{"id":257488,"date":"2026-04-20T02:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257488\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:34:09","slug":"san-antonio-spurs-rock-matching-all-black-suits-before-game-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257488\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs rock matching all-black suits before Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Antonio Spurs<\/a> are hosting their first home playoff game in seven years Sunday and arrived dressed for the occasion.<\/p>\n

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From Victor Wembanyama<\/a> to rookie Carter Bryant<\/a>, each member of the roster wore an all-black suit as they walked into Frost Bank Center. Rookie Dylan Harper<\/a> said that the last time he wore a suit was on draft night in June.<\/p>\n

Some added a dark tie while others wore shades — but the nonconformity stopped there, giving off the look of a united team ahead of Game 1 against the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Forward Kelly Olynyk<\/a>, who joined the team last summer, had the idea for the team to wear all-black suits, the Spurs told ESPN. Olynyk added a backward hat and shades with his look.<\/p>\n

When asked about the suits before the game by ESPN, big man Bismack Biyombo<\/a> kept it simple ahead of the Spurs’ first playoff game since April 27, 2019.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got to get this thing started right,” he said.<\/p>\n

San Antonio enters its first-round matchup as the Western Conference’s No. 2 seed. The Spurs went 62-20 in the regular season, their most wins since 2015-16, when they had 67.<\/p>\n

Sunday is San Antonio’s first home playoff game since a Game 6 win in 2019 against the Denver Nuggets<\/a>. The Spurs haven’t won a playoff series since 2017. But, at least in the wardrobe department, San Antonio is off to a strong start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Antonio Spurs are hosting their first home playoff game in seven years Sunday and arrived dressed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-257488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}