Who was your favorite Spurs' "Human Victory Cigar" Player?

[Solid D]

Amal McCaskill?
*Mengke Bateer?
Tom Copa?
Zarko Paspalj?
*Andrew Gaze?
Mark Bryant?
*James White!
*Linton Johnson?
*Mike Wilks?
Felton Spencer?
Shawnelle Scott?
Julius Nwosu?
*Gerard 'I Got My Ring' King?
*Brandon Williams
Ian Mahinmi?
How about old school ABA Spurs Stan Love (Kevin Love's dad, Beach Boys Mike Love's brother)?

*Part of NBA Championship team

[Man In Black]

Jimmy Wong!

[Darkwaters]

What about Jackie "Heavy Paper" Butler?

[Solid D]

Jimmy Wong!

:lol 'you mean, Jimmy Chang! ?

[JsnSA]

Andrew Gaze.

[Man In Black]

:lol 'you mean, Jimmy Chang! ?

I was close. At least I didn't say Jimmy Choo.:rollin

[poop]

i cant fucking believe nobody mentioned Jack Haley

JACK HALEY WAS THE GREATEST VICTORY CIGAR EVER

[TimDunkem]

lol James White didn't get his ring.

[Solid D]

lol James White didn't get his ring.

http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/white/2007/11/17/5/

In case you were wondering, yeah, I received my championship ring. Well, in fact my girl received it. It’s a good thing to have and it was a very cool experience going through the playoffs with the Spurs even though I didn’t play at all. Just living in that atmosphere, watching how the veterans were able to handle all types of different situations… It was great. You learn a lot just being around. No matter how tough it was when they cut me, I’m going to keep good memories from my time there.

[ohmwrecker]

Mengke Bateer

[ElNono]

Big Dog Robinson and Kevin Willis have to rank up there somewhere... Not necessarily human victory cigars in the strict sense, but close enough IMO

[jimo2305]

http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/white/2007/11/17/5/

speaking of james white... that's who we should sign!!

:eyebrows

[lefty]

Tony Parker

[WildcardManu]

Didn't Linton get 2 with the Spurs?

[ohmwrecker]

Erin Barry

[poop]

none of these people are even close to the legendary Jack Haley.

[Marcus Bryant]

Copa, Thomas.

[gospursgojas]

Menke Battier by far. Jack Haley a close 2nd

[z0sa]

Dude, a brother of the Beach Boys played for the Spurs? Holy shit.

[jeebus]

i cant fucking believe nobody mentioned Jack Haley

JACK HALEY WAS THE GREATEST VICTORY CIGAR EVER
the guy who was signed just to be rodman's friend

[TimDunkem]

http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/white/2007/11/17/5/
I was wrong then. Good for him. :lol

[wildbill2u]

Amal McCaskill?
*Mengke Bateer?
Tom Copa?
Zarko Paspalj?
*Andrew Gaze?
Mark Bryant?
*James White!
*Linton Johnson?
*Mike Wilks?
Felton Spencer?
Shawnelle Scott?
Julius Nwosu?
*Gerard 'I Got My Ring' King?
*Brandon Williams
Ian Mahinmi?
How about old school ABA Spurs Stan Love (Kevin Love's dad, Beach Boys Mike Love's brother)?

*Part of NBA Championship team

Sean Marks closely followed by Kevin Willis

[poop]

the guy who was signed just to be rodman's friend

haha it was awesome, he was always cheering like crazy and waving towels in the air from the bench...whenever he went to check in the entire crowd cheered for him. i remember one time he went up for a dunk...the entire crowd was ready to blow the roof off...and he rim checked it :lmao

what a legend

[EJFischer]

Saw the title and figured this would just be a whole thread about Jack Haley. When you're a role player whose role is exclusively to be a locker room presence that your second-best player doesn't despise, actually seeing pine is the purest possible expression of "this game is all sewed up." Greatest HVC in Spurs history.

[TDomination]

Jack Haley without a doubt!

But i remember one time with the Bulls, as a joke, the Bulls players put cob webs on Jack Haleys jersey or something like that because he never played haha

[SsKSpurs21]

i second sean marks!

[Spurs Brazil]

I liked the 2001 S.Kerr.

