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I have always been a Spurs fan since I can remember. As I have lived near SA all my life and my family liked the Spurs.
i think this was worth a thread...
my story is this:
in the 90's every body here in south America was i the Jordan hype etc... and i never liked to follow what every body else... so one day they broad casted a match where the Spurs were playing and saw David Robinson... since then... i knew i was going to be a spurs fan for the rest of my life...
I have always been a Spurs fan since I can remember. As I have lived near SA all my life and my family liked the Spurs.
Tim Duncan
Ever since we got our first NBA Finals in Australia in 1999, i was only 11 at the time and ever since then ive had an unhealthy obsession with him and the Spurs.
To be brutally honest, i loved the Hornets and the Knicks when i was real young because i used to follow Larry Johnson wherever he went (i first saw him on one of those 'Dunks' dvd's i use to rent week after week from our local video store and that was it). I was a Knicks/Spurs fan till i was about 13 but the more and more i followed Tim Duncan i followed the Spurs just as much (combination of LJ leaving the game also i guess).
Ive been a full fledged Spurs fan since i was about 13, 6 whole years LOL, i guess im at the bottom of the pile. And im yet to meet a bigger Tim Duncan fan than myself
Read an article in a Doctor's surgery in the early 90's when I was just a little boy about David Robinson. Something clicked, and it turned me onto Basketball in general. I didn't know much about it before then because it wasn't very mainstream in Aussie back in those days.
So basically, the reason was D-Rob. That's going to be a common theme in this thread!
Here's a quick list of why I am a Spurs fan:
1. The organization is committed to bringing in high character players.
2. I am drawn to teams that play excellent defense.
3. Ginobili..for his fearless style and creative passes.
4. TD...all around greatness and humility.
5. Pop...get's after everyone equally. Rare in the NBA.
6. Bowen...sometimes I don't even watch the ball, I just enjoy Bowen shadowing his man.
7. The Jacob Riis quote on their wall (thus my username).
8. Spurstalk is the best forum on the net.
Coach Pop and his no nonsense coaching style really intrigued me. I'm keen on everything Air Force so I was biased when I learned he was an AF Academy grad. He was so different from other flashy coaches and his personality reflected on the Spurs who valued a "team first" at ude. This really appealed to me and inmy mind no other team comes close.
Tim Duncan.
When David was made MVP in '95...
...the rest is HISTORY...
Last edited by FilSpursFan; 10-10-2007 at 10:12 PM.
Tim Duncani think this was worth a thread...
my story is this:
in the 90's every body here in south America was i the Jordan hype etc... and i never liked to follow what every body else... so one day they broad casted a match where the Spurs were playing and saw David Robinson... since then... i knew i was going to be a spurs fan for the rest of my life...
He reminded me of my favorite player, Hakeem, in the '99 Finals. At that point it was obvious he was the best player in the NBA.
btw - I'm from Madison, Wisconsin
Carl Herrera
1. Rasho
2. Beno
.......
but both these 2 reasons disapointed me (especially Beno) because they are not the players i like (tough physically and mentally)
today i am a fan of the spurs basicly because of everything on the spurs
TD, Pop, spurstalk, CLASS PLAYERS, chemisty, right at ude, winners
I LOVE THEM
The games use to be played at about 10am our time here in Australia. All day at school id be thinkin bout how Duncan was playing lol, im talkin like grade 8-12, first think id do when i got home, straight onto nba.com and just hope he had a good game and we won (only for his MVP chances LOL), then just grew on the Spurs as an organisation and the rest of the players.
Good times.
Im interested to hear the 'older' and more frequent posters here and how they became fans.
This must be about the 14th time I've told this story on here, but I like telling it because it was one of the pivotal moments in my life.
It was a Friday night in 1990, I was a nerdy 15yo hangin at home watching TV. Flicked it onto the ABC (The Australian Broadcasting Corporation - the govt. channel), and there was this game of NBA basketball, first ever on Aussie TV although I didn't know it at the time.
It was Jordan's Bulls vs The Admiral's Spurs. I didn't know anything about basketball at the time even though I was tall for my age and my father tried to get me to play (he was a very good player in his youth). Something about the game captivated me, so I kept watching... something... something... that Jordan guy, he was great... but David Robinson, well he was AMAZING! Speed, balance, grace and poise, he was a joy to watch, but the way he behaved on court was something else - honourable.
