Spurs Sports & Entertainment L.L.C. (SS&E) is an American sports & entertainment organization, based in

San Antonio, Texas ("Cradle of Freedom") , image_map = , mapsize = 220px , map_caption = Interactive map of San Antonio , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1= State , subdivision_name1 = Texas , subdivision_t ...

. The company owns and operates several sporting franchises including the

National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...

(NBA)

San Antonio Spurs The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio. The Spurs compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its home ...

NBA G League The NBA G League, or simply the G League, is the National Basketball Association's (NBA) official minor league basketball organization. The league was known as the National Basketball Development League (NBDL) from 2001 to 2005, and the NBA De ...

Austin Spurs The Austin Spurs are an American basketball team in the NBA G League based in Cedar Park, Texas, and are affiliated with the San Antonio Spurs. The team plays their home games at H-E-B Center at Cedar Park. The team has made the postseason in 8 ...

, and the

USL Championship The USL Championship (USLC) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011. The USL is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) as a Division II league since 2017, p ...

club

San Antonio FC San Antonio FC is a professional soccer club based in San Antonio, Texas. It competes in the USL Championship, the second-highest level of the United States soccer league system, as a member of the Western Conference. History San Antonio F ...

. SS&E also operates the Bexar County-owned multi-purpose facility, the

AT&T Center AT&T Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the east side of San Antonio, Texas, United States. It is the home of the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. The arena seats 18,418 for basketball, and 19,000 for concerts or ...

. A 2013 ''

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'' article called the San Antonio Spurs "North America's best run professional sports franchise," and

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named the Spurs as the best sports franchise in all major sports in 2014.

Properties

San Antonio Spurs

The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

team based in

San Antonio ("Cradle of Freedom") , image_map = , mapsize = 220px , map_caption = Interactive map of San Antonio , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1= State , subdivision_name1 = Texas , subdivision_t ...

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the

(NBA). They were NBA champions in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2014. The Spurs are one of four former American Basketball Association teams to remain intact in the NBA after the 1976

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and the only former ABA team to have won an

NBA championship The NBA Finals is the annual championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern and Western Conference champions play a best-of-seven game series to determine the league champion. The team that wins the series is awa ...

. The Spurs' five NBA championships are the fifth most in history, behind only the Boston Celtics (17), Los Angeles Lakers (17), and

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and Golden State Warriors (6). The Spurs currently rank first among active franchises for the highest winning percentage in NBA history. In their 45 NBA seasons since 1976–1977, the Spurs have won 22 division titles. They tied an NBA record by making the playoffs 21 consecutive years, from 1997-1998. to 2018-2019, and have missed the playoffs seven times since entering the NBA. They have missed the playoffs in three consecutive seasons. The Spurs also hold the record for most consecutive 50-win seasons at 18, spanning from 1999-2000 to 2016-2017.

AT&T Center

The

is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the east side of

. It seats 18,581 for basketball, 16,000 for ice hockey, and up to 19,000 for concerts or religious gatherings, and contains 2,018 club seats, 60 luxury suites and 32 bathrooms. The arena was completed in 2002, as the SBC Center. While

Bexar County Bexar County ( or ; es, Béxar ) is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in South Texas and its county seat is San Antonio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,009,324. Bexar County is included in the San Antonio–New Brau ...

owns the arena, SS&E is partnered with the county to manage the day-to-day operations of the AT&T Center. The AT&T Center went under a renovation of more than $100 million, with improvements that include expanded entrances, renovated concourses, new concessions and bar areas, a larger Fan Shop and a new HD video scoreboard. Renovations were completed before the 2015-16 season.

San Antonio FC

are an American professional soccer team based in

. Founded in 2016, the team debuted in the

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that same year. It was announced as the league's thirty-first franchise on January 7, 2016. SS&E also operate

Toyota Field Toyota Field is a soccer-specific stadium in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Located next to Heroes Stadium, and adjacent to the STAR Soccer Complex and Morgan's Wonderland, the facility opened on April 13, 2013. The stadium is the home ...

Austin Spurs

The

are an American basketball team of the

based in

Austin, Texas Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 11th-most-populous city ...

. The team plays its home games at

Cedar Park Center H-E-B Center at Cedar Park is an indoor arena located in Cedar Park, Texas, near Austin. Originally named the Cedar Park Center, the arena is home to the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League and the Austin Spurs of the NBA G League. T ...

. They have made the postseason 7 out of their 12 seasons in the NBA Development League/G League, winning the D League/G League Championship in twice in the 2012 and 2018 seasons. The team is currently coached by Ken McDonald. Former Austin Spurs in the NBA include Danny Green,

Cory Joseph Cory Ephram Joseph (born August 20, 1991) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays the point guard position and is also the captain of the Canadian national team. ...

