Basketball Daily

The season opener between the San Antonio Spurs and Phoenix Suns was a thrilling and exciting game.  If this game is any insight on the upcoming season, basketball fans are in for a treat.

In a comedic fashion, Greg Popovich announced to the floor to foul Shaq immediately at the very start of the game.  The hack-a-shaq was widely criticized by the diesel in the Playoffs last year, and Pop thought it would be funny to start this year the same.  Both Shaq and Pop had a great laugh together in the first few seconds of the game.

Phoenix ended up beating San Antonio in a 103-98 victory, where Shaq and company got the last hurrah over the Spurs.  Amare Stoudemire was the high man for the Suns with 22 points, and Shaq ended up with 15 points and 13 rebounds in a dominant fashion.

Tim Duncan and Tony Parker played a fabulous game both ending with 32 points, but without Manu Ginoboli who is likely to be out until December due to injury, the Spurs seemed destined to lose.

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