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being born in San Antonio, and being introduced to the spurs when i was a chill around 2000 and i was born in 1997.
Been a spurs fan all my life.
By the way, the 90s were way more frustrating than the big 3 era.
being born in San Antonio, and being introduced to the spurs when i was a chill around 2000 and i was born in 1997.
Been a spurs fan all my life.
Moved to San Antonio in 1994. Had been a casual bb fan before that, but got my first partial season tickets in the 95-96 season, then full season tickets in '96-97. So my first full season was watching DRob get a broken foot, then a hernia, then etc. etc., but loving watching Dominique Wilkins play such spectacular ball. He was the only reason to go to games that first year (he may have been 95-96...I really can't remember). Then we got Tim, and we kept our season tickets for another 12 years. Then my husband got sick of driving down to the AT&T center from northwest SA so we sold our charter seats and starting watching from our couches.
Have not missed watching a regular season game or a playoff game, either in person or on TV since 1996.
I am afraid that tomorrow night will be the last time I see Tim and Many in Spurs uniforms, and it won't be in our house. That makes me very sad.
Bullets fan from 1963 till 1994 (Unseld's last year as coach and I had no longer considered NoVa home since 1983),
but for one year as a primary Capitals fan in 1970 (only year in Washington), Bullets #2.
Spurs became my loose #2 team in 1974 when my sister went to UTSA, which became a solid #2 in 1983 when my parents moved to Bexar County. My sister and brother-in-law had season tickets and my father used one of those tickets for most games. I followed the Spurs as a safe talking point with my father. Spurs became #1 after dropping the Bullets in 1995. And I became a solid Spurs fan when I had season tickets at Wake Forest 1991-1997 and my favorite Demon Deacon was drafted by the Spurs. As my father is still in Bexar County, I suspect I will remain a Spurs fan even if the Deacon's wheels may have fallen off.
Hawks as my current local team are my new #2.
Chronologically, by favorite players have been Gus Johnson, Wes Unseld, B.J. Armstrong, and Tim Duncan.
94. The admiral
All started around the 1993-94 season. I went to a game at the MSG with my family. Got hooked afterwards. Mostly because of The Admiral.
Me too.
ABA days. Grew up in Boerne. After college was in the AF in the 80s and 90s, which made it difficult to follow the team (especially during the lean years) but I followed the box scores at least. Moved back to SA mid 90s and have never let up.
Was nba fan first. Loved the showtime lakers and magic offcourse. Then i saw the admiral for the first time around 91 season. Fell in love with his game and then the spurs. Havnt looked back since.
Started my posting days on express news forums in the mid 90's with pretty much the same username BornSlippy. Shout out to solid d & a few others who still post on this forum today.
1994-95, I was still in elementary school... Introduced by my family to the Spurs early on
Just prior to when David was drafted. I used to hang out with them and back then I didn't even watch basketball (explains why they hung out with me). I started watching to see how they do and that was that.
My first spurs memories comes from going to the 99 championship parade, I was 5 going on 6. I was just sort of born into being a spurs fan as everyone else in San Antonio.
Impressive
Around 1976 for me. Nice to see some old timers here
The day I opened up a pack of NBA Hoops cards and got David Robinson's rookie card.
Damn, that was a long ass time ago. Still got the card though.
Right after the 92 Olympics
As a lefty, I was impressed by David R during the Portland tournament and the Olympics, so I became a Spurms fan.
Never heard of the Spurms before, as Brazil said, overseas it was pretty much Jordan, Isiah, Dumars, Pip, Magic, Bird, Kareem ....
Loved the cool dark jersey, nd the Spurs name and logo were ABA cool
you Hakeem
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“Well, the NBA is watered down,” Barkley told Patrick. “The NBA is the worst I’ve ever seen it. I think we’ve got to address with the kids coming to the NBA after one year. The NBA is definitely watered down. I’ve been saying that for the last two or three years. The NBA is the worst I’ve ever seen it.
A true old schooler, watched the Spurs when they first came to SA. Really started following them during the Iceman era, with Mr K, Captain Late, and the Whopper. Somewhere I have a cassette recording of Terry Stembridge on WOAI calling the Spurs/Bullets Eastern Conference Finals (yes, at one time the Spurs were in the East). Great game against Wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes, Kevin Grevey and Bobby Dandridge to name a few. Sadly, the Spurs lost after going up 3-1.
i commend your fan-ship
i don't believe the spurs will let us down in game 6.
1999...the year of their first le...been spoiled ever since...liked them because they were the local NBA team of South Texas and have been a fan since...
It was way back in 1992 that I started dating the woman who would later become my wife. She had gone to high school with David Robinson and was a huge Spurs fan. The rest, as they say, is history.
BTW, we celebrate our 20th Wedding Anniversary next month.
Congrats man!!!It was way back in 1992 that I started dating the woman who would later become my wife. She had gone to high school with David Robinson and was a huge Spurs fan. The rest, as they say, is history.
BTW, we celebrate our 20th Wedding Anniversary next month.
Congrats to you and your lady!BTW, we celebrate our 20th Wedding Anniversary next month.
Good thread and I will be opening up a bit here.
My dad had an accident in '78. Alive, but... not a human.
My ma... she did what she could to raise three kids all of a sudden with no education. She was very pretty though and had men around her all the time.
She was dedicated to me, (my brother and sis were 11/10 years older and took off ASAP) but needed help which wasn't a reliable thing so while she turned to the guys that wanted to do things for her, I turned to other things to replace the void I had.
It was 1989: I had never watched basketball in my life, living in Austin, Texas, but my mother was working her bartending position at the Driskoll and I had nowhere to go, but watch TV.
A station was showing the San Antonio Spurs and I was sitting there thinking: This is GREAT! I forgot about my worries. I forgot about all of it.
I watched the Dave Rob era where his teams just couldn't get it done, year after year.
I was one of the few fans, at the time, that fully supported Pop taking the team fully from Bob Hill because I knew he didn't have the defensive chops.
I learned that much already, by the time it happened.
This team is now my family.
When Duncan goes, I'm going to cry.
Ginobili too. It will be a true loss in the Family.
But here we go, we got Kawhi leading the way with some unbelievable play and a supporting cast we hope can be improved upon, but even if they can't- I'm going to be there, brother.
Basically from birth, father was a big fan since the Gervin era. His story of reserving home Courtside seats for the finals after we were up 3-1 in the conference finals and then blowing it was an often told story. Also gave me a taste of that seemingly ever present choke spectre we have.
Good post and story bud, cheers
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