For two decades, the San Antonio Spurs have been a lock to win at least 50 games in every NBA season. It’s been this way since the 1997-98 season, if the strike-shortened year of 1998-99 isn’t counted. David Robinson or Tim Duncan was part of all these teams except for the 2016-17 campaign, which had Kawhi Leonard lead the way. In that season, the Spurs won 61 games. It was the second consecutive year the team topped 60 wins.
For the 2017-18 season, will they be able to maintain this? That’s unknown, as Jonathon Simmons, Dewayne Dedmon and David Lee are no longer part of the team.