For 17 years, San Antonio Spurs fans feasted on the successes of a basketball dynasty. Guided by fabled knights like Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, and even Kawhi Leonard, the Spurs of the Round Table were as mythical as they were real.
At the head of the crew sat King Popovich, aided by his men-at-arms Chip Engelland and a host of others who left the kingdom for the faraway lands of Salt Lake City and Milan. And lest we not forget the wayward Doc Rivers, who nearly staged a coup in before the 6-8 Spurs went on a heater in ‘99.