San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio.
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54 Facts About San Antonio Spurs
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The Spurs compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league's Western Conference Southwest Division.
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The San Antonio Spurs have consistently posted winning road records during this period, including an NBA-record longest single road-trip winning streak.
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San Antonio Spurs started out as the Dallas Chaparrals of the original version of the American Basketball Association.
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San Antonio embraced the Spurs with open arms; the Spurs drew 6,303 fans per game, surpassing the Chaparrals' entire total attendance in only 18 games.
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However, in the playoffs, the San Antonio Spurs would be stunned in six games by the Washington Bullets despite an outstanding series from Gervin who averaged 33.
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The San Antonio Spurs would have to wait another 20 years to make it to their first NBA Finals.
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San Antonio Spurs would go on to capture five division titles in their first seven years in the NBA and became a perennial playoff participant.
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The losing seasons and dwindling attendance often caused the San Antonio Spurs to be mentioned as a potential candidate for relocation to another city.
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The San Antonio Spurs used this selection on United States Naval Academy standout David Robinson.
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The next game, Sean Elliott recorded 23 points and David Robinson added 18 points and 19 rebounds as the San Antonio Spurs got their first win of the season against the visiting New Jersey Nets.
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The San Antonio Spurs reached the Western Conference Finals, but lost to the eventual NBA Champion Houston Rockets.
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The San Antonio Spurs used their pick to select Wake Forest product and consensus All-American Tim Duncan.
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San Antonio Spurs was named First Team All-NBA while winning Rookie of the Year honors.
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The San Antonio Spurs became the first former ABA team to reach and win the NBA Finals.
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The next game, the San Antonio Spurs were on the road to face the winless Memphis Grizzlies.
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The following game, the San Antonio Spurs were down by three points at halftime against the visiting Warriors, but then scored 31 points in the third quarter to put the game away, clinching their fourth win of the season.
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Three days after, the San Antonio Spurs were dealt by the visiting Trail Blazers their first home loss of the season.
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However, it would be hardly a bump in the road for the charging San Antonio Spurs, who won eight of the nine and began to climb their way to first place.
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The San Antonio Spurs went on to erase their seven-game deficit and finished the season in a tie with the Dallas Mavericks for the best record in the NBA.
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Thanks to a tiebreaker, the San Antonio Spurs won their third straight Division title as Tim Duncan claimed his second straight NBA MVP.
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The first two games in San Antonio were both Spurs' victories as Ginobili led the way with 26 and 27 points.
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However, as the series shifted to Detroit, the San Antonio Spurs lost Games 3 and 4 by big margins as the Pistons tied the series.
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Not surprisingly, the San Antonio Spurs would come flying out of the gate, winning 16 of their first 19 games.
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Once again, the San Antonio Spurs would get challenged within their own division by the Dallas Mavericks as they held the two best records in the Western Conference all season, battling for first place.
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The San Antonio Spurs cruised through the first round, while the first-seeded Dallas Mavericks were upset.
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Those who said the second-round series against the Suns was the true NBA Finals would be proven right, as the San Antonio Spurs easily dispatched the Utah Jazz in five games to reach the NBA Finals.
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The San Antonio Spurs faced hurdles but would make it to the Western Conference Finals, but lose to the Lakers in five games.
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The San Antonio Spurs sent 38-year-old Bruce Bowen, 36-year-old Kurt Thomas, and 34-year-old Fabricio Oberto to the Bucks, who swapped Oberto to the Detroit Pistons for Amir Johnson.
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San Antonio Spurs held three picks in the second round in the 2009 draft.
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The San Antonio Spurs were swept out of the playoffs in the following round by the Phoenix Suns.
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In 2011, a change to the San Antonio Spurs' philosophy set the stage for the next successful run in the club's history.
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Out went the stream of last-legs, wizened veterans that the San Antonio Spurs had relied on to fill out the rotation behind the Big Three.
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San Antonio Spurs clinched the playoffs for a 16th consecutive season, as well as extended the NBA record with 50+ games for 14 consecutive seasons.
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The San Antonio Spurs would meet the defending champion Miami Heat in the NBA Finals.
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In Game 6, the San Antonio Spurs were on the verge of winning their fifth NBA title.
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San Antonio was up five points with 28 seconds to go in regulation.
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In Game 7, San Antonio jumped out to a lead early and kept the game close the entire way.
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San Antonio Spurs returned with their core roster largely intact, adding free agents Marco Belinelli and Jeff Ayres while losing Gary Neal to the Milwaukee Bucks.
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San Antonio played the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals, which marked the third straight appearance in the Western Conference Finals for the Spurs, and defeated them in six games to advance to the Finals for a second straight year for a rematch with the Miami Heat.
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The San Antonio Spurs would go on to win the 2014 NBA championship in five games.
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The San Antonio Spurs blew out Miami in all of their wins, each of them by 15 or more points.
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San Antonio Spurs acquired four-time All-Star power forward LaMarcus Aldridge and veteran big man David West during the off-season.
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In June 2018, following months of reports of growing tension between Leonard's camp and the San Antonio Spurs stemming from a disagreement over his injury rehabilitation process, reports indicated that Leonard had requested a trade.
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The San Antonio Spurs signed forwards Quincy Pondexter and Dante Cunningham, guard Marco Belinelli, and re-signed guard Bryn Forbes and forward Rudy Gay.
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The San Antonio Spurs were hurt by poor three-point shooting and by injuries to starting guard Derrick White; however, Keldon Johnson and other young players made positive strides over the course of the season.
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San Antonio reached 50 wins for a 14th consecutive season, the longest streak in NBA history.
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At times throughout the season, the San Antonio Spurs wear a jersey that says "Los San Antonio Spurs" on the front, in recognition of Latino fans both at home and across the US and Latin America.
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The San Antonio Spurs were one of the first NBA teams to wear these branded jerseys.
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The San Antonio Spurs have had the most players from Latin America and are one of only three NBA teams who have had at least five players on their rosters who originate from Latin America and Spain, the others being the Memphis Grizzlies and the Portland Trail Blazers.
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The San Antonio Spurs have had past success in finding foreign talent; some examples of this success include the selections of second-rounder Manu Ginobili and first-rounder Tony Parker, who both went on to become All-Stars.
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