RIP CITY! Blazers vs. Spurs at the Rose Garden Arena
Even though I’ve played basketball for at least 13 years of my life, I must say that I haven’t been to the same proportion of basketball games (well not counting the ones that I’ve played in). I went to my first Golden State Warriors game last season with my friend/coworker Karthik who found $25 lower level seats on craigslist (AWESOME) the day beforehand.
Last night after work & dinner, my coworker/friend Zebiba (haha, I feel funny using the slashes all the time, so just realize that all the coworkers that I write about in this blog are also friends) and I took the free light rail from downtown to the Rose Garden Arena to watch the Blazers take on the Spurs. Honestly, I’ve been a Spurs fan ever since they got Timmy Duncan and then Tony Parker, but it’s hard to feel right cheering for the away team at the Rose Garden. The atmosphere was such the ideal setting for any sports fan. Almost the entire arena of fans had on Blazers gear and the energy was great. I feel like at Warriors games people go just to go to a game, where Blazers fans go to cheer on the Blazers. No wonder they had a home record of last year.

- Check out the view from our upper level seats, this probably isn’t even that accurate. I think the players were actually bigger than this picture makes them.
Meg: If you’re reading this, I completely understand your obsession with the Blazers now. Man, if I lived in Portland, I think I’d love them too.
Honestly though, with all the different videos that they show on the big screen of each of the players in their own element, it’s hard not to find them goofy and kind of relatable. They had all sorts of funny videos, contests, giveaways during each timeout and break at the quarter. One of them included a flying car which would drop tickets for free prizes to the audience below.

Mimi says it looks pretty real. It was pretty mesmerizing watching that thing float around during halftime. No, no one is in it.
There were a few fans dressed up as Batman in honor of BatManu
with signs that taunted him for his bat swatting antics on Halloween. If you have been hiding under a rock for the last two weeks, here’s the video of it for you to watch:






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