Bruise Brothers (San Antonio Spurs)

This article is about the basketball players. For other uses, see Bruise Brothers (disambiguation).

Bruise Brothers was a nickname given to a group of six big men who played for the San Antonio Spurs in the early 1980s: Dave Corzine, Reggie Johnson, Paul Griffin, Mark Olberding, Kevin Restani and George T. Johnson.[1]

In the 1980-81 season, they led the NBA in rebounds, blocked shots (3rd in fouls) and led the Spurs to a 52-30 record and a division title, while showing San Antonio a new brand of basketball built on hustle, physical play and a blue collar work ethic. In December 1980, the team recognized the "Bruise Brothers" nickname when it gave away 10,000 free posters using it to identify their front line. The name evoked the recently released hit film, The Blues Brothers.

The group was broken up in the fall of 1982, when Olberding and Corzine were traded to the Chicago Bulls for Artis Gilmore.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Jean Strouse, Rex Smith, Newsweek (1982), Volume 99, Issues 9-17.
  2. ↑ Texas Monthly (Dec 1982), Vol. 10, No. 12, p. 126.

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