Quiet concern brews in the business and ticket offices of the San Antonio Spurs over the prospect of losing the revenue they’d come to expect like clockwork from advancing to 20 consecutive postseasons.
But for Spurs basketball operations,authentic nike nfl jersey the vibe remains unchanged despite the danger of missing late-April hoops for the first time since 1997.
Twenty-four starting lineups, 185 total games missed — including 61 by star forward Kawhi Leonard — yet not one player, coach or member of personnel has lost focus in the face of current circumstances.
That has allowed the Spurs to run off a three-game winning streak for the first time since late December as they prepare to host the Golden State Warriors Monday night.
“It’s been a frustrating season,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. “But the challenges have pulled a lot of people closer. You have to do different things to try to stay afloat. It’s been rewarding, as counterintuitive as that sounds.”
Still, the payoff might manifest itself in the form of a 21st straight trip to the playoffs, which would extend the longest active streak of postseason appearances across all four U.S. major professional sports leagues.
Mounting losses and uncertainty about who will be on the court next to you on a given night — not to mention not knowing when Leonard will return from a mysterious quad ailment — could understandably fracture or at least stress relationships in a locker room;new nike nfl jerseys especially in an organization with such a long track record of success.
