2002-2003 season, Duncan was elected regular season MVP for the first time in his career with 25.5 points, 12.7 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 2.5 blocks per game, David Robinson averaged 12.2 points and 8.3 rebounds per game, and new recruit Steve Smith averaged 11.6 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game, these three are the only players on the team to score double-doubles, Antonio Daniels returned to the bench and averaged 9.2 points per game, Malik Rose averaged 9.4 points and 6.0 rebounds per game, and Tony Parker started in his first season, averaging 9.2 points and 4.3 assists per game. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Avery Johnson was sent to Golden State, in fact, Spurs general manager Buford did not want to trade Johnson, because although Johnson is old, his veteran role is very beneficial to Parker's growth, but something happened during the period that made Buford have to send Johnson away.

One night in 2000, in the locker room in Cleveland, Johnson had some verbal altercations with Marrick Rose, the reason was that the team's backup guard Terry Porter played longer than Johnson, and Porter stayed on the court at the critical moment, Johnson planned to go to Popovich, but he didn't go, in the bathroom, he told Rose about it, Johnson said,

This is my team!

Johnson has always been like this, his character is stubborn, his personality is high-profile, and he likes to control some power in his hands, the nickname "Little General" comes from this, although Johnson is 35 years old this year, and his performance on the field is greatly reduced compared to before, but the decline in his competitive state did not make Johnson "let go" but made him deeply worried, so he needs to use some words to consolidate his position in the locker room, but everyone knows that the Spurs locker room leader that year was David Robinson, As a result, Rose quit, and he repeated it several times-

This is the team of Robinson and Duncan.

For this reason, the two of them had a good beating in the bathroom with their bare butts, and Steve Cole next to him couldn't stand it, and David Robinson, who was next to the team, said,

Shouldn't you do something?

Everyone also knows that Robinson is notoriously good-tempered, and Duncan has a urine sex, and he can't hit a fart with three sticks, Robinson didn't say a word, took a shower, and left the bathroom, after the matter was spread, Buford began to defend Johnson, but the fans and the media exerted strong pressure on Buford, and even played the slogan "We want Johnson, not Popovich", and finally, everyone knows that with the friendship between Buford and Popovich, the person who can only go is Johnson.

Johnson is a three-time Spurs, signed back by the Spurs in the early part of his career, waived, traded, and signed back, and then gained a foothold, he played a total of about 9 seasons with the Spurs, averaging basically 11 points and 8 assists per game, Johnson currently scored 6486 points for the Spurs ranked ninth in team history, 4474 assists were the first in team history when he retired, and was later broken by Parker, 712 steals are ranked seventh in team history.

With 58 wins this season, the Spurs are second in the West along with the Lakers, with the Flamboyant Saramento Kings at the top.

The Spurs' first-round opponent was the Seattle SuperSonics, and David Robinson entered the inactive list at the beginning of the playoffs because of a stubborn back injury, but this year's playoffs have not played much, and the Spurs without Robinson eliminated the SuperSonics 3:2 under the leadership of Duncan, and met the Lakers in the Western Conference semifinals.

The 2002 playoffs semifinals between the Spurs and the Lakers were definitely one of the worst series in NBA history, with both teams boasting interior supergiants and very pressing defense, scoring 90 points almost every game to basically seal the win.

In the first game, the Spurs lost 80:86, Duncan was clean in the first quarter by O'Neal, and he didn't score a point in a single quarter of 10 shots and 0 shots, but grabbed 12 rebounds, O'Neal was not there in the second quarter, Duncan scored 10 points in 5 of 7 shots in a single quarter, and the third quarter of the game was supposed to be the time to play off the bench, but the Spurs still boldly put Duncan on the court, and the Spurs used a miserable and frenzied three-man package on Duncan, and Duncan shot 1 of 7 in the single quarter, but scored 7 free throws and scored 9 points, In the fourth quarter, Duncan, who had exhausted himself, couldn't restrain O'Neal who returned with full blood, O'Neal scored 13 points in the last quarter, and finally Duncan scored 26 points, 21 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 blocks on 9-of-30 shooting, while O'Neal scored 23 points, 17 rebounds and 4 blocks on 9-of-22 shooting, Kobe Bryant scored 20 points, Parker scored 11 points on 5-of-12 shooting in the first playoff game of his career, Parker would only break through at that time, the Lakers put Parker at the free throw line in order to wrap Duncan, Parker just couldn't shoot, If I had known that Parker was going to play a pull-up jumper in the future, I would have slapped myself to death.

