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Matt Bonner: I just keep wearing the New Balances for like the next six, seven years. I'm just wearing them. Eventually though, I ran out. So now I have to switch shoes. I went with Adidas. And I was wearing the Crazy 8s. Kobe Bryant, he comes out of high school. Everyone knows him with Nike, but before he was with Nike, he was briefly with Adidas. And this is the shoe I was wearing all these years later at the end of my career in 2016. I had these Kobe Crazy 8 Adidas and I'm like, man, it would be so cool if Kobe would sign these shoes. It's his shoe. It's like a full circle moment. He gave me the nickname Red Mamba. So I gave it to our ball boy. I'm like, "Listen, can you go over to their locker room and see if Kobe will sign these for me?" And so he takes him over. I go out, I do all my pregame shooting. I come back and I see him. I'm like, "Did he sign them?" And he's like, "Well, this is what he said. He said he's not allowed to he can only sign Nike shoes." Like, he has an exclusive contract. He's not allowed to sign any other type of shoe, but he's going to make an exception for you just this once. Because he respects you and this is his old shoe. You just can't tell anyone. He wrote ‘From one Mamba to another, Kobe Bryant,’ and signed both shoes. And I got them to this day. I don't have one thing hung up for my career really. I don't have any posters. The championship rings are in a safety deposit box. Like there's nothing anywhere. I don't care about any of that. But that's like the one thing I have out displayed in my in my office cuz it meant a lot to me and I think it's really cool.
Matt Bonner: So, I go to the mini camp. I'm at the summer league. I check into the first game and Kevin Garnett was sitting right courtside baseline underneath the hoop with like a bunch of his boys. And because there was only like 200 people in there, you could hear everything everyone saying. We were taking it out underneath out of bounds and he was like killing me. He was like you we talk about how redheads get made fun of. I mean, he's like, ‘This redheaded mofo,’ like ‘he can't play. You don't even have to guard his ass.’ He's just like killing me. And I'm like, ‘Dude, I'm like, come on.’ Like, I'm trying to make the team. I'm trying to make the team here. Everybody can hear it. People, there's like people in the stands laughing. I'm like, ‘Oh, this is so embarrassing.’ So I was not happy about that.
The New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association inducted its Hall of Fame Class of 2025 on Sunday. Two-time NBA champion Matt Bonner, of Concord, was the headliner. Bonner won three state championships at Concord High School before winning two professional titles with the San Antonio Spurs.
Mamukelashvili didn't play in the third quarter. But in the final frame, he lit up the Knicks for 21 points on 8-of-8 shooting, including 4-of-4 from 3-point range to go with 2 rebounds and 2 assists. Mamukelashvili heated up so much that teammate Chris Paul started calling actions down the stretch to get his teammate more looks. "Luckily, I've played for a while and sort of know the art of getting guys shots," Paul said. "Mamu is an amazing teammate. He comes in and works hard every day, cheers guys on, always in a good mood, good attitude. When he's shooting the ball like that, you just try to find the guy." Mamukelashvili became the fourth player in NBA history to shoot 90% from the field, 100% on 3-pointers and 100% on free throws in a game, joining Tyrese Haliburton (2022), Gary Payton (1995) and Charles Barkley. He also ranks as the third Spur to knock down 7-of-7 or better on 3-pointers, joining Matt Bonner (2010) and Steve Smith (2001).
With the NHL and NBA seasons set to get underway in the coming weeks, Sportsnet 590 The Fan announced a few changes to its afternoon radio look this week. One of the biggest changes comes via the network’s hour-long daily NBA show, with former Raptors cult hero Matt Bonner joining the fold to join previously existing host Blake Murphy.
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The first shot you officially took in the NBA was blocked. Do you remember who blocked it? Jerami Grant: Nah, I don’t. Let me know, let me know. It was Matt Bonner. Jerami Grant: F****** Matt Bonner? Damn! What the f*** was I on?
Veteran broadcaster Bill Land returns for his 19th season of calling Spurs basketball as the lead play-by-play announcer and former Spur Sean Elliott is in his 21st year as the lead analyst. Former Spur Matt Bonner is back for his fourth season at the studio desk alongside primary host Dan Weiss. Fans will notice two new additions during select broadcasts this season – former sports reporter Michelle Beadle as a special correspondent and former Spurs center Fabricio Oberto as a studio analyst.
There must be something about Fralo's Pizza that has a few San Antonio Spurs greats clamoring to get a hold of a pie. Spurs great Manu Ginobili, Matt Bonner and Tony Parker have stopped by the San Antonio pizzeria not only to fill their bellies, but to also do their part in supporting local San Antonio businesses during the COVID-19 crisis.
Gracias @manuginobili for always supporting Fralo’s! pic.twitter.com/zy9OLyY37t
— Fralo's Pizza 🍕 (@Fralos) March 30, 2020
Retired San Antonio Spurs forward Matt Bonner didn’t do any research when he and his 8-year-old daughter sat down to pick some stocks. “I wanted her to invest in something she’s interested in,” Bonner said during halftime of the Spurs’ contest against the Washington Wizards on Saturday.
Toys were easy enough. Bonner bought stock in Mattel for E.V.’s E-Trade custodial account. Flowers were a trickier industry to pin down, but a quick search turned up 1-800-Flowers, which is publicly traded and has done quite well for her portfolio. Its shares are up 30% over the last 12 months and 57.3% since E.V. invested about two years ago, he said. “That’s a pretty good return on investment,” said Bonner, who retired from the NBA in 2017 and now works as a sports analyst on the San Antonio Spurs TV Broadcast.
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Bonner, 39, so far owns shares Amazon, Apple and Coca-Cola. “J.P. Morgan is killing it,” he said. “Tesla is killing it.” Another stock he likes that’s performed well for him over the years is Waste Management.
Matt Bonner, Manu Ginobili and Beno Udrih had an "alumni meeting" with Coach Gregg Popovich at the Spurs practice facility this week. Udrih, a 2005 and 2007 Spurs Champion, shared an Instagram photo showing a huddle including the most recent induction to the Silver & Black retirees, Ginobili, with the hashtag "#PutMeInCoach."
Michael Wright: Pop on Mani Ginobili’s retirement continued: “We’d be talking on buses and airplanes. So you know that’s going to be gone. Once I realized he wasn’t going to play anymore, we’ve been talking with him about hanging around and being at practices every now and then like Timmy. We actually took him on our coaches retreat this past week. He spent time with us, trying to develop strategies for the season. So we want to keep him around as much as we can, just like Timmy. And Matt Bonner. But we don’t listen to Matt. We just tell him to do his jokes.”
Among this group, Becky Bonner is the one best positioned to smash the front office glass ceiling, say countless team and league officials who have worked with her. Her pedigree sets her apart—as a former high school star and Division I player, as a former college assistant coach, as a six-year veteran of the league office who's worked with LeBron James and played scout team defender against Kevin Durant and, perhaps most significantly, as the middle child of New Hampshire's first family of hoops. Older brother Matt Bonner played 12 seasons in the NBA after starring at Concord High. Younger brother Luke Bonner played four years in Division I and three years overseas. Becky was dribbling by kindergarten, playing on boys teams by fifth grade and battling her brothers just about every day of her youth. Being Matt's sister exposed Becky to the inner workings of an NBA franchise. Her six-year tenure in league operations revealed her as a savvy administrator and relationship-builder. Her deep ties to the game lead straight back to Concord. She is, at heart, a gym rat. "I speak player," she says.