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The Memphis Grizzlies center played strong defense, packaged up a turnaround jumper by Tim Duncan and generally brought the ruckus you'd expect from the NBA 's Defensive Player of the Year in spite of a losing effort against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 2 of the 2013 Western Conference Finals.

While Kobe Bryant has one more championship ring than Tim Duncan, the Spurs are still alive in the NBA playoffs.

The San Antonio Spurs hadn't played fair with these overmatched Memphis Grizzlies for most of the night, but this third quarter sequence was even meaner than normal.

Tony Parker had 15 points and a career playoff-high 18 assists, Tim Duncan scored San Antonio's first six points of overtime and the Spurs bounced back after squandering a 13-point lead in the fourth quarter to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 93-89 on Tuesday night.

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They still might, but the veteran Spurs heard all the talk and wanted to send a message in game one.

The 2013 NBA draft lottery is Tuesday night . It is one of the few moments in life when being a loser all season can really pay off.

Nothing in sports is quite as fascinating to me an an old guy or an old team managing to find a way to win - or giving it a great try - long after they should've been lifting a frosty mug for their exercise.

It's good strategy for a small forward whose career three-point accuracy in the playoffs is better than that of Ray Allen, Stephen Curry and Steve Nash.

There are countless benefits to attending a sporting event with a press credential.

Tim Duncan does not take too kindly to someone being in the way of his traction pad, giving Richard Jefferson the business in a way many Spurs fans would like to.

Manu Ginobili has been one of the most exciting players in the NBA for the past decade, and has helped the San Antonio Spurs win three championships in that time.

Golden State Warriors last Thursday, the night after it learned it would be playing the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference finals.

Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled.

May 14, 2013; San Antonio, TX, USA; San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich during the post game interview of game five of the second round of the 2013 NBA Playoffs against the Golden State Warriors at the AT Recently Air Alamo Lead Editor, Michael Rehome, had a chance to interview co-founder Jeff Garcia of Project Spurs.

But they did get repeatedly name-dropped Saturday by the San Antonio Spurs, which made sense considering the frontcourt duo the Spurs face in this round of the playoffs somewhat resembles the Lakers' tandem they quickly dispatched in the first round.

May 16, 2013; Oakland, CA, USA; San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich instructs power forward Tim Duncan and point guard Tony Parker against the Golden State Warriors during the third quarter in game six of the second round of the 2013 NBA Playoffs at Oracle Arena.

I'm going to start with a few facts and then go from there. Gregg Popovich sat Tim Duncan for the last 4:28 of the San Antonio Spurs' 94-82 Game 6 win over the Golden State Warriors .

The idea for Anne Churchill's first book came after she 'fell in love' with a donkey with a cross... Memphis Grizzlies head coach Lionel Hollins gestures during the second half of Game 5 of their Western Conference Semifinals NBA basketball playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

Andrew Bogut had a disappointing end to the Golden State Warriors' NBA play-off run with the San Antonio Spurs victorious by 94-82. The four-time NBA championship-winning San Antonio Spurs came into the Warriors' parochial home court in Oakland, California and snuffed out the Warriors' hopes with a 94-82 victory.