Let's start this volume about the San Antonio Spurs, LeBron James said that he can not mention the "future is yours", and the bald referee Crawford said that about the part of Duncan that was sent off for laughing can not be mentioned, okay, we will not mention it......

When it comes to the Spurs, I believe that all fans who know something about the NBA will have these words flashing in their minds, that is, "dull, low-key, small ball market", the first two words will not be explained, let's talk about the Spurs' ball market now?

First of all, San Antonio is indeed a small ball city, but if you think that San Antonio is a small city based on this, then you are very wrong, in fact, San Antonio is the seventh largest city in the United States, and Texas is the second largest city after Houston, so then again, so many people are here, so why did San Antonio become a small ball city, there are natural disasters and man-made disasters.

The so-called natural disasters, of course, are not natural disasters, but the geographical disadvantages for the development of the San Antonio ball city, first of all, the city of San Antonio developed late, although as early as the fifteenth century people lived here, but the real development of the city was in the late twentieth century, the city is dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, the overall preference is comfortable, the consumption level is relatively low, the transportation is inconvenient and many international metropolises do not have direct flights, not a political, cultural, financial center, There have been no major events in history, compared to Philadelphia, Houston, New York and other cities have a low sense of existence, so the Holy City is not only a basketball is a small-ball city, other sports, including literature and art, are relatively invisible cities, and they can't cultivate any celebrities.

Secondly, although the Holy City is a large city and has a large population, 80% of its population lives in the eight county towns below the Holy City. If you have that time, it is better to feed a few more handfuls of pig feed and let the second senior brother grow two taels of meat.

After talking about natural disasters, it should be said that man-made disasters, fortunately or unfortunately, the Spurs fell into the hands of Pete Holt and Popovich, Holt's industry is to put it bluntly, it sells tractors, his tractors are very popular in the agriculturally developed Texas, and the benefits are good, but Holt is still one of the poorest owners in the NBA, (in 2015, it ranked at the bottom of the NBA owner assets, less than a fraction of the Trail Blazers owners...... And Popovich needless to say, his passionless style of play and wanton "hiding" big-name stars at the end of the season made Stern collapse, let alone the fans - just imagine, if you worked hard to save a week's food money, saved a thousand oceans, and went to the ATT Center Arena with your little lover with excitement, only to go to the ATT Center Arena to watch the game, only to go to the only time to find out that Duncan was too old to play, Manu went to get a haircut, not played, Parker divorced, not played, Dio lost weight, did not play, and left a group of people like Matt Bonner, Mills, players like Baynes are squeezing at you, can you not scold?

I talked about the misfortune of Spurs before, but I also said, fortunate or unlucky, so what does this fortunate thing mean? In fact, during the lowest period of the Spurs, a businessman named Clay Bennett was ready to buy the Spurs and then move them from the Holy City, but it was Holt, desperately pressing on his ancestral foundation and buying the Spurs to prevent the team from moving out, and this Clay Bennett is now the owner of the Thunder, yes, he single-handedly moved the SuperSonics from Seattle to Russia.

The Spurs were founded in 1967, of course, the location at that time was not in San Antonio, but in the city of the current Mavericks - Dallas, the name of the team is not called the Spurs, but the Dallas Bush (also called Dallas Oaks, Dallas Bush), of course, he does not belong to the NBA, but belongs to the ABA team.

The team has just been established, and the general pull of a star to be a guiding light is right, so they pulled Cliff Hagen, who has been in the NBA for ten years with the St. Louis Hawks, when Hagen was ready to retire, but was pulled to the jungle team of the new team to play for another three years, this pension is not easy to earn, as a player on the court, as a coach off the court, a handful of and urine to feed the team slowly grow up, who are the players who are poured out by Hagen, there are mainly three players.

Bob Virga, a player who was selected with the 6th pick in the 3rd round of the 1967 NBA Draft, averaged 23.7 points per game in his rookie season, don't be surprised how the Spurs after that can pick up treasures such as Ginobili and Tony Parker. However, the old man Virga was also a bumpy road back then, and he had to support his family when he played basketball, and the old man basically had milk and was a mother, who gave more money to play for whom, and in six seasons of his career, he changed seven teams, and in the second year of his stay in the Jungle, he switched to the arms of the Denver Rockets.

The second player is called John Beasley, and he was the 5th pick in 5 rounds last year, but he only officially played this year. He averaged 19.7 points and 12.8 rebounds per game in his rookie season, and he was also a hegemon in the ABA, and the old man team jungle team was loyal, and he has been playing here for 5 seasons, which is rare in the ABA team.

This third player, his name is fortunate Nats Powell, who is more grassroots than the first two, Welga is the third round, Beasley is the fifth round, and Powell waited eight rounds in the draft to hear his name.

Here is the popularization of the NBA's draft round restrictions, in the early years of the NBA draft there was no limit, as long as there is a team to choose, then continue, such as the 1973 NBA draft, a full 20 rounds, the 20th round, no other teams are selected, only the Buffalo Braves are still drafting, in 1974, the NBA really can't bear it, the number of draft rounds shortened to 10 rounds, in 1985 it was shortened to 7 rounds, in 1988 it became 3 rounds, in 1989 only two rounds of drafts have been used to this day.

