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Football and basketball are totally different. In football 3 Super Bowls in four years is the best any team has ever done, only the Cowboys and Patriots have done it.
In basketball winning 3 in 4 years is nothing special.
Yet only 2 basketball teams have managed to do it in the past 40 years (90's Bulls and the recent lakers).
Winning 3 in 4 is a major acheivement in any sport, especially now in the time of parity due to free agency and collective bargaining. Pat Riley once said winning back-to-back championships is the hardest thing in sports. Saying 3 out of 4 is "nothing special" is far from the truth, according to folks who have actually done it or come close.
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Spurs are pretty dang good, but not a dynasty yet.
That's the point. The question is, if they win it THIS YEAR, will they be? The answer has to be an unequivocal YES. The Spurs have won 3 titles since '99, if they win one this year it means 3 out of the last 4, and 4 of the last 8. The only teams to win 4 titles in 8 years in recent memory are the 90's bulls and the 80's lakers.
They have held the league MVP trophy twice in that span.
They won a critical game 7 against the only other team to have its hands on the trophy since the last laker dynasty.
They have featured 3 first-ballot hall of famers (Robinson, Duncan and Popovich).
They have been awarded ESPN's "best franchise in sports" 2 out of 3 years, and have not left the top 5 since the award came into being in 2000.
They have topped 50 wins in all but a single season since 1989, and are currently on pace for 64 wins this season, making them the only team to top 57 wins in each of the last 6 seasons. They have the higest winning % in ANY sport since Tim Duncan signed on.
If they win another one this year (and the Pistons are making it look like that will be a tough chore), and you can't at that point call the Spurs a dynasty....then you ought to take the word dynasty out of the dictionary.
