Bexar County approves $101.5 million renovation to the AT&T Center

[Spurs9]

Doesn't look very impressive from those pics tbh

[ace3g]

Stephen Anderson ‏@ImSteveAnderson

The AT&T Center is getting ready for Spurs-Pistons on Sunday afternoon. #SpursNation (photo via @GoSpursGoMemes)

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[TheDoctor]

NICE!

[Ditty]

Looks much better tbh. I was little disappointed also that we didn't get the big scoreboard like Houston especially for a $100 million renovation but ours looks like it will do. Saw a video of the outside also it looks really nice.

[GreggPopAsnitch]

You guys should just be glad you have a NBA team. You know how many cities would love to have a team. What if the NBA announced that the Spurs were moving to Seattle. Then what would you have to about.

We are the 7th biggest city in America, We aren't "lucky" to have a professional team. Name a top ten city that doesn't besides Austin which has the longhorns, and San Jose who nobody knows exists.

And now home to one of the most successful franchises in sports, safe to say the Spurs aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

[GreggPopAsnitch]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRevdUoUwAAywa0.jpg

sucks we don't have a new floor design.

[aal04]

101 million. They better have spent a few on a Tim Duncan statue out front.

[exstatic]

sucks we don't have a new floor design.

The floor design was new just last season.

[exstatic]

We are the 7th biggest city in America, We aren't "lucky" to have a professional team. Name a top ten city that doesn't besides Austin which has the longhorns, and San Jose who nobody knows exists.

And now home to one of the most successful franchises in sports, safe to say the Spurs aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

Pro sports doesn't judge by city size, but by Nielsen media market size, which includes all adjacent communities. SA sits at #32, which is higher than a few years ago, but when you consider that there are only 30 teams, it's still improbable that we have a team. We had to rent to own a failing team in a compe or league, steal our best player (Ice) as loan collateral, have another owner (John Y Brown of KY) be uninterested in joining the NBA when the ABA collapsed, and have the StL ABA team be willing to sell their franchise corpse to the four teams that ultimately joined the NBA in 1976.

[TheGreatYacht]

Would be dope if they added 3D Projection to the court, so people can get to their seats earlier instead of waiting in the Whataburger line for 3 quarters, but if they didn't I'm not complaining.. 100M is a load of money. Thanks Holt

[Phenomanul]

Pro sports doesn't judge by city size, but by Nielsen media market size, which includes all adjacent communities. SA sits at #32, which is higher than a few years ago, but when you consider that there are only 30 teams, it's still improbable that we have a team. We had to rent to own a failing team in a compe or league, steal our best player (Ice) as loan collateral, have another owner (John Y Brown of KY) be uninterested in joining the NBA when the ABA collapsed, and have the StL ABA team be willing to sell their franchise corpse to the four teams that ultimately joined the NBA in 1976.

I wonder if Corpus, Laredo, McAllen, Brownsville, Victoria, and Kingsville are included in that Nielsen media market...

[Russ]

Pro sports doesn't judge by city size, but by Nielsen media market size, which includes all adjacent communities. SA sits at #32, which is higher than a few years ago, but when you consider that there are only 30 teams, it's still improbable that we have a team. We had to rent to own a failing team in a compe or league, steal our best player (Ice) as loan collateral, have another owner (John Y Brown of KY) be uninterested in joining the NBA when the ABA collapsed, and have the StL ABA team be willing to sell their franchise corpse to the four teams that ultimately joined the NBA in 1976.

And have a judge who was a Spurs season ticket holder uphold the Iceman deal when the Virginia Squires tried to unwind it.

[GreggPopAsnitch]

Pro sports doesn't judge by city size, but by Nielsen media market size, which includes all adjacent communities. SA sits at #32, which is higher than a few years ago, but when you consider that there are only 30 teams, it's still improbable that we have a team. We had to rent to own a failing team in a compe or league, steal our best player (Ice) as loan collateral, have another owner (John Y Brown of KY) be uninterested in joining the NBA when the ABA collapsed, and have the StL ABA team be willing to sell their franchise corpse to the four teams that ultimately joined the NBA in 1976.

BLAH BLAH.. They don't put pro sorts teams in small cities unless its representing the state as a whole. The NBA kept us here cause they profit from our 1.5 million residents 2 mil including illegals.

[hooperflash]

NEW art display by the escalators.

[ChumpDumper]

BLAH BLAH.. They don't put pro sorts teams in small cities unless its representing the state as a whole. The NBA kept us here cause they profit from our 1.5 million residents 2 mil including illegals.

NBA teams have left larger markets with more money.

[BillMc]

NEW art display by the escalators.

Nice!

[exstatic]

BLAH BLAH.. They don't put pro sorts teams in small cities unless its representing the state as a whole. The NBA kept us here cause they profit from our 1.5 million residents 2 mil including illegals.

Dumb. Ass. Who. Knows. Nothing. The NBA never PUT a team here. Can you ing read? A WHOLE lot of improbable things had to happen for us to wind up with an NBA franchise, and not ONE of those things was being awarded one by the league on market merits. Judging by Stern's at ude after we had won multiple championships, and Paul Tagliabue's disdain for our quest for an NFL franchise, pro sports doesn't think much of our market. We'd likely still be waiting for a team.

[UZER]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRevdUoUwAAywa0.jpg

sucks we don't have a new floor design.

That design is only a year old.

[GreggPopAsnitch]

[GreggPopAsnitch]

That design is only a year old.

Yeah there are teams who get one like every year.

[GreggPopAsnitch]

Of course, but if you think an all time great franchise will leave the city anytime soon you're reaching.

[hooperflash]

Yeah their are teams who get one like every year.

Could you whip up a mock court design or just a description of what you'd do to the court. (I'm genuinely interested in knowing how creative a fellow Spurs fan would redesign it).

[GreggPopAsnitch]

Could you whip up a mock court design or just a description of what you'd do to the court. (I'm genuinely interested in knowing how creative a fellow Spurs fan would redesign it).

Even though I feel you're being sarcastic, think about it anything is better than just our logo with nothing else. Anything that incorporates our city, (doesn't have to be fiesta colors since the older generation tends to hate it.)

[Mnky]

I think our court design is slick as all heck. Maybe you just don't got taste tbh.

[ChumpDumper]

I actually know the entire history of how we got the team from Dallas. Back then it was a shot in the dark but by now we would have had a team. You are a dumbass If you think the nba wouldn't want to capitalize on a city with no sports team with 1.5 million and if you think population doesn't a role. there are many reasons for us not actually aquiring an nfl team, they think we aren't a big market cause San Antonio would house 3rd texas Team and the city is already huge Cowboys supporters, Almamo dome isn't big enough etc.

So why did the NBA move out of a market that is bigger and richer than San Antonio?