In the 1970s and 1980s, when my family lived in San Antonio, I was not allowed to watch the Spurs’ West Coast road games due to the late tipoffs interfering with the sleep necessary for elementary school kids. When I would ask my parents the next morning whether we won a west coast road game, one or both would very often say something to the equivalent of “We lost our pants!” (in Chinese). Prior to the PATFO era, the Spurs teams produced only two seasons above .500 on the road in the 80s, and the 90s versions of the team were middling away from home at best.
Every Spurs cloud has a silver lining
