Ranker

Anime Underground

Button Mash

Graveyard Shift

Total Nerd

Unspeakable Times

Weird History

Weird Nature

Weirdly Interesting

Sports

Music

Entertainment

Living

Culture

Food

Makeup

Halloween

Thanksgiving

Holidays

Watchworthy

HBO Max

Lists that rank the team's greatest players and coaches, now and throughout history. 

Basketball

Robert Horry

A list of the best San Antonio Spurs of all time. The Spurs are one of the four ABA franchises to successfully transition into the NBA. San Antonio has had one of the greatest runs in modern basketball history. Beginning in 1989 after a few years of misery, the team's first overall pick in 1987, David Robinson, started playing for the team after his two-year naval commitment was completed. From the start, Robinson was one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-centers-of-all-time">greatest centers in the NBA</a>. The team went on a long successful run with &quot;The Admiral&quot; steering the ship. Along with Sean Elliott, one of the best Spurs ever, San Antonio began its golden era. In 1997, after a down year where Robinson missed nearly the entire season with a knee injury, the Spurs drafted Tim Duncan, one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/top-10-current-nba-players">best players of his generation</a>. Duncan proved to be exactly what the Spurs needed. The team won four NBA titles with Duncan on the team, which cemented his status as one of the greatest players ever. When Robinson retired, new stars emerged. Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili are vital cogs to the Spurs engine, and are two of the biggest legends in San Antonio Spurs history. Throughout the team's greatest period, it has been the model franchise in terms of stability and its ability to consistently draft great players. This is how the team drafted Parker, who is one of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-point-guards-in-nba-history?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best point guards</a> in team history.This is a list of the best San Antonio Spurs of all time. If you think someone is missing, feel free to add him to this list. Vote or rerank this list of the greatest San Antonio Spurs of all time how you think it should look.&nbsp;

Big fan of San Antonio basketball? Then check out this list of San Antonio Spurs centers with photos and seasons played with the team.&nbsp;It includes almost every center from throughout San Antonio Spurs history, including current centers and past ones. Featuring some of the&nbsp;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-centers-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">greatest NBA centers</a> of all time,&nbsp;the best Spurs&nbsp;Cs include Tim Duncan, David Robinson, Artis Gilmore, and Billy Paultz.In the 2017-18 NBA season, the current San Antonio Spurs starting Cs and backup Cs are Pau Gasol and Joffrey Lauvergne.&nbsp; Who are the best centers in San Antonio Spurs history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of San Antonio Spurs&nbsp;center.

Big fan of San Antonio basketball? Then check out this list of San Antonio Spurs point guards with photos and seasons played with the team.&nbsp;It includes almost every point guard from throughout San Antonio Spurs history, including current point guards and past ones. Featuring some of the&nbsp;greatest <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-point-guards-currently-in-the-nba?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">NBA point guards</a> of all time,&nbsp;the best Spurs&nbsp;PGs include Avery Johnson, John Lucas II, Rod Strickland, and Johnny Moore .In the 2017-18 NBA season, the current San Antonio Spurs starting PGs and backup PGs are Tony Parker, Patty Mills, and Derrick White.&nbsp;Who are the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-point-guards-in-nba-history?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best point guards</a> in San Antonio Spurs history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of San Antonio Spurs&nbsp;point guard.

Big fan of San Antonio basketball? Then check out this list of San Antonio Spurs shooting guards with photos and seasons played with the team.&nbsp;It includes almost every shooting guard from throughout <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-san-antonio-spurs-point-guards/ranker-nba?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">San Antonio Spurs history</a>, including current shooting guards and past ones. Featuring some of the&nbsp;greatest NBA shooting guards of all time,&nbsp;the best Spurs&nbsp;SGs include George Gervin, Willie Anderson, Alvin Robertson, and Michael Finley.In the 2017-18 NBA season, the current San Antonio Spurs starting SGs and backup SGs are Manu Ginobili, Danny Green, Brandon Paul, Bryn Forbes, and Darrun Hilliard.&nbsp; Who are the best shooting guards in San Antonio Spurs history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of San Antonio Spurs&nbsp;shooting guard.

