1. A great combination of players. Duncan, Parker and Ginobli are are headed to the Hall of Fame--Duncan certainly on the first ballot.
2. A great, stable front office organization who has started to nurture the eventual replacements for Duncan, Parker and Ginobli.
3. They can entice players to play for the Spurs not only from a winning organization, but the fact Texas has no income taxes.
4. They are one of the first teams to realize once the NBA banned hand-checking, players trained in the European style of play actually could be very effective when properly coached. It's not a coincidence the Spurs have a lot of great players that came from out of the country.
I would not be surprised that other teams start to realize modern NBA rules make it possible to play a more European-style game, and that could start to change the NBA over the next decade or so.
and they cheat, so what you said is all irrelevant.