Mike Finger

For this column I also got the most enthusiastic answer I’ve ever received from Kawhi Leonard.

(Was it the FIRST enthusiastic answer I’ve ever received from Kawhi Leonard? It’s been a long, long time. Who’s to say?)

How Carter Bryant stared down idol Kawhi Leonard and began feeling like a winner Bryant provided a spark in the Spurs' massive comeback victory over Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers on Friday, another step in the rookie's rapid improvement. His teammates are noticing, too.

“I haven’t been a winner before.”

How Spurs rookie Carter Bryant is starting to feel like one, thanks to nights like the one he had against the superstar role model who’d watched him run around a court as a 4-year-old.

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The vibes just won’t die.

Tom Orsborn is a sportswriter who covers the San Antonio Spurs, but he's quite versatile. A few years ago, he was doing great reporting on the Food Bank. He became a cops reporter last night, writing about a shooting after the Spurs game. That's why you read us. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Make no mistake, U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales’ decision to drop out of his GOP primary runoff is grounded in political calculus, not a sudden awakening to morality, writes @joshbrodesky.bsky.social. bit.ly/3OQDT1b

Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

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All the folks across the country who heard about one of our local congressmen and couldn’t quite believe it are about to find out who his heir apparent is.

I've been thinking about the Rangers' decision to display One Riot, One Ranger, and what it says about who this team is for. So I wrote about that. It's a big ol' bummer.

www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

This sequence started with the Pistons on a fast break, about to make things interesting. Nope.

The relentlessness of the local cagers can be quite something, man.

How an Alaska trip had Victor Wembanyama gazing in wonder, the way so many gaze at him Stargazers say February is one of the best months of the year to witness the Northern Lights, and when Wembanyama saw them he could not quite believe they were real.

Only one traveler made it through the Spurs’ 23-day rodeo trip without visiting home.

Why Victor Wembanyama declined a few hours of rest and a security detail, and chose instead to become the awestruck witness looking up in wonder: www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

‘Please keep sharing’: Victor Wembanyama joins search for missing man in Chicago Police are reviewing surveillance video. He was later seen on cameras in a Chicago suburb. Authorities continue the search.

An update to this story ... Victor Wembanyama told us tonight his missing family friend has been found alive and well.

"I'm just very, very relieved," he said.

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A couple of fellas from the Spurs Insider podcast are visible during this clip and I’m thinking it might make a nice promo.

Spurs clearly trying to push the lead to 50 to avoid a runoff.

Victor Wembanyama has taken four shots and the Spurs are up 39.

If the Spurs win this one, they won't be the only Texans tonight to tip their hats to their opponents and compliment them for running an effective Cam Payne.

OK, so maybe the statue is modeled after a guy who, according to historians, helped a bunch of racist yokels fight the integration of schools.

But at least that guy never did the one thing Texas Rangers are absolutely not allowed to do:

(Attending a Pride Night.)

Woof.

Pretty bad news for ICE.

Just talked to Jeremy Sochan in the Knicks locker room about this. He confirmed Mom’s initial reporting. “Tell her I said what up."

Will do.

Dinner with Gregg Popovich in 2021 taught Mitch Johnson important lesson Five years ago at a somber coaching staff dinner with Gregg Popovich, nobody at the table could have seen how quick the vibes would change with Victor Wembanyama.

Mitch Johnson told me a story today about a Gregg Popovich staff dinner during a particularly low time for the Spurs. It helps explain why the coach of the NBA’s hottest team is embracing the hype, and everything that comes with it.

Gift link:

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This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.

NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

Checked the quote tweets to make sure nobody beat me to this. (Also I scored like 12 points against Iraan in a previous century.)

Outside the cage.

Inside the cage.

Many of our younger (under 45) podcast listeners ask why we refer to the Spurs as the local cagers. The retro practice court here at Nike headquarters in Manhattan provides an illustration.

Spurs are in the media capital of the world and Trump started a war. Hard not to imagine the Pop monologue we’re missing.

How Keldon Johnson’s boom box has Spurs celebrating the present When Keldon Johnson is “OK with” something? That means he embraces it the only way he knows how, which is joyfully and loudly and with all of his soul.

Wrote about Keldon Johnson’s popped shoulder, and his ridiculous boom box, and about celebrating the present even when everybody is focused on the future.
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Victor Wembanyama, workshopping Comedy Cellar material. NY reporter asks how he blocks out noise of being a favorite in the West.

“How do I block out the noise? You’re the first person to tell me about it. Somebody take his mic.”

Yes I’m taking this tweet out of context but it’s hilarious what it says about a guy putting up a 12-7-5-2-2 line for a team cruising to its 11th win in a row.

Calling a basketball team that cannot score the Nets is so funny. It would be like calling the Giants (or Jets) the New York Endzones.

Sometimes we tend to exaggerate when it comes to the number of fans Wemby draws on the road. But I legit think the Spurs have a bigger chunk of this Brooklyn crowd than the Nets do.

Sounds like a neutral-site Elite Eight game.

Barclays Center

Got to the gym way too early because of the democratic socialist-cleared sidewalks and the democratic socialist-run express train that was way too on time.

Dystopian nightmare.