Spurs' Keldon Johnson celebrates Gregg Popovich's birthday with heartfelt words www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Providing a little backup for our Spurs coverage for tonight’s game against the Wizards. San Antonio back home after playing 10 of their past 11 games on the road.

Some injury news here in L.A. at the Spurs practice at USC: Fox, Kornet and Harper have been ruled out for Wednesday at the Lakers. A decision will be made on Sochan, Olynyk and Waters after shootaround tomorrow.

Want to have a few laughs while we chat about the most anticipated Spurs season in years? Yours truly, @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social, @nicholasrtalbot.bsky.social and host @mikefinger.bsky.social will take all your questions at our live Zoom webinar 1 p.m. Friday: www.expressnews.com/about/newsro...

The love flowed both ways as the Spurs entertained students in the Texas Hill Country on Wednesday.

The Chinese Basketball Association squad will face the Spurs at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 a few months after Victor Wembanyama vacationed in Zhenghou, China.

Ideally, NFL franchises are either building toward some clear competitive championship window in the future or maximizing one that’s already open.

The Johnson shortstop officially signed with the D-Backs after being a first-round pick.

Coaching school notebook: Declining football state championship attendance concerns UIL

Here is the video of my interview with WWE's prodigy and Laredo native Roxanne Perez youtu.be/B-TVK5DMtWk

My Interview with WWE tag team women's champion Roxanne Perez on coming back to Texas, her quick ascent in WWE, the women's evolution and why she uses the middle rope. www.expressnews.com/sports/artic...

The Brahmas' yearlong struggles on defense reached a new low Friday, as the St. Louis Battlehawks churned out 402 yards in a 39-13 rout despite turning to backups at QB and RB after the opening half. San Antonio sinks to the bottom of the UFL at 1-8. www.expressnews.com/sports/artic...

The Hornets' rally fell short as their historic softball season ends with a pair of one-run losses to Clear Springs in their best-of-3 state semifinals series.

Dylan Harper talking about Rutgers missing March Madness. (Video by @tomorsborn.bsky.social)

I’ll be in the drawing room tonight for the third straight year along with a few other regulars…

San Antonio Southwest softball’s Angelina Terrazas' season on hold as she battles cancer. www.expressnews.com/sports/high-...

"We never hung our heads," Julian Champagnie said. "We came out and hooped every game." That included the season finale. Fittingly, the Spurs overcame a 22-point deficit to down the Raptors 125-1128 in the season finale Sunday at the Frost Bank Center. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Victor Wembanyama discusses what he went through finding out about his diagnosis

Victor Wembanyama speaks for the first time since he was diagnosed with DVT.

Mitch Johnson says he's not thinking yet about his future, stressing that "...This organization is still prioritizing Pop's health, and that time he will do what he needs to do and make decisions, and that will go through this organization on very many levels..."

After Sunday, the Spurs are likely to have three players play in all 82 games (Paul, Barnes, Champagnie). Not surprisingly, the last team to accomplish that feat was coached by Tom Thibodeau. The 2017-18 Timberwolves got 82 games apiece from KAT, Andrew Wiggins, Taj Gibson and Tyus Jones.

The triple take: Suns 117, Spurs 98 1. We might have seen the last of three more Spurs for the season. 2. But not Chris Paul and Harrison Barnes, whose Iron Man seasons remain in intact 3. The lottery odds are set! www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

"I thought I had it this game," said Stephon Castle of being 1 stat short again of his 1st career triple-double. He finished with 22 pts, 9 rebs, 11 ast. He's collected 8+ rebounds in each of three April games. open.substack.com/pub/thespotu...

Stephon Castle on the late turnovers and guarding Frank Wagner versus the Magic

Julian Champagnie on what happened with turnovers and defense in the fourth quarter

Spurs coach Mitch Johnson on the physicality from Orlando late that let the Magic pull away

An ocean separates the two men currently coaching the Spurs and the French national team. The physical distance separating the two is vast. The same is true of the way they approach talking about Victor Wembanayama's health. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

A defensive line position known for brute force will be manned by perhaps the San Antonio Brahmas' two most intellectual players, with Ivy League grads Prince Emili and Jacob Sykes set to line up side by side during Saturday's season opener in Arlington. www.expressnews.com/sports/artic...

