My love for the San Antonio Spurs came from my mother. She’d once interrupted Manu Ginobili at Morton’s The Steakhouse for his autograph, and the framed receipt still sits on our family bookcase. The first jersey I owned had Tim Duncan’s name and number on the back with light pink detailing. The houses on my street had “Go Spurs Go” spray-painted on their garage doors. When my family would watch the game, the camaraderie and silliness between the Big Three—Duncan, Ginobili, and Tony Parker—showed me what friendship looks like. The greatest Spur of the pre-Duncan era, David Robinson, went to my church. Even if I wanted to get away from the fanfare around a hometown team, I couldn’t. Growing up in San Antonio, the Spurs…
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