03 December 2004
remember the Baseline Bums?
HoopsHype: Stern rewards Detroit's latest Bad Boys
at least one sports columnist realizes that Detroit's fans aren't the first to interrupt an NBA game by harrassing the players...
|Piston fans have raised the bar. Let’s see if San Antonio’s notorious “Baseline Bums” can provoke Kevin Garnett, Latrell Sprewell and Sam Cassell, thereby eliminating the team that’s most likely to defeat the Spurs in the Western Conference. Stern’s ruling gives the Bums all the incentive they need. Are they up to the task?|
Larry Brown also experienced fan interference way back when the Bums were ABA fans:
|On March 24, 1976 the Spurs went into McNichols Arena and beat Denver 135-122, snapping the Nuggets' 26-game home winning streak. In fact, it was the second straight year that the Spurs had broken a 26-game home winning streak by Denver. Because the Spurs kept breaking Denver's home winning streaks, and because of several on-court fights between the teams during the 1974-75 season, a strong rivalry developed between the Nuggets and the Spurs. Nuggets' coach Larry Brown called the Spurs a "dirty team" and yelled at George Gervin during a 1976 Denver loss at HemisFair Arena. Bob Bass got up from the Spurs bench, told Brown to shut up, and offered to fight him. After the game, the Nuggets' boss said "I don't like anything about San Antonio, their coaching staff, their franchise or their city. The only thing I like about San Antonio is guacamole salad." Naturally, the Spurs' rowdy group of fans, the "Baseline Bums," caught wind of Brown's quote. The next time the Nuggets visited HemisFair Arena, the Baseline Bums were ready. Nuggets' forward Gus Gerard remembers that: "The next time we came down there the people were throwing avocados out on the floor and dumping guacamole salad on the players. When Larry (Brown) went to the locker room, they had something like dime beer night that night, so they were pouring beer over Larry's head. That was pretty wild."|
at least one sports columnist realizes that Detroit's fans aren't the first to interrupt an NBA game by harrassing the players...
|Piston fans have raised the bar. Let’s see if San Antonio’s notorious “Baseline Bums” can provoke Kevin Garnett, Latrell Sprewell and Sam Cassell, thereby eliminating the team that’s most likely to defeat the Spurs in the Western Conference. Stern’s ruling gives the Bums all the incentive they need. Are they up to the task?|
Larry Brown also experienced fan interference way back when the Bums were ABA fans:
|On March 24, 1976 the Spurs went into McNichols Arena and beat Denver 135-122, snapping the Nuggets' 26-game home winning streak. In fact, it was the second straight year that the Spurs had broken a 26-game home winning streak by Denver. Because the Spurs kept breaking Denver's home winning streaks, and because of several on-court fights between the teams during the 1974-75 season, a strong rivalry developed between the Nuggets and the Spurs. Nuggets' coach Larry Brown called the Spurs a "dirty team" and yelled at George Gervin during a 1976 Denver loss at HemisFair Arena. Bob Bass got up from the Spurs bench, told Brown to shut up, and offered to fight him. After the game, the Nuggets' boss said "I don't like anything about San Antonio, their coaching staff, their franchise or their city. The only thing I like about San Antonio is guacamole salad." Naturally, the Spurs' rowdy group of fans, the "Baseline Bums," caught wind of Brown's quote. The next time the Nuggets visited HemisFair Arena, the Baseline Bums were ready. Nuggets' forward Gus Gerard remembers that: "The next time we came down there the people were throwing avocados out on the floor and dumping guacamole salad on the players. When Larry (Brown) went to the locker room, they had something like dime beer night that night, so they were pouring beer over Larry's head. That was pretty wild."|
