Kori has been in San Antonio since when????

[LilMissSPURfect]

It's gonna be funny to see what happens to this forum when/if the Spurs have to rebuild after the Duncan era. If there's a drought of losing seasons, I'm guessing at least half of the posters here disappear. But I won't be one of them. I suffered through those dark years in the mid-to-late 80's and stuck with them. Jumping on the bandwagon of another team was never an option.

+ 2 & 3

[LilMissSPURfect]

I want another MANU!!!!!! coz dang when his time comes.....


dang
dang!

[florige]

I knew you were joking. And I don't care if people think I'm a bandwagoner.

If you are a bandwagoner you sure don't post like one. Breaking down plays and seeing who missed what assignment and when. I thought I knew alot about the Spurs prior to coming to this site. Thats why now I live in the club..... People here always give me grief like how do you like that boring team. They got lucky last year or whatever. But when I try to make a bet with them they don't want to....

[remingtonbo2001]

After this run is over, Spurs fans disappear and the Spurs move, I'll know who is to blame.

This time I'll just follow them.

You didn't follow the Oilers to Tennessee?

I've tried to love the Cowboys. I like them, but at heart I will always be an Oilers fan.

As for the Spurs. The first game I can remember (6yrs) was the 90' Western Conference Semi's against Portland, when Strickland through away our chance at a championship. If you went through the pain of the 95' W.C.F., or even the disasterous 96-97 season, then you are a geniune SPURS fan.
After that, well, then it depends...You can still be a genuine Spurs fan, but your application must be submitted for review.

Oh wait....if you cried after the .04 incident...or punched a whole in your wall...then you are a genuine Spurs fan!

[jamanuel]

Way before I was born, my Mom's egg was a half spurs fan and my dads sperm was a half spurs fan and when they combined they made a 100% grade spurs fan. I was a spurs fan when I was first concieved and didn't know what light was, but knew what the Spurs were. [/best story]

+10. There's no way we can beat you on that! Who dares?

[san antonio spurs]

So Timvp is the reason they(expos) left my city??? We did everything we could, but his jinx powers were too much to overcome.

[ShoogarBear]

The Expos?

I saw a game in Olympic Stadium in the early 90s against the Astros. What a dump.

Anyway, I just figured out why timvp was an Expos fan:

[T Park]

Season tickets since 88 89.

Watching Frank Brickowski and Caddy Anderson man the front court was pretty enlightening to say the least.

[m33p0]

You didn't follow the Oilers to Tennessee?

I've tried to love the Cowboys. I like them, but at heart I will always be an Oilers fan.

As for the Spurs. The first game I can remember (6yrs) was the 90' Western Conference Semi's against Portland, when Strickland through away our chance at a championship. If you went through the pain of the 95' W.C.F., or even the disasterous 96-97 season, then you are a geniune SPURS fan.
After that, well, then it depends...You can still be a genuine Spurs fan, but your application must be submitted for review.

Oh wait....if you cried after the .04 incident...or punched a whole in your wall...then you are a genuine Spurs fan!

didn't cry nor did i punch a hole on the wall. but i didn't watch the rest of the playoffs either believing the spurs got robbed. does that count?

[timvp]

So Timvp is the reason they(expos) left my city??? We did everything we could, but his jinx powers were too much to overcome.

My bad.

The Expos?

I saw a game in Olympic Stadium in the early 90s against the Astros. What a dump.

Anyway, I just figured out why timvp was an Expos fan:

Good guesses but the correct answer is:

Felipe Alou is the Godfather of Dominican baseball. He was the first Dominican player and has God-like status on the island. Alou was a coach for the Expos since the mid-70's which made a lot of Dominicans hardcore Expos fans during that time. While he didn't become manager until 1992, I had been a fan since I was old enough to understand what baseball was.

I'm not sure what day sucked more ... the day the strike killed the Expos best ever team in 1994 or the day when the Expos died.

[travis2]

I knew Kori when...Shaq tried to include her into his posse of " es". The then Ms. Townsend, said...UM NO!!!



