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2009/10 NBA Season
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Starting Lineup (probable) Backup (probable) Third Option (probable)
C Tim Duncan Theo Ratliff Ian Mahinmi
PF Matt Bonner Antonio McDyess DeJuan Blair
SF Richard Jefferson Michael Finley Marcus Haislip
SG Roger Mason Manu Ginobili Keith Bogans
PG Tony Parker George Hill Curtis Jerrells
The Insider
The 2009/10 San Antonio Spurs will mark the beginning of a new era for Spurs fans around the world. Long gone are the components that made last year’s squad the league’s oldest team (Bowen, Oberto, Thomas) and replaced with eight new players on the Spurs roster (Jefferson, Haislip, Hairston, Jerrells, Ratliff, McDyess, Blair and Keith Bogans). With folks around the league marveling at what every other team in the NBA considered an unworthy pick, PF/C DeJuan Blair has stated publically that he will make every team who passed on him pay, which is, every team in the NBA. They should worry. In just four preseason games, Blair is averaging 16.0 PPG, (shooting 58%), 9.3 RPG, 1.5 APG and 1.5 SPG while playing an average of 20.8 minutes a contest.
With veterans Ginobili, Duncan and Parker fully rested from an offseason of little to no activity (Parker played for the French League in the summer) and the addition of new and improved firepower, look for the Spurs to be contending with the LA Lakers for the Western Conference Crown.
History
The San Antonio Spurs are one of only four teams from the American Basketball Association to merge with the National Basketball Association back in 1976. The other franchises that joined them were the Denver Nuggets, the New Jersey Nets, the Indiana Pacers and the Denver Nuggets.
The first stars for the Spurs Franchise were George Gervin, Gene Banks, Antoine Carr, TC Terry Cummings, the A-Train Artis Gilmore among others and while the early Spurs teams carried a medium of success, it wouldn’t be until the addition of The Admiral, David Robinson in 1989 that the fortunes would change for one of the smallest markets in the league. The Spurs immediately became a yearly contender in the playoffs and have been ever since but it was another number one draft pick that would put the Spurs Franchise into elite status.
In the 1997 draft, the Spurs chose Wake Forest forward Tim Duncan with the first pick. Duncan would make an immediate impact on the team and the league as he would take home the Rookie of the Year award while averaging 21.1 PPG, 11.9 RPG, 2.7 APG and
2.5 BPG. Two seasons later the “Twin Towers” of Robinson and Duncan would lead the team and the franchise to the pinnacle of the NBA as they won the 1999 NBA Finals against the New York Knicks (who were the first 8th seed in the finals) in four games. The feat would be repeated three years later as Duncan and Robinson again led the Spurs to the promise land in Robinson’s final year. They would face the New Jersey Nets (also the first time two former ABA teams met in the NBA Finals) and would eliminate the Eastern Conference Champion in six games taking the series 4-2.
In the 2005 season, with a lineup of Duncan, Bowen, Ginobili, Parker, Horry, Brent Barry, Glenn “Big Dog” Robinson and Nazr Mohammed, the Spurs again rolled 59-23 record and would blitz through the Sonics, the Suns and the Eastern Conference Champion Detroit Pistons.
The team would again have a celebratory River Parade down the San Antonio River in 2007 as the team would finish the season with a 58-24 record (25-6 in the final 31 games) and blast through the Nuggets in five games, the Warriors in six games and the Suns in six games to play for their 4th NBA Title in nine years. They would meet the LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers (who most considered Spurs East Coast) and take them out in a sweep of four games. Tony Parker won the Finals MVP Award making him the first European to win the prize.
Despite missing being knocked out of the playoffs the last two seasons, Spurs fans have reason to rejoice as the team gears up to take on the league with a renewed sense of purpose and self. With names like Jefferson, Blair alongside Parker, Duncan and Ginobili, the Spurs fortunes are again on the rise and Spurs fans will expect nothing but another championship.
