Team Chicano

Tim Duncan hits his first three pointer of the season. At the buzzer. Just in time to send the Spurs into a second overtime and an eventual defeat of the Phoenix Suns in Game 1 of the first round of the NBA Playoffs. A game  many experts are considering as one of the most exciting playoff games in recent history. The Spurs are boring? Self-serving propaganda perpetuated by Lakers-obsessed pundits. Now I know what it's like to be a Hillary supporter.

In any case, this is as good a time as any to repost my Top Ten Reasons Why Latinos Should Root for the Spurs to Repeat in 2008:

Point guard Tony Parker regularly attends the Alma awards.

Point guard Tony Parker is also known as Mr. Eva Longoria.

Taco Cabana banners hang on the same rafters as the 1999, 2003, 2005, and 2007 Championship banners.

Forward Bruce Bowen is married to a Cubana and speaks fluent Spanish.

Once, on a live post game TV interview, Bowen called Celtics guard Ray Allen guey and the censors had no idea what he was talking about.

Guard Manu Ginobli and center Fabrico Oberto are from Argentina.

You will never see so many Raza faces at a major sporting event in the United States this side of a Chivas USA soccer game.

Tim Duncan, arguably the best player in basketball the past decade, is neither power forward nor center.  Ni de aqui ni de alla.  In between.  The embodiment of the Chicano experience. 

The Spurs fans sing Volver during the time outs.

And, most importantly, the NBA title now rests safely back in Aztlan. Let's keep it there.

¡Ajua!

Comments

[tori]

remember when i couldn't eat during a spurs game b/c it was bad luck???
that was devotion.
go spurs go.

[spaztek]

yer makin me cry --------GO SPURS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rubén]

I am sorry but this whole argument is pathetic. Basketball is an exclusive sport for people with problems in the pituitary glands. Until there are divisions in basketball as they are in boxing, latinos from indigenous descent (as asians and other smaller ethnic groups) do not have any chance to do well in the sport. If there were small and medium divisions in the game it would be more universal and then we could talk of a latino or a Chicano team. As it stands the Spurs (like any other NBA team) are African American with a few token whites that play due to affirmative action.

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I remember this game, One of the best play off game of all time.. The Spurs won this game with Ginobili's winning shot..

[Maria]

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