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I became a Spurs fan in 1976. Pretty sweet deal. From the Gervin era, through the Robinson era, and now through the Duncan era this team has always been great to cheer for. Quite remarkable for a small-market team from south Texas.
Spurs are 1/100th of a percentage point of catching Lakers for best career NBA winning percentage.
Spurs' all time NBA record- 1884-1184. This is a 61.41% winning percentage
Lakers all time NBA record - 3197-2008. This is a 61.42% winning percentage
Is Spurs win 6 more games than Lakers this year( a lock), they will become winningest NBA franchise.
We Spurs fans are super spoiled.
Spurs have only 4 losing seasons in 38 years. ( and in 2 of those 4 years, the Spurs had the good fortune to win the draft lottery and they bounced back to break the NBA record for most improvement. 35 wins and 36 wins, in DRob's and TD's rookie seasons)
On the contrary, some Western teams are not so good:
The Clippers have 31 losing seasons in same time frame
The Warriors 29, the Kings 24
The 3 other teams that came into the NBA with the Spurs in 1976 have not been so hot either.
Pacers 18 losing seasons,the Nuggets 16 losing seasons and the Nets 21 losing seasons
I guess one day the Spurs will have some lean years, but for now, let's just thank our lucky stars that we have this franchise to root for for the last 38 years.
I became a Spurs fan in 1976. Pretty sweet deal. From the Gervin era, through the Robinson era, and now through the Duncan era this team has always been great to cheer for. Quite remarkable for a small-market team from south Texas.
I have a picture of my then girlfriend( now wife) and me with Ice taken in 1977.
Also in another taken that same day with Mark Olberding (she thought he was hot)
I was born the year The Chaps moved from Dallas. I got to meet Gilmore, Moore, Gervin.... pretty sweet run we've had, many more to come .
Nice Stat. Thanks for showing it.
This is nor related to my thread but did not want to start another thread.
Scotty Pippen was interviewed on NBAradio yesterday and he was asked what player today reminds him of himself by his style of play.
His answer: Our own Kawhi Leonard.
Sure thing. Got to fill in the next 4 months somehow.
After I graduated from college and came back to SA in '75 I began to follow the Spurs somewhat. And then their first NBA game happened. I was hooked after that because they beat the NBA's 76'ers! I saved the whole newspaper article but lost it over the years. Could only find the box score after searching around. But the website has a great write up about the game, telling about how Kobe Bryant's dad played that game for the 76'ers and the IceMan not being the top scorer. Really cool!
http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/articl..._score/9691576
Hard to believe The Whopper ever scored 27 points in a game.
Good stuff, Jim - thanks!
I became a Spur fan in their very first year here in San Antonio, in 1973 and played in the old ABA, and went to games in the Hemisfair Arena, watched them through the Gervin years and became part of the NBA, watched as they raised the roof on the Hemisfair Arena, watched as they got David and built the Alamodome and tore down the Arena, and watched and celebrated their first championship in 1999, watched their subsequent championships since then and as they played in the A,T, & T Center.
I watched and rooted for them even though the NFL came here in the form of the New Orleans Saints who was the ONLY NFL team to play a regular season game here, not only one, but four, on the heals of hurricane Katrina, and were in the process of moving here permanently to be the San Antonio Saints until siderailed by Jerry Jones and the NFL commissioner. I watched the Spurs as the Marlins MLB league flirted with coming here too.
And I continue to watch as the MLB team Oakland Athletics want to move here to play in the Alamodome now.
I say this because the Spurs will always be my favorite professional team in all of sports no matter what other teams move here.
I became a Spurs fan as a kid during the old Kersey, Porter, Drexler, Trailblazer rivalry days.. I can remember holy water being tossed on a 25" CRT trying to push the Spurs to a win..good times
Then you remember the ill advised Rod Strickland behind the back pass to what was supposed to be Elliott that turned the ball over at the end of the game?
We had that game in our hands......instead Portland goes to Finals to meet the Bulls rather than us.
Diaw would have made that pass right on target.
