How long and how did you become a Spurs fan?

[gambit1990]

people were so happy downtown after we won in 1999.

i've gone downtown after every championship clinching game

[KDKSpurs24]

In 1999. I was 6 years old and that was the first finals I had ever watched. Basically some of the first basketball I really remember even seeing on TV. Spurs won the championship and I just stuck with them ever since. I really enjoyed watching them win and celebrate in that series. That's when I really got into basketball and started playing in youth leagues myself.

[Horry Hipcheck]

My dad is a huge celtics fan. Probably why i was watching boston that day.

I get it. My grandfather is a Red Sox fan, and somewhere in my adolescence I started following them.

There are are home videos of me as a baby crawling into my mother's lap during a Spurs game, where she picks me up - her newborn - and moves me aside without taking her eyes off the TV.

[look_at_g_shred]

1999

[lefty20]

Game 3 vs Nuggets in 2005 Playoffs. Ran into the game accidentally while channel surfing, had never seen a game before that and I literally knew nothing about the league. Decided to stick with it cuz there was nothing else on. Ended up being completely mesmerized by everything Manu did on the court, been a Spurs fan since that day.

[Fireball]

followed Nique Wilkins to the Spurs and stayed there because a rookie wearing the same #21 just blew everthing away with his no-nonsense style of fundamental basketball ... and I like black ...

[SanAntonioSpurs23]

I would say 1995. After Dad killer fake retired I didn't watch a game in 94. Jordan was the reason I started watching basketball. 95 season rolled around and my mom got tickets to the Spurs @ Suns. After that game I became a Spurs fan for life.

[Brazil]

Mid 90's tbh... could not watch much but I was playing BB and NBA started to be hyped in France with Canal + and some magazines. I read an article in French about this dude "The Admiral" with his navy story, I started to look for stuff about him and this franchise from Texas with a cool name... The Spurs. I was hooked totally from the beginning of the twin towers... followed and root for them since tbh...

[Brazil]

followed Nique Wilkins to the Spurs and stayed there because a rookie wearing the same #21 just blew everthing away with his no-nonsense style of fundamental basketball ... and I like black ...

ya the fact Spurs wear black was attractive too... younger I liked the raiders also for that

[RD2191]

Mid 90's tbh... could not watch much but I was playing BB and NBA started to be hyped in France with Canal + and some magazines. I read an article in French about this dude "The Admiral" with his navy story, I started to look for stuff about him and this franchise from Texas with a cool name... The Spurs. I was hooked totally from the beginning of the twin towers... followed and root for them since tbh...

Great story.

[RD2191]

followed Nique Wilkins to the Spurs and stayed there because a rookie wearing the same #21 just blew everthing away with his no-nonsense style of fundamental basketball ... and I like black ...

Awesome.

[Spurs_619]

Lived in so cal when i was a kid went to some electronics store with pops and a spurs v lakers playoff game was on . I hated the Lakers for some reason so i started rooting for the other team and never turned back it was actually the .4 game so i got accustomed to letdowns early.

[timtonymanu]

2005 is the first year I started watching the Spurs. Always admired Tim Duncan and quickly became a fan of Manu Ginobili. Been enjoying the ride even with all the heartbreaking exits and disappointing ends to certain seasons.

[Humberto]

I can't pinpoint it because I was about 6-7 years old. It was around 1991-92 and I remember some of the Spurs players visiting my elementary school. I remember seeing how tall they were and cool they looked.

I then began watching them on tv, but I remember being an MJ fan as well. But little by little, my devotion was only to the Spurs.

I remember the first real heartbreak i felt was when they lost to the Rockets in 1995. I couldn't believe the Spurs had lost 2 games at home.

[snickles]

i wanna say it was 91 when i became a fan. i must have been 14 or 15 at the time. i have no idea how i became a fan though. when i was little, i remember my uncles having iceman posters. but that was the only influence i can remember. i think i was just channel surfing one night, settled in on a spurs game, and just really enjoyed it. i had never been into pro sports at all at that point, and then kind of overnight i was a huge spurs and cowboys fan.

[Twisted_Dawg]

1973 Charter Member

[tmtcsc]

1980 or 1981. When my father was assigned here. (Military)

I've been through the George Gervin, Johnny Moore, Mike Mitc , Artis Gilmore and Gene Banks days. It was a tough 18 years until Tim showed up. He changed everything. Top 6 Spurs of all time for me:

1. Tim Duncan
2. David Robinson
3. Manu Ginobili
4. Kawhi Leonard
5. George Gervin
6. Alvin Robertson

[Canyonero]

ElNono: "When did Manu get drafted?"

Tbh almost every Argentine Spurs fan started to follow the team when Manu came to the league in 2002.

[Ibleedslvrnblk]

1991 I believe. Up in Canada and before the internet. Used watch scores in CNN when they ran sports at 20 and 50 past the hour...

[Trill Clinton]

lot of bandwagon fans in here

[Spur|n|Austin]

1999 season, the series against Portland.. Hooked since.

[Spurs9]

Since 95 shortly after I moved to SA tbh

[Budkin]

I only casually watched basketball until 89-90 when the Magic came into the league as I lived in Orlando. Started watching it a lot more and David Robinson in his rookie year became one of my favorite players. Over the next few years I became a fan of the Spurs and not just DRob. My sister moved to Austin in the early 90s and I went to a game at Hemisfair in 1993. I moved to Austin in 1998 and been following fanatically since then.

[tholdren]

1989 when david played - became a spurs fan because I was a robinson fan in college.

[ernest787]

early 90s. My pops was from SA and a big Spurs fan. I vividly remember going to a school book fair and buying a Spurs poster that had Drob, Sean ******, Willie Anderson and Terry mings on it. I believe that was in 91. Bought it and it hung in my bedroom until I went to college.