Big fan of San Antonio basketball? Then check out this list of San Antonio Spurs power forwards with photos and seasons played with the team.&nbsp;It includes almost every power forward from throughout <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-san-antonio-spurs-centers/ranker-nba?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">San Antonio Spurs history</a>, including current power forwards and past ones. Featuring some of the&nbsp;greatest NBA power forwards of all time,&nbsp;the best Spurs&nbsp;PFs include Tim Duncan, Dennis Rodman, Rich Jones, and Terry Cummings.In the 2017-18 NBA season, the current San Antonio Spurs starting PFs and backup PFs are LaMarcus Aldridge and Rudy Gay.&nbsp; Who are the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-power-forwards-in-nba-history?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best power forwards</a> in San Antonio Spurs history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of San Antonio Spurs&nbsp;power forward.

Big fan of San Antonio basketball? Then check out this list of San Antonio Spurs small forwards with photos and seasons played with the team.&nbsp;It includes almost every small forward from throughout <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-san-antonio-spurs-centers/ranker-nba?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">San Antonio Spurs history</a>, including current small forwards and past ones. Featuring some of the&nbsp;greatest NBA small forwards of all time,&nbsp;the best Spurs&nbsp;SFs include George Gervin, Sean Elliot, Larry Kenon, and Bruce Bowen.In the 2017-18 NBA season, the current San Antonio Spurs starting SFs and backup SFs are Kawhi Leonard, Kyle Anderson, and Davis Bertans.&nbsp; Who are the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/top-10-small-forwards?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best small forwards</a> in San Antonio Spurs history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of San Antonio Spurs&nbsp;small forward.

Coaches

John Lucas III

Everything's bigger in Texas, including the personalities on and off the basketball court. Just take the San Antonio Spurs - the team has boasted some incredible leadership over the years. The top Spurs coaches come in many forms. Some great leaders on this best to worst Spurs coaches list prioritized defense, while other former Spurs head coaches developed genius offensive plays. Many of the best San Antonio Spurs coaches were once players themselves.Who will you find on this list of famous San Antonio Spurs head coaches? Larry Brown led the Spurs to the playoffs several times during his tenure as head coach from 1988-1992. He was named NBA Coach of the Year in 2001. Bob Hill is another popular coach of the San Antonio Spurs. Jerry Tarkanian made his mark on the San Antonio Spurs as the head coach in 1992. Other good Spurs coaches featured on this list include Bob Bass, Gregg Popovich, and Cotton Fitzsimmons.Do you have a favorite Spurs coach? Vote the best coaches up to the top of this list and get in on the conversation in the comments section.

San Antonio Spurs

pageType

safe_grapeshot

dietAds_a

edit_update_annually

cb_san-antonio-spurs

longtail_search

scale_cleanup

srch

Ranking The Best San Antonio Spurs Small Forwards of All Time

The Best San Antonio Spurs Small Forwards of All Time

The Best Sports Lists - Find or Make a Basketball Players List  | Ranker  | Ranker - A World of Lists

Basketball Player

Best Rankings of Sports Teams and Players, Interesting Sports Facts, and Moments in Sports

sports

Ranker NBA

Gender

Women

Gen Zs

Millenials

Gen Xers

Baby Boomers

Region

West Coast US

Mountain US

Midwest US

Southern US

Northeastern US

International

Kawhi Leonard

Kawhi Anthony Leonard (, born June 29, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played two seasons of college basketball for the San Diego State Aztecs and was named a consensus second-team All-American as a sophomore. Leonard opted to forgo his final two seasons at San Diego State to enter the 2011 NBA draft; accordingly, he was selected by the Indiana Pacers with the 15th overall pick before being traded to the San Antonio Spurs on draft night.
With the Spurs, Leonard won an NBA championship in 2014, when he was named the Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP). After seven seasons with the Spurs, Leonard was traded to the Toronto Raptors in 2018. In 2019, he led the Raptors to their first NBA championship in franchise history and won his second Finals MVP award.
Leonard is a three-time All-Star and has two All-NBA first-team selections. Nicknamed the "Claw," or "Klaw," for his ball-hawking skills, he has earned five All-Defensive team selections and won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award in 2015 and 2016.

George Gervin

George Gervin (born April 27, 1952), nicknamed "The Iceman", is an American retired professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Virginia Squires, San Antonio Spurs, and Chicago Bulls. Gervin averaged at least 14 points per game in all 14 of his ABA and NBA seasons, and finished with an NBA career average of 26.2 points per game. In 1996, Gervin was named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.

