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  Dallas Mavericks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dallas Mavericks franchise was first conceptualized by Don Carter and Norm Sonju in 1979, when they requested the right to bring an NBA franchise to Dallas, Texas.
Dallas finished with the fourth seed in the Western Conference playoffs, and their first playoff trip was modestly successful as they defeated the Seattle SuperSonics in five games.
Dallas selected Kentucky forward Jamal Mashburn with the fourth overall pick of the 1993 NBA Draft, but the team's progress was minimal, to say the least.
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 Chaparral - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Chaparral, type of shrub-land community that is dominated by small-leaved evergreen vegetation.
Chaparral Pea, stiff, spiny evergreen shrub of the legume family.
The San Antonio franchise was established in 1967 as the Dallas Chaparrals, one of the original 11 teams of the American Basketball Association (ABA)...
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 San Antonio Spurs at SuperTix.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Called the Dallas Chaparrals, the franchise survived the turmoil of the ABA era and was rewarded with admittance to the NBA when the upstart league merged with the NBA.
The Dallas Chaparrals were established in 1967, one of 11 teams to take the floor for the ABA that year.
Dallas lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Los Angeles Stars; however, the final three games of the series were down-to-the-wire barn burners.
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 MAVERICKS: Mavs History
Dallas had talented players, but a major key to its success was that the Mavs stayed healthy all year.
Dallas made its second consecutive postseason appearance in 1985 but was a first-round victim of the Portland Trail Blazers.
Dallas banked its future on young players, not the least of whom was Jim Jackson, selected by the Mavericks with the fourth overall pick in the 1992 NBA Draft.
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 Dallas Chaparrals (1967-1973)
Led by Player/Coach Cliff Hagan the Dallas Chaparrals were one of 11 teams to take the floor in the inaugural season of the upstart American Basketball Association.
Once again known as the Dallas Chaparrals the team shows some improvement finishing with a 42-42 record under new Coach Tom Nisslake, who wins Coach of the Year, while leading the Chaps to 3rd place.
However in the playoffs the Chaparrals would be swept for the 2nd year in a row by the Utah Stars in 4 straight.
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 Remember the ABA: Dallas Chaparrals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Dallas fans were very lucky to have so incredible a radio announcer, someone who made every play come alive.
I grew up in Dallas, and if there was ever a choice of basketballs to play with (brown vs red, white and blue), the ABA ball was always my overwhelming choice.
Dallas played an unbelievable game only to lose by a few points (I believe that the Bucks scored in the last seconds to make it a three point margin).
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 Remember the ABA: Dallas Chaparrals
The Dallas Chaparrals always hovered near the middle of the ABA pack.
Some Dallas players hated playing for Hagan because he was a "screamer." Chaps management felt that what the team needed was more encouragement, rather than constant yelling and screaming.
It was also the last season for the team in Dallas, as the owners decided to lease the team to Angelo Drossos in San Antonio for the 1973-74 season.
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 CNNSI.com - Pro Basketball - Without Nowitzki, Mavs fall to Spurs - Thursday December 12, 2002 12:54 AM
But Dallas switched to a zone defense, and six minutes later, it was the Mavericks who were ahead by 10.
Finley sparked a 32-6 Dallas run by hitting a 3-pointer and an 18-footer late in the first, and then another jumper and a pair of layups in the first two minutes of the second quarter.
Dallas is now 9-3 on the road, previously losing at Indiana on Thanksgiving Day and the Los Angeles Lakers last week.
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 Sun.Star Cebu - Oyson: The toast of San Antonio
Billionaire Mark Cuban and his Dallas Mavericks will have to wait another year or more before they can get their first NBA championship in their franchise history.
From a 68-71 deficit entering the last quarter, the Spurs slew Dallas with a repertoire of outside shots and inside incursions to pull away for keeps, 83-71, with less than four minutes to play.
Dallas barely escaped being held to a record team low of five points in a quarter by any team in NBA playoff history.
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 Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum - DFW Sports Superthread
I support all the Dallas sports teams and always will, I am a firm believer in rooting for the dang home team, otherwise what in the heck is the point of having a city attachment why not root for the best team every year, hey wait a minute we already do that!
When the Spurs host Dallas in Games 1 and 2 of their best-of- seven Western Conference final beginning tonight, there won't be many Mavericks' fans in attendance.
Dallas fans willing to make the 270-mile drive south to the SBC Center weren't permitted to buy tickets online because the Spurs restricted Ticketmaster sales to San Antonio-area residents.
