The San Antonio Spurs are playoff-bound for the 21st year in a row

[Yahoo Sports]

As it turns out, one streak ending was enough for the San Antonio Spurs. Six days after losing their 33rd game of the 2017-18 season, ensuring that their string of 50-win campaigns would end after 18 years, the Spurs hosted the Sacramento Kings needing one more victory to punch their tickets to the postseason. It wasn’t easy — seemingly nothing has been for Gregg Popovich’s crew in a season that’s been much more about who hasn’t been on the floor than who has — but after sputtering to just 60 points through three quarters and trailing the lowly Kings with 6 1/2 minute to go, San Antonio finally got it going down the stretch.

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[The Associated Press]

The Spurs seemed like a perfect free-agent destination as Rudy Gay searched for a guaranteed playoff berth after just one postseason appearance in 11 previous seasons. Gay scored 18 points, Manu Ginobili had 17 and the Spurs rallied late to beat the Sacramento Kings 98-85 on Monday night and clinch their 21st straight postseason appearance.

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[NBC Sports]

Rudy Gay scored 18 points, Manu Ginobili had 17 and the San Antonio Spurs rallied late to beat the Sacramento Kings 98-85 on Monday night and clinch their 21st straight postseason appearance. Sacramento, which was eliminated from the postseason on March 11, led by 14 points before being outscored 38-19 in the fourth quarter. Willie Cauley-Stein led Sacramento with 25 points and 10 rebounds.

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[Reuters]

Rudy Gay scored 18 points off the bench, and Manu Ginobili added 17 as the San Antonio Spurs bumbled and stumbled through the first three and a half quarters but found a way to defeat the Sacramento Kings 98-85 on Monday at the AT&T Center in San Antonio. Ginobili had eight points and Gay hit for a five in a decisive four-minute, fourth-quarter run by the Spurs that turned a 77-76 deficit into a runaway 94-85 advantage with 2:40 to play. The win allowed the Spurs (47-34) to clinch a spot in the postseason for the 21st consecutive campaign, continuing the league's longest active streak and tying the Portland Trail Blazers (1983-2003) for the second-longest streak in NBA history.

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