The triple take (Mamu explodes! edition): Spurs 120, Knicks 105 1. Why everyone loves Mamu (even Flava Flav) 2. Had it not been for Mamu's eruption, Blake Wesley might have been the talk of the night 3. LIneup tweak leads to best defensive game in months www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Cuz I was out supporting him here in San Antonio tonite 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Even when most everything is terrible, there are nights when you come to work and Flavor Flav is screaming like crazy in the hallway because his close personal friend Sandro Mamukelashvili just became the first player in NBA history to finish with 34 points in less than 20 minutes.

Been covering the NBA a long time and gotta say: "Sandro Mamukelashvili invited his friend Flava Flav to a game in San Antonio and scored a career-best 34 points to lead an upset victory over the Knicks" is high on the list of damndest sentences ever written. It feels like some kind of Mad Lib.

Keldon Johnson on the key 17-0 run and the play of the bench in the Spurs’ win over the Pelicans

Vassell finished with a team-high 22 points, including a huge 3 to put the Spurs up by 5 with about a minute left, 5 rebounds and three steals. "He was fantastic ... It's just the variety of ways of him impacting winning," Mitch Johnson said.

Devin Vassell on his last second shot and the play of Keldon Johnson in the Spurs win over the Pelicans

Mitch Johnson on the play of Devin Vassell and Keldon Johnson in the Spurs’ win over the Pelicans

The final months of the Spurs' season were supposed to be about De'Aaron Fox and Victor Wembanyama learning to play with each other. With Wemby out and Fox eyeing finger surgery, the club has had to press pause on that project. A look at what's next for the duo: www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Devin Vassell with a career-high 37 points, a season-high 10 rebounds and a season-high-matching 5 assists.

Spurs acting coach Mitch Johnson on Devin Vassell’s big night

With the season winding down and Pop unlikely to return, the Spurs are ready to play out the season with Mitch Johnson in charge. "Mitch," forward Harrison Barnes said Sunday, "has done an incredible job." www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Was told Wemby's issue is considered much closer to Ausar Thompson's than Chris Bosh's. While the Spurs say no timeline has been determined, Thompson's case might provide useful perspective. He sat out from March 9 to the end of last season, then was cleared for 5-on-5 on November 11. Eight months.

To address some understandable concerns: Spurs are optimistic Wembanyama will recover in time for next season. Not worried about his long-term health. I’m told this is not as serious as the Chris Bosh blood clot issue.

Spurs' Victor Wembanyama expected to miss the remainder of the season www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Agree.

Stephon Castle collects the MVP award. “We all wanted to play on Sunday,” he said. “You could see that in the first game. We were down early and came back to win.” His message to the All-Stars: “just be ready for us. Don’t count us out.”

Stephon Castle did it all en route to winning Rising Stars MVP honors. Afterward, he had a message for the NBA greats he and his teammates will face Sunday in the All-Star tournament: “Don't count us out. We are here to win it." www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Late Wednesday, Victor Wembanyama and two teammates boarded a cross-country red-eye from Boston to San Francisco for what projects to be a less-than-restful All-Star break. De'Aaron Fox, meanwhile, headed home to (finally) take a breath after a whirlwind month. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Today Mitch Johnson and his wife are wrangling four kids to Disneyland. It says something about his last 100 days that he considers this a break. On how the 38-year-old assistant has filled in for a legend twice his age, with a backpack Wemby calls a metaphor: www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

The triple take: Celtics 116, Spurs 103 1. Derrick White remains beloved in two NBA cities 2. Celtics, as usual, went nuclear from the 3-point line 3. Rebounding/physicality was a problem again. Could Bismack Biyombo have been of some use? www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...