# Temporada 1996-97 de los San Antonio Spurs

La temporada 1996-97 fue la vigesimopeimera de los San Antonio Spurs en la NBA, tras la fusión de la liga con la ABA, donde había jugado nueve temporadas, seis en Dallas y tres en San Antonio. La temporada regular acabó con 20 victorias y 62 derrotas, ocupando el segundo puesto de la conferencia Oeste, no logrando clasificarse para los playoffs.
Sin el pívot All-Star David Robinson, quien solo jugó seis partidos debido a lesiones en la espalda y el pie, y el especialista en triples Chuck Person, quien estuvo fuera toda la temporada debido a una lesión en la espalda fuera de temporada, los Spurs tuvieron problemas y perdieron 13 de sus primeros 15 partidos en noviembre, incluida una racha de ocho derrotas consecutivas. Después de 18 partidos, el entrenador Bob Hill fue despedido y reemplazado por el manager general Gregg Popovich, el cual continúa al frente del equipo en la temporada 2024-25.

## Elecciones en el Draft

Los Spurs no tuvieron ninguna elección en el Draft de 1996.

## Temporada regular

División Medio Oeste :
| Equipo | G | P | % | PD | Casa | Fuera | Div |
| y-Utah Jazz | 64 | 18 | .780 | – | 38–3 | 26–15 | 19–5 |
| x-Houston Rockets | 57 | 25 | .695 | 7 | 30–11 | 27–14 | 19–5 |
| x-Minnesota Timberwolves | 40 | 42 | .488 | 24 | 25–16 | 15–26 | 16–8 |
| Dallas Mavericks | 24 | 58 | .293 | 40 | 14–27 | 10–31 | 9–15 |
| Denver Nuggets | 21 | 61 | .256 | 43 | 12–29 | 9–32 | 7–17 |
| San Antonio Spurs | 20 | 62 | .244 | 44 | 12–29 | 8–33 | 8–16 |
| Vancouver Grizzlies | 14 | 68 | .171 | 50 | 8–33 | 6–35 | 6–18 |

## Estadísticas
### Temporada regular

| Rk | Jugador | Edad | Pos. | P | PT | MP | TC | TCI | %TC | T3 | T3I | %T3 | TL | TLI | %TL | RO | RD | RT | AS | RB | TAP | BP | FP | PTS |
| 1 | Sean Elliott | 28 | SF | 39 | 39 | 35.7 | 5.0 | 11.9 | .422 | 1.1 | 3.2 | .333 | 3.8 | 5.0 | .755 | 1.2 | 3.6 | 4.9 | 3.2 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 14.9 |
| 2 | Avery Johnson | 31 | PG | 76 | 76 | 32.5 | 4.3 | 9.0 | .477 | 0.1 | 0.3 | .231 | 1.8 | 2.7 | .690 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 6.8 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 10.5 |
| 3 | Vinny Del Negro | 30 | SG | 72 | 53 | 31.2 | 5.1 | 10.8 | .467 | 0.6 | 1.9 | .314 | 1.6 | 1.8 | .868 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 12.3 |
| 4 | Dominique Wilkins | 37 | SF | 63 | 26 | 30.9 | 6.3 | 15.1 | .417 | 1.1 | 3.8 | .293 | 4.5 | 5.6 | .803 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 6.4 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 18.2 |
| 5 | Will Perdue | 31 | C | 65 | 34 | 29.5 | 3.6 | 6.3 | .568 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | 1.5 | 2.6 | .579 | 3.9 | 6.0 | 9.8 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 8.7 |
| 6 | Vernon Maxwell | 31 | SG | 72 | 31 | 28.7 | 4.7 | 12.6 | .375 | 1.6 | 5.2 | .309 | 1.9 | 2.5 | .744 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 12.9 |
| 7 | David Robinson | 31 | C | 6 | 6 | 24.5 | 6.0 | 12.0 | .500 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | 5.7 | 8.7 | .654 | 3.2 | 5.3 | 8.5 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 17.7 |
| 8 | Carl Herrera | 30 | PF | 75 | 58 | 24.5 | 3.4 | 7.9 | .433 | 0.0 | 0.1 | .333 | 1.1 | 1.6 | .686 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 4.5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 8.0 |
| 9 | Monty Williams | 25 | SF | 65 | 26 | 20.7 | 3.6 | 7.1 | .509 | 0.0 | 0.0 | .000 | 1.8 | 2.9 | .645 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 9.0 |
| 10 | Greg Anderson | 32 | C | 82 | 48 | 20.2 | 1.6 | 3.2 | .496 | 0.0 | 0.0 | .000 | 0.8 | 1.1 | .667 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 5.5 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 3.9 |
| 11 | Cory Alexander | 23 | PG | 80 | 6 | 18.2 | 2.4 | 6.1 | .396 | 1.2 | 3.2 | .373 | 1.2 | 1.6 | .736 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 7.2 |
| 12 | Charles Smith | 31 | PF | 19 | 7 | 17.3 | 1.8 | 4.4 | .405 | 0.0 | 0.1 | .000 | 1.1 | 1.4 | .769 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 4.6 |
| 13 | Jamie Feick | 22 | PF | 38 | 0 | 16.2 | 1.4 | 4.0 | .353 | 0.1 | 0.3 | .308 | 0.9 | 1.7 | .523 | 2.1 | 3.4 | 5.6 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 3.8 |
| 14 | Gaylon Nickerson | 27 | SG | 3 | 0 | 12.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | .333 | 0.0 | 0.3 | .000 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 1.000 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 4.3 |
| 15 | Jason Sasser | 23 | SF | 6 | 0 | 10.3 | 1.3 | 3.2 | .421 | 0.2 | 0.3 | .500 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | 0.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 2.8 |
| 16 | Stephen Howard | 26 | SF | 7 | 0 | 9.9 | 1.0 | 1.7 | .583 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | 1.7 | 2.0 | .857 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 3.7 |
| 17 | Joe Courtney | 27 | PF | 5 | 0 | 9.6 | 1.0 | 3.2 | .313 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | 0.6 | 1.0 | .600 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 2.6 |
| 18 | Darrin Hancock | 25 | SF | 1 | 0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | .500 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.000 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 |
| 19 | Devin Gray | 24 | PF | 3 | 0 | 8.0 | 1.7 | 5.0 | .333 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | 0.0 | 0.3 | .000 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
| 20 | Tim Kempton | 33 | PF | 10 | 0 | 5.9 | 0.1 | 0.5 | .200 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.000 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 |