Sean Elliott

Sean Michael Elliott (born February 2, 1968) is an American former professional basketball player who starred at small forward in both the college and professional ranks.  He attended the University of Arizona, where he had a standout career as a two-time All-American, winner of the 1989 John R. Wooden Award, the 1989 Adolph Rupp Trophy, the 1989 NABC Player of the Year, 1989 AP Player of the Year, and two time Pac-12 Player of the Year (in 1988–1989).
He was the third pick of the 1989 NBA draft, was named to the 1990 NBA All-Rookie Second Team, was a two-time NBA All-Star, and earned an NBA championship in 1999.
His #32 is retired by both the University of Arizona and the San Antonio Spurs.

Bruce Bowen

Bruce Eric Bowen Jr. (born June 14, 1971) is an American former professional basketball player. Bowen played small forward and graduated from Edison High School and Cal State Fullerton. He went on to play for the National Basketball Association's Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers, San Antonio Spurs and the Continental Basketball Association's Rockford Lightning, and also played abroad in France.
One of the most feared perimeter "lockdown" defenders in NBA history, Bowen was elected to the NBA All-Defensive First and Second Teams eight times, and was a member of the Spurs teams that won the NBA championships in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Off the court, Bowen became an informal ambassador for child obesity awareness.

Dominique Wilkins

Jacques Dominique Wilkins (born January 12, 1960) is an American retired professional basketball player who primarily played for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Wilkins was a nine-time NBA All-Star, and is widely viewed as one of the best dunkers in NBA history, earning the nickname "The Human Highlight Film". In 2006, Wilkins was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
In addition to his eleven seasons with the Hawks, Wilkins had short stints with the Los Angeles Clippers, the Boston Celtics, Panathinaikos Athens (a professional team in Greece's top-tier level Greek Basket League, with whom he won his first titles, the FIBA European League and the Greek Cup), Fortitudo Bologna (a professional team in Italy's top-tier level LBA), the San Antonio Spurs, and the Orlando Magic before he retired in 1999.

Rudy Gay

Rudy Carlton Gay Jr. (born August 17, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The 6'8" small forward played college basketball for the University of Connecticut before being drafted eighth overall in the 2006 NBA draft by the Houston Rockets; he was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies days later.

Larry Kenon

Larry Joe Kenon (born December 13, 1952) is an American former professional basketball player.
A 6'9" forward who had a productive career in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA), Kenon played for the New York Nets, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers. His nicknames were "Mr. K" (to go with Nets teammate "Dr. J.", Julius Erving) and "Special K."

Mike Mitchell

Michael Anthony Mitchell (January 1, 1956 – June 9, 2011) was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), over eleven seasons, from 1978 to 1990.

Willie Anderson

Willie Lloyd Anderson Jr. (born January 8, 1966) is a retired American professional basketball player.
After attending the University of Georgia, he was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the 10th pick of the 1988 NBA draft. He played for the Spurs until the 1994–95 season when he was selected in the 1995 expansion draft by the Toronto Raptors. He also played for the New York Knicks and the Miami Heat for the next two seasons.
Anderson then moved to Greece to play for Olympiacos and later for AEK Athens which he led to the Euroleague 1998 final.
The next season, he signed for Maccabi Tel Aviv from Israel, but was waived at the beginning of the season. After signing, he declared that this would be his last season in professional basketball, and after being waived he did retire.
Anderson is the older brother of former NBA player Shandon Anderson, and father of former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Lady Mocs player Alex Anderson.

Michael Finley

Michael Howard Finley (born March 6, 1973) is an American retired professional basketball player and current film producer and also Vice President of Basketball Operations for the Dallas Mavericks. He played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a two-time NBA All-Star and won an NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs in 2007.

Hedo Türkoğlu

Hidayet "Hedo" Türkoğlu (Turkish pronunciation: [hidaːˈjet ˈtyɾkoːɫu]; born March 19, 1979) is a Turkish former professional basketball player and current president of the Turkish Basketball Federation. He has played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The 6'10" forward played for six teams throughout his NBA career.

Walter Berry

Walter Berry (born May 14, 1964) is an American former professional basketball player. After spending three seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he had a very successful career in various leagues around Europe and the EuroLeague. Berry played the power forward position and was known for his very effective left-hand sky hook. Out of New York, Berry was originally nicknamed "The Truth."

