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probably 21 or so
are there any posters on spurstalk who have seen all 50 nba spurs seasons
probably 21 or so
32 as NBA fan
23 as a Spurs fan
All of them
Day 1, 1973
They were pretty good but then they got Gervin and Nater and things took off
i was nominally a spur fan because they shared a color scheme with the raiders, who i was a fan of bc of my dad
i dont really remember watching any specific games before timmy, was 5 when duncan was drafted. but i remember having 7 draft or some ESPN/TV segment about it on the TV and hearing about how amazing a player duncan was coming to the spurs, who i already liked, and was really excited about it
tim's rookie season is the first year i can specifically remember seeing games on TV
I was only born in '85 so...not all of them
Growing up in San Antonio, all I have ever known is Spurs.
David Robinson was probably the first "celebrity" I can remember. My favorite childhood toy was a Coyote stuffed animal.
I really started getting into (and understanding) the Spurs in the mid-to-late 90s. I remember Karl Malone knocking out DRob, and Tark chewing on towels. I remember seeing Antonio Daniels' silly smile on the menus at Jim's Restaurant. I remember HemisFair, and the Dome, and when AT&T used to be SBC.
My dad was the first one to tell me about Tim Duncan and how he was supposed to be like the next Jordan. The rest is history.
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Shoutout to the Day 1s
Started watching as a little kid in 1987, so like 36 seasons.
is this just an age thread?
I started actively watching every game in the 2002-2003 season
I’ve been watching the Spurs from Day1. First game was against the Pacers with George McGinnis. Lived next door to Rich Jones who was an all-star PF for the team. I delivered the Iceman’s Express News for a while. Me and my brother could go watch a game for $10. Included parking, tickets, a Coke and a popcorn.
should be about 15 years ... since the International League Pass was available ... am a fan since 1996 but could not watch any full games
i couldnt actively watch every game until streaming became a regular thing, as i lived out of market. luckily, during that period of time, the spurs were always quite good so found themselves on national TV relatively frequently, plus i'd catch their games vs lakers/clippers
would have to watch the ticker on ESPN for score updates, watch SportsCenter or ESPNews for highlights. and my morning ritual before school was to grab the newspaper, get into the sports section, and go through all the box scores, standings, stat leaderboards, etc
From day1. Almost no games on tv. Listened to most every game on the radio.
we were always the "boring" team during that time so I imagine a lot of the coverage on ESPN at the time was probably anti Spurs.
2003 was a good time to start actively watching, for obvious reasons.I believe Joel Myers was still our color guy at the time. I have this vivid memory of watching a Spurs/Jazz game where Timmy hit a game winning turnaround over Malone at the buzzer and I ran around the house going nuts
I rooted for the Spurs kind of from afar as a young teen in 99' when they won their first chip as I wasn't really following basketball heavily after Bulls years, although I dug David Robinson as a kid. My older brother was a big time Bulls/Jordan/Pippen fan so I basically followed that as a child. For whatever reason, I decided to really follow the Spurs a little past the beginning of the 2002-2003 season and was very fortunate to hop on the wagon of a impending dynasty. So actively and die hard: 21 years (since around the beginning of the 2002-2003 season).
i started watching after they got Wemby
Spurs fan for 25 years, but it was hard to watch games in Germany back in the day
18 years or so.
I moved to SA in April of 1988 from the Philippines. It wasn’t the USA that I envisioned. It was sweltering 104 degrees and the people were eating Mexican food! Worst, their only professional team was the Spurs???!!, a 21-61 record that year!! But my cousin kept telling me of this athletic freak who was only completing his two-year tour with the Navy. The following year, David Robinson finally came in all his athletic grandeur, rim running like a gazelle, dunking on people, and turned the franchise into 56-26 record, the highest turnaround then. I was a fan since, even after I moved to LA. I’ve been booed in Staples with my Manu jersey, and almost got beat up at a parking lot. But I’ve been true with my Spurs colors! I can’t wait to wear my Wemby jersey and start taunting again
35 years
Shoutout to the ones from Day 1!
I was a kid when we moved to SA in 1982 and immediately started following the Spurs so that makes it 41 years for me.
Just 20. I started really watching basketball/the NBA in 2003. I bandwagoned in '03 because Mavs were out of the playoffs, but hey, still a Texas team. But then I realized I really identified with/wanted to be like Tim. Then I came to appreciate everything about the Spurs aesthetic; yes the black and silver but also the ironically quiet and subtle dominance. The all chill no frills. No BS. All solid, chill guys. Business-like. I had to stick around.
Got into basketball via the dream team and the '93 german european championship. Thought about making the run TMC Warriors (or what was left of it) my fav team, but ultimately landed with the Spurs. Funnily enough it probably was because of Dennis Rodman. Not because I liked him (my favs were The Admiral and Sean when he came back from Detroit), but because german TV showed a lot of Spurs games because of Rodman with the funny hair and so on (at least that is what I believe).
After all there was no major reason why I picked the Spurs. I never have been to San Antonio or took a deep dive into Spurs history. It probably was because of the likable Admiral and the fiesta colors.
No question, my decition was one of the best things ever happening to me...and I laughed and cried with the team throughout those 30 years...witnessing the Duncan lottery...celebrating the first ship...all those other moments...and laying weeping on the floor after #5...not to mention the latest lottery.
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