Spurs are 2011 Southwest Division Champions!

[TampaDude]

The Blazers just defeated the Mavericks, 104-96.

Therefore, the Spurs are the 2011 Southwest Division Champions!!!!!

[tdunk21]

someone in the other thread said 4 more wins can get us the HCA ......

Go Spurs Go

[Dex]

Now to keep the lock on the Lakers.

[Chieflion]

Mav/Laker fan: Okay, congratulations on your divisional championship. So when is the riverwalk parade for the divisional championship?

[Sean Cagney]

One small step, one giant leap for mankind (If it were the mavs they would throw a party tonight all over town!). Mavs get OWNED again, before it was Dirk got hurt and we went too far behind losing those games, but Tim gets hurt and we go 0-4 and lost 6 in a row, so we are now even there and they can STFU! We are dead even now losing our star player and losses in a row basically! Thats the only reason they trailed us though remember?

BTW where is Amarelooms and his gay ass elephants now? They are deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

[ElNono]

[DeadlyDynasty]

Congrats. Well-earned.

[Libri]

[Strategic]

Congrats to the Good Guys for nailing down the toughest division in the league!!

[Budkin]

I'll be heading down to Academy tomorrow for the T-shirt.

[crc21209]

[DesignatedT]

Cool.

[GSH]

When the Russians were trying to take Afghanistan, there was a joke that one of their air force commanders asked the other one, "By the way... who won the ground war?" (Hopefully that's obvious enough that I don't have to explain the similarities.)

[++SaiNt TiAg0++]

^ thats a of an example, you retired???

yeah its better than not finishing what we started even though it was nauseating !!!

man keep it up spurs, develope the second coming of "twin towers" one last time for timmy pop!!

[mexicanjunior]

[slick'81]

yeah yeah

[baseline bum]

[milkyway21]

Not yet. I think they need to win 3 more (?)
But it ends the Sun's hope for a playoff berth

beating Cleveland, nice you made it this time NY :

[SourCandy]

congrats. tough division.

[biziofromdowntown]

first step

[Bukefal]

[hsxvvd]

Ready to overlook this achievement with the Lakers race going on... But this is one of an achievement.

Even more so when you look at the division... Compare that to the over hyped bulls and their division full of losing teams!

[FromWayDowntown]

We treat these things as being pretty insignificant, but to a lot of franchises -- even some of the old line clubs -- winning a division le would be a pretty big deal. Since the merger, the Spurs have won the division le 17 times in 35 seasons. In that span, only the Lakers have won more (18); and only Boston (15) is even close to SA and LAL.

Division les Since Merger
18 -- LAL
17 -- SA
15 -- BOS
9 -- DET
8 -- MIL, UTH
7 -- CHI, MIA, SEA/OKC
6 -- DEN, PNX
5 -- ORL, PHIL
4 -- HOU, IND, NJ, PRT
3 -- ATL, DAL, NYK, SAC
2 -- CLE
1 -- MIN, HORNETS, TOR, WAS
NONE -- GST, LAC, MEM

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

NONE -- GST, LAC, MEM

Sweet. We could trade a banner or two to the Grizz for Mayo and it still wouldn't be the worst trade they ever did.

[703 Spurz]

Not yet. I think they need to win 3 more (?)
But it ends the Sun's hope for a playoff berth

beating Cleveland, nice you made it this time NY :

The best the Mavs can finish is 58-24, which is the same the Spurs can finish if they lose their last 5. Since SA won the series this year 3-1, they win the tiebreaker.

If the Lakers win their last 6 games, the Spurs need to win 4 of 5 (they could lose to LA and still win the conference) to guarantee themselves the #1 seed.