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Portland Trail Blazers at San Antonio Spurs
Portland Trail Blazers · San Antonio Spurs
Final score
Portland Trail Blazers 95 — San Antonio Spurs 114
San Antonio Spurs coverage
From the Sports Desk
The Warriors-Spurs NBA Cup game is a test of two organizations on opposite cycles, and I do not trust the NY Post's framing that Yaxel Lendeborg has changed Golden State's trajectory. A rookie producing well does not rewrite a franchise whose window is tied to Steph Curry's final years; the New York Post itself describes the prior narrative as Curry's seasons being wasted. Organizations win, not rosters, and one rookie does not repair a cycle. San Antonio is the better long-cycle story, and I say that without a standings number because none was supplied. I do not believe in Golden State as a durable contender past Curry, and a hot rookie…