However the San Antonio Spurs would emerge as their main rivals, defeating them in the playoffs each time.

However, chemistry would be an issue, as the Nuggets finished the season with the 6 seed, giving them a first round matchup against the San Antonio Spurs.

However, in an eerie repeat of the 2005 playoffs, the Spurs bounced back to sweep the next four, as the Nuggets were eliminated in the first round in five games for the fourth straight year.

However, before they even played a game the name was changed to Spurs.

" However, in the playoffs the Spurs would fall to the Indiana Pacers in 6 games.

However, in the playoffs the Spurs would be stunned in 6 games by the Washington Bullets despite an outstanding series from Gervin who averaged 33. 2 ppg.

However, in the playoffs, the Spurs would never find a break, losing to teams like the Washington Bullets, the Boston Celtics, the Houston Rockets, and the Los Angeles Lakers.

However, it would be hardly a bump in the road for the charging Spurs, who won 8 of the 9 and began to climb their way to first place.

However, the Spurs would turn it around, as they ended December on 13-game winning streak and quickly climbed back to the top of the NBA standings.

However, as the series shifted to Los Angeles, the Spurs would suddenly have trouble finding the basket, as they lost both games as the Lakers evened the series.

However, with a chance to close things out at home, the Spurs saw the Suns hang on for a 111 – 106 win in Game 4.

However, as the series shifted to Detroit, the Spurs were the ones who were blown-out, losing Games 3 and 4 by big margins as the Pistons evened the series.

However with a chance to close things out back at home in Game 6, the Spurs would lose 95 – 86, setting up the first NBA Finals Game 7 in 11 years.

However, in Game 2, the Spurs were rocked at home, losing by 22 points.

However, the Spurs franchise-record 12-game road winning streak came to a halt with a 111 – 102 loss at Golden State on November 27.

However, with the NBA's top ranked defense and a 58 – 24 record, the Spurs entered the postseason in good shape.

However, the Thunder still managed to come back, resulting in the Spurs losing the series 4-2 and thus ending their playoff run.

However, as the 1997 – 98 season approached, the Spurs were considered a notable threat in the NBA.

However, the Spurs lost in the second round to the eventual Western Conference Champions Utah Jazz.

However, the Spurs had a disappointing post-season.

However, arch-rivals Los Angeles Lakers defeated San Antonio in five games in the Conference Finals, and the Spurs once again failed to capture back-to-back NBA championships.

However, Spurs ' plans were cancelled due to their failure to obtain the Olympic Stadium, and now the path is clear for Palace to pursue the site.

However, on certain weekends and when popular opponents came to town, the Spurs expanded the Alamodome's capacity to 35, 000 by opening three portions of the upper level.

However, Woodgate played just three times in Spurs highly successful 2009 – 10 campaign, after succumbing to a long term groin injury.

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

However, any oxygen nonequivalence would shorten either the already extremely short Af interlayer distance of 2.55 A or the non-hydrogen-bonded Af interlayer interactions which are already quite short at 2.58 Aj.

However, one must expect that vaporization and ejection of material by hypervelocity impacts would cause a deviation from a linear relationship.

However, many herpetologists remain skeptical and would prefer a tentative maximum of about 30 feet.

However, if Federal funds are used, it would be entirely appropriate to train workers for jobs which could be obtained elsewhere as well as for jobs in the area of chronic unemployment.

However, the monetary authorities will continue to be required to pay attention to the consequences of their actions with respect to our international balance of payments position and the outflow of gold, as well as with regard to avoiding the creation of excessive liquidity in the economy, which would delay the effectiveness of monetary policy measures in the next expansion phase of the business cycle.

However, this would require a lengthening of the season from thirteen to fourteen weeks.

However, three of the managers did say that they would agree to attend the proposed meeting if all of the other managers decided to attend.

However, it would require all data transmission to send eight bits when seven could suffice.

However, the Greeks thought of the two qualities as complementary: the two gods are brothers, and when Apollo at winter left for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus.

However, with an international language with wide variations in its dialects, such as English, it would be impossible to represent the language in all its variations with a single phonetic alphabet.

However, many would disagree with this hypothesis ; in fact, many of the popular mouthwashes contain sodium lauryl sulfate as an ingredient ( e. g., Listerine Total Care ).

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

However, when forced to choose between Poirot and his wife in that novel, he initially chooses to betray Poirot to the Big Four so that they would not torture and kill his wife.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

However, it would have been very slow.

However, many important and interesting operations are non-associative ; one common example would be the vector cross product.

However, using pure mass to resist the forces of a storm only works well as a permanent mooring ; a large enough rock would be nearly impossible to move to a new location.

However, at the base of this crack is a round void called an ampulla which would have functioned to distribute force over a larger surface area, hindering the ability of the " crack " formed by the serration to propagate through the tooth.

However, his mother consolidated the Doukas family connection by arranging the Emperor's marriage to Irene Doukaina, granddaughter of the Caesar John Doukas, the uncle of Michael VII, who would not have supported Alexios otherwise.

However we are told by Longinus that Ammonius wrote nothing, and if Ammonius was the principal influence on Plotinus, then it is unlikely that Ammonius would have been a Christian.

However, Buddha said that the purity of his heart was so great that, " Should Ananda die without being fully liberated ; he would be king of the gods seven times because of the purity of his heart, or be king of the Indian subcontinent seven times.

However, he supposedly surrendered both of these out of a fear that they would hinder his search for knowledge.

However, he thinks that these too occur out of necessity since an outside observer can see the same regularity that he would in a purely physical system.