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The 2016–17 San Antonio Spurs season was the franchise's 50th season, its 44th season in the San Antonio area, and its 41st in the National Basketball Association (NBA). This season was the team's first without longtime team cornerstone Tim Duncan since 1996–97; Duncan retired from the NBA on July 11, 2016, as a five–time champion and the first NBA player ever to win championships in ...
As of May 2017, the Spurs had the best winning percentage of any franchise in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada over the previous three decades. [12] From 1999–2000 to 2016–17, the Spurs won 50 games each season, [13] setting a record of 18 consecutive 50-win seasons. [14]
The 2017–18 season is the first time the Spurs have won fewer than 50 games in a non-lockout season since the 1996–97 season. This was the longest such streak in the NBA. [5] The 2019–20 season was the first season since 1996–97 in which the Spurs missed the playoffs, an NBA record.
The 2016–17 NBA schedule featured a historic low of "back-to-back" games, along with teams playing four games in a five-day stretch. [101] It was the first schedule created with a new optimization computer program [ 102 ] that the NBA described at the MIT Sport Analytic Conference.
The 2017–18 San Antonio Spurs season was the 51st season for the franchise, the team's 42nd season in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and its 45th in the San Antonio area. The Spurs finished the season with a 47–35 record and the seventh seed in the Western Conference.
The 2016–17 Big Ten men's basketball season began with practices in October 2016, followed by the start of the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. The Conference held its preseason media day on October 13 in Washington, D.C. [1] The season began on November 11 and conference play started on December 27. [2]
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The 2015–16 San Antonio Spurs season was the 49th season of the franchise, 40th in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and 43rd in the San Antonio area. [ 1 ] Kawhi Leonard was selected to play in the 2016 NBA All-Star Game as a starter.