Today the 50th season of the San Antonio Spurs officially comes to a close. Where will this season’s youth movement rank in the fifty year history of the Alamo City sports franchise? By winning percentage, this is one of the worst in their history. But by that metric, their 2007 NBA championship season would rank 13th. I think fans would agree winning a title moves it up in the rankings.
And judging by wins causes some rift in years where the 82-game season was disrupted. 1999’s 37-13 record places that season in the bottom 3rd of their career, and no one would rank their first title as one of the worst seasons (unless an asterisk is attached to that year, and what kind of man would require an asterisk to define a championship?