SPURS - HOW TO BECOME A SPUR

"Well, between our management staff and our coaching staff, we do spend a lot of time together trying to figure out who we're bringing in before we do it. It's not just basketball. We want to know about, uh, what kind of sense of humor people might have, silly as that might sound to some. But I think humor's really important in any job. We want to find out an intelligence level, commitment level, if a player might understand a role or be willing to accept a role. And let him know ahead of time a lot of things about what's expected, so that if he's not going to buy it we don't have to waste time bringing him in and getting rid of him." 

"You can just tell. I don't do any kind of standup routine or anything like that. I don't do any of that. But you can tell. You can bring things up in somebody's life, or in your life, that have happened in the world, mostly. How aware is a person. It tells you if he can fit in with other people. I already know about Timmy and Manu and Tony. I want them to be able to enjoy whoever gets brought in that's going to support them."