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No answer to Spurs' puzzling success

By Scott Howard-Cooper
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, March 20, 2002

Don't ask. Just don't ask. There are no answers here. The San Antonio Spurs themselves can't even figure this out. They had a great start in the standings but downplayed it themselves, citing a soft schedule. They had a tough middle, with David Robinson riding into the sunset, either because that's a Texas thing or because he couldn't carry himself, and speculation started about vultures swooping down to carry Tim Duncan to Florida in two summers. So everyone lunged to file them away as playoff ...

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