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1999 NBA Finals
Team
Coach
Wins
San Antonio Spurs Gregg Popovich 4
New York Knicks Jeff Van Gundy 1
Dates
June 16–25
MVP
Tim Duncan
(San Antonio Spurs)
Television
NBC (U.S.)
Announcers
Bob Costas and Doug Collins
Radio network
ESPN
Announcers
Brent Musburger and Jack Ramsay
Referees
Game 1:
Bennett Salvatore, Hugh Evans, Steve Javie
Game 2:
Dan Crawford, Joe Crawford, Jess Kersey
Game 3:
Dick Bavetta, Hue Hollins, Ronnie Nunn
Game 4:
Hugh Evans, Ron Garretson, Mike Mathis
Game 5:
Joe Crawford, Steve Javie, Bennett Salvatore
Hall of Famers
Spurs:
David Robinson (2009)
Knicks:
Patrick Ewing (2008)
Officials:
Dick Bavetta (2015)
Eastern Finals
Knicks defeat Pacers, 4–2
Western Finals
Spurs defeat Trail Blazers, 4–0
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The 1999 NBA Finals was the championship round of the shortened 1998–99 NBA season or the 1999 season. The Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs took on the Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks for the title, with the Spurs holding home court advantage. The series was played under a best-of-seven format, with the first team to collect four game victories winning the series. The Spurs defeated the Knicks 4 games to 1 to win the championship. As of 2018, this is the last NBA Finals where neither team scored 100 or more points in any game during the series.
Will Lyman narrated the season-ending documentary Go Spurs Go! for NBA Entertainment.
Contents
1 Background
1.1 San Antonio Spurs
1.2 New York Knicks
2 Result
2.1 Road to the Finals
2.2 Regular season series
3 1999 NBA Finals rosters
3.1 San Antonio Spurs
3.2 New York Knicks
4 Series summary
5 Player statistics
6 Aftermath
7 See also
8 External links
Background[edit]
The 1999 NBA season was shortened due to a labor dispute that led to a lockout, canceling the first 3 months of the season, technically making this the 1999 NBA season and Finals (as all games were played in the year 1999). The NBA schedule consisted of 50 regular season games (61% of regular 82 games), and a normal playoff schedule; many teams never played each other.
San Antonio Spurs[edit]
This was the second year of the "Twin Towers" pairing of David Robinson and second year star forward Tim Duncan, who switched from his natural center position in college to power forward to play alongside Robinson in San Antonio; the two had been teammates since the Spurs drafted Duncan with the first overall pick in the 1997 NBA Draft- a pick they earned through the draft lottery, due to a 62-loss 1996–97 season that saw Robinson suffer an injury very early in the season and the team collapse from there. As a result of the shaky start, veteran coach Bob Hill was fired and replaced by then-general manager Gregg Popovich. In the first season of the Duncan/Robinson tandem the Spurs won 56 games but were eliminated by the Utah Jazz in the second round of the playoffs. The following year, led by Robinson, Duncan, Sean Elliott, and Avery Johnson, the Spurs recovered from a 6-8 start to the season to win 31 of their last 36 games and qualify as the top seed in the Western Conference, as well as the league's best record.
After defeating the Minnesota Timberwolves in four games, San Antonio recorded back-to-back sweeps in the second round and conference finals, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers and Portland Trail Blazers. The victory over Portland gave the Spurs their first ever trip to the NBA Finals.
New York Knicks[edit]
The Knicks had a harder time getting to the playoffs than the Spurs did. Toward the end of the season, with the team teetering on the brink of making the playoffs, rumors had begun to spread in the New York media that head coach Jeff Van Gundy would lose his job before the end of the season if the team did not make the playoffs. Instead, New York fired general manager Ernie Grunfeld and allowed Van Gundy to lead the team to the playoffs, with the team barely qualifying as the #8 seed. They would face the Miami Heat, the top seed, in the first round.
