Have you ever ever anticipated being on the receiving finish a very good old style butt kicking?
Perhaps you have been in highschool, making ready to play a sport of basketball the day after a random abdomen virus. Perhaps you have been in school, on the point of face a group from a division and expertise stage far properly past your individual.
Perhaps you have been a twelve-year-old contemporary off the success of sneaking a whoopie cushion stuffed with chocolate pudding into the chair of your least favourite trainer.
In the event you can in any manner relate to those utterly hypothetical and in no way actual examples above, I think about you’d additionally have the ability to relate to that hanging sense of dread.
If you’re in bother as a child (and I imply actually in bother), no quantity of fellow middle-schoolers calling a hated trainer ‘pudding pants’ goes to take away that sense of certainty from the pit of your abdomen.
You’re in bother, and it. The one actual query left is: how dangerous is it gonna be?
I think about that’s a query taking over lots of area within the minds of a Spurs group break up between tanking out the remainder of a misplaced season, and doing their greatest to take care of a sure diploma of self-respect.
Contemporary off of their fifth straight loss, the Spurs simply can’t discover daylight, going through a parade of fine groups nonetheless jockeying for playoff place.
The Spurs organizationally appear kind of pleased to appease the loss column at this level of the season, however you must really feel for the gamers who should have lastly felt like they have been seeing the daylight of relevance earlier than shedding their greatest participant for the season.
And now they’ll should trudge their manner as much as the mile-high metropolis on the 2nd night time of a back-to-back (at all times a delight for lungs not accustomed to the altitude) and tackle a Denver group that simply misplaced in 2nd extra time, attempting to carry onto a prime 4 seed amidst the standings of an perpetually cutthroat Western Convention.
Usually, this could be an awe-inspiring showdown between gifted European behemoths. Usually, with Denver banged up and on a back-to-back of their very own, this would possibly really feel like a sport that might be stolen from a group with championship aspirations.
As an alternative, the Spurs can be going through a ticked-off Nuggets group who want each inch of separation they’ll get, and a Nikola Jokić in such good kind that he simply pulled off simply the third sixty-point triple-double in NBA historical past.
I’m doing my greatest to search for ways in which the Spurs might conceivably steal this one, however the math simply isn’t mathing.
Typically you simply should face the music, placed on a courageous expression, and blame one other classmate. I don’t suppose that’s going to work right here, although.
Right here’s hoping for a miracle.
San Antonio Spurs at Denver Nuggets
April 2nd, 2025 | 8:00 CT
Watch: FanDuel Sports activities Community Southwest | Pay attention: WOAI (1200 AM)
Spurs Accidents: Victor Wembanyama – Out (Regenerating Kaiju), DeAaron Fox – Out (Hand), Charles Bassey – Day-to-Day (Knee)
Nuggets Accidents: Nikola Jokic – Day-to-Day (Ankle), Jamal Murray – Day-to-Day (Hamstring), Aaron Gordon – Day-to-Day (Sickness/Leg), Christian Braun – Day-to-Day (Foot), Julian Strawther – Out (Knee), DaRon Holmes – Out (Achilles)
For the Nuggets’ fan’s perspective, please go to Denver Stiffs.
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