Wahhh, uh, wahhhha Thanks Basketbills for bringing that up, because I never read anything about it. I checked Spurs archives and nothing said. A gas leak? Not likely, since that would have been dangerous and the arena would have been shut down. Hotel problems, VERY likely, especially since game was during Fiesta when 500,000 people or more crowd downtown for 10 days, with 5-6 hour parades

SA's biggest business is tourism. Just last week we had 24,000 Lutheran kids meet, and week before that 20,000 kids. Hey, Artest was just across street from MacDonald's, he should have sent his coach over for the breakfast taco

Anyway, I think it's kinda funny, every team on the road probably has some sort of complaint about the way they are treated by the home team. Well, I guess we know what to expect from Dallas, as the Cowboys start their training camp here next week

I think if he had the Breakfast Taco he just would had another gas problem?

Shhhhhh!

Haven't eaten yet and Huevos Rancheros sounds really good about now...

Thats the entire point of home court advantage. Make it as uncomfortable for the opposition as possible. Nothing wrong with that as long as its all legal.

I seem to remember the Lakers complaining of the same thing a couple of years ago in the Finals. When large groups of Pistons diehards were yelling and screaming outside of their Hotel all night long.

Here is Buck Harvey's take on Spurs adding Jackie Butler who they hope will be another Stephen Jackson. This is exerpt from SA Exp News:

Duncan's hope, however, is his opposite. Butler. Whereas Duncan stayed at Wake Forest against the advice of those who knew he would be the No. 1 choice overall, Butler went pro out of high school against the advice of those who knew better.

Butler wasn't drafted, and this career decision fits his demeanor. Those in New York say he's hard to understand because he mumbles, and they say he has a few social issues.
And when he played well at times last season? Even that was hard to measure, because the Knicks were so chaotic and awful.

But Larry Brown saw it all, and he saw how hard the guy tried and how quickly he improved. "I love the kid," Brown said this week from Long Island. "He can just play."
Brown can get carried away. When coaching the Spurs, Brown would say "I love the kid," then cut his love the next week.
But Brown knows everything about his players, and he sees nothing in Butler that a more mature locker room wouldn't cure. Put Butler next to Duncan and Bruce Bowen and Michael Finley, and Brown says, "In that environment, he will be phenomenal."

Jackson needed the same. He had already endured the CBA, as Butler did, and had received some NBA experience in the New York market, as Butler did.
Jackson left the Nets with some bitterness, and the attitude would fester later. Jackson lost half a season after going into the stands to defend Ron Artest.
But in San Antonio, calmed by those around him, Jackson closed out playoff series after playoff series in 2003 on the way to a title. Would the Spurs have won that championship without him?

Butler can score, too, and his post game could be handy when Duncan sits. Brown says Butler isn't afraid, just as Jackson wasn't, and he comes with gifts that can't be taught, just as Jackson did.
Brown's assessment: good hands, good passing touch and "great instincts" for the game.
Only 20 years old last season, Butler shot 55 percent from the floor and averaged almost 16 points per 40 minutes. Duncan will notice, too, that Butler is a 75 percent free-throw shooter.
Butler won't be the solution to Nowitzki, and he's not known as a shot-blocker. He won't help the Spurs go small, and he likely won't play in many fourth quarters, either.

IMO, we may have a diamond in the rough

Or, someone rough with the diamonds................

Mumbler.
Other social issues. I hope he bathes. Unlike Bison Dele.

Spurs didnt want to show their interest in 2005 draft pick Ian Mahinmi, so they hid him with an alias (Johnny Ludden SA Exp News)

"John Mason" sounded like a basketball player, so the name stuck. Anyone eavesdropping wouldn't know the difference.
Or so the Spurs thought. With the draft only two weeks away and the Spurs in the middle of the NBA Finals, general manager R.C. Buford opened the Sports section of the San Antonio Express-News and felt his stomach drop. "When you're talking 'Detroit basketball,'" read the headline stretched across the top of the page, "you're talking John Mason."
Buford relaxed after reading further. The story profiled the Pistons' public-address announcer, who, in addition to popularizing the chant "DEE-TROIT BAS-KET-BALL," also happened to share the same name as the one the Spurs selected for Mahinmi.


"All I saw was 'John Mason'" Buford said, "and thought somebody had found us out."

That was in an article about Mahinmi being a project and will still most likely play in France this season.

LOL! So you guys are trying to be slick.

BSA, any word on how Mahinmi performed last year in France?