Past Spurs glories echo in the present

Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY SportsSpurs fans are in an interesting position this year. The Spurs aren't what they were, and not yet what they will be. But the present points backwards as much as it hints at the future.

The ever polarizing Don Draper (habitually drunk, much-maligned all-around scumbag) delivered one of the best moments in television history in Season 1 of Mad Men in a pitch to potential client, Kodak.

"Nostalgia is delicate, but potent," he begins while delivering a slideshow of his treasured family moments. "Nostalgia literally means pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship. It’s a time machine. It…