1997-11-11, By Buck Harvey
25周年庆典？马刺传奇故事
你有你的马刺25周年纪念队，我也有我的。
**第25位：格雷格·萨顿(Greg Sutton)。**在替补席上，他为了应对季后赛压力，在他黑白相间的短裤上又添了一抹土色。
**第24位：杰夫·克伦普顿(Geoff Crompton)。**当他笨重地走上体重秤进行体检时，托莱多（Toledo）的指针直接指到了300磅。所以，马刺队把克伦普顿带到了一家当地医院的装卸区进行官方称重，然后把他送到精神科医生那里接受咨询。克伦普顿一个小时后离开办公室，手里抱着一堆减肥书籍。但在回家的路上，克伦普顿在最近的得来速餐厅停车，花了20美元买了巨无霸汉堡。
**第23位：西米·希尔(Simmie Hill)。**汤姆·尼萨尔克(Tom Nissalke)承诺，只要有人能干掉对方球队的明星球员，他就给100美元。比赛开始前，希尔就拿到了这笔钱。
**第22位：拉里·布朗(Larry Brown)。**在加入马刺队之前，布朗带领着一支由美国大学生组成的国际球队前往意大利。当泥石流导致行程延误时，布朗将所有的愤怒都发泄在一个软弱无力的中锋身上。布朗挑战了这个7尺2寸高的球员决斗，甚至告诉他，他会先给他一拳。这个中锋开始哭了起来。所以，解释一下为什么三年后，布朗选秀了德维恩·辛茨乌斯(Dwayne Schintzius)？
**第21位：阿尔弗雷德里克·休斯(Alfredrick Hughes)。**买了一辆新的奔驰。当被问及是什么型号时，阿尔弗雷德里克毫不犹豫地说：“金色。”几年后，你仍然可以在281号公路靠近希尔德布兰德(Hildebrand)的路边看到它在墙上留下的痕迹。
**第20位：杰克·哈利(Jack Haley)。**他每天都会让大卫·罗宾逊(David Robinson)给他的电影明星朋友签名。
**第19位：斯文·内特(Swen Nater)。**在球队办公室里大喊大叫，拳头紧握，内特无法相信自己因为迟到训练而被罚款。薪资单就在他手里，显示出这种不公。当时的罚款金额是：25美元。
**第18位：劳埃德·丹尼尔斯(Lloyd Daniels)。**在第一场比赛结束后，被问及全队最高的8次失误时，丹尼尔斯质疑了统计员。“什么，”他说，“他们算犯规和类似的东西吗？”
**第17位：史蒂夫·约翰逊(Steve Johnson)。**马刺队交易得到他，他一到，就提交了一份详细的费用清单，其中包括口香糖等其他奢侈品。
**第16位：泰特·阿姆斯特朗(Tate Armstrong)。**在埃尔帕索(El Paso)的一场季前赛前一天晚上，比利·波尔茨(Billy Paultz)为球队成员安排了一顿丰盛的跨境晚餐。阿姆斯特朗玩得很开心——直到第二天第二节的某个时候。阿姆斯特朗疯狂地示意道格·莫(Doug Moe)叫暂停，然后他意识到自己从墨西哥带回来了一些东西，需要立即申报。在球还在比赛中时，阿姆斯特朗从球场尽头跑开，马刺队以4对5打比赛。
**第15位：埃德加·琼斯(Edgar Jones)。**牙齿不好，故事精彩。他来到内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校(UNLV)准备打球。“埃德加，我们很乐意要你，”UNLV的教练们告诉他，“但是你已经签了雷诺(Reno)。”
**第14位：斯坦·洛夫(Stan Love)。**马刺队裁掉了 er。他的兄弟打电话给联盟里的球队，承诺如果有人给斯坦一个试训机会，他会免费举办一场音乐会。没有人接受他的提议，这说明斯坦有多糟糕。他的兄弟迈克(Mike)仍然在海滩男孩乐队(The Beach Boys)唱歌。
**第13位：杰里·塔坎安(Jerry Tarkanian)。**在纽约州奥尔巴尼(Albany)的第一个季前赛之前，塔坎上了电梯，纽约尼克斯队的安东尼·梅森(Anthony Mason)也加入了进来。梅森很友好，祝塔坎好运。在大厅里，塔坎转身问一位记者：“那是谁？”当晚，塔坎在比赛中转向了这位记者。“你如何叫一个20秒的暂停？”
**第12位：弗农·麦克斯韦尔(Vernon Maxwell)。**马刺队为每位球员提供两张朋友和家人的球票。作为一名新秀，麦克斯韦尔站在旧的希米斯菲尔球馆(HemisFair Arena)门前，在马刺队告诉他这不是个好主意之前就卖掉了它们。
**第11位：古·肯尼迪(Goo Kennedy)。**拿起一把椅子，准备在又一次ABA比赛中使用它，然后开始挥舞。这把椅子被锁在另外六把椅子上。
**第10位：韦斯·马修斯(Wes Matthews)。**另一家特许经营公司的执行官花了一个赛季，小心翼翼地带着一个签名球在联盟中转来转去，收集名人堂球星的签名。格文(Gervin)，魔术师(Magic)，伯德(Bird)。当球来到更衣室时，马修斯自然认为他可以帮忙用记号笔签个名。这位主管用煤油擦了30分钟，才把马修斯的签名擦掉。
**第9位：沃尔特·贝里(Walter Berry)。**众所周知，他用一把黄油刀在蒙大拿州米苏拉(Missoula)抵挡了阿尔文·罗伯逊(Alvin Robertson)。