Milestone update: Jonathon Simmons scored his first two points, putting him 308th all-time for the Spurs. Needs 26,074 points to pass Duncan.

Limited edition Matt Bonner Big Red

I've got a cool (I'll share it, and you can decide how cool it is) Bonner story to share . This was a deal that was only for the Spurs own internal PR uses, so we basically had to agree to keep it confidential and not post pictures and videos to facebook or whatever. I think the statute of limitations has probably run at this point. I may even post some pics or videos, but I'll have to clear that first.

Many of you may be familiar with Matt Bonner's "Coach B" persona. There have been some pretty hilarious "Coach B" videos and such over the years, such as:

The Spurs big charity event every year is called "Tux N' Tennies," and there are always some hilarious skits involving the players and some funny things from the emcees (Sean Elliott is a frequent host), and it's for a good cause. I have a relative who is heavily involved in Spurs PR (I have to be pretty vague here, as the Spurs are a little paranoid about this stuff) who called us up one day and said "I need your boys to come down and shoot a video with some Spurs players." My boys are big basketball players and we're all huge Spurs fans, so we didn't need any more details or encouragement than that to hop in the car and make the drive down from CS.

So we meet up at an outdoor basketball court at a really nice house in SA, and there is the film crew, the other kids who will be in the shoot, and Coach B. There are two groups of kids, one wearing blue shirts (the bad guys) and my boys are given red Spurs shirts with some other kids. This is when we get the lowdown on the video (I haven't watched the video in a couple years, so this is based mostly on my recollection):

Coach B has put together an all-star team of the best basketball players in the world, who are all great players and have the most important basketball skill you can have: red hair. One of my sons really has brown hair with a slight tinge of red in some light, and the other one is really more strawberry blonde, but they had basically run out of kids who can play basketball with hair as red as Bonner, and it was a chance for my relative to get my boys in the video, so they bent the requirements a little for us.

So they film the video and show Coach B talking to the team about the important basketball fundamentals, like using sunscreen, at which point he pulls out an industrial-sized bottle of "SPF 1000" and has them all stick their hands in for a good squirt. Later he puts them thru their paces, but he's a little disappointed in the performance of his "perfect team" and that he's not sure they're ready to take on the blue team.

Then they cut to another team meeting where he's giving them a pregame peptalk and is talking confidently about how much better the team is playing and how he knows they are ready to take on all comers. Then they go down the line with each of the players sticking their hand in one at a time before they break the huddle, and then the last hand comes in, a giant black hand which dwarfs the combined hands of the other 7-8 players on the team, and the camera pans up from the hand to Kawhi, wearing a bright red Little Orphan Annie wig, and he gives the camera a big wink.

Kawhi wasn't there when we first showed up, and they really didn't bring him out until they were shooting the final shot, so we kinda had the same impact for the "punchline" that the video had. Anyway, it was pretty hilarious and a very cool experience for us all. My youngest son even played a little one-on-one with Kawhi and stole the ball from him. I understand the video was a big hit.

Best thread on texags. Go Spurs Go!!!

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You realize 9-1 is still on the table?

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Not with your terrible predictions on the table.

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