I got League Pass in Brazil that year and could see a lot of games. Every Time he got the ball in garbage time the crowd went insane to him shoot the ball

[blkroadrunners]

Bateer

[EricB]

Christian Welp

[Ginobilly]

Matt Bonner in 2006/2007 season

[cornbread]

Sean Marks because you knew he would come in and light it up.

Best Human Victory Cigar moment has to go to Kevin Willis when he got called off the bench in the last minute or so of the championship clinching game in 2003. D-Rob was all smiles and high fives walking off the court and as Willis comes in for him he straps on the elbows pads like he's ready for battle in that last 30 seconds of the championship run. That's still one of my favorite Spurs moments of all time.

[Solid D]

Yeah, I actually mentioned Jack Haley in the Sidney Green thread today. Jack Haley heads another category called "Human Towel". Fans gave an audible groan when the "Human Towel" was waved in.

[admiralfats]

mengke bateer. does anyone remember his translator freaking out when he made a shot in some game?

also, sean marks. sean marks randomly threw down some nice dunks.

[cornbread]

Yeah, I actually mentioned Jack Haley in the Sidney Green thread today. Jack Haley heads another category called "Human Towel". Fans gave an audible groan when the "Human Towel" was waved in.

lol, also known as the "male cheerleader."

[Dingle Barry]

It can only be Haley. Sweet gig that guy had.

[Obstructed_View]

Jack Haley was more than a victory cigar. He went into a playoff game and became an enforcer against that 5'9" dude for the Nuggets that looked like a sugar glider.

I remember the COPA COPA chants at the end of games, but I was always uncomfortable joining in because he was the only white guy on the team and it just felt kind of racist to me. :)

[crc21209]

Mengke Bateer....dude was a beast! :tu :lol

[ohmwrecker]

Sean Marks closely followed by Kevin Willis

Kevin Willis actually contributed significantly when he was here.

[Solid D]

Jack Haley was more than a victory cigar. He went into a playoff game and became an enforcer against that 5'9" dude for the Nuggets that looked like a sugar glider.

I remember the COPA COPA chants at the end of games, but I was always uncomfortable joining in because he was the only white guy on the team and it just felt kind of racist to me. :)

:lol What about Jud Buechler? He was on that team with Copa, wasn't he?

[mexpurs21]

Sean Marks all the way, he even made some TV broadcasts while being in the reserve list :downspin:

[Chieflion]

It used to be Matt Bonner.....

[Em-City]

Gerard King actually played in the FIBA championships, winning a bronze medal!!

[bigbendbruisebrother]

Zarko Paspaj. You knew it was done when that swarthy, drunken, cigarette inhaling piece of Eurotrash trotted onto the court at Hemisfair. You had to love a guy who ate fast food on the bench.

[timtonymanu]

Malik Hairston TBH

[Manu'sMagicalLeftHand]

It has to be Mengke Bateer. For a Human Victory Cigar, it doesn't get much better than a 6'11'' Mongolian Center, who played in 12 games during the regular season, averaging 3.8 minutes per game, 0.8 points and 0.7 rebounds.

[iminol]

Mike Wilks averages now 3 ppg in 11 minutes in Euroleague. He's playing in polish club, Asseco Prokom Gdynia.

[Solid D]

Thanks for the update on Wilks, iminol!

[dwayne shintzius]

uwe blab

[Solid D]

uwe blab

lol Did you misspell your name on purpose?

[ChumpDumper]

Zarko, because he smelled like smoke.

[dwayne shintzius]

lol Did you misspell your name on purpose?




i get too lazy to include the "c" in my name when i have to sign all those basketballs

[bigdog]

It has to be Mengke Bateer. I remember him coming into a game and making a free throw. I went nuts, it was hilarious.

[210Max]

James White and Amal McCaskil were dope. Same with bateer, also liked mike wilks.


how about cheroke parks, alex garcia, shane heal. they was cool. and sean marks, i guess.

[NZ Spurs]

Loved Derrick Dial.

Sean Marks as well for obvious reasons.

[Spurologist]

Anthony Goldwire and Alex Scales cuz they got virtually not playing time but are somehow stuck in my head