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The San Antonio Spurs started out as the Dallas Chaparrals of the original version of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. The team suffered from poor attendance and general disinterest in Dallas. In fact, during the 1970-1971 season, the name "Dallas" was dropped in favor of "Texas" and an attempt was made to make the team a regional one, playing games in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Tarrant County Coliseum, as well as Lubbock, Texas, at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum, but this proved a failure and the team returned full-time to Dallas in time for the 1971-1972 season, splitting their games at Moody Coliseum and State Fair Coliseum. In the 2005-2006 season, the Spurs broke their franchise record for wins in a season (63-19) and qualified for the playoffs for the ninth year in a row. (The Spurs and Indiana Pacers currently share the NBA's longest active consecutive playoff appearance streak with nine in a row — see Active NBA playoff appearance streaks.) However, the defending-champion Spurs were eliminated in the second round by the Dallas Mavericks in a 7-game semifinal series that, due to a quirk in the playoff ranking system, featured the two top teams in the conference. Dallas had a 3-1 series lead thanks to two very narrow back-to-back wins at home, but then narrowly lost games 5 and 6. In Game 7 at the AT&T Center, the Spurs went down by as many as 20 points before fighting back to take a three-point lead, their only lead of the game, when Manu Ginobili hit a 3-pointer with less than a minute remaining in the game. But Dirk Nowitzki saved the Mavericks as he was fouled while making a layup with 20 seconds left. Nowitzki made the free throw to tie the game, and the Spurs missed a chance to win with a last-second shot, forcing overtime. Dallas won 119-111 and would go on to win the Western Conference Finals before losing the NBA Finals to the Miami Heat in six games.
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