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84, I was 4 years old and my dad and uncle shared season tickets. Man I miss those arena days.
Went to my first game in 1990, I was young but I remember how much I loved the experience; I've been hooked every since.
The David Robinson and end of the HemisFair Arena era sure were different times. The main thing I remember back then was the crowd being ravenous every game!
84, I was 4 years old and my dad and uncle shared season tickets. Man I miss those arena days.
1989, I was 8 years old when my dad indoctrinated me.
I started watching the NBA in the mid/late 60's. Then there were only 3 or 4 channels on TV. Some of the older men in my family liked BB so when the games were broadcast on Sunday afternoons I got to watch. Basketball was the only thing on TV that could keep me from going outside during the day. There would only be one game a week on TV, if any, and I think they were broadcast on the "Wide World of Sports". The TV games usually featured Chamberlain and/or Russell. When Lew Alcindor came along around '70 he took over the league and then he was always on. George Gervin got me hooked on the Spurs in the mid 70's. His 10 to 12 foot finger rolls were just as entertaining and intriguing as Alcindor's sky hooks. They were also more difficult for my money. Any stiff can make a hook shot in a few trys, but just try a 10 foot finger roll and see what happens. Though sex, drugs and rock 'n roll pushed the game to the back ground in the late 70's and 80's, I came back. If you've ever read my post you'll notice that I try not to take the game too seriously, at least nowadays.
Relocated here during 2003 championship finals, couldn't understand what the big deal was. By that winter, I understood
'95-'96. When I first moved here. Got season tickets from 96 through '08. Gave up driving down to the games then and watch all on telly now.
I was born in SA (but moved a lot being a military family), so Spurs were my team growing up even though basketball was the only sport I didn't play or watch. I visited Austin a few weeks in '99 when the Spurs won their first championship and had no idea what was going on (I was busy watching the Dallas Stars win the Stanley cup in the same week). It was '03 (in college) when I actually started watching and following basketball.
when rod strickland ran the point, willie anderson wasnt broke, terry mings sang christmas carols and rebounded, elliott and his knee brace, and of course d robinson dominatedt the paint. brickowski and wingate off the bench was pretty awesome as well.
I became a fan when I moved here in 1980, I watched them whenever I could.
1979. Hemisfair was a rocking with Ice.
I had been to Spurs games in the Alvin Robertson-Cadillac Anderson era but I didn't really reach sports consciousness until 1989, which was D-Rob and Sean's rookie year.
After the 2003 Playoffs series against Suns. I always loved the run'n'gun basketball, I loved Nash, they were underdogs, so I rooted for them. But after I saw how easily and professionnal did the Spurs killed the Suns, I changed my mind.
March 2001. Wanted to pick a good team but not as high profile as Lakers or Kings. Spurs led the league in regular season and was swept by Lakers, but I definitely picked the best team in the past 10 years.
88 or 89'
1981 as a PFC medic in San Antonio TX and survived some dark days including the Dream going crazy vs the Admiral and the 0.04 fiasco but I still believe last year's egarious officiating vs the Thunder hardest to take as a long time fan.
around 94 or so is when I remember. Dad was a casual Spurs from, being from San Antonio, didn't watch basketball often, but when we did it was the spurs. It would have been 2000 when I started watching a lot more. Old mexican guy was my supervisor at work, and he would let us stop working and watch the basketball game...only if the Spurs were playing.
ter McGee
1994-1995, It's around that time I started collecting David Robinson BBall cards.
Let's see, I started obsessively reading articles in the Austin paper about DRob and the Spurs in third grade, which would have been '92. Must have started watching them around that same time, whenever my mom would let me stay up past my bedtime.
The first time I really remember following the games obsessively was in the '94 ('95?) playoffs, I was at a Boy Scout camp during the Spurs vs Rockets series, listening to the games on some crappy handheld radio some kid brought, feeling like the world was ending because Hakeem was going HAM on DRob. Sigh, good times.
Ah when I was a mere lad in the early to mid 80s.
In 1972, I knew there was a possibility the Dallas Chaparrals would fold and S.A. was making a bid to bring the team to S.A. I started listening to them (Dallas) that year and then easily followed them as the Spurs when they arrived. George Karl was our point guard, James Silas was our shooting guard. Tom Nissalke was the head coach. Koby Dietrick came off the bench as our 6th player and seldom started. Terry Stembridge was the play by play announcer. George Gervin played for the Virginia Squire of the old ABA League, until we traded for him. As a military person I got a huge discount on season tickets. Bought 5, as I had 4 kids. Moved away in 1974. Go down once or twice every year to watch a game since then. For years my license plate in Maryland has been "SA SPURS."
The rest is history.
like any kid growing up in the 90s i was a jordan fan...who wasnt? i also was an even bigger penny hardaway fan...lil penny was just too damn cool. with that said...
1992 was when my dad took me to watch a live game. I saw the tallest guy on the team who was the also fastest guy on the team running, dunking, blocking. that is when i became a david robinson fan. the fact that he was so humble and giving also drew me to him.
i remember the PPV days...i was in 6th grade and me and my little brother would stay awake and listen to the games on the radio. sometimes we would miss the ending because we had to go to sleep, but i would remember waking up and instead of watching cartoons, flipping to the morning news and crying to the bus stop because those ing jazz knocked us out of the playoffs for the millionth time. God I hated those guys!
I remember the first championship in 1999. oh how sweet it was after all those years of getting crapped on by Utah and Houston. I remember going to the airport when the team came back. man that trophy was shiny!
my greatest moment as a Spurs fan is being in the SBC center for GAME 6, 2003 NBA FINALS. watching the man that made me a Spurs fan, retire in a blaze of glory. I will never forget that night.
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Before the Spurs arrived in town, the Houston Rockets played a few of their NBA games in S.A. (never understood why). I do remember one game in 1972 when the Rockets played the Lakers and there were hundreds more Laker fans in the stands than Rocket fans. The owner of the Rockets got really upset and said they weren't coming back. Some home game, huh? Rudy Tomjonovich played for the Rockets then. He was known for that "off the backboard corner shot" that Tim Duncan also is known for.
1977ish. But not really watching them. Spurs were rarely on tv. It was through the magic of transistor radio.
REMEMBER being about 8 in '89/90 season and hearing my dad rave about this player from navy.i saw them on tv lose to the blazers that playoffs in heart break fashion and was a fan ever since.
1991 or 1992. I was just in elementary school. I had my first robinson jersey from JCpenny and I remember it was big and looked like a dress on me.
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