COURT TO COMMUNITY: SPURS GIVE & SPURS OUTREACH INITIATIVES

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Looks like RC was there, too.

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So heartwarming!

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I love our team, part 1 000 000:

The seeds for Wednesday’s event were planted in July, while the ground was still waterlogged from the rain. Members of the Spurs organization reached out to officials in Ingram on July 5, the day after flood, to ask what could be done to help.

In the short term, the Spurs teamed with the NBA and the other two Texas teams to donate $2 million to flood relief efforts.

In early August, Mitch Johnson, general manager Brian Wright and Spurs Sports & Entertainment chief executive officer R.C. Buford made a trek to Ingram to survey the damage themselves.

They left convinced the team could do more than write a check.

“It’s important for all of us to be out here,” Mitch Johnson said. “It’s part of our community. When you see people who are part of your community in need, you want to be able to support them anyway you can.”

Wednesday will not be the last time the Spurs set foot in the Texas Hill Country. Details are in the works for a festival in late September that will include other Texas professional sports clubs as well.

Before the Spurs’ buses pulled up to the high school Wednesday, players were led on a guided tour of the road connecting the towns of Kerrville, Hunt and Ingram along the Guadalupe River, where the bulk of the July 4 deaths and devastation occurred.

The tour was led by first responders who detailed the horror they witnessed in the early morning darkness that day.

If the Spurs did something to touch the lives of those touched by tragedy Wednesday, the feeling was mutual. The community of Ingram touched them, too.

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