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Speaker 1: Spurs fans, Welcome to another edition of the San Antonio
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Speaker 2: your host, my host, our host here, he is k
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Speaker 4: to another tantalizing edition of the San Antonio Spurs Weekly Podcast.
Speaker 4: And we're gonna take a break talking about all the
Speaker 4: trades and possible trades and predictions and the NBA drafts,
Speaker 4: so on and so forth. We're gonna let that cool
Speaker 4: down a little bit, and I want to talk about
Speaker 4: something that's hot and heavy on this show right now.
Speaker 4: It's all over social media. You may have seen it
Speaker 4: on TikTok, YouTube and more, where you got a lot
Speaker 4: of these youngsters out there talking about that the San
Speaker 4: Antonio Spurs and they're winning ways in the two thousands
Speaker 4: were not a dynasty. We're gonna talk about.
Speaker 3: A few things.
Speaker 4: We're not gonna go too deep into the stats that
Speaker 4: the Spurs gave, but we're gonna bring up reasons why
Speaker 4: we believe that they were a dynasty in a fifteen
Speaker 4: year run.
Speaker 3: First and foremost, the.
Speaker 4: San Antonio Spurs were a winning team and they're gonna
Speaker 4: get back to those winning ways. They are fourth all
Speaker 4: time on the NBA most games won in the playoffs list,
Speaker 4: fourth behind the Lakers, Celtics, and the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
Speaker 4: Do you know how hard it is to win playoff games?
Speaker 4: Do you know how hard it is to win one
Speaker 4: NBA title? Go ask Charles Barkley about that. You're welcome,
Speaker 4: big ladies, of Santa Antonio. I got your back. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we'll pick on Charles a little bit too. Charles Barkley,
Speaker 4: great player, one of the top one hundred players released
Speaker 4: many years ago of all time in the NBA. You
Speaker 4: youngsters only know him as a analysis on TV and radio,
Speaker 4: but he was a great basketball player. He just never
Speaker 4: could get over the top. He even chased that ring.
Speaker 4: He went from Philadelphia to Phoenix. He also went to Houston.
Speaker 4: He sniffed it in Houston, he sniffed it in Phoenix.
Speaker 3: But there was a.
Speaker 4: Team that kind of got in their way, the San
Speaker 4: Antonio Spurs. The San Antonio Spurs and his run were
Speaker 4: probably his achilles heel, and maybe that's why he has
Speaker 4: so much animosity toward us and here in San Antonio.
Speaker 4: Now that I think about that, Charles, it's okay, brother.
Speaker 4: Every great player has kryptonite. Every great player has kryptonite,
Speaker 4: most definitely. But we want to talk about how good
Speaker 4: the Spurs went were. Greg Popovich in his career won
Speaker 4: over fourteen hundred games. You know how hard it is
Speaker 4: to win that many games in the NBA. The Spurs
Speaker 4: missed a five peat by two years. Let that sink
Speaker 4: in winning in ninety nine, three, five, seven, and in
Speaker 4: twenty fourteen. That twenty fourteen was a completely different team,
Speaker 4: the emergence of Kawhi Leonard as a leader and a
Speaker 4: major player.
Speaker 3: In the NBA.
Speaker 4: At the time, Tim Duncan at the end of his career,
Speaker 4: along with Tony Parker and Jenobli kind of starting to
Speaker 4: fall off just a little bit, wanting to win one
Speaker 4: more for the Gipper.
Speaker 3: The ninety nine.
Speaker 4: Team was redemption for David Robinson, a man that had
Speaker 4: been in the year in the league for many years.
Speaker 4: They ended up drafting a young Tim Duncan, and Tim
Speaker 4: Duncan missed, just missed getting his six ring. Oh, we
Speaker 4: didn't talk about the time the Spurs lost in the finals, right, Well,
Speaker 4: we definitely don't want to talk about that here in
Speaker 4: San Antonio, ever, do we.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: All I gotta say is Ray Allen from the corner.
Speaker 4: I know Spurs fans, we hate that. We hate that
Speaker 4: so much. Kind of reminiscent of we should do a show.
Speaker 4: We should do a show San Antonio Spurs do moments.