很少有人知道他干了这件事：一名空姐开玩笑地表示，要把一瓶酒送给袜子上洞最大的马刺球员，于是大家检查了一下。一个人有一个小裂口，认为自己赢了——直到贝里脱下鞋子，露出一个柚子大小的洞。
**第8位：拉里·克里斯科维亚克(Larry Krystkowiak)。**贝里和罗伯逊在米苏拉做什么？马刺队在那里安排了一场季前赛，面对几千名观众，因为那是克里斯科维亚克的家乡。只是克里斯科维亚克当时正在罢工，没有去旅行。
**第7位：罗德·斯特里克兰(Rod Strickland)。**把运动鞋忘在家里了。他的钱在飞机上。他的裤子在西雅图的酒店房间里。
**第6位：西德尼·格林(Sidney Green)。**试图创造罕见的更衣室化学反应。当马刺队在客场作战，格林在家中养伤时，他利用这个机会去勾引队友的妻子。
**第5位：阿兰·布里斯托(Allan Bristow)和科比·迪特里克(Coby Dietrick)（并列）。**他们带着狗去训练，这可能更多地说明了道格·莫的咆哮。
**第4位：约翰·卢卡斯(John Lucas)。**他的创新之一是：在西雅图的一场比赛之前，他早上7点把后卫们送到一辆公共汽车上，训练了一个小时，给他们买了早餐，然后在早上10点把他们送上另一辆公共汽车进行另一次训练。到比赛时间，他们已经累得不行了。卢卡斯再也没有尝试过。
**第3位：扎尔科·帕斯帕利(Zarko Paspalj)。**他喝着福吉(Folgers)咖啡，抽着万宝路(Marlboro)的欧洲早餐让马刺队感到担忧。所以他们在波士顿找到了一位俄罗斯催眠师，他以戒烟而闻名。他们带扎尔科去看他，扎尔科一直盯着闪闪发光的物体，并对催眠师说的每句话都点头。然后，他干了一件克伦普顿会干的事情。在波士顿的街头，他的催眠治疗结束几分钟后，扎尔科点燃了一根香烟。
**第2位：丹尼斯·罗德曼(Dennis Rodman)。**无需解释。
**最后，第1位：卡尔文·布鲁顿(Calvin Bruton)。**马刺队裁掉了他，同一天，警察打电话说，布鲁顿威胁要从市中心的一座桥上跳下去淹死自己。他们用河上的逻辑说服了他。他们告诉他，如果他跳下去，水可能只到他的腰部。
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25th anniversary celebration? Lore of Spurs legends
You’ve got your Spurs 25th anniversary team. I’ve got mine.
No. 25: Greg Sutton. Reacted to playoff pressure by adding, while sitting on the bench, yet another earth tone to his black-and-silver shorts.
No. 24: Geoff Crompton. When he lumbered onto scales for his physical, the Toledo needle slammed to the 300-pound mark. So the Spurs took Crompton to the loading dock of a local hospital for his official weigh-in, then drove him to a psychiatrist for some counseling. Crompton left the office an hour later with an armful of diet books. But on the way home Crompton pulled over to the nearest drive-through and bought $20 worth of Whoppers.
No. 23: Simmie Hill. Tom Nissalke offered $100 to anyone who would take out the other team’s star. Before the tip came down, Hill earned the money.
No. 22: Larry Brown. Before joining the Spurs, Brown took an international team of American collegians to Italy. When mudslides delayed the trip, Brown took out all frustrations on a soft, disinterested center. Brown challenged this 7-foot-2 man to a fight, even telling him he’d give the kid the first punch. The center began to cry. So explain why, three years later, Brown drafted Dwayne Schintzius?
