Pics & Report from Tip-Off Luncheon 10/24

missmyzte · by **missmyzte** on Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:37 pm

See the game report below 
 
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ace3g · by **ace3g** on Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:45 pm

Is that oberto with manu as the wayne worlds pic <div style="text-align:center"><img src="http://img101.echo.cx/img101/6569/banner27copy3bg.jpg"/></div> 
 
<div style="text-align:center"><blockquote>Quote:<hr>Offense Wins Games...Defense Wins Championships<hr></blockquote></div>

ace3g · by **ace3g** on Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:55 pm

and what was up with that pic subtitled with: wanted underneath the players 
 
and were they giving out awards to players? <div style="text-align:center"><img src="http://img101.echo.cx/img101/6569/banner27copy3bg.jpg"/></div> 
 
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missmyzte · by **missmyzte** on Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:51 pm

Here's the report, this may answer some of your questions about the pictures: 
 
NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs Tip-Off Luncheon 
October 24, 2005 – Downtown Marriott 
 
Juli, Jackie, Pam, Kristen and I arrived together for the luncheon and milled around for a bit, checking out the silent auction items and getting our picture taken with all 3 of the Spurs championship trophies. There was one item I was determined to get from the silent auction, an autographed poster-sized picture of Horry’s dunk in Game 5 over Rip Hamilton, I went up to about $400 but it ended up selling for $625 and I just couldn’t justify paying that much, even for charity. I did get my pic with the trophies and did the ‘spin for a prize’ where I won a Tony Parker bobblehead. 
 
Sean Elliott kicked off the event as the emcee once again and brought up Bruce Bowen to say the prayer before lunch was served. He asked that the lights be dimmed a bit when Bowen came up to the stage because of the glare from his head. 
 
After lunch, Coach Pop had his turn and made very clear that last year is over and no one cares about the championship anymore. He asked Michael Finley, Nick Van Exel and Fabricio Oberto if they cared … quite obviously they don’t since they weren’t on the team last year. 
 
Tony Parker apparently managed to retire from doing the player introductions and passed along the tradition to Brent Barry. Barry took the stage and started a boring speech that had everyone asleep, he stopped mid-way through and said, laughing, “I can’t do this, let me start over.” Lights were dimmed and he walked off stage, he walked back on along with 3 silver dancers and livened it up a bit. He utilized a lot of pictures and video in his intros … 
 
The Theme was ‘Back to School’ and each player had a title --- 
 
The Rookies - Freshman Orientation 
He brought up the 3 rookies trying to make the team and said he wanted to say what their accomplishments and awards were up to that point, kinda looked at his paper, then thanked them for coming up (for anyone who doesn’t get that, he was saying that have no accomplishments). 
 
Brent Barry – Class Clown 
Showed Brent in a wetsuit with a surfboard. 
 
Beno Udrih & Rasho Nesterovic – Semester a Broad 
Life, Liberty and the Happiness of Pursuit 
He said these guys are serious partiers and went to club with them once, then showed a video from Night at the Roxbury (is that the right title?). I got this on video. 
 
Tim Duncan – Teacher’s Pet 
Brent said before he played with Tim, he’d heard that TD was boring, had no sense of humor and didn’t follow the dress-code. He wanted everyone to know that it was all true. 
 
Bruce Bowen & Michael Finley – School of Hard Knocks 
They showed the video of Bowen and Finley shoving each other … and then showed the video again. Finley and Bowen hugged at their table, they were sitting next to each other, and enjoyed the moment. Brent said he was going to have to speak with Yardley though because they named their new baby boy the same name that Brent and his wife wanted to name their boy that is due in January. As a side note, we saw Erin Barry and she looks absolutely adorable, especially for a woman that is 6-months pregnant! 
 
Nick Van Exel – Transfer Student 
Van Exel has been used to playing for a lot of ‘yes men’, as in “Yes, your honor…”. They showed a bunch of WANTED pictures of his former teammates from Portland. 
 
Tony Parker – Marketing 
TP is doing a good job of marketing himself and showed a video with pictures of Tony, including his GQ shots, with a couple of Eva intermixed, then they forgot about Parker altogether and just showed pictures of Eva and ended on a picture of Eva with ex-boyfriend JC Chavez. Barry apologized for putting her ex on there and claimed to have no knowledge of that, I got video of this segment as well. 
 
Sean Marks – Home Economics 
Also to the other new dads on the team, including Nazr Mohammed who didn’t make the trip since his wife just had a baby recently. Barry said he was able to get footage of Sean’s baby being born and showed a clip from Saturday Night Live with Charlie Sheen delivering a “baby” which turned out to be Will Farrell. 
 
Fabricio Oberto & Manu Ginobili – Drama Class 
They showed a couple of pictures with Oberto’s & Ginobili’s faces photoshopped onto the Wayne’s World guys (see the pictures). Barry introduced Fabio then continued on with Gino … 
Manu was given an acting award for his theatrics on the court, a.k.a. flopping, and showed a little video of this. Barry brought Ginobili up to the stage to accept his award, which he did and even showed it off a little as he walked back to his seat (see my picture). 
 
Robert Horry – Graduation Day 
He said that Horry makes everyone else feel better and then showed a video of some of Horry’s great shots from this playoff run … that’s right, Barry, respect your elders! 
 
The players then left and they had the drawing for the prizes, after that we were free to go. The ticket that we got when we checked in got us a door prize, a miniature championship trophy. The guy next to me left his ticket so I got 2 of them! 
 
It was great to meet everyone that I got to meet and I can’t wait for the game tomorrow night! 
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ace3g · by **ace3g** on Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:31 pm

Even though I alread knew this, but it seems like Barry could have been a comedian if he wasnt playing professional basketball, glad to see he was the host of the event. 
 
 
lol at the whole flopping award given to manu; now we have fabio for Karl to complain about; and hopefully when Duncan's hair gets long enough to <div style="text-align:center"><img src="http://img101.echo.cx/img101/6569/banner27copy3bg.jpg"/></div> 
 
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by **rodrick strungout** on Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:11 am

Looks like it was fun. I wish I would have gone...oh well, there's always next year.

Blondie · by **Blondie** on Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:13 am

It is 100 per person but you can declare half of it as a charitible donation............ 
 
I have gone three years in a row and it is certainly worth it. <img src=http://www.sahoops.net/smilies/smile.gif ALT=":)"> <div style="text-align:center"><img src="http://www.sahoops.net/jackie/blondie4spursbanner.jpg" style="border:0;"/></div>

GrandeDavid · by **GrandeDavid** on Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:54 pm

Misti, thanks for posting the pics. I'm glad yall had fun!! <div style="text-align:center"><img src="http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/6171/GD.jpg"/></div>

Blondie · by **Blondie** on Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:20 am

This year instead of buying raffle tickets you could pay $20 bucks and spin a wheel for a prize. Everyone got something which was cool. Pam, Jules and I all got nice travel coffe mugs. 
 
They also had a thing where you cuold take a pic with "the triplets" for $20. Rita, ALAMO50's friend was running that event. It was fun but not as nice as in 2003 when you got to pose with Peter Holt - now that was something! 
 
On the way out, I lucked out when I noticed they were selling the autographed photos you previously had to spin to win for $20, so I picked up one of Horry and one of Bowen for my collection <img src=http://www.sahoops.net/smilies/tongue.gif ALT=":P"> 
 
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Bigdizave · by **Bigdizave** on Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:12 pm

Great report, Misti.

Mongo · by **Mongo** on Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:23 am

Nice job, I feel like I was there! <div style="text-align:center"> 
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Pics & Report from Tip-Off Luncheon 10/24