Speaker 4: According to Homer Simpson, I think we should do kind
Speaker 4: of like when the Rod Strickland threw the behind the
Speaker 4: back pass and went out of bounds and cost us
Speaker 4: a chance to go to the NBA Finals. Then that year,
Speaker 4: I think it was we were playing poor in the
Speaker 4: playoffs at that time. The infamous dope they didn't call
Speaker 4: the Sean Elliott foot on the line three pointer. We
Speaker 4: should do a show. I think we should do that,
Speaker 4: right San Antonio Spurs most dope moments here on the show,
Speaker 4: maybe coming up later on this summer, but talking about
Speaker 4: the San Antonio Spurs not being a dynasty is something
Speaker 4: that these young kids have no clue. One of the
Speaker 4: reasons is they're not flashy. They're not that team like
Speaker 4: the Lakers or OKC where we got to wear all
Speaker 4: the coolest equipment and be stars and studs and be
Speaker 4: the limelight of the NBA. The Spurs didn't have that.
Speaker 4: But I want you kids to know something, and I
Speaker 4: tell my kids this in my seven to eight year
Speaker 4: old division and my nine ten year old division that
Speaker 4: I coach, it's a team sport team. Of course, you're
Speaker 4: always going to have more talented players. But when you
Speaker 4: can buy into the concept of team, like the Spurs,
Speaker 4: did you do this? You do that? This is what
Speaker 4: you do best at. This is what you should be doing.
Speaker 4: They buy into the concept of team. That's when the
Speaker 4: dubs start coming.
Speaker 3: So to speak.
Speaker 4: What the kids say today, the dubs or the w's
Speaker 4: or the wins. Hate all these stupid abbreviations. I'm getting old,
Speaker 4: that's all. I'm getting old Spurs fans. But in all seriousness,
Speaker 4: this San Antonio Spurs ball club to win that many
Speaker 4: games in fifteen years and an opportunity to to have
Speaker 4: gone to six titles from ninety nine to twenty fourteen,
Speaker 4: let's put it into perspective for you guys. There's a
Speaker 4: gentleman on YouTube and all over social media, one of
Speaker 4: these Oh I know everything about basketball because I read
Speaker 4: it on YouTube and I read it on Google. But
Speaker 4: I don't really look into this, that and the other thing.
Speaker 4: His name is Max.
Speaker 3: Max as young kid.
Speaker 4: I'm not even going to give him the light of
Speaker 4: day when it comes to promoting his stuff. But there's
Speaker 4: also an older gentleman.
Speaker 3: I gotta get his name.
Speaker 4: I bet you basketball heads out there that watch a
Speaker 4: lot of basketball videos online like I do. He's an
Speaker 4: older African American gentleman. He's gray and salt and pepper hair.
Speaker 4: He looks like he played ball for many, many years.
Speaker 3: Very smart.
Speaker 4: He defended the Spurs and he defends Tim Duncan as
Speaker 4: well in these one on one debates against this generation's
Speaker 4: let's call it analysis of NBA and basketball younger generation. Well,
Speaker 4: they were going at it on this show and Max
Speaker 4: is like, oh, I'm sorry, winning a title one in
Speaker 4: every four years makes you a dynasty. Again, do you
Speaker 4: know how hard it is to win one title? Asked
Speaker 4: Charles Barkley. Do you know how hard it is to
Speaker 4: make a finals appearance, asked Chris Paul. Now, there are exceptions,
Speaker 4: because there are goats. Tim Duncan six titles in his run. Go,
Speaker 4: we talked about that on our show a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 4: Go listen to it here on the podcast.
Speaker 3: We'll leave it up through the summer.
Speaker 4: Lebron James went to ten NBA titles? How many did
Speaker 4: he win?
Speaker 3: Youngsters four?
Speaker 4: Now I'm giving Lebron credit here when I knock him
Speaker 4: all the time. It's hard to get to the NBA
Speaker 4: finals for anything, but to do it like Lebron dead,
Speaker 4: that's a round of a bloss making it almost half
Speaker 4: your career. But now break it down even more. He's
Speaker 4: going into year twenty three, right, he won the title
Speaker 4: four out of twenty three years. Spurs were in the
Speaker 4: NBA finals six out of fifteen, just missing a five
Speaker 4: peet by two years, a five pat by two years.
Speaker 4: Let's repeat that, just missing a five p by two years,
Speaker 4: four and six man and of course that six year
Speaker 4: went to Dirk Nowitzky in Dallas. But I want that
Speaker 4: to sink in. How is this not a dynasty? They
Speaker 4: were at the top of the league every year for
Speaker 4: fifteen years. That's a dynasty. X amount of wins in
Speaker 4: the regular season fourth on the all time playoff wins list,
Speaker 4: fourth all time on the NBA playoff wins list. Where's
Speaker 4: your team?
Speaker 3: I'm a Leaguers fan.
