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how many teams in NBA history have done major blockbuster trades with the team that eliminated them in that year's playoffs? gotta be very few, right? what a wild BOS/PHI trade.

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quite bullish about tobias harris as a spur. he only needs to be the 5th or 6th best player on the team, that's an extremely appropriate place for him at this stage of his career. will help san antonio have a useful sized-up look when teams try to go big on them.

i am generally loathe to give rob pelinka credit for anything, but this is a decent roster. luka/grimes/reaves/mamu/kessler with vanderbilt and ayton still hanging around is pretty fun. they certainly don't feel like an OKC-level team, but assuming their top 3 stay healthy that's a good young team.

look, kessler is a good player, and 4/130 seems like a solid contract for him. but he has been pretty injury-prone. four years of draft control feels like an extremely high price, especially with 2030 so far out that they may not even have luka at that point.

Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

pablo torre rolling up to toronto all like

pablo torre photoshopped onto wayne from letterkenny with "pitter patter... let's get at er" superimposed

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

i'm so happy that Bronny James can finally have his own team. unshackled from his father and ready to dominate.

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

this MIN/CHA trade is kind of fun from this perspective: if both teams suck or both teams are good, the swap rights don't matter all that much. if charlotte remains worse than minny, or they're similarly good, the swaps don't do much. but if minny is -worse- than charlotte at any point... yikes.

Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

that's... a LOT of picks? this is going to be a wild team though.

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

first thought: "wow, that sucks" second thought, followed by a pit in my stomach: "...wait, that's less money than de'aaron fox's extension, huh"

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

i think i felt worse in 2013, but honestly hard to say. there’s basically no historical precedent for a team this young in the finals, but there’s also no precedent for two chokejobs of this magnitude in the finals.

come on kids. don’t go out sad, find something.

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spurs got the knicks on that waffle house hashbrown offense right now — smothered, covered, and scattered

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as a society i thought we had evolved beyond the need for hack-a-mitch. clearly this is “mitch-a-hack” behavior by the san antonio coach

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san antonio’s transition defenae makes me feel like i am watching an entire team of danny greens on every fast break situation

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most important game the spurs franchise have played since 2014 G3. the kids are young but they're ready for this one. GO SPURS GO!

Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

thank GOD kornet is coming off the floor. good minutes this year but you cannot play in the fourth here

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

the 2026 spurs are so fun that they brought an old dad out of writing retirement to scribble a few words about a fun team. what a cool group of guys we've got here. gothicginobili.com/10000.html

gothicginobili.com

Nothing is Inevitable, and Basketball Rules

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

man The Last Bobcat is a blog name that goes insanely hard

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

the stats don’t really back it up, but to me it usually feels like wemby shoots significantly cleaner threes from a few feet behind the line than right on the line. better sightline or something for him.

Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

hasn’t specifically led to a turnover yet but a little bit of butterfingers action for vassell. feels like the only indication of any nerves from anyone on sam antonio lol

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

carter bryant is simply too young to commit a flagrant foul, he is just 7 months old

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

every team should get to give daryl morey a wedgie for the jared mccain trade. sorry, daryl.

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

update: whistles have gone from baffling to absolutely infuriating, what the actual fuck was the last few minutes of action???

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

the whistle has been baffling but that’s not why the spurs are down, they’re getting to the line on some BS too. their offense has just been incredibly stilted and bad outside of a hot champagnie game. tentative, scared to get in the teeth of the D. gotta change if they want a W.

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

the knicks played so well that adam silver is going to release a firmly worded statement chastising the cavs for tanking

Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

it's wild that mitchell has 26 points already and the cavs are still going out sad like this. just a pathetic performance.

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i love this deep analysis of Mark’s Magnets

that was a straight up gnarly amount of blood man, did the backboard stab chet in the hand

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the thunder aren’t out of this yet, they’ve got another run in them, but this quarter is the best the spurs have looked all series. their best offense comes from their defensive intensity. the more confident they are on defense the more they storm the rim

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i think it is pretty cool to watch victor wembanyama play Basketball. just my take!

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

we aren't even 20 minutes into this game and i am already pacing. western conference finals games are no joke.

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if the spurs have any intention of winning this game, they're going to need to cut the keldon crap in the 4th. he's having an atrocious game. dumbass fouls, poor defense, giving the team nothing on the offensive end. his having 5 fouls may be a blessing in disguise for the spurs.

Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

credit where credit is due: OKC is doing a really good job making wemby's touches monstrously harder than they were in OKC, and they're going hard at him on the other end. the flopping crap is whatever, but OKC is making great adjustments and playing like a champ.

Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

call stephon castle viggo mortensen with how he’s developing a real history of violence at the rim

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Aaron McGuire @docrostov.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

so, uh... maybe the pistons were better than we thought?

Zach Harper @talkhoops.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

okc’s gotta trade chet man. you simply can’t roster a player who wemby hates this much.

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San Antonio today

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this game is like getting hit by lightning and run over by a herd of cattle and also punched in the face. but, like, enjoyable!

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oh no, the thunder have gotten wemby glancing flirtatiously at the three point line, this is the worst news the spurs have gotten all game. he CAN shoot it from out there but it just does not lead to good team offense when he does

kornet has been amazing all season but think he’s going to get played off in this series. just not fast twitch enough for these thunder players on defense and doesn’t have enough spatial awareness on offense

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loving tonight’s performance from Lumpkin & Guys

picture of pregame intros where the closed captioning introduces chet holmgren as Lumpkin And Guys