Today, Phil Jackson  became the fastest coach to win his 1000th NBA regular season game. So, I was very curious to see how Pop is stacking up with one of the greats. Popovich is in contract until the 2011-12 season unaccidentally the same year as Duncan's expiration date, as the table shows below, by then Pop will have 800+ regular season wins that is of course me assuming/projecting that the Spurs and Pop will average 55. Of course, lots of things will factor out like injuries and all that.

(Mathematically, it should be 58 which is the average of all the previous seasons except '97 Duncanless '98 Strike and this season)

Beyond that, I think most of us are hoping that TD comes back and signs an extension that will make him a Spur until age 40. With that, Pop should get his 1000th regular season win.

Time will catch up to the Spurs sooner or later, Tony Parker will be slower and poof there goes our penetration. Manu will be unManuesque and there goes Manu. Duncan will... oh I don't even want to think about it.

Anyways, it just goes to show that we really have something to be thankful for, the Spurs. Especially now that 2008 is coming to an end and 2009 is about to begin which means that we are closer to 2012.

But hey, CHEER UP! I watched a special on History Channel about the Mayan End of Days which predicts the world will end in 2012. Whether that is true or not, one thing that will surely end in 2012 is our beloved Spurs!

2012 metaphysical speculations

2012 is claimed by some with New age beliefs to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or alternatively an apocalypse). There is disagreement among believers whether 2012 will see an end of civilization, or humanity will be elevated to a higher level.

Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.

Astrologer John Jenkins has asserted that on this date, there will be "an extremely close conjunction of the northern hemisphere winter solstice sun with the crossing point of the Galactic equator and the ecliptic", an event that will not be repeated for thousands of years.

Several authors have published works which claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:

• The 1997 book The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, an asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.

• The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere.

• Riley Martin claims that Biaviian aliens will allow passage aboard their 'Great Mother Ship' when the Earth is 'transformed' in 2012.

• Terence McKenna's numerological novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.
  
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