SAN ANTONIO – The world stopped for sports fans when Adam Silver announced the NBA season would be suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  

In San Antonio this meant no more Spurs games, but for the NBA franchise's part-time employees like Eric Byrd, it means no work. 

Byrd is famously known as the Spurs dancing usher — he even has a custom Fiesta medal in his honor.

“I enjoy myself, it keeps me going. I just sit there and keep my motor running and ya know, make them happy,” Byrd said. “They always ask me, ‘Are you going to dance tonight? Are you going to do this?’ And I say it’s up to the camera man.”

For the last week Byrd has been relaxing on the porch of his in his East Side home just minutes away from the AT&T Center where the team normally plays, trying to digest everything. 

“This is getting serious - oh my God. How am I going to pay my bills? What am I going to do?” Byrd said. “Well I’m paid up for right this moment but what is going to happen next month?” 

That’s the kind of anxiety the coronavirus has created for many waiting to be allowed to work again. 

Byrd’s second job—a grill cook at St. Phillips College— is in limbo as well as the college is  closed, and even though Byrd says he was told they’d return to work around April 2, he’s not sure if that date will still happen or not.

Spurs Sports and Entertainment announced that it formed a $500,000 fund that would pay its part-time employees through the rest of the Spurs and Rampage seasons. 

Byrd says he’s yet to hear when that money will be made available but he plans on waiting patiently for word or a check in the mail.