How High Will the Spurs Climb?

[Kaelin]

When the Spurs are healthy, they can be fantastic. The problem they have is that they've got a lot of teams of them with pretty substantial records, and of course they're not about to kill themselves just to get a better seed. With 39 games left (and knowing they're healthier at the moment than their competition), a 29 - 10 finish ought to be realistic (if a 61-win pace can be considered realistic). Still, they'd be at a 56 - 26 result, and five teams in the conference are above a .683 at the moment.

I'd expect two of #2-5 to regress to the mean while the Clippers stay under, putting Spurs around the #4 spot. If the Spurs can hand out some Ls to those top teams, they can slip past one more, I think. It's so crowded that things could easily break one way or another, but I'm thinking #3 or #4 as their median outcome.

The sky's the limit for the playoffs, but where do you think they fall standings-wise?

[Nolan]

Only 4 games seperate us and Portland (2nd seed) right now and if we keep playing like this I can see us easily moving up to 4 or 5 possibly even higher.