Speaker 4: You weren't born for half of those wins. Let's be
Speaker 4: perfectly honest. Okay, you were a thought, and that is
Speaker 4: as cleanly as I could put it on this show.
Speaker 4: You were a thought, not even a thought in your
Speaker 4: daddy's head while he was making out with your mom
Speaker 4: in the back of that car.
Speaker 3: Okay, yes, I said it. I said it. Spurs fans, well.
Speaker 4: Magic Johnson was throwing behind the back passes to Kareem
Speaker 4: and Worthy and Byron Scott Rambus grabbing those rebounds. Oh,
Speaker 4: I said Rambus, You're like, who is that guy? That's
Speaker 4: how much you probably know about the NBA. All right,
Speaker 4: But for somebody who's lived through watching this team from
Speaker 4: ninety nine to now, I've watched him before that. By
Speaker 4: the way, I have a pennant on my wall from
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty seven shows you how old I am and
Speaker 4: what I know about these Spurs. And boy, those eighty
Speaker 4: teams were horrible.
Speaker 3: Worthday Spurs fans.
Speaker 4: Oh a, f you're as old as I am. Man,
Speaker 4: oh man. They were not fun. They were not fun.
Speaker 4: The brightest spot was the almost Rookie of the Year
Speaker 4: win by Alvin Robertson.
Speaker 3: That was as good as we were. That was about it.
Speaker 4: But back to this dynasty. This is a dynasty because
Speaker 4: I accumulate the wins that this team had over a
Speaker 4: fifteen year career. Greg Popovich took over this team and
Speaker 4: took fourteen hundred wins with this team. Not many people
Speaker 4: can say that. So who are the dynasty's Katie? Would
Speaker 4: you consider the nineties Bulls a dynasty?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 4: They never lost, they never lost a final, So absolutely.
Speaker 4: Jordan's six and zero in that nineties run. What about
Speaker 4: the eighties showtime Lakers? Absolutely dynasty? What about the older Celtics?
Speaker 4: Bill russ Celtics absolutely Would you consider the eighties Celtics
Speaker 4: a dynasty? No, sorry, Celtics fans. You had such a
Speaker 4: great rival with the Lakers that I believe the Lakers
Speaker 4: outshined you from time to time.
Speaker 3: I'd put you guys. Probably.
Speaker 4: Let's let's put it in order. Okay, this is my dynasties.
Speaker 4: Bill Russell, Celtics far above everybody else.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I know apples to oranges, different eras, I get it.
Speaker 4: But to win as many titles as they did and
Speaker 4: the amount of years they did, I don't have the
Speaker 4: stats in front of me, but I believe it was
Speaker 4: what like ten in thirteen years or ten and eleven years.
Speaker 4: That will never be duplicated. Why because it's this younger
Speaker 4: generation that's like, give me my ring and let me
Speaker 4: just go off and make my money. It's about me,
Speaker 4: yol yo lo.
Speaker 3: There's no loyalty anymore.
Speaker 4: None. There's also no loyalty from let's call it, from
Speaker 4: a business standpoint of teams either. That's why the Spurs
Speaker 4: are a different breed. They stay loyal to their players
Speaker 4: that are going to be loyal to them. Sometimes they
Speaker 4: hold on a little too long.
Speaker 3: So who else was next?
Speaker 4: Maybe two A and two B. Let's put the Lakers
Speaker 4: in Celtics era showtime Lakers Birds Celtics two A two
Speaker 4: B very close, and then I would put Jordan's Bulls
Speaker 4: at number three.
Speaker 3: Well, what about the Golden State Warriors?
Speaker 4: What about the Minneapis Lakers? If you want to go
Speaker 4: back there.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: I just don't think so, because if we're going to
Speaker 4: compare hair titles, then yes, the Lakers are up in there,
Speaker 4: that Minneapolis Lakers team, George, Mike and all of them.
Speaker 4: But even put them at four, I believe the Spurs
Speaker 4: are five. I believe you're above your Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 4: I know your Warriors fans don't want to believe it.
Speaker 4: I think if the Warriors were to win another title
Speaker 4: or two in the next two or three years, oh,
Speaker 4: they shoot in the top five because of the wins alone.