Led by an injured Patrick Ewing and relying on contributions from Larry Johnson, Latrell Sprewell, and Allan Houston, as well as a newly acquired Marcus Camby, the Knicks were able to keep pace with the Heat and after Houston hit a shot with 0.8 seconds remaining in Game 5 of that series, the Knicks were victorious and became the second team in NBA history after the Denver Nuggets to win a playoff series as the #8 seed. The Nuggets were led by Dikembe Mutombo in that series, a center who now was playing for the Atlanta Hawks, the Knicks' next opponent. Although the center from Zaire guaranteed a victory, the Knicks won in a four-game sweep to set up a matchup with the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Ewing could not continue due to an injury and was lost for the series after the first two games. In the third game, with 11.9 seconds left and the Knicks trailing 91–88, Johnson looked to attempt a three-point shot but was unable to shake the defender. He continued moving, however, and got off the shot while being fouled. He made the basket and converted the subsequent free-throw for a game-winning four-point play and gave his team a 2–1 lead in the series. In Game 6, however, Johnson suffered a knee injury and although the Knicks rallied around him to get the victory and the conference championship, it would prove costly as his playing time was limited in the Finals.
Result[edit]
The Spurs won the series 4 games to 1. Spurs forward Tim Duncan was named the Most Valuable Player of the finals. On June 25 with 47 seconds to go in Game 5, Avery Johnson hit the game-winner. Johnson's shot was followed by a Latrell Sprewell miss that would have sent the series back to San Antonio.
This was the first of San Antonio's five NBA Championships, but they would not return to the Finals until 2003. New York has yet to return to the Finals. No #8 seed has advanced to the NBA Finals or as far as the Conference Finals since, but there have been other instances of #8 seeds defeating #1 seeds in the playoffs: in 2007 the Golden State Warriors defeated the Dallas Mavericks; in 2011 the Memphis Grizzlies defeated the Spurs; and in 2012 the Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Chicago Bulls.
The Spurs would also be the first champions since 1986 to not go on to repeat as champions. From 1987 to 1998 every champion either repeated or three-peated.
As of the 2014 NBA Finals, June 25 is the latest in the calendar that any NBA Finals game has ever been played. Had a Game 7 been required it would have been played on Tuesday, June 29.
Road to the Finals[edit]
Main article: 1999 NBA Playoffs
San Antonio Spurs (Western Conference champion)
New York Knicks (Eastern Conference champion)
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Western Conference
v
t
e
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W
L
PCT
GB
1
z-San Antonio Spurs 37 13 .740 –
2
y-Portland Trail Blazers 35 15 .700 2
3
x-Utah Jazz 37 13 .740 –
4
x-Los Angeles Lakers 31 19 .620 6
5
x-Houston Rockets 31 19 .620 6
6
x-Sacramento Kings 27 23 .540 10
7
x-Phoenix Suns 27 23 .540 10
8
x-Minnesota Timberwolves 25 25 .500 12
9
Seattle SuperSonics 25 25 .500 12
10
Golden State Warriors 21 29 .420 16
11
Dallas Mavericks 19 31 .380 18
12
Denver Nuggets 14 36 .280 23
13
Los Angeles Clippers 9 41 .180 28
14
Vancouver Grizzlies 8 42 .160 29
1st seed in the West, best league record
Regular season
#
Eastern Conference
v
t
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W
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PCT
GB
1
c-Miami Heat 33 17 .660 –
2
y-Indiana Pacers 33 17 .660 –
3
x-Orlando Magic 33 17 .660 –
4
x-Atlanta Hawks 31 19 .620 2
5
x-Detroit Pistons 29 21 .580 4
6
x-Philadelphia 76ers 28 22 .560 5
7
x-Milwaukee Bucks 28 22 .560 5
8
x-New York Knicks 27 23 .540 6
9
Charlotte Hornets 26 24 .520 7
10
Toronto Raptors 23 27 .460 10
11
Cleveland Cavaliers 22 28 .440 11
12
Boston Celtics 19 31 .380 14
13
Washington Wizards 18 32 .360 15
14
New Jersey Nets 16 34 .320 17
15
Chicago Bulls 13 37 .260 20
8th seed in the East, 14th best league record
Defeated the (8) Minnesota Timberwolves, 3–1
First round
Defeated the (1) Miami Heat, 3–2
Defeated the (4) Los Angeles Lakers, 4–0
Conference Semifinals
Defeated the (4) Atlanta Hawks, 4–0
Defeated the (2) Portland Trail Blazers, 4–0
Conference Finals
Defeated the (2) Indiana Pacers, 4–2
Regular season series[edit]
The Knicks and Spurs did not meet in the regular season.
