San Antonio Spurs News

If I was Tim Duncan, my personal pitch to Rasheed Wallace would start with a thank you.

Ty Lawson, who was selected as the 18th pick in the NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, talks about the draft-day trade that sent him to the Denver Nuggets, during a news conference on Friday, June 26, 2009, in Denver.

Now, the wait is on. "There's interest, mutual interest, I would say," Wallace's agent, Bill Strickland, said Wednesday.

Can former San Antonio Spurs superstar center David Robinson become the "oracle of San Antonio"? Robinson is entering the private equity field, but he has a long road ahead of him to prove he can turn profits by investing in companies, as has San Antonio's B.J. "Red" McCombs or the famous "oracle of Omaha," Warren Buffett.

The Detroit Pistons fired coach Michael Curry on Tuesday as the team started rebuilding from an unpopular trade, a sub-.500 record and an embarrassing first-round exit from the playoffs that ended its six-year streak of making the conference finals.

The annual free-agent scramble began for the Lakers when their most important player decided not to be part of it.

Chris Andersen Barely a month removed from their best postseason run in a generation, the Nuggets look around to see their rivals re-arming. The Spurs just added Richard Jefferson and DeJuan Blair and will probably get Bruce Bowen back.

Veteran guard Michael Finley has told the San Antonio Spurs he plans to return for another season.

Leading up to Thursday's draft, a series of trades shifted players all over the NBA .

Hasheem Thabeet stretched and blocked the shot. He does that. He's 7-foot-3. But then DeJuan Blair retrieved the basketball.

Stepping off a private jet onto the tarmac at San Antonio International Airport on Wednesday, Richard Jefferson felt a blast of triple-digit heat boiling up from the blacktop and believed he finally had arrived in the place his NBA career was meant to be.

Hornets guard Morris Peterson, who played at Michigan State, was the 21st overall pick in the draft by the Toronto Raptors in 2000.

The Madison Square Garden hot dog I inhaled during David Stern's welcome-to-the-draft speech has finally disappeared from my taste buds.

Despite being taken in the second round of the NBA Draft last night, Pitt All-American DeJuan Blair has no regrets about turning professional after his sophomore season.

LOOKING BACK on previous drafts is rarely fair to the clubs that select, but it's always fun.

Jack McClinton had no idea why he was receiving congratulatory text messages. He was watching the NBA Draft on Thursday with family in Baltimore when the alerts began filling his phone.

The mantra of "change" swept Barack Obama into the White House. Many months later it's now clear, it's business as usual in Washington.

Averages are for the past two seasons to more accurately reflect Ginobili's true impact.

Prep star-turned-European pro Brandon Jennings was a bit late, but the Bucks will forgive him.

The San Antonio Spurs drafted Pitt All-America DeJuan Blair with the 37th pick in the NBA draft.