The .4 Commercial

[TampaDude]

If the NBA doesn't do multiple different commercials in the same vein, this is more than just questionable. It becomes outrageous.

Not only are the Spurs 4 time champions, they were the #1 seed in the West THIS YEAR.

Yet they get left out of every NBA commercial except the one that specifically highlights one of the lowest points in the franchise's entire history. Not only that, the shot will ALWAYS be questionable, an extra dig at spurs fans specifically (even the ones who "let it go", even though no TRUE fan ever will entirely).

Where are the commercials produced? Los Angeles.

There's your answer.

The Lakers are like the Yankees of the NBA. Hate 'em all you want, but they're gonna be in the championship mix time and time again. It's a business, and $$$ talks. That's just the way it is.

[Splits]

Can somebody please post the commercial so I can take another look & see what some of you are so upset about…From what I saw it was just “the thrill of victory and agony of defeat thing”…Isn't that what sports are all about?

It's the end of the commercial that is so offensive, making the air-coming-out-of-ball noise and then laughing at the crowd. That isn't "agony of defeat", it isn't even rubbing it in the face of the team, it is patronizing the fans.

[TampaDude]

It's the end of the commercial that is so offensive, making the air-coming-out-of-ball noise and then laughing at the crowd. That isn't "agony of defeat", it isn't even rubbing it in the face of the team, it is patronizing the fans.

Well, short of finding out who produced that commercial and dropping him into a woodchipper, whatcha gonna do???

[z0sa]

Well, short of finding out who produced that commercial and dropping him into a woodchipper, whatcha gonna do???

I have half a mind to complain directly in the form of ... an e-mail!

[Thompson]

It's not his voice.

You're right, the .4 commercial isn't Michael Clark Duncan. I was thinking of a different talking basketball commercial (apparently they use different voices in different commercials). In all honesty I either mute the TV or change the channel when the .4 commercial comes on, so I didn't realize the difference.

Michael Clark Duncan's voice is used for this one.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/6...ad- led-rock

[Tp9gospursgo]

They gave fish at least a full second.

[Sportcamper]

Sooo look at the video again...In this NBA Commercial version it looks like Fish clearly got the ball of in .2...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxSWd...embedded#at=13

[Obstructed_View]

My kids like the Hank Azaria one because it sounds like Mo.

[Kobe_5_Duncan_4]

The problem with the commercial isn't the shot, but the way it illuminates spurs fans and our team in an extremely negative light.

Additionally, no other commercials that I have seen even feature the Spurs. The NBA does its best to make the Spurs out to be bad guys and boring.

[greyforest]

You're supposed to like the Lakers, and not like the Spurs.