Powell averaged 18.3 points and 9.0 rebounds per game in his rookie season, and he played in the Jungle for three years, which was basically a 19+9 level, and the next year, the Jungle team had another guard named Glenn Coombs, who played in the Jungle for three years, averaging 20 points and four assists per game.

From the staffing, you can clearly see that the strength of the newly established Dallas Jungle team is quite good, the newly established team faked the second place in the ABA record list, and reached the playoffs for five consecutive seasons, but none of them won the championship, except for the first season to reach the second round, all the other seasons were killed in the first round, Cliff Hagen was fired after two seasons because of poor results, during which the team owner wanted to change the name and change the morale of the Dallas Jungle to the Texas Jungle - Dallas is in Texas, the name is the same as a bird, the record is also a bird, and the next year, Holt changed the team's name to Dallas Jungle, which is good, and the team can't even make the playoffs......

In the 1972-1973 season, the Dallas Jungle missed the playoffs for the first time, the ball market was small, the record was getting frustrated more and more, and no one liked to watch the game, the team was on the verge of bankruptcy, March 26, 1973 was the last game of the Jungle team at Dallas home, Dallas Jungle vs. Calerona Puma, this monumental game was only 134 people cheering on the scene.

At the end of this season, the team owner is almost out of money to pay wages, the players are walking, running, what to do, at this time, a group of 36 San Antonio businessmen bought the jungle team, and moved the team to San Antonio, renaming the team "Spurs", many people don't know what Spurs are, now let's talk, you often read that martial arts novel, the male pig's feet and long hair fluttering, the jade tree in the wind, riding a little white horse, "driving" to find their dream goddess, This spur is the sharp metal attached to the side of the boot, every time the male pig's foot kicks the horse's abdomen, this sharp metal will poke the horse's ribs, thus making him run faster, the Spurs originated from Dallas, where cowboy culture prevailed, and the spur is an indispensable thing for cowboys - the horse said, I TM recruit who to provoke.

The Spurs opened a new chapter at the same time, but also ushered in the first superstar in the team's history, George Gervin, it is rumored that this brother is the prototype of Eiji Zebei in the comic "Slam Dunk", Gervin originally played in the Virginia landowners (a team in the ABA), and was later bought directly by the Spurs. It is also a former minister of the Dallas Jungle team, before the start of this season, he has played here for five seasons, and his average is basically 18 points and 8 rebounds per game, but no one thought that after Gervin went to the Spurs, he became the super leader of the team and even the history of the team. Can't depict it.

After Gervin entered the Spurs, he quickly grew into the leader of the team, the original center Rich Jones became the second leader, and an uncle named James Silas was the third leader, 1973-1974 was the first season when the Spurs moved to San Antonio, and it was also Silas's second season. He can shoot, can pass the ball, and his killer weapon is the pull-up jump shot, and his nickname is "Superhero", because he often bursts out in the fourth quarter of the game, scoring 20+ points and taking away the game in waves, after Rich Jones spent his prime, Silas became the team's second leader.

In the first season of the Spurs, there is also George Karl, who will become a famous coach in the future, Karl is actually a Spurs, he has spent all five seasons in his career with the Spurs, and he is the seventh man in the role, averaging about 15 minutes per game and scoring 7 or 8 points.

The first coach after the relocation was Bob Buss, who did not perform well as a manager, but won the trust of the team owner, and became a player in the team's management after two seasons with the Spurs. In fact, this season is not bad, 51-33 in the West, but still can't break through the first round, the second season Spurs added a big forward named Larry Kennon, this uncle is a scoring and rebounding ability is very good inside strongman, the average per game is basically 20 + 12 level, but, it is he who created the NBA single-game steal record, on December 26, 1976, Kennon made 11 steals in a single game, this record has not been broken until now, (Kendall Gill, who wore the Nets jersey at the time in 1999, once equaled this record) The Spurs still made the playoffs this year, but, however, they still couldn't pass the first round, and were eliminated by the New York Nets with Julius Irving 3:4, and the first round became a nightmare for the Spurs, which was even more bitter than Maddy. In 1976, the ABA merged with the NBA, and the San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers and New York Nets four ABA teams entered the NBA.

In the 1976-1977 season, the Spurs still reached the playoffs with the sixth record in the West when James Silas was out for almost the entire season due to injury, but was swept out by the Boston Celtics in the first round, and the future bombardment master Mike D'Antoni played two games for the Spurs this season, after which he retired, with Karl in front and mustache in the back, it turns out that to be a good coach, you have to go to the Spurs to be gilded.

The 1977-1978 season was a season of concentrated glory for the Spurs, the Spurs won the highest 52 wins in the regular season and also won the championship in the division, George Gervin won the first scoring title in his career with 27.2 points, only 0.06 points more than the second-place David Thompson, and was the smallest scoring champion in NBA history. In the first round of the playoffs, he was eliminated by the Washington Bullets......

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