It's time for the Spurs to pay up.(NBA)

It has been two weeks, so the shock of Derek Fisher's dagger jumper--the one that took a scant four-tenths of a second to dash the title hopes of the defending champion Spurs and the pre-playoff prediction of yours truly--has settled in and run its course. The tide of hate mail from L.A. has ebbed, thankfully. Now all that is left is to wonder what on earth happened to the Spurs, and what do they do from here?

We probably should have been a little more suspicious of this team from the get-go because it was obvious it was suspicious of itself. The Spurs knew what their potential postseason problem was, even back in February. They needed shooting. The team was ...