SAN ANTONIO — Friday at 7 p.m. on the button, Frost Bank Center was filling up, and Louis Korkames was deep into his pregame routine: painting shiny Spurs logos onto toddlers’ faces in the arena’s vast concourse. The calm before the storm. Like many of the 19,034 fans who stuffed the arena, Korkames was no stranger to big games. He’s spent more than 31 years delighting kids with custom facial art, but on Friday his brush was a tad more jittery than usual, given the magnitude of the game about to unfold.
“Oh, it’s crazy, the energy,” he said, waving his paintbrush in the air for emphasis. “It’s double, it’s triple!”
