Sergeant First Class Rommel Fuentes has been a Spurs fan his whole life, but he didn’t get a chance to see the NBA Finals in 2003 or 2005.
“I was busy those years,” he said. “I was working in a combat support hospital in Iraq. We couldn’t really schedule around the Spurs games at that time.”
Fuentes, an El Paso native, has been in the Army for 19 years. He’s currently stationed at Fort Sam Houston, a few miles from the AT&T Center.
Although he missed a couple title runs with very good reason, the Spurs made it up to him last week.