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Joy Burgin, traffic anchor for News4 WOAI and KABB Fox San Antonio.<\/p>\n
Courtesy of Joy Burgin<\/p>\n
Her name might be Joy, but local traffic anchor Joy Burgin doesn\u2019t exactly play nice when it comes to backing her hometown San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n
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During the first round of the playoffs against the Portland Trail Blazers, Burgin, who works for sister stations News 4 San Antonio (WOAI) and Fox San Antonio (KABB), has been showing her love for the Silver and Black by sprinkling in some playful trash talk during live morning broadcasts.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWith the excitement in San Antonio right now, it\u2019s pretty hard not to get caught up in it,\u201d Burgin, 26, told MySA during a recent interview. \u201cWhen you’re winning, you just got to say it. You got to shout it from the rooftops.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burgin\u2019s cheeky commentary began after the Spurs\u2019 Game 1 victory over the Blazers. It started after FoxSA news anchor Ashley Sutton highlighted a sweet moment during Victor Wembanyama\u2019s postgame interview. Wemby said he felt \u201csafe\u201d knowing Spurs legends like Tim Duncan and David Robinson were always there for support.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot for the other team!\u201d Burgin responded, suggesting the Blazers shouldn\u2019t feel any sense of comfort playing against the Spurs.<\/p>\n
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Then, when meteorologist Brad Sowder welcomed the Blazers to San Antonio, Burgin echoed the sentiment \u2013 with a slightly different spin.<\/p>\n
\u201cWelcome, losers,\u201d she said with a mischievous grin.<\/p>\n
Although Burgin, a graduate of Brandeis High School and the University of the Incarnate Word, said she doesn\u2019t consider herself a \u201cbig sports girl,\u201d it was hard not to get swept up in the excitement around the Spurs making it back to the playoffs after a six-season hiatus.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt’s not just Spurs pride, it\u2019s San Antonio pride,\u201d Burgin said. \u201cWe’re all in on it. It\u2019s for everybody, not just people who are big basketball fans.\u201d<\/p>\n
During a recent News4SA morning broadcast, news anchor\u00a0Mariza Mendoza joined in on the good-natured teasing and wished viewers a good morning, \u201cExcept those Portland fans.\u201d Burgin added more fuel to the fire with this clever gem: \u201cI hope you also have a good morning because you\u2019re gonna have a bad night,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
After the Spurs won the series against the Blazers 4-1, Mendoza pulled out a broom on air to indicate a \u201csweep.\u201d News anchor David Chancellor, however, had to explain to her that it was only a \u201cgentleman\u2019s sweep\u201d because the Blazers won one game.<\/p>\n
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Leave it to Burgin to chime in with her own thoughts: \u201cIt\u2019s called mopping the floor with ya!\u201d<\/p>\n
Chancellor responded by calling Burgin \u201cthe trash talker of all.\u201d<\/p>\n
We think he left out the word \u201cbest.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, what have reactions been like from viewers? Has Burgin heard from Spurs fans who love her witticism or Blazers fans who found her comments less amusing? Burgin said it\u2019s been a mix of reactions but \u201cmostly positive.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cI even got messages from people cheering from the Philippines and from a Korean Spurs fan group,\u201d she said. \u201cWe did get a couple of Portland fans \u2013 a couple of sore losers, but it’s all right.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the playoffs continue, Burgin said she has no intention of stopping the trash talk. It\u2019s all in good fun, of course, and it seems Burgin wants all the shade.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as the Spurs keep making shots, we’re going to keep taking shots,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joy Burgin, traffic anchor for News4 WOAI and KABB Fox San Antonio. Courtesy of Joy Burgin Her name…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2107,87604,87602,87603,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-292951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysaentertainment","tag-mysapuro","tag-mysasports","tag-mysaspurs","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292951","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=292951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}