Marco Belinelli

Marco Stefano Belinelli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko beliˈnɛlli]; born 25 March 1986) is an Italian professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected 18th overall in the 2007 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors. In 2014, he won the NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs, becoming the first Italian player to do so. He won the NBA Three-Point Shootout during the 2014 NBA All-Star Weekend. He played in the 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 editions of the FIBA EuroBasket and the 2006 FIBA World Championship with the Italian national basketball team.

Richard Jefferson

Richard Allen Jefferson (born June 21, 1980) is an American professional basketball player who is currently a free agent. He played college basketball with the Arizona Wildcats. Jefferson was drafted in the first round of the 2001 NBA draft with the 13th overall pick, and was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team in his first season with the New Jersey Nets (now known as the Brooklyn Nets). He won an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016. He was also a member of the United States national team that won a bronze medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Jefferson initially retired from playing in 2018, and became a basketball analyst. On July 2, 2019, he announced his intention to resume his playing career.

Derek Anderson

Derek Lamont Anderson (born July 18, 1974) is an American former professional basketball player.

Reggie Johnson

Reggie Johnson may refer to:

Reggie Johnson (boxer) (born 1966), American boxer
Reggie Johnson (basketball, born 1957), retired American professional basketball player, played collegiately at the University of Tennessee
Reggie Johnson (basketball, born 1989), current American professional basketball player, played collegiately at the University of Miami
Reggie Johnson (American football) (born 1968), former professional American football player
Reggie Johnson (musician) (born 1940), American jazz bassist

Cincinnatus Powell

Cincy Powell

Cincinnatus "Cincy" Powell (born February 25, 1942 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a former professional basketball player.  A 6'7" (2.01 m) forward from the University of Portland, Powell was selected by the St. Louis Hawks in the eighth round of the 1965 NBA Draft.  He did not make the Hawks' roster, but he would soon blossom while playing for the American Basketball Association's Dallas Chaparrals.  Powell averaged 18.3 points and nine rebounds in his first season with the Chaparrals, and two years later he represented Dallas in the ABA All-Star Game.  Powell also spent time with the Kentucky Colonels, Utah Stars, and Virginia Squires, and he ended his ABA career in 1975 with 9,746 total points.

Glenn Robinson

Glenn Alan Robinson Jr. (born January 10, 1973) is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed Big Dog, he played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1994 to 2005 for the Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers, and San Antonio Spurs. Robinson attended Purdue University, was the first overall pick in the 1994 NBA draft, and is the father of Glenn Robinson III, who played college basketball at the University of Michigan and plays in the NBA with the Golden State Warriors.

Roger Mason, Jr.

Roger Philip Mason Jr. (born September 10, 1980) is an American retired professional basketball player who last played for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the former deputy executive director of the NBA Players Association. He is the former president and commissioner of Big3.

Chuck Person

Chuck Connors Person (born June 28, 1964) is an American former basketball player and coach. Person played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and was the 1987 NBA Rookie of the Year. Person played college basketball at Auburn University and was selected fourth overall in the 1986 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers, for whom he played six seasons. He also played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, San Antonio Spurs, Charlotte Hornets and Seattle SuperSonics. His 17-year coaching career ended when Person was ensnared in a college recruitment scandal and pleaded guilty to a bribery charge.

Dale Ellis

Dale Ellis (born August 6, 1960) is a retired American professional basketball player, who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Frank Brickowski

Francis Anthony Brickowski (born August 14, 1959) is an American retired professional basketball player, formerly in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Cliff Hagan

Clifford Oldham Hagan (born December 9, 1931) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6-4 forward who excelled with the hook shot, Hagan, nicknamed "Li'l Abner", played his entire 10-year NBA career (1956–1966) with the St. Louis Hawks. He was also a player-coach for the Dallas Chaparrals in the first two-plus years of the American Basketball Association's existence (1967–1970).

Antoine Carr

Antoine Labotte Carr (born July 23, 1961) is an American retired basketball player. Nicknamed "Big Dawg", he played for six teams in sixteen NBA seasons.

Terry Cummings

Robert Terrell Cummings (born March 15, 1961) is an American retired professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association for 18 seasons as a power forward and occasional center.

Big fan of San Antonio basketball? Then check out this list of San Antonio Spurs small forwards with photos and seasons played with the team.&nbsp;It includes ...