In the second game, the Spurs relied on Kobe's mistakes in the final moments to win the game, 88:85 only won by 3 points, the Spurs won the home court advantage, Duncan scored 27 points, 17 rebounds, 5 blocks and 10 turnovers on 10-of-19 shooting, Bowen and Antonio Daniels on the outside stepped up, one scored 13 points and the other scored 14 points, O'Neal scored only 19 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists on 7-of-16 shooting, and Kobe Bryant scored 26 points on 12-of-25 shooting, 6 assists and 4 turnovers.

In the third game, Kobe Bryant exploded and blew up the Spurs' outside line, he scored 31 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists on 15-of-31 shooting, leading the Lakers to defeat the Spurs 99-89 and regain home-court advantage, O'Neal scored 22 points and 15 rebounds on 10-of-20 shooting, Derrick Fisher, Rick Fox and Samaki Walker also scored more than 10 points, while Spurs' Duncan scored 28 points and 12 rebounds on 9-of-26 shooting, and Parker scored 24 points.

The fourth game made Kobe Bryant, in the last 30 seconds of the game, the two teams were tied at 85, Robert Horry missed three points, O'Neal grabbed the rebound in the front court, Fisher missed, at this time, a black shadow fell from the sky and stuffed the ball that was about to bounce out into the basket!

Bryant!

Bryant's last-minute dunk completely killed the game.

In the whole game, Kobe Bryant scored 28 points on 10-of-27 shooting, O'Neal scored 22 points and 11 rebounds on 9-of-18 shooting, and Duncan scored 30 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 blocks on 9-of-15 shooting in this game, but unfortunately failed to lead the Spurs to win the game.

The Spurs, who fell behind 1:3, did not give up, and fought with the Lakers at the Staples Center until the last moment, but finally lost 87:93, Duncan once again broke the Lakers' interior in the whole game, 34 points, 25 rebounds and 4 assists on 11-of-23 shooting, while O'Neal only had 21 points and 11 rebounds on 7-of-18 shooting, the Spurs still lost to other players, Kobe Bryant scored 26 points alone, Rick Fox also scored 17 points, and the Spurs except Duncan, The other player scored the most points, but he only scored 15 points.

Bryant contributed an average of 26.2 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game in this round of the series, becoming the key to the Lakers' ability to eliminate the Spurs by a large score. In five games, Duncan averaged 29.0 points, 17.2 rebounds, 4.6 assists, 3.2 blocks and 4.6 turnovers per game, shooting 42.5%, while O'Neal averaged 21.4 points, 12.2 rebounds per game, 3.2 assists, 3.0 blocks and 3.0 turnovers, and the shooting rate was 44.7%. Even a powerful man like O'Neill can't completely restrain Duncan, and having said so much, it can be summed up in two practical words, that is-

Awesome!

In the 2002-2003 season, Duncan averaged 23.3 points, 12.9 rebounds and 2.9 blocks per game to win the regular season MVP, Parker averaged 15.5 points and 5.3 assists per game to become the team's main attacker on the outside, because there was no one in the team's No. 3 position, last year's big dragon Stephen Jackson was put on the starter, but he didn't want to play his worth, averaging 11.8 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game, Marrick Rose, as the team's sixth man, averaged 10.4 points and 6.4 rebounds per game, Steve Kerr completed his last game in the Spurs, and all 75 games were benched, averaging 4.0 points per gameBowen started all 82 games and averaged 7.1 points per game, while David Robinson averaged only 8.5 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.

As early as 1999, the Spurs won a player from Argentina with the 28th pick in the second round, no need to guess, this pick was the penultimate pick in the draft that year, to be honest, no one paid attention at the time, this player did not play in the NBA immediately after being selected, but stayed in Italy and joined the giant team Bologna, after that, the Argentine dominated the league here, leading the team to win the championship for two consecutive years, especially in the first year, He won the equivalent of the NBA regular season MVP, All-Star MVP, and Finals MVP, where he had no desire, so, he landed in the NBA, he was Manu Ginobili, and he was 25 years old that year.

