What made you become a Spurs fan?

[GinobiliForTres]

Simple.

Was there a certain game you watched that made you like the team, do you live in San Antonio (unlike myself), etc?

For me, the first Spurs game i ever watched was WC 1st Round, Game 1 i believe. 2007-2008 season against Phoenix when Timmy hit the 3 in overtime. That moment itself made me wanna start following the team and i've been a diehard fan ever since. I live in Kentucky. Only Spurs fan at my school. Here, all you'll find is bandwagoners.

[WalterBenitez]

Black uniform "small town" team in that "*" season, later came Manu.

[Muser]

Back in school I played Centre for my schools team, coach shows me a video of D Rob (I think it was his career high 12 blocks against the T Wolves although I don't remember it too well) and been a fan ever since.

[GinobiliForTres]

Back in school I played Centre for my schools team, coach shows me a video of D Rob (I think it was his career high 12 blocks against the T Wolves although I don't remember it too well) and been a fan ever since.

wow, that's pretty awesome actually.

and the first clip of an NBA game that i watched was Boston ending Houston's 22-game win streak iirc. i didn't know that until about a year later.

[100%duncan]

when spurs beat lakers on 2003 playoffs

[Dice]

McDyess signed with them.

[elemento]

well,

Im from Brazil and the first and only time i watched a NBA game as back in 2003. I was studying in Vancouver and i went with my friends to Seattle to to watch the Sonics against the Mavs. Since the first time i saw those gots, i just hated them. I just asked my host father what team was the biggest mavs rival. He said the Spurs, the classiest franchise in the NBA. So basically it was an easy choice. Im a fan since then.

[urunobili]

D-Rob

[romain.star]

Rodman ''haircut'' in NBA Live 97 + Drob

[sa_butta]

I became a fan at the ripe age of 9 years old. My basketball team got to the city championship (1986) and we got to play at halftime during a Spurs game. The Spurs game itself was an awesome experience and actually playing on the court was even better. I had been to Spurs games before that, but never really paid to much attention to what was really going on.

During my game I was on the bench and a guy behind me asks me for my autograph so I tell him "I don't have a picture of myself." So he says "just sign your name on the paper"...I regret to inform him that I did not make it big, and the paper he was hoping to cash in later is completely worthless at this point.

At any rate we won our city championship game and I had the experience of a lifetime...After that I followed the Spurs more closely and I began to listen to games on WOAI when they were PPV.

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

Robinson mainly, around 1994. Back then I didn't have any means to follow NBA closely, due to not being in USA and it was very rarely on TV, but I got some computer game with D-Rob on the front ( NBA live 94 or something ) and was immediately hooked, I'm pretty sure I'd never played it with another team but the Spurs. Anyway, got hooked and started looking for more info and following them, whatever means possible, which was quite difficult at the time.

It's been a great ride.

[wijayas]

Knowing that D-Rob honored his commitment to the NAVY and then the Spurs. I knew then the Spurs is an organization with character, blessed with honorable people. I am right.

[polandprzem]

Video game

[benefactor]

I live in Tyler(80mi east of Dallas), so I didn't know the Spurs existed until I became a teenager. The Mavericks and Cowboys are deities around here, so as a kid that is who I rooted for. When I was in high school I was really close with my cousin who is a huge Rockets fan...and with my disdain for the Cowboys and thier fans growing and my family ties in Houston I started cheering for the Houston teams. I watched in awe as the Dream dominated the league through the championship years. This gave me a true appreciation for great post players. But at most, I was still basically a casual fan.

I started following the Spurs a little bit when Duncan was drafted and I was excited for them when they won the le in '99. With my appreciation for great post play, it was natural for me to enjoy both Duncan and Robinson. I casually watched all three Texas teams in the early 2000's but the combination of the run and gun and Cowboys fans pushed me further and further away from the Mavs. I found myself spending more time following the Spurs due to the way they played and how they carried themselves with class. Between the le in '03 and the heartache of May 13th, 2004, I was cemented. For the first time in my life I had become a truly committed fan that lived and died by a team...and it has been that way every since.

[xmas1997]

Been a Spurs fan since they first came here.
Been reading SF and ST since they first began, just rarely post.

[Giuseppe]

I needed ya's to stand in the way of the Suns to preserve their O & __.

You never failed me. Thank Christ.

[fonzy16]

manu, been his fan from his euroleague days

+ hating the fakers

[Bukefal]

[cutewizard]

Simple.

Was there a certain game you watched that made you like the team, do you live in San Antonio (unlike myself), etc?

For me, the first Spurs game i ever watched was WC 1st Round, Game 1 i believe. 2007-2008 season against Phoenix when Timmy hit the 3 in overtime. That moment itself made me wanna start following the team and i've been a diehard fan ever since. I live in Kentucky. Only Spurs fan at my school. Here, all you'll find is bandwagoners.

David Robinson.

[lefty]

David Robinson
David Robinson
David Robinson


In 1992, when watching the pre-olympic tournament in Portland

I'm a lefty, and so is Robinson...Mullin is a lefty too, but D-Rob was an amazing athlete

Started following the Spurs since then, and never rooted for Bulls or Lakers in the meantime

Years of frustration finally paid off

[slayermin]

Alvin Robertson was one of my favorite players. And I got to play a CYO exhibition game at Hemisphere Arena.

[KenziE]

when i was a kid the first team i ever rooted for was the boston celtics ... then hou in 94 coz i hated the knicks i was rooting for the underdog houston team ... then bulls in their 2nd three peat ... then 1999 came and saw timmy in the finals beat the knicks hehe been a duncan fan ever since of course manu came and cemented my die hard status forever ....!

[8FOR!3]

I've always been a Spurs fan. Mom and dad were big Spurs fans, I actually think I started watching the Spurs Duncan's rookie season when I was 6.

[cheguevara]

Manwho Ginosebleed

but when he was a nobody here. I saw him in europe and said, that guy is playing in the nba? where???

and then I saw Duncan

then I saw DRob, Bowen, Parker, all directed by the genius of Pop took the 3-peat lakers to tears. then I said this is something special

[Hooks]

In '03 when I was 12, saw my first ever Spurs game on TV. I didn't give a about sports in general, I knew NOTHING about football/basketball, absolutely nothing. I watched the Spurs in '99 when they won a ship but I didn't really care. I didn't play sports, never wanted to play b-ball, I thought sports were boring.

It was game 1 of the playoffs, Spurs vs. Suns, Duncan missed his FT's and Marbury hit the GW. I remember being nervous during the game and my adrenaline pumping, this got me addicted to watching the Spurs.