Speaker 4: You know, seventy wins they got the Bulls wins winning
Speaker 4: that many games does mean a lot. In the regular season,
Speaker 4: the Spurs won a lot of games, but Golden State
Speaker 4: not even close to the Spurs. Is winning as many
Speaker 4: playoff games in the history of this team. Is what
Speaker 4: the Spurs did. Six NBA Finals, So you got a
Speaker 4: first round, second round, and then you got the Western
Speaker 4: Conference Finals. Right then you've got the NBA Finals. On average,
Speaker 4: say it wins seven games. You have to win every
Speaker 4: one of those series three or four games. Right back
Speaker 4: in my day, the first round was like best three
Speaker 4: out of five. That's why the Spurs are sitting at
Speaker 4: two hundred and twenty two victories in the postseason. But
Speaker 4: during that fifteen year run, those six titles, you make
Speaker 4: the NBA Finals, there's twenty wins right there. You have
Speaker 4: to win at least four games in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 4: Why am I mentioning this because it's very hard to do.
Speaker 4: They lost in I don't have it in front of me, Guys.
Speaker 4: I believe they lost in seven to Miami. I know
Speaker 4: that Ray Allen situation killed us. I almost gave up,
Speaker 4: because I'll be honest with you, Yes, the Spurs fan
Speaker 4: gave up. Don't throw things at me when you see me.
Speaker 4: My wife had bought Aimanu Genobli jersey that year. She
Speaker 4: put it on for the first time ever, started rooting
Speaker 4: for the Spurs and they lost. I told her, don't
Speaker 4: ever wear that jersey again, and she literally didn't.
Speaker 3: That's a you know that, that's a good wife.
Speaker 4: I even told her a couple of years ago when
Speaker 4: we weren't that good with de Jonte, Murray and all them,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, hey, go ahead and put it back on,
Speaker 4: and she's like, nope, I'm not gonna wear it. I'm
Speaker 4: not gonna wear it again. Uh So it's so funny.
Speaker 4: I go listen, you jinxed the team. Kind of like
Speaker 4: the movie with Adam Sandler, the wedding singer take off
Speaker 4: my Van Hallen T shirt before the band breaks up.
Speaker 4: It's exactly what happened with the Spurs. So if you
Speaker 4: want to blame anybody, don't blame Ray Allen. It was
Speaker 4: me and my wife we ruined it that year. But
Speaker 4: that's a lot of wins to be a dynasty in
Speaker 4: those six years oh three, oh five, oh seven alone.
Speaker 4: I don't think you have to win it back to back.
Speaker 3: And all these.
Speaker 4: People that are saying, oh, it's not a dynasty like
Speaker 4: a Gilbert Arenas or a Matt Barnes. So now on
Speaker 4: these podcasts that are saying that I'd laugh, and we'll
Speaker 4: leave it with this. They're guys that didn't even touch
Speaker 4: a ring. Of course, they don't know what it's like
Speaker 4: to win a ring.
Speaker 3: Neither do I.
Speaker 4: Other than YMCA beautiful plaque that I got from my.
Speaker 3: Coyotes team last year.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys, another shout out to them. But it's
Speaker 4: very hard to win in the NBA. It's hard to
Speaker 4: win that many titles. That's why it's amazing what the
Speaker 4: Bulls did three peats, what the Lakers did three peats.
Speaker 4: Would you put the Pistons up there.
Speaker 3: With Isaiah Thomas.
Speaker 4: They did some amazing things as well. The San Antonio
Speaker 4: Spurs taking their six titles that they went to was amazing.
Speaker 4: If you want to based dynasties and say, well they.
Speaker 3: Didn't, they didn't. They won six and fifteen years. Do
Speaker 3: the math.
Speaker 4: Six and twelve is fifty percent of the time, and
Speaker 4: most NBA coaches win fifty six to fifty nine I
Speaker 4: believe percent of their games. For a team to be
Speaker 4: in that forty percent range going to the NBA Finals,
Speaker 4: pretty damn impressive to be a dynasty to me. But
Speaker 4: this is the great thing about the NBA, the great
Speaker 4: thing about sports. We get to discuss it, we get
Speaker 4: to share it with our friends at work, and we
Speaker 4: get to really get into it, don't we.
Speaker 3: No matter what you think.
Speaker 4: About the San Antonio Spurs being a dynasty, I know
Speaker 4: a Spurs fans will always believe it's a dynasty and
Speaker 4: there's another one on the rise.
Speaker 3: I truly believe that.
Speaker 4: So continue to allow that black and silver blood to
Speaker 4: run through your veins because they're coming. They're coming, and
Speaker 4: guess what the n.
Speaker 3: B A is on notice.
Speaker 4: Guys, thanks for listening to another edition of the San Antonio.
Speaker 3: Spurs Weekly Podcast.
Speaker 4: Let that black and silver blood run through your veins.
Speaker 1: And remember, go Spurs, go like
Speaker 4: The KA million My God, make a million children.