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 San Antonio Spurs Tickets - Spurs NBA Basketball - Spurs Ticket Brokers
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.
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.
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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 Dallas Mavericks : Mavericks Ticket Broker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Dallas Mavericks is a team in the National Basketball Association from Dallas, Texas.
The last professional basketball team in Dallas was the Dallas Chaparrals of the ABA.
The Chaparrals team was shifted to San Antonio in 1973 and renamed as the San Antonio Spurs.
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 Spurs History
However, the Chaparrals, as they were called, never even saw a game under this original ownership, as they were sold later in 1967 to another group which included Robert S. Folsom Jr, James L. Embrey, David Bruton Jr, Joseph W. Geary, Graham R.E. Koch and Lawrence S. Pollock Jr.
The team's named was changed to the Texas Chaparrals, and instead of playing all of their games in Dallas, as before, they played some home games in Lubbock and Fort Worth.
The fan base in Dallas was about the same as in years past, however, the games played in the other two cities were complete attendance disasters, with the low point coming in Fort Worth for a game against the Pittsburgh Condors, in which only 200 fans showed up.
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 Dallas Mavericks Tickets - Mavericks NBA Basketball - Mavericks Ticket Brokers
The Mavericks are also referred to as the "Mavs." The Mavericks recently played in the 2006 NBA Championships losing to the Miami Heat 4-2 after holding a 2-0 series lead.
The Dallas Mavericks franchise was first developed by Don Carter and Norm Sonju in 1979, when they requested the right to bring an NBA franchise to Dallas, Texas.
The WWE also held their annual Survivor Series event at the arena in 2003, and regularly hosts events at the arena (generally 1-2 each year).
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 Collegian Online Edition
The Dallas Chaparrals played in the ABA from 1967-1973, but the team left Dallas and became the San Antonio Spurs.
In the 1981 NBA draft, Dallas selected Mark Aguirre with the first overall pick and Rolando Blackman.
In 1985-86, Dallas eliminated the Utah Jazz in the first round of the Playoffs and then encountered the title-bound Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Semifinals.
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 Re: Kung Fu Fighting - KFBA: The Message Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
On the surface the Rockets, who averaged 209 ppg and routed the Long Beach Bricks with 234 points in the second round, appear to be run away favorites.
They're facing an intimidating Dallas front court and a KF juggernaut in Nowitzki.
The scheme is designed to force the Chaparrals to rely more on jumpers, lowering their percentages and subsequently their KFAvgs.
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 Dallas Mavericks (1980-Present)
Above the basketball Dallas is written on a white wedge.
The Dallas Mavericks owned by Donald Carter who paid a $12 million expansion team takes the floor with a young inexperienced team, by passing aging stars like Earl Monroe, Rick Barry, and Pete Maravich for players with less then 3 years experience.
In a year Dallas played host to the All-Star game the Mavericks were a high scoring squad average 115.3 ppg the 2nd highest in the NBA, as they made the playoffs for the 3rd year in a row with a 44-38 record.
www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nba/dallas/mavericks.html   (3407 words)

  
 San Antonio Spurs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The San Antonio Spurs started out as the Dallas Chaparrals of the original version of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967.
The team was acquired by a group of 36 San Antonio businessmen, led by Angelo Drossos and Red McCombs who actually leased the team from the original Dallas ownership group, relocated the team to San Antonio, Texas and renamed them the Spurs.
In the 2005-2006 season, the Spurs broke their franchise record for wins in a season (63-19); however they 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.
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
The San Antonio Spurs, a professional basketball team in the Midwest Division of the National Basketball Association's Western Conference, began play as the Dallas Chaparrals, a charter team of the American Basketball Association, in 1967.
The franchise played in Dallas for six seasons, moved to San Antonio before the 1973-74 season, then joined the NBA after the ABA folded in 1976.
During their six seasons in Dallas, the Chaparrals enjoyed moderate success on the court, twice finishing second in the ABA Western Division, but repeatedly stumbled in the postseason playoffs.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/SS/xos1.html   (1118 words)

  
 dallasobserver.com | News | Us vs. Us
And, in the tradition of conquering rotten roots, the San Antonio Spurs' founding father was none other than a wacky ABA franchise known as the Dallas Chaparrals.
Accordingly, Dallas, one of the league's original 11 teams, was constructed upon hilariously unstable foundations.
