Team-mates & Coach

Tim Duncan | 21 Spurs

Position:  F-C

Born: 04/25/76

Height: 7-0 /  2,13

Weight: 260  lbs. /  117,9  kg.

College - Wake Forest '97 

Member of the 1999 & 2003 Spurs NBA Championship Team


Tim Duncan of Wake Forest was college basketball's consensus Player of the Year in 1996-97 and the first overall pick in the 1997 NBA Draft, going to the San Antonio Spurs. He lived up to the high expectations,  leading the Spurs to the NBA Championship in his second season and winning MVP honors in the 1999 NBA Finals. He won 1996-97 Player of the Year awards from the Associated Press, National Association of Basketball Coaches and U.S. Basketball Writers Player of the Year and also received the Naismith and Wooden Awards as the top collegiate player. Named to The Associated Press All-America First Team by a unanimous vote, the 7-foot Duncan was the first player to repeat as a unanimous selection since Shaquille O'Neal. Duncan capped his brilliant four-year career at Wake Forest by winning NABC National Defensive Player of the Year honors for the third consecutive season. He finished his career as the all-time leading shotblocker in Atlantic Coast Conference history with 481.
  • Tim Duncan was college basketball's consensus Player of the Year in 1996-97
  • Just the second player in NBA history to be named to both an All-NBA Team and an All-Defensive Team in each of his first three seasons (David Robinson was the first and he earned the honors in each of his first seven seasons)
  • Named the 1999 & 2003 Finals MVP
  • Won the 1998 Rookie of the Year
  • Led all NBA players in double-doubles from 1998-99 to 2000-01 
  • Was selected to play for the U.S. Team in the 2000 Olympics but had to withdraw due to his knee injury

Sean Elliott | 32 Spurs
Position: F
Born: 02/02/68
Height: 6-8 /  2,03
Weight: 220 lbs. /  99,8 kg.
College - Arizona '89

Member of the 1999 Spurs NBA Championship Team


Explosive and graceful, two-time All-Star forward Sean Elliott became the first player in NBA history to return to action following a major organ transplant when he rejoined the San Antonio Spurs and competed in 19 games in the 1999-2000 season, less than seven months after receiving a kidney that had been donated by his older brother Noel. Sean Elliott retired after the 2000-2001 season.
  • Won the 1988-89 John Wooden Award as college Player of the Year after his senior season at Arizona
  • The San Antonio Spurs selected Elliott with the third overall pick in the 1989 NBA Draft.
  • In the 1993 offseason Elliott was traded to the Detroit Pistons in a deal that brought Dennis Rodman to San Antonio.
  • In the 1994 offseason the Pistons dumped him back to San Antonio in exchange for first-round draft pick Bill Curley.
  • Appeared in the 1993 and 1996 NBA All-Star Games, totaling 18 points and 7 rebounds in 37 minutes
  • Has appeared in 742 career NBA games, averaging 14.2 ppg, 4.3 rpg and 2.6 apg

Avery Johnson | 6 Spurs
Position: G 
Born: 03/25/65 
Height: 5-11 /  1,80 
Weight: 180 lbs. /  81,6 kg. 
College - Southern University '88 

Member of the 1999 Spurs NBA Championship Team


Avery Johnson has risen from obscurity to become the floor general of the San Antonio Spurs, the set-up man for frontcourt stars David Robinson and Tim Duncan and the point guard on an NBA Championship team, hitting the game-winning shot to close out the Spurs' 1998-99 title series.

  • Reached the 5,000 career assists plateau on 2/27/00 against the Minnesota Timberwolves
  • With 3 assists on 12/7/99 at Indiana, he passed Johnny Moore as the Spurs all-time assists leader
  • Named the winner of the 1997-98 NBA Sportsmanship Award
  • Recorded 20 assists twice in 1997-98, against the L.A. Clippers on 12/10/97 and against the Vancouver Grizzlies on 12/17/97
  • Had a string of 378 consecutive games played snapped against the Boston Celtics on 3/14/97
  • Became just the fifth player to increase his scoring average in each of his first 7 seasons, reaching 13.4 ppg in 1994-95

Gregg Popovich Spurs

Coach 

Height: 6-2 /  1,88

Born: 01/28/49

College - Air Force Academy '70

Coach of the 1999 & 2003 Spurs NBA Championship Team


Gregg Popovich guided the San Antonio Spurs to the NBA Championship in 1999, only his third season as the team’s head coach. It not only was the first title won by the Spurs, it was the first by any of the four former ABA franchises that entered the NBA in 1976. As the Spurs Head Coach and General Manager, Pop has had a profound impact on the city of San Antonio. The city will never forget the 1998-99 season when the Spurs captured the NBA Championship. After posting a 37-13 record during the regular season, the Spurs compiled a 15-2 record in the 1999 post-season to capture the first title in the Spurs 26-year history.

  • Pop was named the Spurs GM on May 31, 1994.
  • Gregg popovich was named Spurs Head Coach on December 10, 1996