<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Robert Reid, who played in the NBA Finals twice during his 10-year career with the Houston Rockets, never has been shy about expressing his opinion about basketball. Or anything else, for that matter. That hardly would be a revelation to anybody who has known Reid since his college days at St. Mary's, where he was an NAIA All-American after graduating from Clemens in 1973. That's why he was such a logical choice to talk with about the heated Spurs-Suns series and, among other things, San Antonio's love affair with its NBA franchise. "I know how San Antonio gets when the Spurs are in the playoffs," Reid said Thursday. "It's like that movie 'Friday Night Lights.' The whole town gets into it." As affable today as he was when he starred at St. Mary's, Reid lives in Houston but leaves no doubt he still has deep emotional ties to the Alamo City. And part of him, he said, still roots for the Spurs, who played their first season in San Antonio when he was a freshman in college. By the time he was a sophomore, Reid was playing summer pick-up games with Spurs George Gervin, James Silas and Larry Kenon in steamy Alumni Gym. "I remember the days when the Spurs drank beer with the Baseline Bums after games and ate at Luby's with their fans," said Reid, 51. "The fans were their inspiration." While his bias hardly makes him an objective party, Reid said it's laughable that some are saying the Spurs have morphed into a dirty team during their tumultuous Western Conference semifinal series with Phoenix. No doubt, the Suns and a lot of folks in Arizona would find little humor in Reid's take. "This is playoff basketball," Reid said. "It's always going to be more intense, more physical. I just laugh when I hear people say the Spurs are playing dirty." </div> Source: MySA