No. 21: Alfredrick Hughes. Bought a new Mercedes. And when asked what kind, Alfredrick didn’t hesitate. “Gold,” he said. Years later, you could still see the marks it left on the wall on 281 near Hildebrand.
No. 20: Jack Haley. Was there ever a day he didn’t ask David Robinson to autograph something for his movie-star friends?
No. 19: Swen Nater. Yelling in the team offices, fists clinched, Nater couldn’t believe he’d been fined for being late to practice. The pay stub, right there in his hand, showed the injustice. A fine of the times: $25.
No. 18: Lloyd Daniels. Asked about a team-high eight turnovers after his first game, Daniels questioned the statistician. “What,” he said, “are they countin’ traveling and stuff like that?”
No. 17: Steve Johnson. The Spurs traded for him and, upon his arrival, he turned in an itemized list of expenses incurred en route that included, among other extravagances, chewing gum.
No. 16: Tate Armstrong. The night before a preseason game in El Paso, Billy Paultz lined up a big dinner for team members across the border. Armstrong enjoyed himself - until sometime in the second quarter the next night. Armstrong wildly signaled to Doug Moe to call time, and then decided he had brought back something from Mexico he urgently needed to declare immediately. With the ball in play, Armstrong ran off the end of the court and the Spurs played four on five.
No. 15: Edgar Jones. Bad teeth, good story. He arrived on the campus at UNLV ready to play. “Edgar, we’d love to have you,” the UNLV coaches told him, “but you signed with Reno.”
No. 14: Stan Love. The Spurs cut him. And his brother reacted by calling around the league to offer a free concert if anyone would give Stan a tryout. No one took him up on it, which shows how bad Stan was. His brother, Mike, still sings for The Beach Boys.
No. 13: Jerry Tarkanian. In Albany, N.Y., before his first preseason game, Tark got onto an elevator and a New York Knick, Anthony Mason, joined him. Mason was friendly and wished Tark well. In the lobby, Tark turned to a reporter and asked, “Who was that?” That same night Tark turned to the same reporter during the game. “How do you call a 20- second timeout?”
No. 12: Vernon Maxwell. The Spurs give two tickets to every player for friends and family. As a rookie, Max stood in front of the old HemisFair Arena and sold his before the Spurs told him it wasn’t the best idea.
No. 11: Goo Kennedy. Picked up a chair to use during yet another ABA fight and started to swing. The chair was chained to six others.
No. 10: Wes Matthews. An executive with another franchise spent a season carefully taking an autograph ball through the league to get the signatures of Hall of Famers. Gervin, Magic, Bird. When the ball came through the locker room, Matthews naturally figured he’d help out with a felt-tip pen. The exec scrubbed with kerosene for 30 minutes to rub off Matthews’ name.
No. 9: Walter Berry. Everyone knows he used a butter knife to stave off Alvin Robertson in Missoula, Mont. Few know he pulled this: A flight attendant playfully offered to give a bottle of wine to the Spur with the biggest hole in his sock, and the guys checked around. One had a small tear and thought he was the winner - until Berry pulled off his shoe to reveal a grapefruit-sized monster.
No. 8: Larry Krystkowiak. So what were Berry and Robertson doing in Missoula? The Spurs scheduled a preseason game there in front of a few thousand because that was Krystkowiak’s hometown. Only Krystkowiak was holding out at the time and didn’t make the trip.
No. 7: Rod Strickland. Left his sneakers at home. His money on a plane. His pants in his Seattle hotel room.
No. 6: Sidney Green. Tried to create rare locker-room chemistry. While the Spurs were on the road and Green was at home with an injury, he used the moment to hit on a teammate’s wife.
No. 5: Allan Bristow and Coby Dietrick (tie). They brought their dogs to practice, which probably says more about the Doug Moe bark.
No. 4: John Lucas. Among his innovations was this: Before a game in Seattle, he put the guards on a bus at 7 a.m., worked them out for an hour, bought them breakfast and put them on another bus at 10 a.m. for another workout. By gametime they were dead. Lucas never tried it again.
No. 3: Zarko Paspalj. His Euro- breakfast of Folgers and Marlboros concerned the Spurs. So they found a Russian hypnotist in Boston who was famous for snuffing cigarette habits. They took Zarko to see him, and Zarko kept his eye on the shiny object and nodded at everything the hypnotist said. Then he did a Crompton. On the streets of Boston, minutes after his session, Zarko lit up.
No. 2: Dennis Rodman. No explanation necessary.
And, finally, the No. 1: Calvin Bruton. The Spurs cut him, and that same day police called to say that Bruton was threatening to jump off a downtown bridge and drown himself. They talked him down with river logic. He was told that, if he jumped, the water might come up to his waist.
By Buck Harvey, via San Antonio Express-News