SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The San Antonio Spurs couldn\u2019t quite pull it off Wednesday night in Game 1 of the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks, but that didn\u2019t stop fans from cheering them on until the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In San Antonio, it was easy to feel the energy of the fans, with the entire city buzzing with excitement. From the Frost Bank Center to watch parties all across the city, tens of thousands of fans are betting that the San Antonio Spurs will once again be NBA champions.<\/p>\n
Fans all the way from France traveled to the Alamo City to cheer on the Spurs for Game 1 of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think many French people love the Spurs because of Tony Parker, Gin\u00f3bili,\u201d said a French tourist who was visiting the Alamo ahead of the game.<\/p>\n
The Frenchmen showed their allegiance with some permanent artwork \u2014 a full sleeve of Spurs-related tattoos \u2014 and some major confidence ahead of making the journey to the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 19th of May, I sent a text to my contact at the Spurs and I said, \u2018I want to buy the tickets for the NBA finals after only 1-0 in OKC,\u201d he said confident that the Spurs would beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just the crowds of Spurs fans near the Alamo. Over at one of the many watch parties across the city, The Rock at La Cantera reached maximum capacity with 6,000 Spurs fans all cheering on their favorite players.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpurs are where it\u2019s at,\u201d one fan cheered.<\/p>\n
Young and old, all with the same goal: to watch the Spurs beat the New York Knicks in the first game of the series.<\/p>\n
\u201cGo Spurs Go!\u201d exclaimed one fan.<\/p>\n
Although the Spurs didn\u2019t come out with a victory, there\u2019s still another chance when they take on the Knicks in Game 2 on Friday in San Antonio, and you can bet fans near and far will be cheering them on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The San Antonio Spurs couldn\u2019t quite pull it off Wednesday night in Game 1 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1570,102,138,6716,223,82,1066,6293,27,1569,835],"class_list":["post-322741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-ctv","tag-dallas","tag-el-paso","tag-lauren-kendrick","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-san-antonio-what-you-need-to-know","tag-texas","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322741","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=322741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}