In the summer of 2002, Popovich personally overturned the Spurs' table.
When Stern pronounced "San Antonio Spurs" on draft night in 2003, the league was about to be rewritten. From Duncan to James, from Leonard to the "Son of the Holy City," statues outside the AT&T Center will be erected one by one, and the starting point of everything is just that afternoon in 2002, a bet:
"Tim, trust me once."