Spurs Sports & Entertainment chairman and CEO Peter Holt joined fans on the AT&T Center concourse on Friday, and the first thing he noticed about the renovated arena wasn’t the lighting, the new restaurants or the scoreboard:
It was the sound.
Hundreds of fans surrounded Holt two hours before tipoff screaming “Go Spurs Go.”
“The fans are the reason we have this building,” Holt said. “The fans are the best in the league, and because of them, the enthusiasm’s here. Buildings are nice, but if your fans aren’t excited, that’s not a lot of fun. They’re the key.