Went to a few games out at Staples;Was there the day her and LJ got hitched and try to call whenever I'm in SA. West Coast Spurs Fans are committed.

I remember that!

And I remember when some posters thought she was a he...

[travis2]

Some national marching band compe ion that's held at the RCA Dome. I wasn't a participant so I pretty much just got to hang at the mall and hotel the whole time. I had a good time.

BOA Grand Nationals. My kids have been twice.

[travis2]

Kori may not have been IN San Antonio...but she's been around since before the MySA board days...back in the E-N bulletin board days.

[Jimcs50]

Kori may not have been IN San Antonio...but she's been around since before the MySA board days...back in the E-N bulletin board days.

Kori was one of us (CosmicCowboy, Travis, Crazy One) that are still posting in here that was on that board. She did come in after Spurs won the first championship.

[SpursIndonesia]

This should put to rest any question about why I love Kori so much.

All right, there are lots of reasons, but I'm all about Duncan and Kori's articles about him have always been a joy to read.

I still remember the 'It's Time Duncan' article or something like that back in summer 02 IIRC, back then in SR website.

[FromWayDowntown]

I've been with the Spurs since my neighbor took me to a game in 1979 or 1980, when I was an 8 year old. I might have been the only child in San Antonio to seek out AM radio to listen to Sam Smith call games without some prompting from a parent, but my parents had no interest in the Spurs back then. I didn't understand the way things worked for a couple of years -- playoffs were more or less no different than regular season games -- but I learned those things by following the Spurs. My best friend's father worked for Handy Dan as an accountant and could get good seats to games through that position, so he'd take my buddy and me to games when my parents wouldn't. In fact, because of that connection, I have seen at least one Spurs' home game in every season since 1982-83.

I remember the day of the draft lottery in 1987 and sitting there hoping against hope that the Spurs card would come up. I remember seeing that the Spurs hadn't fallen where they were supposed to (4th) and that the Clippers' had. I remember seeing Phoenix's card come up and knowing that the Spurs had gotten the best #1 pick since Hakeem. And I remember the draft that year, and listening to Rick Barry go on and on about how David Robinson should not sign a deal for a year and then become a free agent and sign with the Celtics or Lakers.

I have recently been transferring games I've had on VHS tapes to DVD and watching those games as I do that. This weekend, I transferred all of the 1995 West Finals (other than Game 1) and 1 game of the 1995 West Semis against LA. As I watched, I recalled that Games 1 and 2 of that series -- the conference finals -- weren't broadcast in San Antonio on national TV and were available here only by pay-per-view. I still remember sitting at the kitchen table at my mother's house for Game 2, with a basketball scorebook in front of me, tracking the game by keeping score and getting madder and madder at Dennis Rodman as that first quarter wore on.

Frankly, I wish I had known about internet forums before I found the last precursor to this site, because in that time, I couldn't find too many people who could talk Spurs basketball intelligently. I didn't even consider the possibility of a place like this until about 2000, and then I was quite reluctant to participate, seeing that so many of hte posters in that time were much more basketball-sophisticated than I was. I kept reading, and finally decided to take the plunge in about 2002 -- for good or for ill.

And I'll be one of those 5 who are still here when the inevitable occurs.

[Kori Ellis]

I still remember the 'It's Time Duncan' article or something like that back in summer 02 IIRC, back then in SR website.

That's funny. I started writing for SpursReport in late 2001, so that's probably correct. Prior to that, I wrote the Power Rankings at Hoopsworld.

Ironically, the first real basketball article that I wrote at SR was about Lamar Odom, not the Spurs. And that's when NBATV contacted me to call-in from L.A. and "be on" that insiders show.

[travis2]

I remember that call-in...

[duncan228]

And I remember when some posters thought she was a he...

I can relate to that...

and now it makes sense!

[bigfundamental21]

Bottom line is that it doesn't matter how long Kori has been a Spurs fan, just that she is now! And I thank God she is and that she brought us SpursTalk. Thanks, Kori, and glad you got here as soon as you could!

[inconvertible]

wow, didn't mean to cause such a stir.