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Someone put in a work order, and someone pulled down the banner. Then, someone added this to the bottom of the list:
“2011-12.”
Someone pulled the banner back to where it had been, high on one end of the AT&T Center. And, with that, the Spurs had announced they had won another division title.
Someone might have noticed.
But, this time, the Spurs need to do more to show what they accomplished in the regular season.
The playoffs suggest as much.
There was a time the Spurs hung individual banners every time they came in first in their division. There was also a time when the Spurs had never won an NBA title.
But as the years passed, and their standards changed, so did their sense of success. Now they stencil in the next divisional...
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