At that time, Manu was definitely a handsome guy, with long hair fluttering, a towering nose bridge, deep eyes, charming pale blue eyes, a spotless pinstripe shirt that was always spotless off the field, a shaved beard is a popular little fresh meat, leaving a beard is another wild taste of a man, Duncan is a taciturn person, and he doesn't like to deal with the media all his life, but Manu is very approachable, walking on the road, and signing autographs for the fans next to him after the game, so in San Antonio, although the leader is Duncan, but in fact, In the circle, Ginobili was much more popular than Duncan, and Duncan was unhappy, so he touched Manu's hair all day long, and finally made Manu bald......

Ginobili was 25 years old when he came to the NBA, his skills were basically fixed, he started as a rookie, he is a player with very distinctive characteristics, he has no ability to shoot on the ball, especially in the middle distance, this ability is even more lacking, he needs to hold the ball to break through to find offensive space, and secondly, he does not have the ability to develop three-point shots, most of the three-point shots rely on unguarded empty shots, his killer feature is to break through, extremely fast, change direction extremely hard and feel very soft, He can put the ball in the air even if he twists his body, and Manu also has a very beautiful but dangerous pass, which is one of the top five balls of the day if successful, and if it fails, it can be a fatal mistake.

George Carr once said that after the NBA entered the twentieth century, there were only two people in the league who were the most difficult to defend, one was Kobe, and the other was Ginobili, in terms of strength, Manu definitely had the strength to play as a starter in the Spurs, but the Spurs all adhered to the spirit of sacrifice for the team, so they played a lifetime as a substitute, and there were few honors, although he had the strength to become an All-Star, but he chose the team and chose the team honor, which is a loss for Manu personally, but for the Spurs, It's a great luck.

In addition to Manu, the Spurs also focused on adding another big player this summer, that is, *** from China, who was 27 years old that year, high-spirited, and the person who introduced *** was also the general manager of the Spurs Buford, *** came to the Spurs' main task is to spar, maybe he can also become a secret weapon to block O'Neal in the playoffs.

Please note that the sparring here does not have any ironic flavor, the big sharks of the year are in full swing, the whole league is looking for a way to crack, and the Spurs are of course no exception, although they have Duncan, but the Spurs do not want their main scorer to fight with O'Neal hand-to-hand, Duncan alone is limited in physical strength after all, unable to take care of both offensive and defensive ends, and *** played a role that simulated O'Neal sparring partner Duncan, the Ba God was 211 cm tall and weighed 132 kg, while O'Neal was 216 cm tall, With a weight of 147 kilograms, Ba Shen's weight in the league is second only to O'Neal in the league, and for a period of time Duncan and Ba Shen were training in the stadium all day and night, and some people saw Ba Shen still guiding Duncan and telling him that he had those defects, how to play this trick just now, and all people also joked that Duncan was the first disciple of Ba Shen.

Although Battier didn't play much in this year, but officially these are those days of sweating in the training gym, so that Battier and Duncan have formed a very deep friendship with the entire Spurs, *** has a good rebounding and defensive ability on the court, full of strength is a wall on the inside, one-arm rotation O'Neal is the best embodiment of his strength, Robinson once talked about how Carl Malone was on the court back then, *** came over, and said quietly,

He's so awesome, I can't beat him when I play, but I can beat him to death in a fight.

No one in the team dared to refute it.

The main reason for not surviving in the NBA is that the rate is too slow, compared to O'Neal's kind of god who has height, weight, and does not lack skill and agility, *** can only be regarded as an ordinary person, tall, and heavy weight causes him to move slowly on the court, not to mention fast break, even if it is an ordinary positional battle, it is like waiting for a bus, plus *** short arms, no blocking ability and frontcourt rebounding ability, of course, in addition to these, there are injuries, His knee sprain caused him to play on and off, all of which contributed to *** playing in just 12 games in the regular season, averaging just 0.8 points and 0.8 rebounds per game, and failing to make the Spurs' playoff squad.

One more thing to say here, *** According to rumors, I have diabetes, and now my body is very thin, I don't know if this is true, but I sincerely hope that no matter what, Ba Shen can take care of his body.

Salute to the bus.