Why are you a Spurs fan?

[Calispursfan11]

Some recent discussion here on ST has led me to ask the following two questions of ST posters:

(1) Why are you a Spurs fan?

and

(2) How long have you been one?

Go for it STers!

[jjktkk]

Started reading about the Spurs in the Express News Sports page as a kid. Have been a fan since 76.

[Anonymous Cowherd]

1) a) I am a massive Tottenham Hotspurs (Spurs) football fan
b) Manu Ginobili is my absolute favourite player

2) 2 years

[ohmwrecker]

Let me go search through one of the other numerous "Why are you a Spurs fan" threads and copy and paste my response here . . . brb.

[GrandeDavid]

Moved to San Antonio just before David Robinson's rookie season, love the community, great team, class acts etc

[timtonymanu]

let me go search through one of the other numerous "why are you a spurs fan" threads and copy and paste my response here . . . Brb.

this

[NRHector]

Let me go search through one of the other numerous "Why are you a Spurs fan" threads and copy and paste my response here . . . brb.

+1 :lol

[Calispursfan11]

Moved to San Antonio just before David Robinson's rookie season, love the community, great team, class acts etc

Very good reasons. I am not in San Antonio, but I've always loved what the Spurs stood for, since the mid 90s. Have been a fan of the Spurs ever since. Professionalism and integrity have always seemed really high on the Spurs' list regardless of talent. I guess there have a been a few exceptions i.e. S Jackson, but he wasn't too bad compared to most other problem children (Pick anyone from the Jailblazers of yesteryear - Sheed, Isiah Rider, Bonzi et al...).

[Texas_Ranger]

my friend told me that they play good, so I became a fan.

after the 1999 title.

[TJastal]

I fell in love with Sean Elli0t, DRob, Kearsy, Kerr, Duncan & all the others. The memorial day miracle shot from Elli0t was the single most exciting moment in sports as far as I'm concernced.

[Calispursfan11]

I fell in love with Sean Elli0t, DRob, Kearsy, Kerr, Duncan & all the others. The memorial day miracle shot from Elli0t was the single most exciting moment in sports as far as I'm concernced.

:toast

[100%duncan]

1. Tim Duncan
2. 9 years

[dbestpro]

Been a fan since the first game I went to which was a playoff game between the Bullets and the Spurs.

[suitedkings]

Baby, I was born this way /Gaga

[falconqb1234]

i was born in san antonio and have been going to games for as long as i can remember

[SilverSpur]

When David Robinson was drafted in 87, and a die hard in 89 when Sean Elliott , David Robinson, Terry Cummings and Willie Anderson all came together.

[Russo21]

1998 when i was 15 years old. I was just starting to play basketball at school with my mates and although i sucked and always will, had a great time. I always listened to my friends crapping on about the Knicks and the Bulls etc. and decided i had to learn more about basketball and find my own team.

I went to the shop and bought an october edition of 'one on one' magazine. On the front cover was a picture of David Robinson who i knew from the dream team and videos etc and next to David was Tim Duncan and the headline wrote 'Men in Black'

I read the article and just loved what they said about the spurs and david robinson and although Timmy had just been draftted they wrote this about him.

"For San Antonio Spurs fans, the sins of the past have been forgiven... Tim Duncan is in town"

I was like:wowwoah this kid must be good for them to say that when he's never played a game. I got my mum to buy me spurs shorts and a duncan jersey online and i've been a die hard spurs fan ever since:kingI copied the pictures of Tim and David and did drawings in art class. Timmy has never let me down, the man is a living legnd.

So that's it, it was really just fate to buy that exact magazine during that particular month. If it was another magazine in another month i might have chosen a different team? I hate the term bandwagoner. I started following basketball the year Timmy entered the NBA and that's the way it was. I couldn't be happier:toast

:lobt2::lobt2::lobt2::lobt2:2012:lobt2:

[Jimcs50]

Grew up in SA. Only sport in town, so naturally started watching them


1975. I liked Ice, Silas and Larry Kenon, my girlfriend at the time loved Mark Olberding, so we started going to Spurs games in the Hemisfair Arena.

It was the best entertainment around for $5.

[TDMVPDPOY]

i t hought this was a tottenham spurs forum...

[Creepn]

Been a Spurs fan ever since I got nose bleed Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood tickets in the 3rd grade. lol Oh, also came with a coupon for a free Church's Chicken meal. :tu

[Dex]

Born & raised in San Antonio. Pretty much all that really needs to be said. One of the first famous people I can remember recognizing was David Robinson. First professional event was a Spurs game. Favorite stuffed animal was a Spurs Coyote doll. Etc etc...

[Capt Bringdown]

Pearl Beer and cigarettes

[JonNOKC]

Grew up outside of Oklahoma City as a kid and started to play and get interested in basketball in about 90. In early 91( I was 11yo) we had to pick article from magazine to do a short report about. I chose a Sports Illustrated for kids which had an article in it about DROB. This article highlighted his journey to Navy and onto the NBA and how he fulfilled his commitment and just really impacted me as a star athlete I could look up to. That was the beginning - the 92 season I discovered after about 8pm or so I could pick up 1200 WOAI way up in OKC though not always the clearest - I fell asleep with the radio under my pillow trying to stay awake for those west coast road swings - Now while I do consider OKC my hometown I am still a diehard Spurs fan first - though I do root and follow the Thunder somewhat

[Obstructed_View]

I'm a Gregg Popovich fan. I could give a shit about the Spurs. Four rings, fuckers!

