I noticed this posted on social media the opposite day and it actually took me again.
In 1986, the Spurs have been coming off their second dropping season in three years. These have been the darkish years for the Spurs. That they had fired Cotton Fitzsimmons and employed Bob Weiss. The Silver & Black signed six rookies to go together with an growing old Artis Gilmore and NBA Defensive Participant of the Yr Alvin Robertson.
They wanted to spice up morale and will get some spectators into the world.
The video options acquainted faces from the period together with Henry Cisneros, mayor from 1981-1989, Archbishop Patrick Flores, who spent twenty-five years in that position, and native newscasters. The inside of the HemisFair is all the time nostalgic.
Hope you get pleasure from this slice of Spurs historical past as a lot as I did.
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