San Antonio Spurs: 7-2
Someday, the Spurs will be too outdated.
Someday, they’ll succumb to injury.
Today is not that day, and Manu Ginobili smirks at you for thinking it might be.
Unconcerned with a year-older core and how the Spurs haven’t repeated as champs, oddsmakers have bestowed the West’s best odds upon Gregg Popovich and friends. And why don’t you?
San Antonio appeared fresh during the postseason, thanks mostly to a maintenance program that kept every single Spur under half an hour per game throughout the year. Once younger, more athletic teams broke , the well-rested Spurs reach their stride.
Expect them to take the same approach this season, or even an even more conservative one. The regular season is no longer a challenge with this group, and they established last year that they could essentially give games away without hurting their postseason positioning.
Despite holding veterans out of back-to-back matches all season, the Spurs won a league-high 62 competitions.
If something goes awry, maybe they’ll slide up and acquire 57 or 58 this season.
Until proved otherwise, San Antonio is the West.
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