Porter's teammates would have to agree. The city that gave the world Old Milwaukee, also has produced a basketball team that has left the Spurs with a two-year hangover.

"I don't think we've beaten them," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said, "since Reagan was in the White House."

While the Spurs don't have to go back quite that far to their last victory over the Bucks (March 16, 1998), they have lost four straight games in the series, their longest current regular-season slide against any team. It's a streak the Spurs would like to end when they face the Bucks tonight at the Alamodome and again Saturday in Milwaukee.