In his sixth season with the San Antonio Spurs, veteran point guard Patty Mills has transformed himself from a fresh-faced, towel-waving extraordinaire, to a dark horse candidate for the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year Award.
Mills is quickly winning over the growing faction of Spurs fans ready to usher Tony Parker into an early retirement, or at least into a more limited role on the bench.
(This is your reminder that the Spurs aren’t perfect and once benched 35-year-old Avery Johnson for a 37-year-old Terry Porter, so please stop saying Parker is washed before the Spurs re-sign Andre Miller and start him.