The San Antonio Spurs want more atmosphere in the hall, looking for enthusiastic fans for an exclusive fan club – and ask for the cash register.
A visit to the stadium in the NBA could hardly be more different for a football game in Europe. The North American basketball audience comes into the arenas to experience and maintain an event. Eating, drinking, the break shows – all of this is as integrated to visit as the game itself. The fans make themselves comfortable in their seats and react with cheers and boos.
The ultras in the big football leagues are very different: they often sing and jump on their standing room for the entire season, swing flags and smashing speeches – even when little happens on the square. And they want this mood San Antonio Spurs Now apparently bring to your basketball arena.
Victor Wembanyama is an idea of ideas
On Sunday, the NBA franchise cast members of a new fan club, which is to get their own area in the hall. It should be the “Loudest, proudest and most relentless group of trace fans” The Spurs write in the arena. The guest star of the casting is Victor Wembanyama, the French top French player – the idea comes from him.
“If this group reaches its potential in Ultras, I have no doubt that this will help us win games in the future” said Wembanyama. “We have 41 home games. These are 41 occasions to push ourselves in the last quarter and to give extra energy.”
Lovis Binder, host of the ARD channel “The with the Dunks”, can well imagine that it will change the mood at the Spurs, “If the fans live it. But if they only make noise on the command, it won’t bring much.”
999 US-Dollar Membership fee
The Spurs themselves do not take the word “ultras” in their mouth – and their project actually has little to do with the anarchic grass root movement of the football ultras. If you want to become part of the new fan club, you have to afford a member fee of $ 999 – mind you in addition to the ticket prices. The members undertake to visit at least 75 percent of home games, according to the Spurs.
The Clippers copy the Dortmund south stands
Before the Spurs the Los Angeles Clippers taken European football as a role model. The new one opened last season Intuit Dome On one side behind the basket has a continuous grandstand across all floors, inspired by the Dortmund south grandstand. It is the first and only standing stand in the NBA. Your name: “The Wall“, based on the” yellow wall “of the BVB.
Fans of the La Clippers on “The Wall”
“There are players who report that it was blatant to throw free throws from ‘The Wall'”, said binding. “After a season, the numbers show that the opposing teams hit free throws there much worse than before other baskets.” However, it was too early to say whether the new grandstand is really the reason for the numbers.
