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12-17-2008, 01:20 PM
Bonner not a fan of Cajun cooking (http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/spurs/Bonner_not_a_fan_of_Cajun_cooking.html)
By Jeff McDonald
NEW ORLEANS — Among the more underrated side benefits of the Hornets' full-time return to New Orleans last season: The food.
Among NBA foodies, the Big Easy unofficially ranks as the culinary capital of the league.
Unless you ask Spurs center Matt Bonner. As the league's reigning Earl of sandwiches, Bonner prefers ... Minneapolis?
“Might be the best sandwich city in the country,” Bonner gushed recently. “They've got everything: Subway, Quizno's, Potbelly's, Jimmy John's, Cozy, Panera. You name it, it's there.”
Reminded that one of New Orleans' most famous gastronomic creations is the po' boy sandwich, Bonner engaged in a game of semantics.
“I grew up in New England,” said Bonner, a native of Concord, N.H., “We call them grinders. My dad, on Friday nights, it was ‘roast beef or turkey grinders?'”
By any name, however, Bonner is no fan of the po' boy.
“Being from New England, I don't like spices or Cajun food,” he said. “I've tried it. It's just not for me.”
The Spurs play at New Orleans tonight. Here's guessing Bonner sticks with Subway for his pregame lunch.
Game 7 revisited: Spurs guard Manu Ginobili still recalls the last 12 minutes his team spent in New Orleans Arena.
The Spurs held off a fourth-quarter Hornets charge to win Game 7 of last season's Western Conference semifinals. It is the only Game 7 road victory in club history.
“We kept our composure at all times and moved the ball and made a lot of shots,” said Ginobili, who had 26 points in the clincher. “I remember in the fourth quarter, when they saw the game going away, we kept our cool. We kept playing, and they couldn't get it.”
Michael Finley said he thinks the Hornets' playoff inexperience got to them in Game 7.
“I think they were more or less trying to play a perfect game instead of the freelance-type program they're accustomed to,” Finley said. “The teams that do well in the playoffs are the teams that continue to do what they do well and don't let other teams dictate the way they want to play.”
A month (or so) of milestones: Spurs forward Tim Duncan is five rebounds away from posting 10,000 for his career. Already this season, Duncan scored his 18,000th point and blocked his 2,000th shot.
Only six players in NBA history have accomplished all of the above, a list that includes former Spurs center David Robinson.
By Jeff McDonald
NEW ORLEANS — Among the more underrated side benefits of the Hornets' full-time return to New Orleans last season: The food.
Among NBA foodies, the Big Easy unofficially ranks as the culinary capital of the league.
Unless you ask Spurs center Matt Bonner. As the league's reigning Earl of sandwiches, Bonner prefers ... Minneapolis?
“Might be the best sandwich city in the country,” Bonner gushed recently. “They've got everything: Subway, Quizno's, Potbelly's, Jimmy John's, Cozy, Panera. You name it, it's there.”
Reminded that one of New Orleans' most famous gastronomic creations is the po' boy sandwich, Bonner engaged in a game of semantics.
“I grew up in New England,” said Bonner, a native of Concord, N.H., “We call them grinders. My dad, on Friday nights, it was ‘roast beef or turkey grinders?'”
By any name, however, Bonner is no fan of the po' boy.
“Being from New England, I don't like spices or Cajun food,” he said. “I've tried it. It's just not for me.”
The Spurs play at New Orleans tonight. Here's guessing Bonner sticks with Subway for his pregame lunch.
Game 7 revisited: Spurs guard Manu Ginobili still recalls the last 12 minutes his team spent in New Orleans Arena.
The Spurs held off a fourth-quarter Hornets charge to win Game 7 of last season's Western Conference semifinals. It is the only Game 7 road victory in club history.
“We kept our composure at all times and moved the ball and made a lot of shots,” said Ginobili, who had 26 points in the clincher. “I remember in the fourth quarter, when they saw the game going away, we kept our cool. We kept playing, and they couldn't get it.”
Michael Finley said he thinks the Hornets' playoff inexperience got to them in Game 7.
“I think they were more or less trying to play a perfect game instead of the freelance-type program they're accustomed to,” Finley said. “The teams that do well in the playoffs are the teams that continue to do what they do well and don't let other teams dictate the way they want to play.”
A month (or so) of milestones: Spurs forward Tim Duncan is five rebounds away from posting 10,000 for his career. Already this season, Duncan scored his 18,000th point and blocked his 2,000th shot.
Only six players in NBA history have accomplished all of the above, a list that includes former Spurs center David Robinson.