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San Antonio Spurs Team History

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  • San Antonio Spurs - Larry Kenon

    Coming to San Antonio

    While the Chaparrals had been modestly successful on the court, they were sinking financially by their third season, largely because the ownership group refused to spend much money on the team. After missing the playoffs for the first time in their existence in the 1972 – 1973 season, nearly all of the owners wanted out. A group of 36 San ...
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  • NBA - ABA Merger 1976

    ABA-NBA Merge

    Even though playoff success would elude the team, the Spurs had suddenly found themselves among the top teams in the ABA. Moreover, their gaudy attendance figures made them very attractive to the NBA, despite the size of the market. Although San Antonio had over 650,000 people at the time and has since grown to become the seventh-largest city in the ...
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  • Red McCombs Spurs Team Owner

    Red McCombs Ownership

    McCombs’ first entry into sports came in 1972 when he joined Angelo Drossos and several other San Antonio businessmen in leasing the struggling Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association and moving them to San Antonio as the Spurs. The Spurs proved to be a runaway hit, leading Drossos and McCombs to tear up the lease agreement and buy the ...
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  • NBA Finals 1999 - Knicks vs Spurs

    NBA Finals Winner 1999

    NBA Finals – 1999 The 1999 NBA Finals was the championship round of the shortened 1998 – 1999 NBA season or the 1999 season. The San Antonio Spurs of the Western Conference took on the New York Knicks of the Eastern Conference for the title, with the Spurs holding home-court advantage. The series was played under a best-of-seven format, with ...
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  • ROBINSON DUNCAN

    NBA Finals Winner 2003

    NBA Finals – 2003 The 2003 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2002 – 2003 NBA season. The San Antonio Spurs of the Western Conference took on the New Jersey Nets of the Eastern Conference for the title, with the Spurs holding home-court advantage. The series was played under a best-of-seven format. The Spurs won the series 4 ...
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  • NBA Finals 2005 - Detroit vs San Antonio

    NBA Finals Winner 2005

    NBA Finals – 2005 The 2005 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2004 – 2005 National Basketball Association season. The San Antonio Spurs of the Western Conference faced the Detroit Pistons of the Eastern Conference for the title, with the Spurs holding home-court advantage and the Pistons as defending champions. The series was played under a best-of-seven format. ...
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  • NBA Finals 2007 - Cavs vs Spurs

    NBA Finals Winner 2007

    NBA Finals – 2007 The 2007 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2006 – 2007 National Basketball Association season and was the conclusion of the 2007 NBA Playoffs. The best-of-seven series was played between the Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs and the Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers. This was Cleveland’s first trip to the NBA Finals in ...
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  • 2014 NBA Finals - Game Five

    NBA Finals Winner 2014

    NBA Finals – 2014 The 2014 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2013 – 2014 season of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the conclusion of the season’s playoffs. The Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs defeated the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat in five games (4–1) for the Spurs’ fifth NBA championship in the franchise’s history. The ...
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The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. The Spurs compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league’s Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its home games at the AT&T Center in San Antonio.

The Spurs are one of four former American Basketball Association (ABA) teams to remain intact in the NBA after the 1976 ABA–NBA merger and the only former ABA team to have won an NBA championship. The Spurs’ five NBA championships are the fourth most in history behind only the Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, and Chicago Bulls. The Spurs currently rank first among active franchises for the highest winning percentage in NBA history, and have a winning head-to-head regular season record against every active NBA franchise.





Established
1967

City
Dallas – San Antonio

League History
1976 – Present / National Basketball Association
1967 – 1976 / American Basketball Association

Team History
1973 – Present / San Antonio Spurs
1970 – 1971 / Texas Chaparrals
1967 – 1970, 1971 – 1973 / Dallas Chaparrals

Nickname
Spurs – A group of San Antonio investors purchased the Dallas Chaparrals from the American Basketball Association in 1973 and promptly changed the team name to the San Antonio Gunslingers. Before the Gunslingers played their first game in their new home, the ownership group renamed the team the Spurs. Some accounts indicate that the name was voted upon in a name the team contest. It may have just been a coincidence that one of the team’s main investors, Red McCombs, was born in Spur, Texas.

Championship
NBA Championships 5
2014, 2007, 2005, 2003, 1999
ABA Championships 0

Arena
2005 – Present / AT&T Center
2002 – 2005 / SBC Center
1993 – 2002 / Alamodome
1973 – 1993 / HemisFair Arena

*Fort Worth*
1970 – 1971 / Tarrant County Coliseum

*Lubbock*
1970 – 1971 / Lubbock Municipal Coliseum

*Dallas*
1967 – 1973 / Dallas Memorial Auditorium

Owner
1993 – Present / Peter Holt
1988 – 1993 / Red McCombs
1973 – 1988 / Angelo Drossos
1967 – 1973 / Bob Folsom

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Retired Number
00 / Johnny Moore
6 / Avery Johnson
9 / Tony Parker
12 / Bruce Bowen
13 / James Silas
20 / Manu Ginobili
21 / Tim Duncan
32 / Sean Elliott
44 / George Gervin
50 / David Robinson

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