1999 NBA Finals rosters[edit]
San Antonio Spurs[edit]
1999 San Antonio Spurs Finals roster
Players
Coaches
Pos.
#
Nat.
Name
Ht.
Wt.
From
PG 7001330000000000000♠33 Daniels, Antonio 7000193040000000000♠6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 205 lb (93 kg) Bowling Green
PF 7001210000000000000♠21 Duncan, Tim 7000210820000000000♠6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 250 lb (113 kg) Wake Forest
SG 7001170000000000000♠17 Elie, Mario 7000195580000000000♠6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 210 lb (95 kg) American International
SF 7001320000000000000♠32 Elliott, Sean 7000203200000000000♠6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 205 lb (93 kg) Arizona
SG 7001100000000000000♠10 Gaze, Andrew 7000200659999999999♠6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 205 lb (93 kg) Seton Hall
SG 7000200000000000000♠2 Jackson, Jaren 7000193040000000000♠6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 190 lb (86 kg) Georgetown
PG 7000600000000000000♠6 Johnson, Avery 7000177800000000000♠5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) 175 lb (79 kg) Southern
PG 7000400000000000000♠4 Kerr, Steve 7000190500000000000♠6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 175 lb (79 kg) Arizona
SF 7001250000000000000♠25 Kersey, Jerome 7000200659999999999♠6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 215 lb (98 kg) Longwood
PF 7001540000000000000♠54 King, Gerard 7000205740000000000♠6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 230 lb (104 kg) Nicholls State
C 7001410000000000000♠41 Perdue, Will 7000213360000000000♠7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) 240 lb (109 kg) Vanderbilt
C 7001500000000000000♠50 Robinson, David 7000215899999999999♠7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) 235 lb (107 kg) Navy
PF 7001310000000000000♠31 Rose, Malik 7000200659999999999♠6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 250 lb (113 kg) Drexel
SG 7001110000000000000♠11 Williams, Brandon 7000198120000000000♠6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 215 lb (98 kg) Davidson
Head coach
Gregg Popovich
Legend
(C) Team captain
(DP) Unsigned draft pick
(FA) Free agent
(S) Suspended
Injured
Roster
New York Knicks[edit]
1999 New York Knicks Finals roster
Players
Coaches
Pos.
#
Nat.
Name
Ht.
Wt.
