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**Peja Vu** · 05-05-2005, 03:05 PM

http://slamonline.com/links/05022005/

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The new issue of SLAM hits newsstands today or tomorrow, and it has two covers. A large chunk of the country gets Ben Wallace looking hard, doing the normal SLAM staredown while flossing his championship ring for the camera. The other chunk gets Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker. But instead of the ice grills, they’re all smiling, which dovetails with the cover line Ryan Jones slapped on there: “Smiling All The Way To The Chip.” We did them smiling not only to switch up the normal straight-faced thing, but also because they aren’t really that type of team. The Spurs don’t win by intimidation, they win by execution and consistency.

I wrote the Spurs cover story, but there really wasn’t much writing involved. Instead, I went to San Antonio for a few days and interviewed pretty much everyone involved with the team—didn’t get Nesterovic because he was making himself scarce, and I didn’t get Nazr Muhammad because they’d traded for him two weeks before and he still didn’t really understand the Spurs system. I also spent time with Gregg Popovich, who was mad cool, and Spurs GM R.C. Buford, who invited me into his office and entertained me for a good fifteen minutes. (And I don’t know if he knew it or not, but there was a list of last names of draft picks on the blackboard behind him. I won’t reveal what order they were listed in, although I bet Chad Ford would pay me for this info.) I took all of the quotes I gathered (about 7,000 words worth) and cut and pasted and screwed and chopped them into something like a biography.

Click the link to read the entire piece...

TheRoc5 · 05-05-2005, 03:14 PM

definitly getting this

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