san antonio spurs is the nba franchise that has the highest winning percentage of all time.
san antonio spurs is the nba franchise that has the highest winning percentage of all time.
what nba franchise has the highest winning percentage of all time?
san antonio spurs
the spurs are one of four former american basketball association (aba) teams to remain intact in the nba after the 1976 aba–nba merger and are the only former aba team to have won an nba championship. the franchise has won nba championships in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2014. as of may 2015, the spurs had the highest winning percentage among active nba franchises. as of may 2017, the spurs have the best winning percentage of any franchise in the major professional sports leagues in the united states and canada over the previous three decades. as of april 2019, the spurs have won 22 division titles since joining the nba and have only missed the playoffs four times. from 1999–2000 to 2016–17, the spurs won 50 games each season, setting a record of 18 consecutive 50-win seasons. in the 2018–19 season, the spurs matched an nba record for most consecutive playoff appearances with 22. the team's recent success coincides with the tenure of current head coach gregg popovich, who has coached the team since 1996.
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the 73 losses, although threatened many times (including by the 2015–16 sixers, who themselves lost 72 that season), remains the all-time low-water mark for any nba franchise. the 76ers .110 winning percentage was the all-time worst mark in the nba until the 2011–12 charlotte bobcats finished with a .106 winning percentage, whilst their −12.1 points per game point differential has been underdone only by the 2011–12 bobcats (−13.9 points per game) and the 1992–93 dallas mavericks (−15.2 points per game). only six seasons earlier, the 76ers had set the nba record for most wins in a season and the highest winning percentage.
1972–73 philadelphia 76ers season