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Wow, all of this from a piston fan.
This is what we have been saying since 99, its no suprise.
D-Wade is going to be on the cover of NBA Live 2006. Shaq is going to be on the cover of NBA 2K6. What about the Spurs? What about Duncan and Ginobili? Its amazing that the Spurs (or the Pistons for that matter) get nobody on one of those covers. The Spurs win it all and the Heat don't even get to the finals, yet its the Heat players getting all the respect. The media just loves kissing their asses.
Wow, all of this from a piston fan.
This is what we have been saying since 99, its no suprise.
Spurs don't sell to anyone outside of San Antonio, and those few Spursfans across the nation...I thought this would be understood by now.
Shaq will sell more than TD, just because of who he is and his personality. Obviously you're gonna go with someone who will sell more than someone who won't, even if that person won the last championship. It's all about the $$$.
Shaq should be on the cover of Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest 2006.
I know it's a lame joke but it's all I could come up with.
Duncan was on live 2000, wat else do you thuckn want?
What gets me is that Ben wallace was on the cover of nba 2k5 and they aren't exactly a large market team...so if the pistons made the cover the year they won it why cant we?
For all you know, it might actually happen now that he has a new contract and he gets bored if the heat have an early exit in the playoffs
Detroit is the #10 DMA for Nielsen ratings purposes. San Antonio is #37. You should probably do some research before you display your case of hoof in mouth disease.What gets me is that Ben wallace was on the cover of nba 2k5 and they aren't exactly a large market team...
well they did have parker on the cover in 05. even if the spurs werent the champs.
same as with duncan n the previous nba live.. 00 i thnk.
I thought Parker was only on the European releases, and Melo was on this year's US version of the game.
The stats are like that because people like watching det. for the same reason people watch hockey.
On the slim chance a fight breaks out.
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sniff, sniff...the Spurs don't get any respect and attention, sniff, sniff...
Who cares?
It don't matter to me.
Not at all.
Hey, They are on a couple of Wheaties Boxes. I'll take that any day of the week.
Keep getting on the covers of video games well take the
trophies and the rings. Thanks.
The NBA needs to revise their marketing strategy in a big way. The Spurs and any other NBA franchise has massive marketing potential. They just need to dig deeper, find a way to sell it. It won`t be easy, necessarily, but if the Spurs are going to dominate this league for several more years, at least, the NBA needs to get their together phast.
Bro, that would be the sweetest game cover ever. Not just cause its Tony, but its a great pic and clean image. Looks cool!
I'm confident that Manu Ginobili will be on the cover of several of these kinds of games outside the United States.
Spurs fans: we have a significant fan following. It's just not among the citizens of the United States. There's more to the world than this country.
But understand this:
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER CARE ABOUT THE SPURS.
Never in the entire history of this country has a small-market team been loved when it had a dynasty. Even the mighty Green Bay Packers of the 1960's were decried as a "boring," "three yards and a cloud of dust" team in their heyday. America wanted the Cowboys to win. America flocked to the AFL to watch wild 41-35 no-defense games. Only in retrospect are Lombardi and the Packers revered.
Every year the NBA will hype another pretender to trick fans into thinking the Spurs aren't really the favorites. It's not the NBA that's the problem. It's the citizens of the U.S. who are the problem.
But the entire Western Hemisphere from San Antonio southward down to Tierra del Fuego is Spurs country now. Focus on them, and not the shallow "kool kids" who will never love us.
Amen to everything said above.
You count the entire country of Argentina, and the fans supporting all the way from France, Slovenia, New Zealand, and a slew of other countries, and the Spurs easily have one of the largest fanbases in the entire NBA. And the Spurs keep them happy by doing exactly what is expected of them.
Just win, boys.
Let the media monster take care of itself. For all of you who have forgotten, magazine covers and video game appearances aren't what this game is all about.
Besides, if we start getting all of this hype, how are we going to play off the whole 'under the radar' thing next season? We're the damned defending champions, and already Miami has stolen the spotlight with their blockbuster deals, which seems to be just the way the Spurs would prefer it.
Stout's got a point. The average American sports fan is basically a sheep. They follow whoever is popular at the time and bleat their approval for as long as they are told to. To borrow a movie line "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals" The majority of the fans here are above average. They care about their team and devote time to following that team. The only thing that should matter to Spurs fans is that big gold trophy. As long as the Spurs keep collecting those...its all good.
If the media tried to shove the Spurs down America's throat, America still wouldn't bite.
A team has to be flashy, have charismatic characters, or be controversial to get coverage. Being good doesn't make a team popular. It's like, in the '70s, how Hollywood Henderson got the Cowboys a lot of attention even though he wasn't anywhere close to the best player on the team.
When the Celtics won eight straight les in the 1960's, America wanted to see Wilt Chamberlain, not the Celtics.
It's like how all of a sudden NFL coverage is all Philadelphia, all the time because of T.O.'s antics, even though New England is the champion, and several other teams are better than the Eagles.
The Vikings have their best team in years, but since Randy Moss is off the team, they get no coverage.
Michael Vick is a great runner but an average-at-best QB, but he gets tons of coverage because he's flashy and charismatic.
Nobody cares about disciplined, well-coached, all-business teams, except years later.
If the Spurs go 73-9 next year, they'll get some grudging coverage about it. But say Tim Duncan goes down for the season, and the team goes 42-40, but a Tony Parker-Eva Longoria sex tape gets leaked -- then the Spurs would be the most popular sports team in America.
That's just how it works.
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