The Spurs aren’t just a basketball team. I mean, sure they are, but like you said, even people who don’t give a damn about the game join hands and cheer after the the buzzer goes off and we’ve won. The team is more of a common thread in this spread-out city. It’s our symbol. It’s communal, in a world where so much is private.

Sure people get reckless and silly in the pandemonium, but that’s the beauty of it. Everything is abandoned to praise and clutch each other with joy.

And I’m sorry but the game was not uneventful–did you see Tony Parker slide forward, past the net and off the court, tossing the ball wildly in the air and it STILL made it in the hoop?

but i guess that us san antonians are just so into them because we want to shove our championship-winning teams in the faces of other cities. (:

but the celebrations were almost ridiculous. the night the spurs won i could hear the honking all the way from downtown, and i live at blanco and bitters (a good way away).