The San Antonio Spurs<\/strong> have arguably been the most successful franchise across all sports for the past two decades.\u00a0The Spurs have won 50 games in 17 consecutive seasons. The only reason that it hasn\u2019t been 19 straight seasons is because of the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season. They still went 37-13 in that 50 game campaign. Clearly, the Spurs haven\u2019t made too many mistakes. With a dominant core, superior management, and one of the best coaches in the history of the game, the small market San Antonio Spurs have thrived in a league that is so often dominated by big market teams.<\/p>\n In the past ten years alone, San Antonio has won two titles, which is an incredible feat; however, that number could have easily been three if it weren\u2019t for a rare coaching mistake made by Gregg Popovich<\/strong> three summers ago. The 2013 Spurs were just seconds away from adding another banner to the rafters at AT&T Center<\/strong>. Literally, just seconds away. We all know what happened in Game 6<\/strong> of the 2013 NBA Finals<\/strong>, when Ray Allen<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s historic three pointer sent the game to overtime. His iconic stroke of beauty from the corner is undoubtedly one of the most memorable shots in NBA<\/strong>history. For Spurs fans, Allen\u2019s\u00a0shot and Mike Breen<\/strong>\u2018s exhilarating \u201cBANG!\u201d represent the agony of defeat.<\/p>\n It\u2019s tough to blame anyone on the court for giving up that game-tying three pointer. Chris Bosh<\/a><\/strong> grabbed a tough rebound in traffic, and then one of the greatest shooters in the history of the NBA nailed an incredibly difficult shot \u2013 a shot that was well contested by Tony Parker<\/a><\/strong>. Parker quickly ran to the corner to defend Allen and did the best he could without fouling. So if it wasn\u2019t anyone\u2019s fault on the court, then who could have prevented that shot, and ultimately prevented a Miami Heat<\/strong> championship? The answer comes from the sidelines, where Gregg Popovich made one of the most regretful\u00a0coaching decisions of his Hall of Fame<\/strong> career.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This article was originally posted on our parent site,\u00a0Last Word on Sports<\/a>. It can be read in full at the site. We are now expanding, with a dedicated site for all your basketball analysis, news and opinion. So stay tuned to\u00a0Last Word on Baskeball<\/a>, where we will bring you all of your favorite Last Word features, and much more, from now on.<\/p>\n The San Antonio Spurs Biggest Mistake in the Past Ten Years The San Antonio Spurs have arguably been the most successful franchise across all sports for the past two decades.\u00a0The Spurs have won 50 games in 17 consecutive seasons. The only reason that it hasn\u2019t been 19 straight seasons is because of the lockout-shortened 1998-99 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":85,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[55,56],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spurs","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tim-duncan"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The 2013 NBA Finals<\/h3>\n