In the 2000-2001 season, Elliott announced his retirement after playing 52 games, Elliott had 12 seasons in his career, including 11 seasons with the Spurs. His career average of 14.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game is not outstanding, but he still insists on playing after the kidney change, and this spirit infects the entire NBA league, so in 2005, Elliott's No. 32 jersey hung high over the ATT arena, and Elliott currently ranks sixth in team history with 9,799 points, eighth with 2,941 rebounds, and 1,700 assists for the Spurs. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The Spurs signed Derrick Anderson, who is known as "the most gorgeous player in Spurs history", with a value of $2.25 million a year, which is the team's most important addition this summer, Anderson is known as "Carter Jr.", with strong breakthrough ability, and good projection ability, dunks are very explosive, split dunks, big windmills, tomahawks are all at ease, and it is common to dunk every other person, and more importantly, Anderson also has a good ability to break through the ball, which makes him a bit of a match made in heaven between him and the Spurs Twin Towers, At that time, the Spurs Elliott was on the verge of retirement, and the other outside players were not capable enough to play the starting lineup, so Anderson's arrival was of extraordinary significance to the team. After he came to the Spurs, he averaged 15.5 points, 4.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game, Duncan averaged 22.2 points, 12.2 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game, Robinson averaged 14.4 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game, Avery Johnson only played 50 games due to injury, including only 20 starters, Johnson was a full 36 years old at this time, he was only able to average 5.6 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, and last year's big dragon guard Antonio Daniels became the team's sixth man this season, averaging 9.4 points and 3.8 assists per game.

After the NBA entered the 20000 years, it became the world of the newly rising "OK" combination, and the Lakers with O'Neal and Kobe Bryant slaughtered all sides in the regular season, which was terrifying, but at the end of the season, they were not the team with the best record in the West, and the Spurs quietly won 58 games and entered the playoffs as the first in the West.

In the playoffs, the Spurs' opponent in the first round was the Minnesota Timberwolves, Duncan and Garnett ushered in the second playoff matchup in their careers, Duncan averaged 22.5 points and 13.0 rebounds per game, shooting 46.6%, Garnett averaged 21.0 points and 12.0 rebounds per game, and the shooting rate was also 46.6%, but the team's result was exactly the same as the year before, no, it was still miserable for the Timberwolves, the last time it won a game, this time it was swept out 0:3.

In the second round, the Spurs' opponent was the Dallas Mavericks with Nowitzki, in the first game, the Spurs beat the Mavericks 94-78 with the help of Duncan's 31 points and 13 rebounds, but this is not the most important thing, in the game, Juwan Howard maliciously fouled Derrick Anderson, resulting in the latter's dislocated shoulder Season reimbursement - Anderson got a gap at the three-point line in the bottom right corner, but he did not choose to shoot three-pointers, but dribbled directly into the basket, holding the ball high and preparing for a tomahawk split, As a result, Juwan Howard, who ran over to make up for the defense, directly pulled Anderson from the air, Anderson lost his balance and fell heavily on the floor, dislocated his right shoulder, and directly withdrew from the game.

This season, even Duncan, who has always been honest, was angry with the Mavericks in front of the media and asked the league to severely punish Second Uncle Huo......

After five games, the Spurs eliminated the Mavericks 4:1, Duncan averaged 27.0 points and 17.4 rebounds per game to complete the Mavericks' interior line, while Nowitzki averaged 23.0 points and 8.6 rebounds per game.

In the Western Conference finals, the Spurs' opponent was the Los Angeles Lakers unsurprisingly, and Duncan and O'Neal also ushered in the second matchup of the playoffs!

In the first game, the Spurs lost 90:104, and it was not O'Neal who decided the game, but Kobe, without the restrictions of Derrick Anderson, Kobe Bryant alone beat the Spurs' outside line to a thousand holes, shooting 19 of 35 from the field and scoring 45 points, O'Neal scored 28 points and 11 rebounds, Duncan scored 28 points and 14 rebounds, and Antonio Daniels scored 20 points. Steve Kerr played 4 minutes in this game and only contributed 1 foul, and at the time, who would have imagined that in a few years, Kobe's retirement ceremony would overlap with Kerr's 73rd all-time win in charge of the Warriors?