Gerald Green Gerald Green (born January 26, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He was drafted by the Boston Celtics with the 18th overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. Know ...

and

Alonzo Gee Alonzo Edward Gee (born May 29, 1987) is an American professional basketball player. Born and raised in Riviera Beach, Florida, Gee attended the University of Alabama, where he played for the Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team for four ...

Partners

Spurs Sports & Entertainment listed the following partners as of October 2014: *

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Sports & Entertainment Group *Raymond Joseph Barshick *Cassandra Carr * Clear Channel Communications Inc. *George C. "Tim" Hixon * Peter Holt - Chairman *IBC Capital Corporation *Sylvan Stephen Lang *James R. Leininger *R&B Partnership (Russell and Bruce Hill) *

David Robinson David Maurice Robinson (born August 6, 1965) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1989 to 2003, and minority owner of the Spurs. Nicknamed ...

AT&T AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company by revenue and the third largest provider of mobile te ...

Media Holdings, Inc. *Markey Family Partnership *Sierra Sports & Entertainment Family Limited Partnership *

SWBC Southwest Business Corporation (SWBC) is a diversified financial services company providing insurance, mortgage A mortgage loan or simply mortgage (), in civil law jurisdicions known also as a hypothec loan, is a loan used either by pu ...

*Sunrise Sports & Entertainment *

Valero Energy Corporation Valero Energy Corporation is a Fortune 500 international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, other petrochemical products, and power. It is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Throughout the United States and Can ...

*Zachry Hospitality Corporation *Estate of Jeanne Lang Mathews * LAZ parking The nonprofit partner of SS&E is Silver & Black Give Back, a 501(c)(3) that sponsors two key initiatives, Team Up Challenge, a service-based learning program, and youth sports programs such as the Spurs Youth League.

Former properties

San Antonio Stars

The San Antonio Stars played in the Western Conference in the

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(WNBA). The team was founded in

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as the

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before the league's inaugural 1997 season began; the team moved to San Antonio before the 2003 season. The Stars qualified for the WNBA Playoffs in seven of their twelve years in San Antonio. The franchise while in San Antonio was home to many high-quality players such as all-star point guard

Becky Hammon Rebecca Lynn Hammon ( rus, links=no, Бекки Хэммон; born March 11, 1977) is an American-Russian professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Las Vegas Aces of the Women’s National Basketball Associa ...

, solid power forward Sophia Young, two #1 overall draft picks in

Ann Wauters Ann Hilde Willy Wauters (born 12 October 1980) is a Belgian former professional basketball player and coach, currently serving as an assistant coach for the Chicago Sky in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played for numero ...

and

Kelsey Plum Kelsey Christine Plum (born August 24, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She won a WNBA championship in 2022, when she earned her first All-WNBA Fir ...

, and seven-foot-two-inch center

Margo Dydek Małgorzata Dydek (known as Margo Dydek in the United States, 28 April 1974 – 27 May 2011) was a Polish professional basketball player. Standing tall, she was famous for being the tallest professional female basketball player in the world. Sh ...

. In

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, the Silver Stars went to the

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. On August 5, 2014, Hammon was hired by the Spurs as an assistant coach, becoming the second female assistant coach in NBA history but the first full-time assistant coach. This also made her the first full-time female assistant coach in any of the four major professional sports in North America. In October 2017, multiple media reports indicated that SS&E was nearing completion of the sale of the Stars to a group that would move the team to

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for the 2018 season and beyond. The team was sold to MGM Resorts International and moved to Las Vegas prior to the

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, and is now known as the

Las Vegas Aces The Las Vegas Aces are an American professional basketball team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Aces compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member club of the league's Western Conference. The team play ...

San Antonio Rampage

The

San Antonio Rampage The San Antonio Rampage were a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League based in San Antonio, Texas. The Rampage was primarily owned by Spurs Sports & Entertainment throughout the team's existence. In 2020, the franchise was sold ...

were an

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team in the

American Hockey League The American Hockey League (AHL) is a professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL). Since the 2010–11 season, every team in the le ...

. While in operation they were the top affiliate of the Florida Panthers,

Arizona Coyotes The Arizona Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Coyotes compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference and currently play at the Mul ...

Colorado Avalanche The Colorado Avalanche (colloquially known as the Avs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference. The Avalanche play thei ...

, and

St. Louis Blues The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis. The Blues compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference. The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the ...

of the

NHL The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...

. The Rampage played in the

in San Antonio, the same arena as the Spurs, from the 2002-03 season until the 2019-20 season. On February 6, 2020, the

Vegas Golden Knights The Vegas Golden Knights are a professional ice hockey team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division in the Western Conference. Founded in 2017 as an expa ...

announced it had purchased the franchise from the Spurs with the intent to relocate it to the

Las Vegas area The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States. The state's largest urban agglomeration, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Statistical Area is ...

. The purchase and relocation was approved by the league on February 28.

References

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