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The San Antonio Spurs are known for building a championship team through carefully chosen draft picks and developing their players.  This offseason however they did something different, they got in on the free agency game and won big picking up LaMarcus Aldridge and David West.   They also got Tim Duncan to return for another season and since he’s still playing quite well, the Spurs are legitimate championship contenders.  The reigning champion Warriors coach Steve Kerr jokes around that if coach Greg Popovich can’t win with this team, then he should quit.

“You look at what San Antonio did getting Aldridge, I mean if they don’t win the whole thing next year it’s clearly the coach’s fault. I mean if Pop can’t win the whole thing with that roster then he has no business coaching in this league.”

—Golden State coach Steve Kerr, on NBA TV during the Warriors’ Summer League game, talking about the Western Conference.

You have to love the relationship between Gregg Popovich and Kerr (remember Kerr played for Popovich and picked up a couple rings in San Antonio, 1999 and 2003). They love to take little, friendly, locker-room style shots at each other and it’s certainly entertaining.

Things can get real interesting if these two teams end up in the Western Conference Finals, and it’s a real posssibility.

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Source: ProBasketballTalk