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yea Pop is a really cool man, and his mastery and low-key nature makes me like him even moreThat sounds like something Pop would do.
I grew up in San Antonio, and when I started to watch sports at the age of six I enjoyed basketball, baseball, and football about equally.
However, when I realized that the Spurs were a local team and that they were the only game in town, I thought that was really cool. Plus, the team played a fun style, scoring a lot points with Iceman leading the way, so I could easily appreciate what they did. But I liked all the players back then, not just Ice: Mitc , Gilmore, Johnny Moore, Gene Banks, Mike Dunleavy. My brother was friends with Keith Edmondson, though I never got to meet him. Me and my sister were charter members of the Geoff "Cookie Monster" Crompton fan club (he wore #50!), and when Edgar Jones got into the first NBA dunk contest I went wild pulling for him.
And that was when my Laker hate began. Magic, Kareem and those other assholes kept knocking us out of the WCF every year.
I went to my first game in December 1983 - the Spurs blew out the Washington Bullets (now Wizards) and I knew then that I was a Spurs fan for life. HemisFair was the best of the three Spurs homes to watch a game.
My childhood teams in baseball and football are no longer my teams - in fact, except for the Spurs, I don't have another team in any sport. It's still fun to live and die with a pro team - and who better to do that with than the Spurs?
yea Pop is a really cool man, and his mastery and low-key nature makes me like him even more
In 5th grade when we started playing basketball alot in school and then I wanted to start watching basketball, and then my dad told me he's always been a Spurs fan but he didn't watch many games, but then I told him if we could watch a few games he got back into being a real fan and ever since then we haven't missed a game.
i am dying to know Timvp's, Whott's, Kori's and Mardigan stories....
i liked the ice man growing up, but i was not a Spurs fan.
i guess like everybody else, i became a Spurs fan with David Robinson.
i admired him so much as a man that he hooked me in while i was a Jordan fan.
But i have become a rabid, obsessed Spurs fan since Timmy. He cemented my fandom.
I never thought that i could possibly love a team as much as the Bulls. But the Spurs have surpassed my love for da bulls.
I love my Spurs.
*My husband thinks I'm nuts but I say dont make me choose.
because david robinson, the way he playd was so nice, a so class personn and i didnt like oneal and his arrogance...it was in 93, i remember the dunk at the last second david robinson made versus the jazz for the W!!!
ps: i am coming back to san antonio next december for the game vs denver and the suns (it will be my birthday on 17th of december!!) i wish so hard to meet my all time favorite player!!! DAVID ROBINSON!!!
I was born here in SAN ANTONIO 1975 and I bleed Silver and Black........ THATS WHY I'M A SPURS FAN !!!!!!!
I always like to see basketball games here in Brazil, MJ, Drexler in 92, MJ, Barkey in 93 but I became a big Spurs fan in 1994 because of the GREAT Admiral
Tim Duncan's rookie year. He's been my favourite player since.
D. R.
Dennis Rodman.
I saw David Robinson speak at some Christian convention when I was a kid (Promise Keepers?). I was impressed with him as a role model, and even more so when I eventually saw him play. I love the fact the Spurs play with men of character (with the former exception), a team-first at ude and win.
I moved to Texas in 1998 (military) from Washington DC. I was a hockey fan, not really into basketball, but there was not alot of hockey to watch in Texas. I was sitting with a friend of mine in the lounge at my shop and a Spurs/ Mavs game was on tv. He said I had to pick one of those teams since I was in Texas. I said the team that makes the next basket will be my team. The rest as they say is history!! I wish I could remember the player that made me a Spurs fan for life
1978, Clark High School was playing Sam Houston a few hours before the Spurs game. Houston destroyed Clark, but I got to hang around and watch the Spurs play Cleveland, who if I remember correctly, had Clyde Frazier on the bench in the last year of his legendary career.
I was 14 and it was my first NBA game. I've been a Spurs nut ever since. It's crazy, but even with our 4 les, nothing can compare to the magical atmosphere of the HemisFair arena at that time. The NBA at that time was raw, funky and not very popular - but the Spurs were our own, a San Antonio cult phenomenon it seemed.
Well, one thing I don't miss from that era was sitting next to chainsmokers all game!
still haven't heard from y'all
You don't become a Spurs fan,
your either one, or your not!
2 words...............David Robinson #50!
One word, Duncan!
Ice
because of Manu Ginobili.
1. Fan from day #1 with ABA
2. Loved the red, white and blue balls
3. Love the black and silver uniforms
4. George Gervin
5. James Silas
6. Swen Nater
7. Played "Cotton-Eyed Joe" right before the tip-off
8. Baseline Bums
9. class organization - I've never been embarassed by this team
10.small market team - I love when the little guys kick the crap out of the big guys
Manu
used to work evening,late night shifts.. never got to go to games.. i retired .... witnessed the memorial day miracle.. got me hooked right there and then.. even though i have decided to go back to work,, i made sure i now work days so i won't miss any of the games..
Gervin was so opposite to the type of player I was, that he was my favorite.
The colours were nice and the place so remote, unreachable yet the name of the place so familiar (My granpa's name was Antonio).
Then Robinson and Duncan.
Finally, Manu.
I have seen some great players here, but Manu was unique. There was something special around him. I knew right away he would have been a hit.
Most importantly, it's a philosophy of good management, common sense, openness to "alien citizens" talent.
DISCIPLINE.
TEAM.
DEFENSE.
The Spurs are a visual textbook for my kids, the way they should approach life, even before basketball.
My roomate was the reason I became a Spurs fan. I was born in San Antonio but never paid much attention to the Spurs until I was stationed in San Diego in 2003. My roomate was from Cali and a HUGE Lakers fan. When he found out that they were playing the Spurs in the playoffs he talked so much on the Spurs and especially San Antonio. It got to the point where I was like lets ing do this, lets see who's city/team kicks more ass. During the series I found myself being overwhelmed with emotion for this team. I couldn't believe how much it would upset me when they made a bad play or how crazy I got when they won. Soon after I became a Spurs addict.
I am a Spurs fan because of david robinson. I went to high school with in in 83 and have never lost the love for watching BB since. We went to Osbourn Park HS in Manassas Va. I live in Orlando Fl now and my husband just got me tickets to the MAGIC-SPURS preseaon game and we have floor seats! And he is not even a sports fan. We should be able to get some great pic's we are close to the their bench and where they will come out from.
still haven't seen Timvp's, Kori's, Whott's and Mardigan's posts... r y'all spurs fans or just master bloggers?
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