Open Thread: How San Antonio gets the day off to celebrate two Spurs legend’s birthdays

Big Fun and the Iceman means no school today When I was a kid, we got out of school for Abraham Lincoln’s birthday and George Washington’s birthday. They were ten days apart. I’m not sure when it happened, but they eventually lumped them into “President’s Day,” probably for fear we’d someday end up with too many celebratory days off. I propose a similar holiday for Pounders. Yesterday was Tim Duncan’s 48th birthday. Tomorrow is George Gervin’s 72nd birthday. And if you are in San Antonio, then you already know there is no school today. What? No school! How? Well, I’d...