Manu Ginobili is my favorite player, and has been for years. Yes, I loved Tim Duncan and Tony Parker, but in a lot of ways, your favorite player chooses you as much as you choose them.
This season, particularly this postseason, hasn’t been Manu’s best — but the man is 39 years old. No one expected him to play the way he did in his peak. And yet there are nights like Tuesday’s Game 5: the throwback dunk, the driving-hanging-drifting-finger-roll, the umpteen thousandth clutch three.