Attending to know PtR’s writers: Tanner Bowen

Welcome to “Attending to know Pounding the Rock’s writers”! Throughout the All-Star break, we thought it we be enjoyable to get to know a bit bit extra about our writers right here at PtR.

The place I’m from

I used to be born and raised within the Metropolis of Garfield, New Jersey. Our city moniker is, “The Metropolis of Champions,” and quite a lot of well-known folks have both grown up on the town as I’ve or have hung out right here sooner or later of their lives. Former Cowboys large receiver Miles Austin is from right here. School basketball commentator Dick Vitale is from the Metropolis of Passaic proper subsequent door however obtained his first job as a trainer and coach in Garfield. Rock and Roll Corridor of Famers The Rascals, a distinguished band from the mid 60s greatest recognized for his or her #1 single, “Good Lovin’” hail from right here. Lead singer Eddie Brigati lived subsequent door to my coworker (himself a neighborhood soccer legend often called “The Purple Buffalo” throughout his taking part in days) rising up and would take him alongside to band practices when he was only a child.

I’ve a brother, a sister, 2 canines and a couple of cats! We grew up in a loving family with two nice dad and mom and a couple of superb grandparents that instilled in us nice work ethics and manners. My father handed away unexpectedly after I was 14 years outdated, a second that turned the primary nice impediment of my life.

Most of my free time is spent taking part in the guitar, studying, and watching sports activities. When the times get longer and hotter, a whole lot of that free time is spent outdoors on the any variety of courts within the space taking part in decide up basketball. Apart from simply attending to play a recreation I like, I particularly admire the chance it affords me to have the ability to speak to youthful folks and form of see the place their heads are at. I like to mentor the younger bucks that I come throughout, making an attempt to place them on the proper path if it appears they’re teetering a bit. I’m the large brother in my household and it’s a mindset that’s a part of my persona. Apart from dwelling, it shines essentially the most on the basketball court docket. A few of them come and go, however lots have additionally grow to be lifelong buddies that I like seeing do properly!

How I turned a Spurs fan

Whereas sports activities have all the time been round me, I used to be all the time extra into music and by no means actually obtained into watching sports activities till after my highschool years. I began to essentially fall in love with basketball within the spring of 2012, and my youthful brother is the one who really put me on to the Spurs. This was the lockout shortened season and I can nonetheless keep in mind him hyping up a rookie named Kawhi Leonard to me, about how good a coach Gregg Popovich was and the way that they had the most effective entrance workplace within the league. He informed me all in regards to the greatness of the Massive 3 and particularly of Massive Enjoyable Tim Duncan. We watched shut to each recreation of that 20 recreation win streak that stretched into the playoffs that 12 months earlier than all of it fell aside within the Western Convention Finals.

How I joined PtR

I joined PtR in the summertime of 2016 as a social media contributor. I had been a reader of the location since 2013 and it shortly turned considered one of my go-to websites for Spurs content material. I despatched J.R. Wilco a DM on Twitter with a hyperlink to Timmy’s retirement interview together with his childhood pal Rashidi Clenance and provided my providers ought to he ever need assistance.

To my shock, he had one thing for me immediately! I turned a part of the stay tweeting rotation, ultimately being positioned answerable for PtR’s social media. I began writing recreation previews and sneaker items not lengthy after that. Whereas I do love the Spurs, I like writing recreation previews as a result of they permit me to consider the 29 different groups across the league.

I’ve come into contact with so many nice folks due to PtR, be it with members of our workers or the nook of Twitter that Spurs followers feverishly occupy with a typically unhinged ardour (lol). I’m in a gaggle chat with Wilco, Marilyn Dubinski, JeJe Gomez, and Casey Coggins that retains me updated about new articles posting that want selling. Maybe my favourite factor I get to do with PtR helps Wilco search for new expertise for the location when the necessity arises. It’s so superior placing folks involved with him after which seeing their work up on the location. Should you’ve ever felt like you could possibly contribute to our group right here, by no means hesitate to achieve out to considered one of us, both on our personal Twitter pages or PtR’s!

My favourite PtR reminiscence

My sister Presley and I had been to San Antonio in March 2016 earlier than I turned affiliated with PtR and caught my first 2 video games ever throughout the confines of the AT&T Heart throughout Timmy’s final season. We returned 3 years later really figuring out folks now! Jeph Duarte picked us up on the airport and took us out to eat AND to a Spurs basketball camp for Military members on the AT&T Heart earlier than we have been capable of examine into our resort room. The next day, he had a BBQ at his home for the entire PtR household that would come, which Marilyn picked us up for! Bruno Passos, Trey Felder, MegaMaz and her superior dad and mom, my Twitter predecessor Dave McGinnis, PtR spotlight skilled Son Q. Trinh, fellow preview author and Dwell Tweeter Devon Birdsong, the person J.R. Wilco himself and others I’m certain I’ve forgotten to say. My sister and I nonetheless snicker about how she (a kitchen supervisor by commerce) ended up manning the grill for a bit! All of us took in Spurs-Warriors that night time!

I’m due for one more go to to see you guys very very quickly, that’s for certain. Particularly within the Age of Victor Wembanyama.

Simply throwing this out right here to wrap issues up, however my absolute favourite author is the (to me, no less than) mysterious Lee Dresie! He’s in all probability the one author at PtR that I’ve by no means really had a dialog with on some medium. Should you learn this Lee, you rule and I am an enormous fan!

Lee Dresie: Successful after shedding is the most effective feeling

Extra bios:

Marilyn Dubinski

Bruno Passos

Mark Barrington

August Bembel

JeJe Gomez