Anyway, long story short I became a Spurs fan for life that night, got my Dad to teach me how to play the next day and my love affair with basketball has never waned. I also won 2 championships while playing, and the second one might've been the sweetest moment of my life... although meeting David was pretty damn close!
I've now travelled to SA twice to see them play, and they won the championship both years (2003 and 2007). And even better than that I have a bunch of wonderful friends in SA and across the world through this place who enrich my life incredibly.
Thank you David, thank you Spurs, thank you Dad and thank you ST!
Barcelona 1992.
The rest is cherished history.
David Robinson
Originally, Tim Duncan. When he came for the Spurs is when I started watching of my own initiative.
I was raised around basketball though and liked it, although I only had the attention span for a few quarters.
I remember as a kid thinking that half time lasted forever.
I was enough of a fan even as a child that I really disliked Karl Malone and the Jazz.
My story is pretty simple. Back in 1988, everyone loved Jordan and the Bulls, Magic and the Lakers and Larry and the Celtics. My Dad was actually a Celtics fan and he bought a "Larry Bird - MVP" ball for me and attempted to groom me into a Celtics fan. But I was pretty stubborn so I decided to support another team. Being 7 years old at the time, I selected the team with (what I thought) was the longest and nicest name. San Antonio Spurs and Portland Trailblazers made my short list. But I chose San Antonio because of Alvin Robertson and his all-round game. Best choice of my life!
Poor kid- you were almost a Jail Blazer Fan.Being 7 years old at the time, I selected the team with (what I thought) was the longest and nicest name. San Antonio Spurs and Portland Trailblazers made my short list.
My dad was a Celtic fan too. When I was little my favorite players were Bird, Parish, and McHale.
I didn't know that there were many Spurs fan in Australia.
Thank God for ST.
This would be a good homework, but I'll go with these:
1. Manu
2. POP's face
3. I became more Spurs' fan (If I could say that) after:
a. Knowing this forum, and my english teacher accepted my posts as homework
b. Spurs became a fu..ng good team.
c. Spurschick's avatar
You'll need to get in line.And im yet to meet a bigger Tim Duncan fan than myself
Duncan is the reason a lot of us are Spurs fans.
I've been an NBA fan forever, saw Larry Bird in the Garden his rookie season and I became an NBA fanatic.
But Duncan is the only reason I watch now.
I often wonder if I'll care enough to watch after he retires.
I won't list the reasons we all know about his game and the joy he is to watch.
We all have our personal reasons for watching this team.
So...You've now "met" a bigger Duncan fan than yourself.
And I'm positive a lot of us on this board feel the same way.
Last edited by duncan228; 10-08-2007 at 10:07 AM.
I am from St.Croix, Virgin Islands, and I've followed Duncan's career at Wake Forest. The day he was drafted, I became a San Antonio fan. I grew up watching Michael Jordan dominate the game, but I've always been fascinated by big men. David Robinson was one of my favorite players, so the addition of Tim Duncan to that team made it a wrap. Simply put, I'm from the Virgin Islands! Its really easy being a Duncan if you're a basketball purist.
You'll need to get in line.
Duncan is the reason a lot of us are Spurs fans.
I've been an NBA fan forever, saw Larry Bird in the Garden his rookie season and I became an NBA fanatic.
But Duncan is the only reason I watch now.
I often wonder if I'll care enough to watch after he retires.
I have other, personal, reasons why I am such a Duncan fan, but I'm not comfortable enough to tell that story here.
So...You've now "met" a bigger Duncan fan than yourself.
And I'm positive a lot of us on this board feel the same way.
I say TIM DUNCAN!!!
I'm pretty sure that it was the Spurs' status as my hometown team that brought me into Spurs fandom in about 1978.
For me, it was moving to SA in the first place. Keep in mind, I had grown up in the Chicago suburbs during the Bulls dynasty years. The thing was, other than that, I had very little going for me. I mean, I was on antidepressants and in therapy *way* more than an 11-year old kid should have been. Anyway, when I moved down to SA, my dad took me to a Spurs game (I moved down in the summer of '99) about a week into the season, and TD and the Admiral had me hooked. I moved back to the Chicago suburbs two years later, but I'm still a die-hard Spurs fan. Another part of it is that "substance over style" is the way I live my life.
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