The San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder still have a few more days to wait until Game 1 of their Western Conference Finals series set to kick off this Sunday. So in the meantime, Danny Green took time to speak about the upcoming series with Jim Rome of CBS Sports.

Check out what Green had to say including what worries him about the Thunder, how the team is only focused on a title, possibly defending Russell Westbrook, his road to the NBA and much more.

The spotlight will be on the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder's point guard matchup -- Tony Parker versus Russell Westbrook. Both All-Star guards have their team's peaking at the right moment and both are headed for a collision course this Sunday in San Antonio.

For Parker, he has faced Devin Harris and Chris Paul en route to the Western Conference Finals while Westbrook had to face Jason Kidd and Ramon Sessions. Needless to say, TP has had to face tougher competition at the point guard spot than Westbrook did.

And it is this point that Parker says Westbrook hasn't faced a point guard like him.

Parker said ''it's not going to be like Dallas or the Lakers'' for Westbrook, adding that their point guards are ''not as aggressive'' as the Spurs' leading scorer.

In eight games in the playoffs, TP has averaged 19.1 points, 7.1 assists, 3.4 rebounds, and shooting 43% from the field. Westbrook has averaged 24.1 points, 4.4 assists, 4.7 rebounds, and shooting 47% from the field in nine games in the playoffs for the Thunder.

The San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder do not kick off the 2012 Western Conference Finals until Sunday night so the guys over at NBA TV broke down Game 1 of the series.

Former Spur Brent Barry says the Spurs' experience will win out in the end but Sam Mitchell feels the Thunder will upset the Spurs due to them having to deal with tougher teams in the playoffs. Check out what the panel had to say about the series.

What do you have to say Spurs fans? What's your prediction on the series?

The San Antonio Spurs swept the Utah Jazz, swept the Los Angeles Clippers, won 18-games in a row, and are looking like the only team that can beat them, is themselves.

And it is because of this dominant and impressive showing during the playoffs that many feel San Antonio is a juggernaut and are close to unbeatable. They have an inside game, perimeter game, reliable perimeter shooters, can play an up-tempo game and can play in the half-court when needed.

In an interview with French-site Sports.fr, Boris Diaw says the Spurs are not unbeatable as many feel. And as he and the team are about to face the Oklahoma City Thunder, Diaw says the team has to play even harder if they want a chance at winning the series.

It's true, we have played well at the moment, but we are not unbeatable either. Against Oklahoma City, it will be up to us to play as hard as possible, to give everything not to lose. They too are almost unbeatable in the playoffs because they have only lost one game (against the Los Angeles Lakers). They have played at a high level since the beginning of the season. That is the strength of San Antonio today is having both a good defense and, as soon as one gets the ball, to go as soon as possible in attack and score. There are really two aspects to this team. It has changed a bit since two years. Previously, the Spurs were trying to slow down the tempo. Now, the ball moves, the game is more oriented to the attack.

The Spurs-Thunder series will be an exciting series and many feel this will determine the eventual NBA champion but the Spurs will not have an easy time as they did versus the Jazz and Clippers. And Diaw knows this and says the Spurs are not the favorites in the series and the Spurs must have a healthy respect for OKC.

Whenever I walk into the visitor’s locker room at the AT&T Center, home court of the San Antonio Spurs, two of the most common objects I see are a white marker board and a T.V. screen with Spurs footage being played continuously.

As the Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder wait patiently to face each other on Sunday, there’s probably one Thunder player taking notes of the Spurs’ sweep of the Los Angeles Clippers. That player is most likely James Harden, and the footage he’s watching is probably that of Eric Bledsoe.

Using Bledsoe as a guide to find a way to attack the Spurs, Harden will be preparing himself well. Bledsoe had a 17-point game-one (8/10 FG) and a 23-point game-four (10/16 FG) against the Spurs. Bledsoe was quick, strong, and explosive at either getting to the rim or hitting the mid-range jumper with consistency. Harden is like Bledsoe on an even higher level. He’s quick, strong, taller, can drive and shoot, and Harden is a lefty which makes him a mirror version of Manu Ginobili in a way.

Bledsoe really exploited the Spurs’ lack of perimeter defense in their second unit, because Danny Green, Kawhi Leonard, and Tony Parker were all busy defending Chris Paul, Randy Foye, and Caron Butler. Bledsoe really took advantage of Ginobili and especially Gary Neal. He was too quick for Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich to put Stephen Jackson on him, and the only time Bledsoe was limited was when either Green or Leonard were put to defend him on certain possessions.

The Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs Western Conference Finals is easily the most anticipated series of the 2012 NBA Playoffs.  The series doesn't start until Sunday but already anyone who is talking about basketball is being asked about who they think is going to win the series, even guys who just got eliminated by one of those two teams. 

Take reigning Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki for example.  His team got bounced from the playoffs in the first round against the Thunder so you'd think the last thing he'd want to do is talk about his chief rival and the team that eliminated him from the playoffs.  Still, Dirk is talking about the Conference Finals and as ESPN Dallas reports, Der German has some very nice things to say about the Spurs.

"I think San Antonio's going to do it, just because they've got one more home game," he said during Tuesday's appearance on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM's "Galloway & Company." "They really came on strong late in the season and they snatched home-court advantage away from OKC. So, I got to think just by that there is a little slight advantage. But honestly, both teams are good enough to win on the opponent's floor, so I would give a slight advantage to San Antonio, but, man, OKC is looking really good."

Even before he stepped on an NBA court, Oklahoma City Thunder's James Harden wanted to emulate his game after San Antonio Spurs' Manu Ginobili and now the two will finally square off in the 2012 Western Conference Finals.

Both are deadly coming off the bench for their respective teams and both have won the Sixth Man of the Year award before.

So while many may be looking at Tony Parker vs. Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant versus whichever "lucky" Spurs player who has to guard him, or the Spurs'  "Big 3" versus the Thunder's "Big 3," the Ginobili-Harden matchup will be one to definitely keep an eye on starting this Sunday in San Antonio

Check out this video comparison-highlight reel of the two players in action including footage of Harden stating he sees himself as a Ginobili-type player back n 2009.

San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard was named to the 2011-12 NBA All-Rookie first team today, according to an announcement from the NBA.

Leonard becomes the second straight Spurs player to be named to the first team after Gary Neal was a part of the first team last season.

Shumpert, Leonard and Knight tied for the fifth spot on the All-Rookie First Team. Shumpert averaged 9.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.7 steals. Leonard posted 7.9 points, 5.1 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 1.1 assists. Knight tallied averages of 12.8 points, 3.8 assists and 3.2 rebounds.

Leonard got 14 first place votes and 12 second place votes to join Kyrie Irving, Ricky Rubio, Keneth Faired, Klay Thompson, Iman Shumpert and Brandon Knight on the first team.

For more on Leonard, read the feature on his rookie season and his performance in the playoffs here on Project Spurs.

The Western Conference Finals are set. The San Antonio Spurs will tip off against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night in what should be a very exciting series. The Spurs won the regular season series with the Thunder 2-1 but you can throw the regular season out the window when you get to the playoffs.

The Spurs will have to play their best basketball of the season if they want to get past the Thunder. It’s undeniable that San Antonio has been playing outstanding, and they honestly look like the best team in the NBA right now, but you can’t ignore the fact that their level of competition has been subpar. The Spurs matched up very well against the Jazz and Clippers, and took care of them with ease. The Thunder won’t go down so easily.

For the Spurs to succeed in this series, a lot rests on the shoulders of Tony Parker. Parker had a tough task against the Clippers, matching up with Chris Paul. He had his ups and downs but he has to play at his best level against OKC.

In the Spurs 2 wins this season against the Thunder, Parker scored 42 and 25 points and dropped 9 and 7 assists. In the loss, Parker had just 4 points on 1-8 shooting and 7 assists. He was incredible in the Spurs’ 107-96 win back in February and if he plays like that, the Spurs are going to be almost unstoppable.

The Western Conference Final is set and the West's two best teams (maybe the league's two best teams) tip off what should be an epic series. 

There are a lot of storylines and match ups to watch but probably the most important one is Tony Parker versus Russell Westbrook.  Two of the top five point guards (two of the top three?) in the NBA this season who use blinding speed to create shots for themselves that are nearly impossible to stop. 

It would do a disservice to the many other moving parts for both teams to say that whoever wins the Parker-Westbrook match up will win the series, but whether or not Westbrook can stay in front of Parker will go a long way in determining who ends up winning the West.

The San Antonio Spurs won the season series against the Thunder 2-1 in large part to Parker's brilliant play.  In the first game against the Oklahoma City Thunder in January, Parker was dreadful, scoring only four points in the Thunder blow out win over the Spurs.  The two Spurs wins?  Parker scored 42 points and dished out nine assists, the next game he scored 25 points and tallied seven assists.  If you look at the player vs. player comparison on NBA Stats Cube, Parker shot better and finished with a +/- of 10.7 with Westbrook on the court as opposed to with him on the bench.  Westbrook spends a lot of time covering Parker when they're in at the same time, and often times Parker goes crazy because despite his physical gifts, mainly freakish athleticism, Westbrook is a lazy defender.