Thanks to my buddy Mike, a fellow hooper of some local renown, I was able to attend the Spurs’ 2025 Emirates NBA Cup quarterfinal game against the Lakers Wednesday night. I was forced to miss my own Wednesday night game, but how often is my team in town for an Emirates Cup Game? (Once.)

One underrated benefit of attending games live and in person is you don’t have to worry about your home recording of the game running out before the end of the game. That happened on Monday night for the Spurs game against the Pelicans which I watched on what we used to call “tape-delay”. The timing was amazing, in a bad way, largely because both teams shot about 100 free throws in the fourth quarter (stats not official). Dylan Harper scored with 9.1 seconds left to put the Spurs up 133-132. As NBA teams a

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