[Horse]

1. #50
2. 1991

[Kool Bob Love]

1.My city's only PRO team.
2. 6-15-2003

[johnnyblues]

Tim Duncan
1999 twin towers

[Silver&Black]

1) When I was like 9-10 years old I got David Robinson's rookie card in the first pack of basketball cards I ever opened. My brother was pissed!!!!! All Spurs since then....

2) Since David Robinson's rookie year.

[alucardthereaper]

Been fan since 98..i'm from bosnia and at that time there wasn't much hoop magazines but SFOR u.s. soldiers brought some and there was this guy 21 ever since man....hi to everyone i've been watching this forum for a long time saw this thread as a way to introduce myself...

[OLD SCHOOL]

Became a fan as a kid in Louisiana listening to WOAI in the late 1970's. Gervin, Kenon, Paulz, Dampier and Silas.

[JR3]

Since about 92. I grew up in SA and my 1st grade teacher asked me if i saw the 360 dunk david robinson did the other night. I figured I better start watching the spurs games. So I did. I got hooked. We were at disney world during the 95 playoffs..I cried when we lost to houston and didn't want to go to the magic kingdom the next day. I also cried when we won in 99. I don't know how I got so emotionally attached. Maybe because I got to meet avery johnson and david robinson as a kid at cornerstone church. Maybe because not even a lot of my friends in San Antonio gave them a chance. I liked the us against the world thing and us coming through and winning championships besides no one wanting us to win. I can go on and on about why im a Spurs fan. Just know it runs deep.

[spursince#99]

1. because i was once told i would play for the spurs and i liked their teamwork and defense

2. 12 years

[Calispursfan11]

1. because i was once told i would play for the spurs and i liked their teamwork and defense

2. 12 years

Did you end up playing for them at all?

[Calispursfan11]

Been fan since 98..i'm from bosnia and at that time there wasn't much hoop magazines but SFOR u.s. soldiers brought some and there was this guy 21 ever since man....hi to everyone i've been watching this forum for a long time saw this thread as a way to introduce myself...

Welcome my friend and I love your user name. I am a big Dracula fan.

[Kamnik]

When Rasho signed.

[Jace]

1. I love that they won and did it quietly and efficiently. The franchise and Duncan in particular have a quiet, professional attitude that stuck out from the flamboyant attitudes of the Lakers 2. I was never a big basketball fan growing up but I think it was the 2nd championship win for the Spurs that marks the moment I became a fan.

[alamo50]

1) 50
2) 20

[lefty]

Reason: D-Rob
Since: 1992

[k_nguyen93]

Live in Northern Virginia but Wizards always suck. My cousins and I appreciated the way Spurs conducted themselves growing up and jumped on bandwagon during 07 playoffs.

[TE]

Began watching games when I was 7 in 95. D-Rob was a beast.

[Nick Manning]

OP is underrated...can't believe I didn't catch that

[Doctor J]

Because of the Iceman, the Admiral and Manu... I AM...

[JP le Requin]

because younger i had (and always) a passion for planes/aircraft/navy etc...and i when i read the nickname of dave robison aka THE ADMIRAL...i wanted to know more about him...and i watched spurs games and i loved to watch them, to see a human 7,1 run like a PG and dunk 360 etc...it was in 1993..then i am spurs4ever fan!!
i live in france, i realize my dream to meet him in 2007 and went to san antonio 3 times between 2007 and this year 2011...i hope to come back next year for maybe the TIM DUNCAN FAREWELL (snif)

GO SPURS GO!!!!!

[Holden_Caulfield]

DEFENSE! TWIN TOWER DEFENSE!

when i first learned the fundamental of the game. 1998

[lefty]

By the way, I discovered Robinson in 1992 while watching the Portland pre-olympic tournament in Portland

I'm left-handed and so is Robinson; yes, Mullin is left-handed too and is one of my favorite players, but D*Rob was such an impressive athlete

[SpurSpurSpurs]

I was 11 back then when I started to be a Spurs fan. I was hearing a lot of good stuff about Duncan when he was in his first year playing for the Spurs but none of my friends were talking about him because of his playing style. I wanted to be different since most of my friends were a fan of Garnett, Shaq, Grant Hill, Penny, MJ, Pippen and others. But then I realized, Duncan is as good as those players or even better and at the same time he's humble. Definitely one of the most classiest player ever! So that's about 14 years as a Spurs fan. Other factors... Steve Kerr, Dennis Rodman & Andrew Gaze.

I also remember hating Kobe before and guess what? I still hate him. LMAO!

[Winehole23]

Born in SA in 1967, started going to games in 1977. Fan for life.

[Calispursfan11]

Loving all the D Rob No. 50 love on this thread!

[Calispursfan11]

I was 11 back then when I started to be a Spurs fan. I was hearing a lot of good stuff about Duncan when he was in his first year playing for the Spurs but none of my friends were talking about him because of his playing style. I wanted to be different since most of my friends were a fan of Garnett, Shaq, Grant Hill, Penny, MJ, Pippen and others. But then I realized, Duncan is as good as those players or even better and at the same time he's humble. Definitely one of the most classiest player ever! So that's about 14 years as a Spurs fan. Other factors... Steve Kerr, Dennis Rodman & Andrew Gaze.

I also remember hating Kobe before and guess what? I still hate him. LMAO!

Shout out to Andrew Gaze !!!