About Project Spurs

Project Spurs dot com, now in version 3, was originally created by two die-hard San Antonio Spurs fans. It was created to provide Spurs fans the ultimate site for all Spurs news and information with many features dedicated to our visitors. Project Spurs has a lot to offer on many different levels and for all kinds of fans.

Project Spurs was launched in August 2004 and the domain ProjectSpurs dot com was purchased a few weeks after. It has grown from purely a news portal to a site complete with many features not offered by any other Spurs websites. Project Spurs dot com was originally designed in Macromedia Dreamweaver and coded in HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript but has now been ported over to Wordpress on a custom theme.

About Us

Project Spurs was designed and created by Michael A. De Leon, but the site has some other key contributors who we couldn’t do without. Find more information about the site’s creator and crew below.

Michael A. De Leon
Duties: Webmaster, Staff Reporter, Graphic Deisgner, Spurscast Producer/Host
Favorite Spurs Player(s): Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker
Favorite NBA Players: Antonio Daniels, Rip Hamilton, DwyaneWade

Michael has been a San Antonio Spurs fan since a very young age. Although he attended very few games, he always followed the Spurs and his favorite player, Sean Elliott on the tube for many years. Growing up he always admired the guys who were lucky enough to cover the game and gained an interest in journalism and sports writing and never developed it until he entered college and majored in journalism. Writing for The Ranger at San Antonio College, Michael studied his field and developed his writing skills until he got a job at a local newspaper in San Antonio. At first starting out as a designer and a general assignments reporter, De Leon’s dream was realized about a year into working at the newspaper. Given the San Antonio Spurs beat, he wrote the weekly column The Spurs Report along with player features and game recaps. Now a graphic designer in San Marcos, TX, he still keeps up on the Spurs and continues writing with his columns, features and articles on ProjectSpurs. Also the webdesigner of the current version of ProjectSpurs.
Links: Website | Personal Weblog | Portfolio

Jeff Garcia
Duties: Staff Reporter, NY/NJ Correspondent, Spurscast Asst. Producer/Co-host
Favorite Spurs Player(s): Manu Ginobili, Tim Duncan
Favorite NBA Player: Chauncey Billups

Jeff joined Project Spurs in August of 2005, and has been a key contributor for both the website and The Spurscast. Besides writing articles, Jeff produced an “On Location” podcast from within the walls of Madison Square Garden and Continental Airlines Arena bringing Project Spurs exclusive audio, video and photos from the Spurs away game against the Knicks and Nets, a first for any Spurs podcast. Currently residing in New York, Jeff holds a Bachelor’s and Minor Degree from St. Mary’s University and a Doctorate of Law. Growing up in San Antonio, he’s been a huge Spurs fan since he was a child and has attended several Spurs away games in The Palace of Auburn Hills, in Michigan, Madison Square Garden in New York City and Continental Airlines Arena in New Jersey.
Links: Cooler Talk with Jeff (podcast)

Jordan Rivas
Duties: Staff Reporter, Spurscast contributor
Favorite Spurs Player(s): Tim Duncan
Favorite NBA Player: Dwyane Wade

Jordan is the newest addition to Project Spurs, having joined us starting in July as a regular blog contributor. Jordan started following the NBA early in his life and naturally his love, respect, and knowledge of the game began to grow exponentially. He mainly follows the pro game, but enjoys watching both college and high school hoops as well. Growing up in San Antonio, he’s been
closely following the Spurs for a long time and claims to be the biggest fan who remains objective. Jordan writes a popular weekly NBA column on HoopsVibe.com as well as keeping a column on Newsvine.com focusing on sports and occasionally other topics.
Links: NBA Front Row | Jordan’s Newvine column

Abel Lopez
Duties: Graphic Designer, Website Beta Tester
Favorite Spurs Player(s): Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker, Tim Duncan

Abel has been to 1 Spurs Game and unfortunately they lost. It was years back when they played against the Pistons. He has always loved to watch some of the Spurs games. Abel is a certified webmaster, and Digital Graphic Designer and devotes some time to check out the website, and work on other websites as well. Abel also enjoys playing PC Games such as Half Life 2, Unreal Tournament 2004, etc.