In the second game, Duncan alone blew up the Lakers' interior line, shooting 15 of 26 from the field and scoring 40 points and 15 rebounds, setting a new record for his playoff scores, but the team still lost the game 81:88, although the Lakers did not have the explosive momentum of the previous game, but this game also scored 28 points, O'Neal only hit 8 of 21 shots and took 19 points and 14 rebounds, Derrick Fisher scored 16 points on 6 of 9 shots, And hit a three-pointer in the final 41 seconds that was enough to kill the game.

Two consecutive games were won by the Lakers on their home court, and the Spurs lost their spirit after that, and the next two games were blown up at the Staples Center, losing a total of 68 points in the two games, Duncan averaged 23.0 points and 12.3 rebounds per game in this series, although Antonio Daniels was also able to score 19.0 points, but his shooting rate was only 40.7%, David Robinson averaged 14.3 points and 10.8 rebounds per game, but his shooting rate was also only 40.7%, Kobe Bryant broke the Spurs' perimeter in this series, averaging 33.3 points, 7.0 rebounds and 7.0 assists per game, and O'Neal averaged 27.0 points and 13.0 rebounds per game while shooting 54.1% from the field.

In the 2001-2002 season, the Spurs were hesitant to renew Derrick Anderson's work, and this distrustful move eventually annoyed the latter. But to the Spurs Smith has passed his peak, this season's average of 11.6 points per game in the Spurs is the last time he scored 10+ points in his career, although the data looks similar to Derrick Smith but the role is far from the same, Smith at this time does not have Anderson's impact and defense, this transaction is not Anderson has to go, the Spurs really may not change.

In the offseason, the Spurs signed Wanderer guard Stephen Jackson, who played in many places before, and even wandered overseas, was signed by the Nets last season, and his average of 8.2 points per game did not enter the eyes of the team's management, and after being cut, the Spurs gave him a contract worth $3.3 million a year, and Jackson was just a standard player this season, averaging less than 10 minutes per game in only 24 games this season.

The Spurs traded Bruce Bowen from the Heat, and no one was optimistic about this 30-year-old veteran with a big head and no technical characteristics, but Popovich was optimistic, he not only traded Bowen over, but also firmly pushed him to the starting position, Bowen did not disappoint Popovich, and in the following seasons, Bowen was the core of the Spurs' outside defense.

In the 2001 draft, the Spurs selected Tony Parker from France with the 28th pick in the first round, in fact, Popovich was very optimistic about Parker, thinking that his body was too thin and had no ability to survive in the NBA, but the team's general manager Buford strongly recommended Popovich, and in the end the latter couldn't accept it for the sake of face, from the time Parker entered the team, he found that two people on the team didn't like him, one of them was naturally Popovich, and the other was Duncan.

Why didn't Duncan talk to Parker? Because Duncan couldn't understand French, every morning Parker would see Duncan and say,

Good morning, man, it's been a nice day.

Hey.

Are you going to practice?

Hey.

Damn, you have a word.

Hey.

Hey Nima, you're dumb!

……

Hey......

Popovich is not used to it, Parker is a little bad at taking a bloody scolding, this is thanks to Parker's youth, only 18 years old at the time, thick-skinned, scolded two sentences, and the laughter passed, but Parker, who adheres to the Spurs' usual cold humor, sometimes will fight back, such as in 2004, the Athens Olympics, the American Dream Six team only won the bronze medal in that Olympics, the team's head coach was Lao K, Popovich was the chief assistant coach, and the team leader was Duncan, this team was defeated by Argentina led by Ginobili, and this meme was taken by Parker to tell the story.

At a season memorization press conference, Parker took out a gold medal to the media, wiped it with his hand, and said with a fluttering eyebrow,

Hey, it's made of gold, it's the gold medal that my teammate Bald won at the Athens Olympics, you know who they beat in the competition? American Dream Team 6, look at it, it's not easy, the first assistant coach is still Bo Shuai, why do you say that my teammates are so bald, and even Bo Shuai's role can be overturned...... Now you know why the baldness can only be used as a substitute for us, there is a grudge......

Parker said as he pouted his small eyes at Popovich, who was sitting next to him, and Popovich's face was almost green......