There’s basketball, and there are the things that are greater than basketball. This is ostensibly true across all 30 NBA teams and their fanbases, but nowhere is it reiterated so often, as both a reality check and a means to recalibrate game to game, as it is with the Spurs. When a line of questioning veers away from the tangible and towards the figurative or metaphysical, players and coach alike are quick to offer the same cursory reminder: It’s Just Basketball. The distinction is there both because it is helpful and because it’s true, allowing us all to separate two worlds that coexist only so much as we allow them to.
Spurs couldn’t hang with Warriors, defend Warriors, or throw it in the ocean
