Aftermath
The Spurs won a franchise-record 63 victories to clinch the top seed in the West in the 2005-06 NBA season. However for the third time they were unable to win consecutive championships, bowing to their Texas rivals, the Dallas Mavericks, in Game Seven of the Conference Semifinals. The Mavs would go on to lose in the 2006 NBA Finals. The Spurs did win the 2007 NBA Finals the following year, their fourth as a franchise.
Pistons coach Larry Brown sought and succeeded in buying out his contract as head coach. He eventually ended up coaching for his hometown New York Knicks, but would only win 23 games in the 2006 season. Brown eventually left after the season, and two years later Brown resurfaced, this time coaching the Charlotte Bobcats, where he would lead them to the playoffs in his second year.
The Pistons, guided by new coach Flip Saunders, won a franchise-high 64 wins and seemed primed to regain the NBA title. However the Pistons fell in six games to the Miami Heat, who would go on and win the NBA title in the 2006 season. Franchise centerpiece Ben Wallace abruptly left for the Chicago Bulls, yet the Pistons still made the Conference Finals the next two seasons, losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics, respectively.
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“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
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