From
PG 7000900000000000000♠9 Brunson, Rick 7000193040000000000♠6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 190 lb (86 kg) Temple
C 7001230000000000000♠23 Camby, Marcus 7000210820000000000♠6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 220 lb (100 kg) Massachusetts
PG 7000100000000000000♠1 Childs, Chris 7000190500000000000♠6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 195 lb (88 kg) Boise State
PF 7000400000000000000♠4 Davis, Ben 7000205740000000000♠6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 240 lb (109 kg) Arizona
C 7001140000000000000♠14 Dudley, Chris 7000210820000000000♠6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 235 lb (107 kg) Yale
C 7001330000000000000♠33 Ewing, Patrick 7000213360000000000♠7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) 240 lb (109 kg) Georgetown
SG 7001200000000000000♠20 Houston, Allan 7000198120000000000♠6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 220 lb (100 kg) Tennessee
PF 7000200000000000000♠2 Johnson, Larry 7000198120000000000♠6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 250 lb (113 kg) UNLV
SF 7000800000000000000♠8 Sprewell, Latrell 7000195580000000000♠6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 190 lb (86 kg) Alabama
PF 7001400000000000000♠40 Thomas, Kurt 7000205740000000000♠6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 230 lb (104 kg) TCU
PG 7001210000000000000♠21 Ward, Charlie 7000187960000000000♠6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 190 lb (86 kg) Florida State
C 7001320000000000000♠32 Williams, Herb 7000208279999999999♠6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 242 lb (110 kg) Ohio State
SG 7001250000000000000♠25 Wingate, David 7000195580000000000♠6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 185 lb (84 kg) Georgetown
Head coach
Jeff Van Gundy
Legend
(C) Team captain
(DP) Unsigned draft pick
(FA) Free agent
(S) Suspended
Injured
Series summary[edit]
Game
Date
Home Team
Result
Road Team
Game 1 Wednesday, June 16 San Antonio Spurs 89–77 (1–0) New York Knicks
Game 2 Friday, June 18 San Antonio Spurs 80–67 (2–0) New York Knicks
Game 3 Monday, June 21 New York Knicks 89–81 (1–2) San Antonio Spurs
Game 4 Wednesday, June 23 New York Knicks 89–98 (1–3) San Antonio Spurs
Game 5 Friday, June 25 New York Knicks 77–78 (1–4) San Antonio Spurs
The Finals were played using a 2–3–2 site format, where the first two and last two games are held at the team with home court advantage. The NBA, after experimenting in the early years, restored this original format for the Finals between 1985–2013. Since the 2013-2014 season, the Finals returned to a 2–2–1–1–1 site format.
NBC
June 16
Boxscores
New York Knicks 77, San Antonio Spurs 89
Scoring by quarter: 27–21, 10–24, 26–26, 14–18
Pts: Sprewell, Houston 19
Rebs: Latrell Sprewell 7
Asts: Houston, Ward 3 Pts: Tim Duncan 33
Rebs: Tim Duncan 13
Asts: Avery Johnson 8
San Antonio led the series, 1–0
Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas
Attendance: 39,514
Referees:
Hugh Evans
Steve Javie
Bennett Salvatore
NBC
June 18
Boxscores
New York Knicks 67, San Antonio Spurs 80
Scoring by quarter: 15–20, 19–19, 15–17, 18–24
Pts: Latrell Sprewell 26
Rebs: Latrell Sprewell 7
Asts: Charlie Ward 3 Pts: Tim Duncan 25
Rebs: Tim Duncan 15
Asts: Avery Johnson 5
San Antonio led the series, 2–0
Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas
Attendance: 39,554
Referees:
Dan Crawford
Joe Crawford
Jess Kersey
NBC
June 21
Boxscores
San Antonio Spurs 81, New York Knicks 89
Scoring by quarter: 21–32, 25–17, 16–16, 19–24
Pts: David Robinson 25
Rebs: Tim Duncan 12
Asts: Avery Johnson 4 Pts: Allan Houston 34
Rebs: Houston, Johnson 5
Asts: Latrell Sprewell 5
San Antonio led the series, 2–1
Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York
Attendance: 19,763
Referees:
Dick Bavetta
Hue Hollins
Ronnie Nunn
NBC
June 23
Boxscores