That was probably Ice's least points scored that season.After I graduated from college and came back to SA in '75 I began to follow the Spurs somewhat. And then their first NBA game happened. I was hooked after that because they beat the NBA's 76'ers! I saved the whole newspaper article but lost it over the years. Could only find the box score after searching around. But the website has a great write up about the game, telling about how Kobe Bryant's dad played that game for the 76'ers and the IceMan not being the top scorer. Really cool!
http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/articl..._score/9691576
Not really an accurate statistic…Comparing 67 years of the most storied franchise in the history of sports to a fudged Spurs year….Should actually include the Dallas Chaparrals years with”O” fan attendance…But the early Spurs years were fun as well…5 cent beer night, empty rodeo arena and free guacamole to throw at Larry brown...
Oh yea...Good afternoon Dr Jim...
uva ride.
i was a convert the first time i saw Duncan play as a rookie vs Karl "the Milkman" Malone.....i guess that makes me a band wagon fan, but, that doesn't stop me from enjoying it like crazy.
though, i did have that in' Iceman Nike poster, still do, from waaay back
but, enough about me, how about those Spurs?....quietly re-writing history
That's a fascinating box score. Weird they included the FG totals only and then the FT makes and misses. I've forgotten what it was like before the internet. I used to turn on the end of the evening news for nothing more than brief league box scores, no clips. I loved when a toll free news service went up where you could dial in for various scores. This was the early 90s.After I graduated from college and came back to SA in '75 I began to follow the Spurs somewhat. And then their first NBA game happened. I was hooked after that because they beat the NBA's 76'ers! I saved the whole newspaper article but lost it over the years. Could only find the box score after searching around. But the website has a great write up about the game, telling about how Kobe Bryant's dad played that game for the 76'ers and the IceMan not being the top scorer. Really cool!
http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/articl..._score/9691576
Damn, Silas had a Westbrook esque night from the officials that game
Hi Camper.Not really an accurate statistic…Comparing 67 years of the most storied franchise in the history of sports to a fudged Spurs year….Should actually include the Dallas Chaparrals years with”O” fan attendance…But the early Spurs years were fun as well…5 cent beer night, empty rodeo arena and free guacamole to throw at Larry brown...
Oh yea...Good afternoon Dr Jim...
I think 38 years is a big enough sample, statistically speaking.
If you want to feel better though, the Lakers have missed the playoffs only 3 times since 76, compared to the Spurs who have missed 4 times.
But next year, they will be tied in that category.
Our two PGs shot 23 FTs.
After I graduated from college and came back to SA in '75 I began to follow the Spurs somewhat. And then their first NBA game happened. I was hooked after that because they beat the NBA's 76'ers! I saved the whole newspaper article but lost it over the years. Could only find the box score after searching around. But the website has a great write up about the game, telling about how Kobe Bryant's dad played that game for the 76'ers and the IceMan not being the top scorer. Really cool!
http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/articl..._score/9691576
Wow, look at Kobe, he had only 4 points for the 76ers that night.
Moved to San Antonio in 1992 when I was only 4-5 years old (depends on what month in '92, can't recall). My new stepfather, in an effort to bond with me, took the family to our first Spurs game. I can't remember the game or the opponent, but I do remember what it was like to see the court for the first time from our sets in the Alamodome.
It was actually pretty sweet to get to watch Game 5 this year with him. If the Spurs don't ring again, I'll be extremely satisfied that I got to watch Tim Duncan's last championship with the man who brought the Spurs into my life.
If anything the Spurs have taught me to enjoy the good moments and learn from the bad ones, because it's the bad moments that make it worth working for the good ones.
That is a given...If you want to feel better though, the Lakers have missed the playoffs only 3 times since 76, compared to the Spurs who have missed 4 times.
That was the first of many heartbreaks for me. Didn't get any better the following year when Run TMC knocked us out in the first round.Then you remember the ill advised Rod Strickland behind the back pass to what was supposed to be Elliott that turned the ball over at the end of the game?
We had that game in our hands......instead Portland goes to Finals to meet the Bulls rather than us.
Diaw would have made that pass right on target.
After I graduated from college and came back to SA in '75 I began to follow the Spurs somewhat. And then their first NBA game happened. I was hooked after that because they beat the NBA's 76'ers! I saved the whole newspaper article but lost it over the years. Could only find the box score after searching around. But the website has a great write up about the game, telling about how Kobe Bryant's dad played that game for the 76'ers and the IceMan not being the top scorer. Really cool!
http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/articl..._score/9691576
George Karl went off that game!!
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