For the deaf/hard of hearing:

I think he’s 19 years old. He’s not getting scared or getting tired. He’s playing hard and he wants to be good. Like I said, I think he’s playing hard, and he doesn’t take it for granted.

He’s making mistakes, which is normal. I think the media around him doesn’t help, but he’s going to get used to it because the guy is 19 years old.

He’s going to change the game, 100 percent. He’s already on that path, so for all of the guys just enjoy and watch the show and let the guy change the game.

##Wemby on playing against Jokic

I think I learned a lot and I learned even more when I watched film of his. I think it’s a good experience but it would’ve been better if we had won.

##On the team’s performance

It’s always reads and trying to put the intensity on the first minute so I’m glad if it’s getting better. Our first quarters are usually okay, we gotta be consistent for everything.

##On his stamina

This morning already and coming back from halftime, it’s hard to catch your breath.

##On the Nuggets

I can see why they won it. It’s a very balanced team. Feels like they know each other very well. It’s a great challenge everytime we’re gonna play them, good intensity. I think what’s most beautiful about them is that everyone knows their role.

##On playing centre half the time

It depends on the matchups we got but usually I don’t start at centre, so I get to be the centre when we have the opportunity to make runs and to apply pressure on the opponent. I’ve been playing multiple positions my whole life so I’m comfortable at centre.

##On the biggest improvements/adjustment he’s made in the NBA

I think the defence is where have gotten the most progress so far because I’ve learned a new role. Obviously here we can’t, our presence in the paint can’t be the same as it is in Europe so I have to find new ways. I’ve never really gotten over a screen before this year. I’m getting better and better. I feel very comfortable doing it. I think my range of abilities and defence has increased a lot thanks to the Spurs since I came here.

##On how much time he needed to adjust to screens

Not too long but it was a bit brutal. Starting at training camp it was something brand new, so I had to step up right away. Not too long but it was hard.

##On being the first rookie with tonight’s statline (22 PTS, 11 REB, 2 AST, 6 STL, 4 BLK, 7-16 FG, 2-5 3P, 6-7 FT)

I like bringing something new to the game. I’m glad I can already put my name in history a little bit. It’s a good feeling but I’m a student of the game. One of the best gratitude I can have is having the chase to push it, to take it up a little bit, to make it even better.

##(Français) On watching/getting inspired by Jokic last year during the playoffs compared to squaring up against him tonight

I learned a lot of things tonight. Obviously patience, but mainly when he decides to score, he scores. He’s a special player. But I wasn’t really aware of how different it would be to defend against him. He’s super heavy so I have to box him out differently.

##Pop on Wemby’s perfomance

Well, he’s playing aggressively, he’s affecting the game in a lot of different ways.

He’s blocking shots, he’s scoring. He’s a willing assist man. He’s very unselfish, good passer, but he goes to the next play. He doesn’t worry about making a mistake, or anybody else’s mistake.

He’s out there to just get better and figure it out with this team. He’s been playing all-around games, his defence gets better and better. Every game as he learns, the league learns how we want to play, so.

He’s improving constantly.

##Pop on Wemby getting more and more minutes at the centre position

I want him to play both. I don’t want him to just be a perimetre player or a post player. He can affect the game in both areas, so he’s got to get minutes at both.

Soft paywall, but here are snippets from the article worth reading:

##To be sure, there are layers to this story that make it way more complicated than just the “Coach tells fans not to boo, and fans boo anyway” headline.##

Layer one: The Spurs haven’t made the playoffs in five seasons, and have started with a miserable 3-13 record in a year that Popovich himself announced was going to be about winning.

Layer two: Leonard left the Spurs under a set of circumstances in which the average fan believed he not only quit on the franchise, but also betrayed Popovich himself. That violation was, and continues to be, deemed unforgivable.

Layer three: A not-insignificant portion of the fanbase is inclined to be outraged by anything Popovich says, due mainly to his outspoken criticism of their favored politicians.

Layer four: Politics aside, civil or not, there is a long history of sports fans venting their frustrations with opponents, and San Antonio never has been an exception to that rowdiness.

##The Return##

He also recalled that when Leonard and Danny Green came back with Toronto to play their first game in San Antonio, the team showed a tribute video and “the crowd didn’t react like that.”

But that’s not quite true. Back then, in 2019, the crowd cheered every time Green’s face was shown on the screen, but the jeers were deafening every time Leonard was shown. The fans booed him every time he touched the ball, and chanted “Traitor! Traitor!” when he attempted free throws. In Popovich’s defense, he said that night he “felt badly” about that treatment then, too.

##Way, way back##

From almost the moment the Spurs arrived in South Texas as an ABA team a half-century ago, they were known for housing some of the most rambunctious, unwelcoming fans in the league. In the 1970s, the “Bums” pelted then-Denver coach Larry Brown with avocados. In the 1980s they scuffled with Larry Bird after a game, prompting the Celtics legend to swing a duffel bag at them in what he claimed was self-defense.

Once, after the Bums heckled Kareem Abdul-Jabbar following a fire at his house, the Los Angeles Times called that segment of Spurs fans, “loud, doggedly persistent, and at times utterly tasteless.”

So this phenomenon isn’t new, even if the Spurs’ run of championships during the Tim Duncan era — plus the mellowing of the Bums in their new higher seating section — distanced them from that image.

- “Nothing personnel, Spurs fans 😎”

We can be Spurs fans

And anti-Kawhi

And support our team

All at the same time

So I checked Spurs PR and to my surprise, it’s REALLY official. I can’t believe it, wow. They actually said the T word! Here it is:

The Rock at La Cantera to Partner with Esteemed Local Chef Jason Dady to Open ‘Roca & Martillo’ Restaurant

Let’s go Italian food!

History has been made.

Both ways.

But just imagine this season sans Wemby. This sub would be a lot more happier TBH

Some of y’all are malcontents to the bone, I swear.

Gotta be in touch with their soft side. You know, be vulnerable, in order to get harder, faster, and stronger, bruv

How about the other #2? He available fr fr?

Put Tony in a time machine, he gets younger. Success!

Temerius on the list simply because his team is dogshit without him

Wonder if he’ll climb the ranks when he starts playing

We need Thomas.