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    Fan Since 1973 Twisted_Dawg's Avatar
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    Coming into the NBA, our top shelf point guard James Silas tore up a knee and never was the same.

    A few years later, another top young player. Johnny Moore's career was ended with the disease desert fever.

    The in the last week of the 2000 season, Tim Duncan tore up a knee which prevented the Spurs from defending their championship.

    Wow! Unbelievable the amount of bad luck we have had over the years.
    I mean can you imagine Kobe tearing up a knee a week before the playoffs started? Or, Wade catching Desert fever? I know Boston had the Len Bias affair, but no team has had more bad luck than the Spurs. And yet we have four rings.

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    Clippers? Portland?

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    Gig em ajballer4's Avatar
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    2004- .4

    2006- "the foul"

    08,09,10,11- Manu injuries

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    Ur a fkn wanker Venti Quattro's Avatar
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    Consider your franchise lucky to have won four rings. I don't get some fans.

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    About the 0.4 shot - you need to bear in mind that Duncan just made a very improbable shot of his own, right before then, that gave the Spurs the lead. Sure, Fisher's 0.4 shot was highly unlikely, but then again, Duncan's was unlikely too. It's a game that the Spurs could well have lost anyway.

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    1998 - Tim Duncan injured
    2000 - Tim Duncan injured
    2001 - David Robinson injured, Derek Anderson injured
    2002 - David Robinson injured
    2004 - .4
    2006 - The Foul
    2008 - Manu Ginobili injured
    2009 - Manu Ginobili injured
    2010 - Manu Ginobili injured
    2011 - Manu Ginobili injured


    Just to get all the excuses in one place, tbh.

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    About the 0.4 shot - you need to bear in mind that Duncan just made a very improbable shot of his own, right before then, that gave the Spurs the lead. Sure, Fisher's 0.4 shot was highly unlikely, but then again, Duncan's was unlikely too. It's a game that the Spurs could well have lost anyway.
    The Spurs could have still won the next game. That was not a championship team. A championship team comes back and wins that series.

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    Considering our three trips to the lottery resulted in three retired jerseys hanging in the rafters, I'd say our luck has been pretty good.

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    No Regard for Human Life AlleyOopNazi's Avatar
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    No luck involved gettting TD in the lottery, and to keep him surrounded by enough talent to manage the success that they have...? hmm

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    We have had some pretty good luck as well:

    Got lucky with 2 #1 lottery draft picks
    Sean's Memorial Day Miracle
    Draft day steals in Manu and Tony.

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    In Manu we STILL trust! rayray2k8's Avatar
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    We have had some pretty good luck as well:

    Got lucky with 2 #1 lottery draft picks
    Sean's Memorial Day Miracle
    Draft day steals in Manu and Tony.
    Thats more of the spurs doing their homework than luck.

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    Got Woke? DMC's Avatar
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    That Rasho for Bonner thing was a windfall.

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    Fan Since 1973 Twisted_Dawg's Avatar
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    We have had some pretty good luck as well:

    Got lucky with 2 #1 lottery draft picks
    Sean's Memorial Day Miracle
    Draft day steals in Manu and Tony.
    This thread is a parody of the "Does any team luck out as much as the Spurs?". Keep the reporting to bad luck only on this thread.

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    1998 - Tim Duncan injured
    2000 - Tim Duncan injured
    2001 - David Robinson injured, Derek Anderson injured
    2002 - David Robinson injured
    2004 - .4
    2006 - The Foul
    2008 - Manu Ginobili injured
    2009 - Manu Ginobili injured
    2010 - Manu Ginobili injured
    2011 - Manu Ginobili injured


    Just to get all the excuses in one place, tbh.

    can I get a link of "The Foul" so I could watch it again?

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    Damns (Given): 0 Blake's Avatar
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    Easily Portland.

    The Clippers are just stupid.

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    can I get a link of "The Foul" so I could watch it again?

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    i thought this topic was based on sarcasm at first, then i realized people were trying to provide evidence.

    wow

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    Go Spurs Go!! dbreiden83080's Avatar
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    WTF are you asking for more or something????

    close thread please...

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    New york Knicks have the worst luck. I actually call it "New York Knicks" luck when all your players start falling during or near the playoffs. Such casualties include the Chicago Bulls, possibly Miami Heat is the injury to Wade is true and the Los Angeles Clippers......oh and of course the New York Knicks

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    Brent avoided the contact. He should have gone straight up or tried to sell the foul.

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    I love craft beer. Sense's Avatar
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    Is that "THE foul"?

    I've been thinking it was Ginobili's foul on Dirk.


    EDIT: I guess I'm not the bad fan... this one isn't THE FOUL...

    You should remember THE FOUL... Even timvp gave you the year of that mistake.


    If it wasn't for that foul the Spurs probably 3 peat tbh..
    Last edited by Sense; 05-19-2012 at 03:59 AM.

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    Bad luck?

    Spurs have statistically been the best pro sports team in the last decade or so. Plus they've landed top draft picks on two of their very few non playoff years which became Robinson and Duncan. I'm sure there's a long list of teams that would love to have our bad luck.

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    I'm sorry but we've won 4 les since I started watching basketball (Duncan's rookie year I was 6 years old.) We also managed to draft the greatest power forward to ever play the game, how unlucky can one team get?

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