Re: More....Spurs are Tanking

["Adam Litchy" <allitchy@cland.net>]

Even more evidence towards the tanking.  They've suspended Maxwell for
taugnting the fans in Indiana.  It's just one game but still....

Adam Litchy

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> From: JASPINDLER@aol.com
> To: celtics@igtc.com
> Subject: More....Spurs are Tanking
> Date: Monday, March 10, 1997 9:10 PM
> 
> More evidence in the press that the Spurs are officially tanking this
> season!!!
> 
> 
> SPORTS
>  NBA A daily report NOTEBOOK
>  SPURS DON'T NEED ROBINSON
>  Wire reports
>  1870 Characters
> 03/09/97
>  (Copyright 1997)
>    ON THE road to recovery, David Robinson's back has stiffened up,
> and just in time. The San Antonio Spurs are reeling and their best
> interests - a shot at the first pick overall in June - will not be
> served by Robinson returning to play the final meaningless month of
> a lost season.
>    Not only has Robinson's long stretch of inactivity hurt the
> Spurs, but Sean Elliott, Chuck Person and Charles Smith have missed
> generous stretches. That's why the Spurs want to finish this season
> as quickly as possible, preferably without Robinson.
>    They're not even competitive anymore. As it stands now, only
> the Boston Celtics loom as their competition for the first overall
> pick, because the expansion teams aren't eligible to get the first
> pick until 1999.
>    "If we do get that high pick, someone who can produce right
> away, then you can go back to David's first year," backup center
> Will Perdue said. "The Spurs broke the record for the biggest
> turnaround. We could do it again."
>