What seed did the Champ Spurs come from?

[Fabbs]

What seed were we to begin the playoffs?:
1999 #1
2003 #1
2005 #2
2007 #3
courtesy FromWayDownTown

I'd like to do the rest of the NBA Champs too for comparisons sake.
While the Spurs are playing like crap and Pop is an Offensive moron strategywise, maybe a third seed is not such a bad thing.

[J.T.]

1999 #1
2003 #1
2005 #2
2007 #3

[FromWayDowntown]

1999 #1
2003 #1
2005 #2
2007 #3

Their seedings in other seasons in the Popovich-Duncan era:

1998 #5 (d. #4 PNX, l. #1 UTH)
2000 #4 (l. #5 PNX)
2001 #1 (d. #8 MIN, d. #5 DAL, l. #2 LAL)
2002 #2 (d. #7 SEA, l. #3 LAL)
2004 #3 (d. #6 MEM, l. #2 LAL)
2006 #1 (d. #8 SAC, l. #4 DAL)

[Fabbs]

2013 playoffs about to start.

[Hemotivo]

:tu

[MultiTroll]

What seed were we to begin the playoffs?:
1999 #1
2003 #1
2005 #2
2007 #3
courtesy FromWayDownTown

[MultiTroll]

What seed were we to begin the playoffs?:
1999 #1
2003 #1
2005 #2
2007 #3
2014 #1