Meet the Spurs’ most unlikely superfans: The nuns behind their NBA Finals run

The women are expected to arrive for Game 2 of the NBA Finals as they arrived for Game 1, and for many games before that.

They’ll be wearing their traditional nun’s habits and San Antonio Spurs jerseys. They’ll also be rooting (and praying) for the home team when the Spurs take on the New York Knicks at the Frost Bank Center on Friday, June 5.

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It makes the nuns almost as easy to spot as Victor Wembanyama, the Spurs’ 7-foot-4 phenom. And like Wemby and the rest of the Spurs, the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco in San Antonio have become celebrities in their own right.

Perhaps even rivaling the celebrity of Sister Jean, the late basketball-loving chaplain at Loyola-Chicago.

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