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That sounds festive and fun.
I am curious to see the uniforms.
I will have a video of the uniforms (they showed them on the Living Show) in about an hour.
SAN ANTONIO SPURS CELEBRATE FIESTA AT THE AT&T CENTER
Team to Wear Special Latin-Themed Uniform for Game
Against Portland Trail Blazers Monday Night
SAN ANTONIO, April 4, 2007 - It's Fiesta time in San Antonio - so what better way to enjoy the fun than to have a Fiesta with the Spurs Night on Monday, April 9, 2007, when the Spurs take on the Portland Trail Blazers at the AT&T Center at 7:00 pm.
As part of the night, the first 5,000 fans that enter the AT&T Center with a game ticket will receive a "Fiesta with the Spurs" maraca courtesy of Capital Group.
The Fiesta with the Spurs Night is a part of recognizing the support of the NBA and its players in Latin American Countries, plus the influx of Latin American players in the NBA. To honor that support, the San Antonio Spurs are participating in the NBA Noche Latina commemorative uniform program. The Spurs join the Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat and Phoenix Suns, all teams with a significant Hispanic fan base, as participants in this new NBA initiative.
The Spurs NBA Noche Latina uniform is a white Spurs uniform that features the following special elements:
- Special uniform piping element consisting of the flags of the 20 Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America and Brazil (Portuguese)
- A special NBA Noche Latina logo
- The traditional NBA logo in the Noche Latina colorway
- A special NBA Noche Latina supplemental jocktag
That sounds festive and fun.
I am curious to see the uniforms.
Wait, wait . . . does that include Argentina????????
say what??
Good question.
Interesting.
Apparently the Spurs aren't the only team to sport Noche Latina uniforms. The Heat are doing this, too, but with their black uniforms:
http://www.nba.com/heat/news/heat_no...na_070307.html
Yeah, the article said it would be the Spurs, Heat, Lakers, and Suns.
I would think Denver and the Knicks would qualify, too, but oh, well.
agreed, jocktag? but googling shows it's a pretty common term
http://www.mysimon.com/9015-11034_8-27613872.html
http://memphisgrizzliesnews.com/prod...B0000AAHN0.php
The Pistons too right? Delfino?
My bad--I shoulda read more carefully.
Seems these may have some collectors value down the road.
Just because they have one player doesn't mean they have a large Latin following.
Until I just looked it up...I didn't realize that politically, The US Virgin Islands is considered Latin America.
Want festive uniforms? Bring back the old ones. We had pink and a green-ish-non-intimidating-thing goin' on in there. It was magical.
ugh...bob weiss flashbacks
The Spurs warm-ups, logo and arena were colorful during the Red McCombs' ownership period but the uniforms were still Black, White, and Silver. It sounds like the actual unis will have colors on the logos and tags.
I thought those cheezy "fast breaking fiesta" colors never actually made it onto the unis (thank God!), just the warm-ups and the court design, but my memory could be off.
Edit: SolidD beat me to it. (this just isn't my morning!)
No, Weiss was coach of the Spurs just before Larry Brown came in. The Fiesta colors were brought in to start Larry's 2nd year at the start of David and Sean's careers.
Man, I expected a pink and orange uni after reading the le.
Valid point.
As long as they don't have these colors.
yeah, they're going off regions right? and general population?
Miami, LA, San Antonio
I wouldn't think Detroit has a large representative population, in proportion to cties like Miami.
Edited - due to last month's damage at the Mission Drive-in, including stolen copper tubing, it is temporarily...if not permanently closed.
Last edited by Solid D; 04-04-2007 at 11:48 AM.
Will the Coyote be wearing this uniform?
j/k
Picture is here, I don't have a video yet.
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