NBA BBall

I was going to be near Charlotte NC and I thought I would see if there was a game that night. There was - Charlotte Bobcats vs the Milwaukee Bucks. The tickets were $11 each. What a deal. Granted they arent' the best teams in the league. In fact last year, Charlotte was the worst in the league. This year they have a losing record, but it isn't terrible. Milwaukee seems to have taken Charlotte's spot this year as worst in the league. They're coming off a 10 game losing streak (tonight made 11) and don't look to have a lot of prospects. In fact they were on the news this morning. Attendance in Milwaukee has been so bad, they are offering season tickets of the rest of the season at $99. It comes out to be about 3 or 4 dollars a ticket. Anway, tonight wasn't exactly Clash of the Titans. Excepting junior high games, this had the most air balls I remember ever seeing in a game. Seriously. Milwaukee had three in the first two minutes. Again, seriously.

I was hoping to see the Bobcats' owner in attendance (Michael Jordan). He wasn't. I saw a black guy with front row seats wearing a white t-shirt. I thought that might be him. If it was a Hanes T-shirt that would all make sense. Hanes is one of the billion companies Michael has had advertising contracts with. It turned out not to be Michael. It was hard to tell. It turned out that my $11 seats were fairly high up. The good thing about our seats is that even if your peripheral visions isn't great, its not a problem. You can easily see the entire floor all at once. I do not like heights and I don't like to spend a lot of money. That leads to a real conundrum (not exactly sure what that word means) when ordering tickets. It turns out ticket price and distance from the floor are inversely proportional. However, I've perfected getting to my seat without too much anxiety. I climb the many, many steps until I come to my seat, careful not to look behind me. I get there and turn and sit in one motion without opening my eyes. Then I open them, have about a 15 second anxiety attack that quickly goes away. Then, I'm fine.

So, being bad teams, I didn't know a lot of the players. Patrick Ewing was an assistant coach. I knew O.J. Mayo, because ESPN loves to periodically make some joke about "Hold the Mayo". And I knew Luke Ridenour because he used to be an Oregon Duck. Both teams were on losing streaks, but Charlotte got the win. At the end, some fans were chanting "Bring on the Heat", as that is their next game. Don't get crazy. O.J. Mayo is not LeBron James.