While Dallas barely blinked at its loss, the Spurs had Willie Nelson sing their first national anthem at HemisFair Arena, debuted basketball's first dance team--The Spurettes--and commenced an evolution from chumps to champs by paying $300,000 to the Virginia Squires in '74 for a kid named George Gervin.
www.dallasobserver.com /issues/2006-05-11/news/whitt_full.html   (1017 words)

  
 Team History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Spurs were originally the Dallas Chaparrals of the ABA.
In their first year of existence, the Chaparrals posted a 46-32 record.
The next season, Dallas dropped to the middle of the pack, and were knocked out of the playoffs in a seven game series against New Orleans.
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 SPURS: San Antonio Spurs History
Silas was the last of the remaining Spurs to have played with the old Dallas Chaparrals.
San Antonio bumbled through the rest of the season, losing 10 of 16 games in January, 12 of 13 from early February to early March, and 13 of 16 overall in March.
Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki and Philadelphia's Allen Iverson rounded out the first team...
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 Dallas Mavericks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In Game 6, the Mavericks took an early double digit lead, but again, Wade poured in 36 points, helped by Alonzo Mourning\'s five blocked shots, and the Mavericks lost their fourth game and the title after a string of botched three pointers.
Dallas Mavericks officials and fans have cited poor officiating and phantom calls as secondary contributors to their loss to the Heat.
Other observers point out that Dirk Nowitzki failed to show up in the fourth quarters of several games, including the crucial Game 6 where he went 0-4 and passed up numerous open shots.
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 San Antonio Spurs Encyclopedia Articles @ FiestaTexas.com (Fiesta Texas)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The team suffered from poor attendance and general disinterest in Dallas.
After missing the playoffs for the first time in their existence in 1972-1973, the team was put up for sale.
In the playoffs, the Spurs defeated the Suns, Lakers and Dallas Mavericks en route to facing the New Jersey Nets in the NBA Finals.
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 Jim Work Photography - About Jim Work
Except for driving a cab in Dallas for a year, I have always been a photographer.
I started as a photographer with the Dallas Morning News at sixteen and continued there through high school and while attending North Texas State University.
During this time I was also the team photographer for the ABA Dallas Chaparrals and the Dallas Tornado professional soccer team.
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 Former Cooper great has an agent now
By the time the Dallas sports agent finished our telephone interview Monday afternoon, I was ready to join the bandwagon.
He later spent one season coaching the Dallas Chaparrals, who eventually became the San Antonio Spurs, and served as the head basketball coach at the University of North Texas from 1975-83.
He is a partner in the Dallas firm of Casterline, Vines, McElroy, Blakeley and Nalley.
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 Cliff Hagan
Hagan, a 6'4'' forward from the U. of Kentucky, played 10 years for the St. Louis Hawks before his three years with Dallas in the ABA.
Hagan, an excellent defensive player and enforcer (as well as scorer with his unstoppable hook shot), is in Basketball's Hall of Fame.
Dallas held an ABA franchise for the first 6 ABA seasons and eventually moved on to San Antonio.
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 Texas Sports News
At first, the thought of driving to and from Dallas (a 250-mile roundtrip) three nights a week seemed imposing at best, says O'Donnell, Palestine's sophomore baseball standout.
A self-taught switch-hitter, O'Donnell, who hit.330 for the Wildcats during District 17-4A play last spring, prefers to play summer ball in the popular BBI (Boys Baseball Incorporated) summer league in the Metroplex as a means of improving.
O'Donnell's 15- to 16-year-old team, the Dallas Chaparrals, which is managed by Dallas dentist Fred Peitch, includes PHS teammate Aaron Bartula and players from Tyler, Rockwall, Mesquite and Edgewood, among others.
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 San Antonio Spurs - Franchise Snapshot - Brief Article Basketball Digest - Find Articles
* The Spurs began in the ABA as the Dallas Chaparrals.
In 1973, the Chaparrals moved permanently to San Antonio and became the Spurs.
* Walt Szczerbiak was drafted by the Chaparrals in the third round of the 1971 draft, but preferred to play in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
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 Spurs : San Antonio Spurs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The San Antonio Spurs were founded in 1967 as the Dallas Chaparrals in the American Basketball Association and became San Antonio Spurs in 1973.
The Spurs was formerly known as the Dallas Chaparrals and Texas Chaparrals.
The home arena for the San Antonio Spurs is the SBC Center and the uniform colors are of fl, silver, and white.
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