San Antonio ‘Spurs’ Worry from Lakers Fans

The San Antonio Spurs have won four NBA titles since 1999 (their most recent in 2007) and Lakers fans are worried what will happen when L.A. plays in San Antonio a week from Thursday and face off against the Spurs sometime in May (as projected) for the NBA’s Western Conference Finals. During last season’s conference finals the Lakers won the series, 4-1, but the Spurs had a chance to make it 2-2 when Derek Fisher toppled over a shooting Brent Barry in the last few second of a two-point games.

Basically the Lakers have to get past the Spurs (and their 6-foot-11 tower Tim Duncan who averages about 20 points per game) in order to get to the Celtics. Other key Spurs players are Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and newbie Matt Bonner. The Spurs beat the Clippers 106-78 last month and Clippers head coach Mike Dunleavy weighed in on a Lakers-Spurs Western finals, telling the Los Angeles Times, “With Andrew Bynum, the Lakers seem to have the edge because they’d have the big presence in the middle for Parker’s drives.”Let’s hope Bynum’s back in action by then.

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