Heres to the most boring Knicks game I have ever attended. So much for "exciting" basketball.
cool story though from my night at MSG:
For once I decided to hit the Garden early, usually my procrastinating ass arrives in my seats 5 min after tipoff... But this time me and the lady decided to make a day of it and have lunch + drinks prior to the early 6pm tipoff. That Jimmys BBQ spot had some real good pulled pork!! But onto the game, when we got to the garden I already had at least 1 full pitcher in me.. And we decided to buy 2 more beers each once we got inside... Its around 5:15 and we just basically stumbled around the arena trying to get as close a view as possible for warmups.
So as time winded down and the game was about to start, I asked my girlfriend "do you want to head to our seats? (Section 406) or just keep wondering around" being that we were both drunk as hell the obviously much more appealing choice was to keep wondering. So we did, and basically I decided to target the section furthest away from any security guards... Section 90. At the top of the purple seats, we sat down... And I'm tellin you not a single person bothered us for the entire game!!!! We were sittin pretty in $300 seats without even the slightest feeling of guilt, as nearly half the garden was empty. There were portions of the purple seats literally at least 20 empty seats all clumped together. There are some benefits for the knicks sucking!!!! Nobody comes and Nobody cares!!!
So here's where it gets interesting: My girl gets up to go to the bathroom... I'm thinkin I should go with her since shes drunk and will prolly get lost but my bad-boyfriendness-die-hard-knicks-fan-must-watch-gameness allowed her to go alone... nearly the entire 2nd quarter passes by and she still hasn't returned... I'm thinkin dam she musta got lost, she finally arrives excited as hell.. "I got picked for a contest!!!" I'm like oh ****!!! Before the game I had given her my THROWBACK (literally from like 7th grade) Anthony Mason jersey to wear, since I was so young it fit her pretty well... And not everyone has a ANthony Mason jersey (only real die hards) so she was looking like a rather exclusive(and cute) true blooded Knicks fan... They obviously spotted that and scooped her up for the contest! I got to go with her, about 5 minutes left in the 3rd quarter.. Down into the tunnel where the Knicks locker rooms are.. These 4 or 5 contestants were literally "warming up" LOL dribbling balls around chairs and **** while they got the instructions from the Garden employees. I kept tellin my girl mad strategy.. She was TWISTED too!! Mad drunk.. I was like "Stay low! Don't be afraid to push a bitch, they never said you couldn't.. go fast when your not in front of a chair, and slow when you are".. LOL mad musical chair coaching.. She was FOCUSED though... While we were down there Michael Redd came hobbling past us to the locker room after spraining his ankle.. And one of the other contestants screamed "MICHAEL REDD I LOVE YOU YOUR THE FUCKING MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" So hype and SO LOUD it was hilarious the entire MSG staff panicked like crazy trying to calm the fan down like "no no no no u cant do that!!!" lololol hilarious....
So out she goes, they put me in some EXCLUSIVE crazy ass seats for the last minute or so of the 3rd.. I was so drunk and so hype to see my girl on the garden floor lol.. NEITHER OF US EVEN KNEW WHAT SHE WAS COMPETING FOR??? They never told us what the prize was!!! Anyways, if you were there maybe you noticed the cute little Colombian girl "Karla' from Harlem with the Anthony Mason jersey WINNING the musical chairs contest during the 3rd-4th quarter intermission... That was my girl!!! LOL i was so hype.. screaming and **** trying to get down to her, but was stopped by garden security.. I still had no idea what we won.. But apparently it was 2 great ass seats for the Roy Jones fight this Saturday which I can't WAIT to go to!!!!
The only fishy thing is they didn't actually GIVE us the tickets.. they just took down our information and said "we will mail them to you" ... SOUNDS FISHY!!! If my girl don't get those tickets I'm raising hell!!!!!!! Anyways, mad fun for the rest of the game she was a little celebrity everyone we passed like "HEY YOU WON!!!! ANTHONY MASON!!!!"... For some reason I can't help but think my classic ass orange and blue blooded throwback Anthony Mason jersey had something to do with the whole thing!!!
So cheers to my fav Knick of all time, the baddest of the bad... Cold blooded...
ANTHONY MASON!!!!
Oh and the game sucked, horrible, boring. Jamal was awful, and I could tell from the first 5 minutes of the fourth we didn't come to play.. we just didn't bring it like we need to.
Pregame warmups tell me so much about this team, I swear they just goof around, they don't take it seriously. If I was Mike D I would set some rules for preparation and pre-game shootarounds.. They have to get in a more focused and determined frame of mind before games, they just have no spirit and energy... Mike's Post-Game press conference really nailed it, I think he gets it.. But now the big question is: What's he gunna do to fix it???
11/3/2008 2:20 PM
