way?

Uh, George Gervin. Finger roll, baby! Oh, and everyone in San Antonio loves him, if anything MORE than David and Tim. Most of San Antonio’s big stars are hard to relate to: David because he’s so nice, Tim and Kawhi because they’re so laconic, and Tony because well, as Simmons put it once, you can’t trust him to be in the same room with your wife — even when there are 20,000 other people in the room. The only ones that people in San Antonio can relate to are Ice and Manu. And that’s why they’re the two most popular players in franchise history. Kyrie would be just fine on the Spurs…

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