nbaman99
08-03-2010, 11:15 AM
The memories of 1999 are a little clearer. The first time the San Antonio Spurs won the NBA Championship, I remember my friends going crazy. I was ending my junior year of high school, and the same cousins and best friend I'd been watching basketball with almost ten years before were still there, watching as the Spurs took that series over the New York Knicks. I remember feeling bad for Patrick Ewing, who I generally thought was a good guy, but I was ecstatic to see David Robinson haul up his first championships. And who can forget Tim Duncan? Although never a fantastic athlete, he was quicker in those days and could actually jump a little. All I remember thinking was that, without him, we'd have never won.
The years kept rolling, and the Spurs kept winning. After a three year drought they brought the championship back to San Antonio in 2003, then again in 2005 and 2007. I never stopped playing the game myself, and though I was far from being an athlete, I loved every minute of every game. The funny thing about pickup games were the mismatches. I distinctly remember being the tallest guy on my team and being asked to guard a guy who had to be seven feet tall and almost three hundred pounds. For someone that was seventy pounds lighter and a foot shorter, I may have as well been asked to guard a mountain.
http://www.mvptexas.com/nba/649-the-summer-of-lebron.html
The years kept rolling, and the Spurs kept winning. After a three year drought they brought the championship back to San Antonio in 2003, then again in 2005 and 2007. I never stopped playing the game myself, and though I was far from being an athlete, I loved every minute of every game. The funny thing about pickup games were the mismatches. I distinctly remember being the tallest guy on my team and being asked to guard a guy who had to be seven feet tall and almost three hundred pounds. For someone that was seventy pounds lighter and a foot shorter, I may have as well been asked to guard a mountain.
http://www.mvptexas.com/nba/649-the-summer-of-lebron.html