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Every NBA team’s biggest celebrity fan

By Brendon Kleen

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BEVERLY HILLS, CA – JULY 30: Actor Danny Trejo of El Rey Network’s ‘From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series’ attends the Getty Images Portrait Studio powered by Samsung Galaxy at 2015 Summer TCA’s at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 30, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Samsung)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – JULY 30: Actor Danny Trejo of El Rey Network’s ‘From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series’ attends the Getty Images Portrait Studio powered by Samsung Galaxy at 2015 Summer TCA’s at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 30, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Samsung) /

San Antonio Spurs: Danny Trejo

One time, a human being who has given himself a nickname usually used for a jungle sword visited an NBA Finals locker room before Game 1. Real life.

The actor and producer Danny Trejo, creator and star of the Machete movies, was apparently in Tony Parker’s locker stall ahead of Game One of the 2014 NBA Finals. That’s the no-AC game that Parker won with a wild end-of-shot-clock spinneroo.

This definitely means that Trejo is a magic man and a good luck charm. It also means he is a super important part of the Spurs’ success as a fan. What’s frustrating is that Trejo actually was born in California and moved to Texas later. But even though San Antonio is a top-ten city in the US in terms of population, there are hardly any famous people in Texas. That means that even someone like Trejo being excited about the Spurs is a big deal. He is their best celebrity fan by a mile.

A lot of that comes from how cool the stuff he does can be. A boring actor like Tom Hanks would not make a good basketball fan, but a hardened and aggressive actor like Trejo is perfect.

The actor is endlessly fascinating. He has played multiple characters named Machete in different film universes, from Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse to Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids. I am so interested in how this is possible. It also makes me wonder if he maybe thought that by pressing really hard on the top of Parker’s locker stall that he might be able to will himself into actually being Parker. Trejo’s concept of narrative universes is so wrong.

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What really makes Trejo the best celebrity Spurs fan is that he is quintessentially Texas. He feels like the embodiment of actual Spurs fans rather than just rich or die-hard ones, and understands the right amount of fun to have with basketball. He doesn’t take it too seriously, except when he takes it really super seriously out of nowhere. Trejo is fun; the Spurs are not. It works.

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