San Antonio Spurs 98, New York Knicks 89
Scoring by quarter: 27–29, 23–17, 22–17, 24–26
Pts: Tim Duncan 28
Rebs: Tim Duncan 18
Asts: Avery Johnson 10 Pts: Latrell Sprewell 26
Rebs: Marcus Camby 13
Asts: Charlie Ward 8
San Antonio led the series, 3–1
Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York
Attendance: 19,763
Referees:
Hugh Evans
Ron Garretson
Mike Mathis
NBC
June 25
Boxscores
San Antonio Spurs 78, New York Knicks 77
Scoring by quarter: 20–23, 20–15, 19–20, 19–19
Pts: Tim Duncan 31
Rebs: David Robinson 12
Asts: Avery Johnson 9 Pts: Latrell Sprewell 35
Rebs: Latrell Sprewell 10
Asts: Allan Houston 5
San Antonio won the NBA Finals, 4–1
Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York
Attendance: 19,763
Referees:
Joe Crawford
Steve Javie
Bennett Salvatore
Player statistics[edit]
Legend
GP Games played GS Games started MPG Minutes per game
FG% Field-goal percentage 3P% 3-point field-goal percentage FT% Free-throw percentage
RPG Rebounds per game APG Assists per game SPG Steals per game
BPG Blocks per game PPG Points per game
San Antonio Spurs
Player
GP
GS
MPG
FG%
3FG%
FT%
RPG
APG
SPG
BPG
PPG
Antonio Daniels 4 0 6.0 .800 1.000 .000 0.5 1.0 0.3 0.0 2.5
Tim Duncan 5 5 45.8 .537 .000 .795 14.0 2.4 1.0 2.2 27.4
Mario Elie 5 5 35.0 .447 .308 .870 4.0 2.6 1.2 0.0 11.6
Sean Elliott 5 5 36.2 .333 .278 .636 3.0 3.0 0.8 0.2 8.0
Jaren Jackson 5 0 19.2 .324 .375 .000 1.4 1.0 1.0 0.0 6.6
Avery Johnson 5 5 39.2 .500 .000 .600 2.6 7.2 0.6 0.0 9.2
Steve Kerr 5 0 8.8 .400 .500 .000 1.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 1.8
Jerome Kersey 2 0 2.0 1.000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0
Gerard King 2 0 1.0 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
David Robinson 5 5 37.0 .424 .000 .688 11.8 2.4 1.0 3.0 16.6
Malik Rose 5 0 12.8 .200 .000 .500 2.4 0.4 0.6 0.4 1.2
New York Knicks
Player
GP
GS
MPG
FG%
3FG%
FT%
RPG
APG
SPG
BPG
PPG
Rick Brunson 1 0 1.0 .001 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Marcus Camby 5 3 27.0 .500 .000 .750 7.8 0.2 0.6 2.0 9.6
Chris Childs 5 0 21.0 .227 .200 .500 1.2 2.2 0.4 0.0 2.4
Chris Dudley 5 2 15.6 .250 .000 .333 3.8 0.2 0.2 0.6 1.2
Allan Houston 5 5 44.4 .427 .167 .923 3.2 3.4 0.4 0.0 21.6
Larry Johnson 5 5 37.0 .286 .111 .615 4.8 1.4 1.2 0.2 7.6
Latrell Sprewell 5 5 44.2 .410 .286 .842 6.6 2.6 1.4 0.2 26.0
Kurt Thomas 5 0 21.0 .344 .000 .600 7.6 0.4 1.2 0.0 5.6
Charlie Ward 5 5 29.0 .462 .333 .500 3.2 3.6 2.6 0.4 5.8
Herb Williams 2 0 1.5 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Aftermath[edit]
The Spurs would become the first defending champion since the 1985–86 Celtics to not win consecutive championships. They won 53 games that season, but were severely handicapped by Sean Elliott’s early season kidney transplant, and Tim Duncan’s late-season knee injury. The Spurs were eliminated in the first round of the 2000 NBA Playoffs by the Phoenix Suns. The Spurs would also win four more NBA titles in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014 and appear in the 2013 NBA Finals, with Duncan and head coach Gregg Popovich the only members of the team to appear in all of the Spurs’ Finals appearances.
As of the 2017–18 season[update], the series remains the Knicks’ last NBA Finals appearance. The next season, the Knicks won fifty games but fell to the Indiana Pacers in six games in the Eastern Conference Finals. After that season, the Patrick Ewing era came to an end when Ewing was traded to the SuperSonics. Over the fifteen ensuing post-Ewing seasons, the Knicks have been among the least successful NBA franchises, with only three winning seasons and one playoff series win.
See also[edit]
1999 NBA Playoffs
External links[edit]
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Official Website on NBA.com at the Wayback Machine (archived October 12, 1999)
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