Who Is The Only Current NBA Team With An All-Time Winning Record Against The Spurs?

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The San Antonio Spurs are the single malt of NBA teams. If you like whiskey, really like whiskey, like it to an unhealthy degree, your palette will be naturally drawn to the finest single malt you can afford, neat, always neat. The same could be said for basketball junkies, who will watch and think about the Spurs to an unhealthy degree no matter what time of the year it might be. This is because the Spurs have been so consistently good for so long — going on 19 years now — they’ve become a sort of institution, like an 18-year-old Laphroaig (gotta have that woodsy, peaty flavor). They’ve been so dominant there’s only one current NBA team with a winning record against the former ABA standouts who have now won five titles in the NBA. Do you know which one?

We guessed the Heat, the Lakers, the Mavericks, the Bulls, or — nope, nope, nope, and nope.

This little nugget of information comes to us courtesy of Reddit’s inexorable wealth of information, the r/NBA gateway to b-ball blogger bliss.

Yes, thanks to this post in the wee hours of Thursday night, we now know that the Portland Trail Blazers, yes, the Blazers, are the only professional basketball franchise, still in existence, to have an all-time winning record against Peter Holt, R.C. Buford, Gregg Popovich, Tim Duncan and the rest of the regal gentleman living in San Antone.

That record? 79-77! And now, these two are gonna share the same front court!

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However, the Spurs hold the all-time mark in the playoffs (14-6), including the 2014 Conference Semifinal they easily took 4-1. In fact, the only time the Blazers have beaten the Spurs in the postseason was way back in 1990 in the Conference Semifinals, when they won 4-3, with Clyde Drexler starring against Rookie of the Year, David Robinson.

Big ups to the ABA franchises — remember, San Antonio joined the NBA in the 1976 ABA-NBA merger — The Floridians, Kentucky Colonels, Utah Stars, San Diego Sails, Spirits of St. Louis, and Memphis Sounds (.500 record) for avoiding a losing record against the ABA incarnation of the Spurs.

So, with the playoffs included, the Spurs hold a winning record over everyone currently in the NBA.

The Spurs are the blue label of the NBA, and everyone else is just red, black, double black, green, gold, or platinum.

Who wants a drink? TGIF.

(Reddit, Basketball-Reference)

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