How to watch Game 5 of Spurs-Trail Blazers, who’s starting, who’s out<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThat was a special year,\u201d Castro said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of crazy because that was almost 36 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Castro’s stint with Portland\u00a0ended after four years when the team halted its Spanish broadcasts. Thinking his time in the NBA was over, he considered moving to Los Angeles to attend film school.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI never thought about making this a career,\u201d he said. \u201cI was actually filling out my paperwork to go to directing school in L.A.\u201d<\/p>\n
That’s when the Spurs called.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was my friends cranking me when I heard, \u2018Hey, this is the Spurs. We’d be interested in talking to you,\u2019\u201d Castro said. \u201cI go, \u2018Yeah, right.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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Radio broadcaster Paul Castro goes on the air from his perch above the arena as the Spurs host the Phoenix Suns at the AT&T Center on October 20, 2015.<\/p>\n
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All these years later, Castro was back in Portland last weekend where his unlikely journey began. In between games, he visited family and thought back to all the good times they had growing up in Oregon.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI miss snow skiing. I miss water skiing. And, of course, I miss my family,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the summers, we were on the river almost all day until the sun went down. And in the winter we would go to Mount Hood, do a lot of skiing. Once you’re in the mountains, you don’t want to come off. And Portland’s always been a great city.\u201d<\/p>\n
But now he’s all about the Spurs and San Antonio.<\/p>\n
\u201cI consider the people I work with as my second family,\u201d Castro said. \u201cWe travel together, we stay together. As a matter of fact, I saw (Spurs managing partner) Peter J. Holt on the floor the other day sitting by himself during warmups, so I came down to talk to him. I told him, \u2018When your dad (former Spurs managing partner Peter M. Holt) and you would come to the playoffs years ago you were this high, and now you are in charge.\u2019 I would talk to his dad all the time, and now Peter is a grown man with his own family and in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Castro is having fun this spring making new playoff memories.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like coming out of retirement again and starting all over again all fresh,\u201d he said of working in the postseason after a seven-year absence. \u201cIt reminds me of the old days, but it’s all new people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish language broadcaster Paul Castro calls the game from his balcony level perch as the Spurs host the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-637692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}