The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are a member of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The franchise was founded as the Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967.[1] The team suffered from poor attendance and general disinterest by fans in Dallas, and the name "Dallas" was dropped in favor of "Texas" during the 1970–71 season in an attempt to make the team regional. This also proved to be a failure, and the team returned full-time to use "Dallas" for the 1971–72 season.[2] The team was put up for sale after missing the playoffs in the 1972–73 season.[1][2] The team was acquired by a group of 36 San Antonio businessmen, led by Angelo Drossos and Red McCombs, who relocated the team to San Antonio, Texas and renamed it to Spurs.[1][2] In 1976, the ABA folded, threatening the future of San Antonio's sole professional sports franchise.[1] The NBA, however, decided to admit four ABA teams into the league, including the Spurs, along with the Denver Nuggets, the Indiana Pacers and the New York Nets.[1]
There have been 18 head coaches for the San Antonio Spurs. The franchise won their first NBA championship in the 1999 NBA Finals coached by Gregg Popovich.[1] The Spurs won three additional NBA championships in 2003 NBA Finals, 2005 NBA Finals, and 2007 NBA Finals under Popovich.[1] Popovich is the franchise's all-time leader in both regular season and playoff games coached and wins.[3] He also won the NBA Coach of the Year award for 2002–03 season.[4] Larry Brown is the only member of the franchise that has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.[5] Bob Bass, who has coached with the Spurs for four terms, leads the franchise in most number of terms coached.[6] Cliff Hagan, Max Williams, Bill Blakely, Dave Brown, Morris McHone, Jerry Tarkanian and Popovich spent their entire coaching careers with the Spurs.[3][7][8][9][10][11][12]
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Key
# | Number of coaches[note 1] |
GC | Games coached |
W | Wins |
L | Losses |
Win% | Winning percentage |
* | Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Spurs |
† | Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach |
Coaches
Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2007–08 season.
# | Name | Term[note 2] | Regular season | Playoffs | Achievements | ||||||||||||
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GC | W | L | Win% | GC | W | L | Win% | ||||||||||
Dallas Chaparrals (ABA) | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Cliff Hagan* | 1967–1970 | 199 | 109 | 90 | .548 | 15 | 7 | 8 | .467 | |||||||
2 | Max Williams* | 1970 | 41 | 23 | 18 | .561 | 6 | 2 | 4 | .333 | |||||||
Texas Chaparrals (ABA) | |||||||||||||||||
— | Max Williams* | 1970–1971 | 19 | 5 | 14 | .263 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
3 | Bill Blakely* | 1971 | 65 | 25 | 40 | .385 | 4 | 0 | 4 | .000 | |||||||
Dallas Chaparrals (ABA) | |||||||||||||||||
4 | Tom Nissalke | 1971–1972 | 84 | 42 | 42 | .500 | 4 | 0 | 4 | .000 | |||||||
5 | Babe McCarthy | 1973 | 72 | 24 | 48 | .333 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
6 | Dave Brown* | 1973 | 12 | 4 | 8 | .333 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
San Antonio Spurs (ABA) | |||||||||||||||||
— | Tom Nissalke | 1973–1975 | 112 | 63 | 49 | .563 | 7 | 3 | 4 | .428 | |||||||
7 | Bob Bass | 1975–1976 | 140 | 83 | 57 | .593 | 13 | 5 | 8 | .385 | |||||||
San Antonio Spurs (NBA) | |||||||||||||||||
8 | Doug Moe | 1976–1980 | 312 | 177 | 135 | .567 | 22 | 9 | 13 | .409 | |||||||
— | Bob Bass | 1980 | 16 | 8 | 8 | .500 | 3 | 1 | 2 | .333 | |||||||
9 | Stan Albeck | 1980–1983 | 246 | 153 | 93 | .622 | 27 | 13 | 14 | .481 | |||||||
10 | Morris McHone* | 1984 | 31 | 11 | 20 | .355 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
— | Bob Bass | 1984 | 51 | 26 | 25 | .510 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
11 | Cotton Fitzsimmons | 1984–1986 | 164 | 76 | 88 | .463 | 8 | 2 | 6 | .250 | |||||||
12 | Bob Weiss | 1986–1988 | 164 | 59 | 105 | .360 | 3 | 0 | 3 | .000 | |||||||
13 | Larry Brown† | 1988–1992 | 284 | 153 | 131 | .539 | 14 | 7 | 7 | .500 | |||||||
— | Bob Bass | 1992 | 44 | 26 | 18 | .591 | 3 | 0 | 3 | .000 | |||||||
14 | Jerry Tarkanian* | 1992 | 20 | 9 | 11 | .450 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
15 | Rex Hughes | 1993 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
16 | John Lucas II | 1993–1994 | 143 | 94 | 49 | .657 | 14 | 6 | 8 | .428 | |||||||
17 | Bob Hill | 1994–1996 | 182 | 124 | 58 | .681 | 25 | 14 | 11 | .560 | |||||||
18 | Gregg Popovich* | 1996–present | 934 | 632 | 302 | .677 | 160 | 101 | 59 | .631 | 2002–03 NBA Coach of the Year[4] |
Notes
- ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Chaparrals/Spurs. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
- ^ Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.
References
- General
- "San Antonio Spurs Coach Register". basketball-reference.com. Sport Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/SAS/coaches.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
- "San Antonio Spurs history site". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive. http://www.nba.com/spurs/history/spurs_history.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-29.
- Specific
- ^ a b c d e f g "San Antonio Spurs History". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/spurs/history/spurs_history.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-12.
- ^ a b c "Dallas Chaparrals History". RememberTheABA.com. http://www.remembertheaba.com/Dallas-Chaparrals.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-12.
- ^ a b "Gregg Popovich's Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/popovgr99c.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
- ^ a b "Coach of the Year". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/history/awards_coachofyear.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-12.
- ^ "Larry Brown's Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/brownla01c.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
- ^ "Bob Bass Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/bassbo99c.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
- ^ "Cliff Hagan Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/hagancl01c.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Max Williams Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/willima99c.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Bill Blakely Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/blakebi99c.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Dave Brown Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/brownda99c.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Morris McHone Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/mchonmo99c.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
- ^ "Jerry Tarkanian's Coaching Record". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/tarkaje99c.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
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