San Antonio Spurs (No. 10th in the West)
The team was established in 1967 and named "Dallas Bush Team" to join American Basketball Association (ABA). In 1973, it moved to San Antonio to rename the "Spurs" and joined NBA in 1976, which belongs to Western League Southwest Division. Since joining the NBA, he has won 5 NBA championships, 6 Western Conference championships, and 22 division championships. He is the NBA team with the most championships besides the Boston Celtics, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls. He has only 7 times not entered playoffs , a pure "Western Powerhouse".
But I would rather give this team another nickname "Draft Winner". In the 20th century, the team failed to make the playoffs four times. The team used four lottery picks to select Elvin Robertson (7th pick in 1984), David Robinson (1st pick in 1987), Sean Oliot (3rd pick in 1989) and Tim Duncan (1st pick in 1997). " Stone Fo " Duncan played for the team for 19 years. Currently, they have won team scores, rebounds, blocks and other data in team history, and have brought 5 championships to San Antonio.
omitted the excessive historical traceability and only talked about 2 periods.
1997-2003: Twin Towers Period. In the 1996 season, the performance was poor due to the injuries of " Admiral " and other main players. The head coach was replaced in the middle of the season. Although Greg Popovich took over the coaching point, he still won the draft No. 1 pick with a poor record. The team also relied on this No. 1 pick to choose the dominant inside player Tim Duncan for many years in the future.
98-99 shrinking season, the Spurs ended with 31 wins and 5 losses in a bad start. In the playoffs, Western Conference strong teams such as Timberwolves , Lakers , Trail Blazers and other consecutive games to enter the finals, and defeated New York Knicks with a big score of 4-1, winning the team's first NBA championship. The teams in the regular season were able to win 50+ games in the following three seasons, but they were not lucky and were eliminated in the playoffs. In the 2002-03 season, after the team introduced Manuginobili and Tony Parker to expand the team's strength, Duncan won the regular season and playoffs MVPs in the season, and finally won the second championship trophy as he wished, which was the perfect end of the "two tower era".
2003-2018, GDP period. After the retirement of "Admiral" Robinson , Duncan, Parker , and Ginobili (GDP) still led the team, winning the championship trophy in the two seasons of 2004-05 and 2006-07. And under the magical training of coach Popovich , many non-loto players have been trained, such as George Hill, Kawhi Leonard , Danny Green , etc. The Warriors led by the team " Splash Brothers " in the playoffs for several consecutive years were defeated.
last season won 33 wins and 39 losses, tenth in the West, losing to the Grizzlies in the playoffs. This season, 34 wins and 48 losses, tenth in the Western Conference, lost to the Pelicans in the playoffs, ended in the playoffs for two consecutive seasons, and missed the playoffs for three consecutive seasons. Head coach Popovich is 73 years old and has the most winning coach in NBA history.
Currently, the team does not seem to have a core team building. Dezhangtai Murray is considered the main player of the internal team. The team's salary this season is 126 million, and the salary next season is not under much pressure. I am still quite confident in the management of Spurs . I believe that the old Spurs will "jump up" next season, haha!
