With their 50th win in the 2011-2012 season, the Spurs currently hold the record for most consecutive 50 + win seasons at 13.

With the third-worst record in the league, the Spurs won the NBA's draft lottery, which gave them the top pick in the 1997 draft.

With a healthy Robinson and Duncan and the additions of playoff veterans such as Mario Elie and Jerome Kersey, the Spurs looked forward to the 1998 – 99 season.

With several holes to fill in their rotation, the Spurs would make several key signings in the offseason to shore up their depth.

With the acquisition of guard Brent Barry from Seattle, the Spurs would get off to a quick start, posting a 12 – 3 record in November.

With the later additions of center Nazr Mohammed from New York ( acquired in a midseason trade of Malik Rose ), and veteran forward Glenn Robinson from free agency, alongside regulars Bruce Bowen, Robert Horry, Tony Parker, Manu Ginóbili, and Tim Duncan, the Spurs would be near the top in the Western Conference all season, battling the Phoenix Suns for the best record in the NBA.

With a win against Sacramento on December 2, 2006, the Spurs moved past the Celtics to become the second winningest franchise in NBA history ( based on winning percentage ) at. 595.

With quiet determination, the Spurs spent the rest of the season flying under the radar, winning thirteen games in a row during February and March.

With that streak, the Spurs began climbing back up in the Western Conference standings.

With 2. 9 sec Spurs fouled Zach Randolph, Randolph made both free throws the score was now 97 – 94, with 1. 7 sec left of the game.

With an experienced center in Robinson and the number one pick in Duncan, the Spurs featured one of the best frontcourts in the league.

With Spurs, Greaves won the FA Cup in 1962 and 1967, scoring after only three minutes in the 1962 Final against Burnley.

With his son Brent winning the NBA Championship in 2005 and 2007 with the San Antonio Spurs, Rick and Brent became the second father-son duo to both win NBA Championships as players ; the first was Matt Guokas, Sr. and his son, Matt Guokas, Jr .. Luke and Bill Walton became the third pair after Luke won the 2009 NBA Championship with the Los Angeles Lakers.

With the Battle of Golden Spurs ( below ), the battle contributed to the end of the perception of cavalry supremacy in warfare.

With Spurs rooted to the bottom of the league, having picked up just 2 points from those 8 games, Ramos was sacked and replaced by Harry Redknapp, who chose to prioritise the league and only play King in those games.

With Blanchflower as captain Spurs won their first 11 games, still a record for the top flight of English football and eventually won the league by 8 points.

With the Spurs, coach Gregg Popovich cut Horry's minutes significantly, resulting in renewed success.

With Spurs, he won the UEFA Cup in 1984 and the FA Cup in 1991 ( as captain ).

With Spurs needing victory to avoid relegation against the reigning First Division champions and 1975 European Cup finalists, Knowles scored twice in a 4-2 victory.

With Brown, the Spurs won their third NBA Championship in June 2005.

With influential shooting guard Manu Ginóbili out injured, the Spurs got off to a bad start to the series and eventually lost 4 – 1 against the Dallas Mavericks, bowing out of the playoffs in the first round for the first time since 2000.

With Martin Jol as manager, Spurs finished fifth in the Premier League, ( their highest position until the fourth place finish in the 2009-10 campaign ) and the club qualified for the UEFA Cup, a feat they repeated again the following season.

With Leeds ' financial problems Lennon was sold to Spurs for a heavily reduced fee, with a sell on clause inserted into the deal.

With the passing of time and as a consequence of the ever mutating nature of the English language, the words " yid " and " yiddo " now only ever mean " Spurs fan " ( or player ) when used in the context of English football-even by fans of other teams.

With his wife and three or more children he arrived in Boston in March, 1637, and soon found it was no place for anyone looking for liberty of conscience.

With colleges and universities carrying a large part of the program, and with students looking toward Peace Corps service, there will be an impact on educational curriculum and student seriousness.

With Hudson looking on, his protege Greene picked a fight with the ship's surgeon, Edward Wilson.

With Britain looking inward, overseas problems were neglected and the baton was passed on to the United States.

With the Bombers looking towards a new era, it was announced on 27 September that Matthew Lloyd would replace James Hird as Essendon captain for the 2006 season, marking the end of Hird's reign since he took over the captaincy in 1998.

With individuals he would sit in front of his patient with his knees touching the patient's knees, pressing the patient's thumbs in his hands, looking fixedly into the patient's eyes.

With the situation in Afghanistan deteriorating, and the Soviet leadership looking for ways to withdraw, Mikhail Gorbachev wanted Karmal to resign as PDPA General Secretary.

With the advent of the Dust Bowl era, Guthrie left Texas, leaving Mary behind, and joined the thousands of Okies who were migrating to California looking for work.

With the Examiners success established by the early 1890s, Hearst began looking for a New York newspaper to purchase, and acquired the New York Journal in 1895, a penny paper which Pulitzer's brother Albert had sold to a Cincinnati publisher the year before.

With no successful results so far, Rear Admiral Al Calavicci ( Dean Stockwell ), Sam's long-time friend and senior officer on the program, is told by the government that they are looking to shut down the funding.

With the post-war wind-down of military spending, the Navy grew increasingly worried that this team would break up and scatter into various companies, and it started looking for ways to covertly keep the team together.

With this method, a much higher charging rate can be used than with a trickle charge, up to 1 C. At this charge rate, looking for a voltage drop, ΔV is approximately 5 – 10mV per cell.

With the end of the American Civil War in the 1860s, many discharged veterans looking to return home took to hopping freight trains.

With profit margins narrowing for newspapers in the wake of competition from broadcast, cable television, and the internet, newspapers are looking to standardize the size of the newsprint roll.

With some care, and looking at a wide range of energy losses, one can determine the types of atoms, and the numbers of atoms of each type, being struck by the beam.

Also, ESPN. com Page 2 columnist Bill Simmons often jokes that he is looking forward to running a future network ; SportsCenter anchors appeared as themselves in music videos by Brad Paisley ( I'm Gonna Miss Her ( The Fishin ' Song )) and Hootie and the Blowfish ( Only Wanna Be With You ); and the 1998 TV series Sports Night was based on an ESPN-style network and its titular, SportsCenter-analogue flagship sports results program.

With the eminent construction of the Central Washington Railroad ( later acquired by the Northern Pacific ) through the area in 1889, Davis was approached by land developers Odgers and Reed who were looking to start a town on the site.

With strong reviews appearing all over the country, not only of Buffalo Springfield Again but of the band's performance as part of the Beach Boys Fifth Annual Thanksgiving Tour, things were looking up.

With the situation looking increasingly dangerous for his army, Napoleon reassessed the developments and probably noted that he was holding the central position of an increasingly curved battlefront.

With Moi looking on, Kibaki reiterated his pledge to end government corruption.

With his father's help, he secured a one-record deal with Verve Records, an important jazz label looking for a young and popular personality who could sing or be taught to sing.

With the success of the Aerodrome No. 5 and its follow-on No. 6, Langley started looking for funding to build a full-scale man-carrying version of his designs.

With President Franklin D. Roosevelt looking on, O ' Hare's wife Rita placed the Medal around his neck.

With just a few months of the 1983 – 84 season gone, the future already didn't looking bright for Wolves as they had failed to win any of their 14 opening First Division games, but even then few could have imagined just how steep the decline would be.