[Editor’s Note: The piece below was written prior to the San Antonio Spurs’ victory over the Charlotte Hornets on 11/23/2016.]
It’s old news to Spurs fans that there’s a different look and feel to the Silver & Black this season. In case you haven’t been counting, it has been 135 days since Tim Duncan announced he was retiring from the game of basketball. It was an event that we all knew would happen eventually, but as the years passed and ‘Old Man Riverwalk’ continued to be the rock of one of the greatest American sports franchises, the inevitability of the whole thing sort of slipped to the back of our minds.