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Even though the San Antonio Spurs aren’t a team full of superstars, they are an exciting and consistent squad with every man doing their job superbly. With big Tim Duncan still going strong you are guaranteed to witness an awesome match.
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The Spurs got a $193.5 million stadium from the city of San Antonio five years ago. Now they want $164 million to upgrade the ancient edifice because "without new sources of revenue, [the Spurs] cannot pay the player salaries that would allow the team to keep winning."
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The team quickly made themselves at home at San Antonio's HemisFair Arena, playing to increasingly large and raucous crowds. Despite a respectable 17-10 start during the 1974-75 season, Coach Tom Nissalke was fired as owners become tired of the Spurs' slow defensive style of games. He would be replaced by Bob Bass, who stated that the Spurs would have an entirely new playing style: "It is my belief that you cannot throw a set offense at another professional team for 48 minutes. You've got to let them play some schoolyard basketball." George Gervin and James Silas took that style to heart, as the Spurs became an exciting fast breaking team on the way to a solid 51-33 record, good enough for 2nd place in the West. Gervin: "Our whole theory was that you shoot 100 times, we'll shoot 107."
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Before the 1973-74 season a group of investors bought the franchise, moved it to San Antonio, and renamed it the Spurs. The new owners ... obtained several key players, including guard George Gervin. Known as The Iceman for his cool demeanor, Gervin helped the Spurs become one of the ABA’s top teams in the mid-1970s.
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In the summer of 1973, the Chaparrals moved to San Antonio. Team officials no longer felt the original name to be fitting with San Antonio's image, and sponsored a public contest to name the city's new basketball team.
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Buford lined up Lex for a tour with an African all-star team, and the group came through San Antonio. Then Buford got a better view of this special kid, and how he got along with his son and daughter, and this is the aspect that clinched the decision.
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