In the summer of 2002, Popovich is ready to tear the Spurs apart with his own hands.
When Stern announces "San Antonio Spurs" on draft night in 2003, the balance of power in the league will be rewritten. From Duncan to LeBron, from Leonard to the "Son of the Alamo City," statues will rise one by one outside the AT&T Center. And it will all begin on an afternoon in 2002, with a simple wager:
