The San Antonio Spurs are enjoying the longest-running dynasty in professional sports for many, many reasons. But among the most glaring factors of the black and silver’s nearly two-decade reign near basketball’s peak is a peerless ability to find diamonds in the rough.
Is Jonathon Simmons the latest one? It sure seems so. Unless the former D-League star puts together a series of mesmerizing finishes like this one over the final stretch of Monday’s game, though, the Spurs will come up short against red-hot Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors.
No worries, San Antonio seems bound to get another shot at the defending champions when it matters far more come spring.
