Friday night (Feb. 21), San Antonio, winding up its annual “rodeo trip,” came into Phoenix minus Tony Parker and was blown out, 106-85. After I stopped laughing, I asked myself why the Spurs were so tired. During the nine-game span, they had five days off during the All-Star break. Now, unless Pop took the team to Vegas (in the past, some teams have done that), why were they “sleepy”? Actually, the schedule spread the nine games across 18 days. At the end of the 1964 season, the Philadelphia 76ers played eight games in eight days, traveling coast-to-coast … and with, at first, only seven men, before finishing the grueling stretch with nine. For more details, check my blog of Dec. 4, 2013.