SAN ANTONIO — Charles Amato and Gary Dudley, the two co-owners of Southwest Business Corporation, a financial services firm with many credit union clients, will add two more NBA championship rings to their collection in January 2008 when the fruits of this year's San Antonio Spurs victory are handed out.

The pair, through SWBC, have been part owners of the San Antonio Spurs since 1993, when the two responded to an effort to organize local corporations to buy the team.

"The team was facing the prospect of being sold and moved and there were enough of us who considered that a bad development that we were able to organize, come to terms and make the purchase," explained Amato.

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