Sometimes it feels like the Spurs have become a one man team this year, and when everyone else plays poorly, they’ve depended on Kawhi Leonard to bail them out for a win. This afternoon, the guys in Silver and Black found out the limits of that strategy, when a dominant game from Leonard wasn’t enough to pull out a win against a Knicks team that had been reeling from all kinds of drama—involving players, former players, and even the team’s owner.
Tonight, the Knickerbockers came to play basketball, and the Spurs didn’t.