How many teams have won 5 games in 6 nights?

[jiggy_55]

Out of curiosity... Any team done it before the spurs accomplished it tonight?

[Darkwaters]

I think the Spurs did it in 2012

[jiggy_55]

I think the Spurs did it in 2012

I obviously meant OTHER than the spurs 5 wins in 6 nights completed today..

[Darkwaters]

I obviously meant OTHER than the spurs 5 wins in 6 nights completed today..

:lol

The original question didn't specify.

Sorry, I couldn't resist. It was too easy.

[FkLA]

Spurs are the first and only :)

[jestersmash]

Well played, Darkwaters

[jiggy_55]

:lol

The original question didn't specify.

Sorry, I couldn't resist. It was too easy.

I know :lol

[bbarry]

chicago did it
oklahoma city did it
la lakers and miami don't have 5 games in 6 nights
lolmavs couldn't even win a single game in a b2b2b

[Darkwaters]

Ok, since I played the jackass role up front I'll help you out.

I don't believe the league has done B2B2B games prior to this year. So any other team to have done it would have to have done it this season.

Now, the other one people keep touting is 6 games in 8 nights. That could happened in previous years under the following schedule:

Game
Game
Off
Game
Game
Off
Game
Game

So that could very well have happened in previous years. But the 5 games in 6 nights could only have happened this year.

[Darkwaters]

What makes it better is there are some quality wins in there in their own right. Don't even factor in the 5 in 6.

Dallas - always nice to beat them. Even at home. Especially by so much.
Philadelphia - decent team this year. Always good to beat another playoff team.
Phoenix - Super hot team right now. Plus the win was on the road.

Both the New Orleans and Sacto games aren't impressive in their own rights. Although, Sacto was a road game, and it's always harder on the road. But in reality, those are games you're supposed to win if you're SA.

[Proxy]

It might be something to brag about if the team were to ring... but lets not get too excited over something relatively meaningless... though the best part was giving necessary days off to the main/old guys.... and everyone that was 'injured' played tonight(Tiago, Neal).

[jiggy_55]

It might be something to brag about if the team were to ring... but lets not get too excited over something relatively meaningless... though the best part was giving necessary days off to the main/old guys.... and everyone that was 'injured' played tonight(Tiago, Neal).

Not bragging. It's great to pull it off WHILE resting your star players on some nights and missing some of the team's core bench players on a few other nights (Jax, Splitter, Neal). That's the most impressive part of this feat.

[buttsR4rebounding]

Out of curiosity... Any team done it before the spurs accomplished it tonight?

I remember the Rangers doing it last year...

[pookenstein]

I don't believe the league has done B2B2B games prior to this year. So any other team to have done it would have to have done it this season.

It has in the 98/99 season. Actually with even more b2b2b games than this year.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/33873/a-closer-look-at-scheduling-quirkiness

[100%duncan]

It might be something to brag about if the team were to ring... but lets not get too excited over something relatively meaningless... though the best part was giving necessary days off to the main/old guys.... and everyone that was 'injured' played tonight(Tiago, Neal).

So winning against 5 great to good teams in 6 nights is meaningless?

[Rapper]

only the 2012 spurs

[Darkwaters]

It has in the 98/99 season. Actually with even more b2b2b games than this year.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/33873/a-closer-look-at-scheduling-quirkiness

Good catch

[Seventyniner]

It has in the 98/99 season. Actually with even more b2b2b games than this year.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/33873/a-closer-look-at-scheduling-quirkiness

In that article, they mention the 71-72 Lakers kicking off their record 33-game winning streak with 3 wins in 3 nights (Nov. 5-7). So 98-99 wasn't the only other season with b2b2bs.

[YODA]

Article also mentions about 3/4 best records were the oldest teams in the NBA. How old is this team (2012) now compared to others??

[FromWayDowntown]

Back-to-back-to-backs were fairly common through the 70's and into the early 80's. Skimming through old Spurs' schedules, there was at least one b-2-b-2-b until about 1984-85.

And in the ABA days, the schedule was brutal. In 1973-74, the Spurs opened on a Wednesday at home, then had a game in Utah on a Friday, a game in Indiana on Saturday, and a home game on Sunday (a b-2-b-2-b). The following Tuesday, they played a home game, and then had a road game on Thursday, a road game on Friday, and a home game on Saturday. That's two back-to-back-to-backs in less than a week; they played 8 games in the first 11 days of the season. Later in that season, they played a game of 7 games in 8 days:

2/1/74 @ NY
2/2/74 @ Kentucky
2/3/74 v. Carolina
2/5/74 @ Denver
2/6/74 @ Utah
2/7/74 v. Utah
2/8/74 @ San Diego

In all the Spurs played 12 sets of back-to-back-to-backs that year and had 2 sets of 4 games in 4 nights.

[FromWayDowntown]

Article also mentions about 3/4 best records were the oldest teams in the NBA. How old is this team (2012) now compared to others??

Basketball-Reference says the Spurs are still among the 10 oldest teams in the league:

31.3 -- DAL
30.2 -- LAL
29.8 -- BOS
29.2 -- PNX
28.2 -- MIA
28.1 -- PRT
27.9 -- ATL
27.7 -- ORL
27.5 -- SA
27.4 -- LAC
27.0 -- CHI

http://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2012.html