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The Spurs are rolling into Canada playing good basketball (except for that 4th quarter in Mo-Town) just in time to get a SEGABABA trap game. The Raptors are not too good. They are 28th in the NBA in Offensive Rating and 18th in the league in Defensive Rating, according to basketball-reference.com. Which of course makes this a perfect trap game. A bad team at home getting the Spurs on the back end of a back to back, what could possibly go wrong.

At some point, we’re going to have to think of this as “unexpected,” wont we? While NBA pundits and fans alike have been touting the decline of the Dynasty Spurs for what’s felt like ages, it’s been just as frequently observed that San Antonio can be counted on every year to be a really good regular-season team.

Of course, that fact has usually been premised on the assumption that the aging bodies of key players like Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili tend to start a season healthy, only to deplete as months of wear and tear take their toll. So how is it that this year, with Ginobili sidelined since the sixth game of the season and a healthy Duncan producing at the statistical ebb of his career, the Spurs have still managed to win nearly 60% of their games.

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Golf round-up: Australia’s Matt Jones put a double-bogey on the opening hole behind him in fine fashion in San Antonio as he took the early clubhouse lead with a six-under-par 66 in the opening round of the Valero Texas Open.

Jones made a six at the first but got back to level par by the turn with birdies at the sixth and seventh. The 30-year-old from Sydney then blitzed the back nine in 30 shots, with four birdies and an eagle on the par-five 14th.