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Re: Should I Go to the Game Tonight?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 4:56 pm
by TAFKASP
You had me at fun night out with your daughter! None if the negatives outweigh that!
Re: Should I Go to the Game Tonight?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 6:46 pm
by Jester1534
FNG wrote:AbeVigodaLive wrote:Jester1534 wrote:CoolBreeze44 wrote:My biggest problem is my wife is working, and I was just informed my daughter the basketball player can't get in because she's not vaccinated and doesn't have the negative test result evidence to show. So it looks like it's either solo or stay home. I could probably get a really good ticket on the street seeing as it's a Tuesday night and I just need a single. I'm going to check Craig's list quick.
Spend the extra $150 and get a seat super close.
I did this with my Wife at begging of the season my sister was supposed to come with but she ended up not being able to go so the $150-175 I was going to spend on her ticket I got us courtside seats instead.
Everyone should try at least one game courtside
Never sat courtside. Always wanted to.
Some day... some day... hopefully.
Bucket list for every NBA fan for sure, but the price tag will make anyone other than a billionaire gulp. 15 years ago or so I had a client who had the two seats right next to the 4 Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis had. He definitely could not afford the entire season, so he tried to offload as many seats as he could...with no discount. I went twice, but like I said, it was more money than I probably should have been spending on a basketball game. I saw Alan Iverson in one of the two games, and I will always be impressed by his toughness...he was so much smaller than everyone else on the court, and I've never seen anyone take a beating like he did every time he drove the lane. He won me over that night.
The good part about courtsides is, being so close to the players, you will be amazed at their size and speed. And you can hear all the play calling and trash talking! The negative part, aside from the cost, is that it's really difficult at times to see what's going on...you might have a ref in front of you, or just being so close makes it difficult to follow the play. I don't know for sure, but I suspect jester might have sprung for tickets in the first 5 rows. They offer an experience similar to the courtside experience, but it's much easier to follow the action and the cost is about 1/4 the cost of courtside.
I'm excited to go Friday night in Phoenix, but being 20 rows up, my cost will be $150 per ticket instead of $2,000!
I recommend to go on Axs if your in town to try to get up close tickets. I been able to do this twice to get row 2 tickets but the day of the game some rich guy will throw them up for $300 a ticket around 4-5pm because they can't make it. The last time I got them against the pelicans were in town I sat right behind A-rod his blonde gal and right next to the gopher new head coach.
So 3 key things
Gotta be a team there playing that sucks or is missing key players (GSW game was cut in half once Curry was announced as out)
Use Axs because that's where season ticket people can easily put up there tickets for resale.
Wait till 3-5pm on game day
Re: Should I Go to the Game Tonight?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 8:49 pm
by Duke13
Agree with Jester, I wouldn't use Craigslist for tix. I sat courtside about 20 years ago, also right next to Jimmy Jam, sitting right next to him, I was 20 at the time, he pulled out the his rolled of 100's to pay for food, I couldn't believe it.
I sat 2nd row on the floor behind the wolves basket the other night for the Nets game. Very good atmosphere for a Sunday night game. Witnessed Arod was mucking it up in the Lexus Club
Re: Should I Go to the Game Tonight?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 8:53 pm
by Monster
If you are too cheap or don't have the money to sit close at an NBA game then try and get to a game really early and watch some guys warm up. I took a road trip with some friends to a Nuggets game years ago and we ended up there super early (we had cheap seats with free hot dogs and pepsi or something) so we went down to the lower level and watched the scrubs warm up. It was really fun. Mateen Cleaves looked absolutely jacked up close and one of the assistant coaches was doing trick shots from the bench.
There is something about being close to the action. I think that's one of the draws of going to NBA Summer league. You can be a part of the event sit closer than you might otherwise be able to chat with people from teams etc.
If you live in a college town I find it fun to attend some of the sports that are a little less well attended and you can really be a part of the action of those athletes. If you have kids it's a real blast for them to be able to really interact with the athletes. For example Nebraska Women's soccer team does a lot of things that involves the larger community. I haven't attended a match for a couple years now and thinking about it now I actually really miss it. Something always came up this year so I didn't go.
Re: Should I Go to the Game Tonight?
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:13 am
by Camden [enjin:6601484]
Well, it definitely wasn't game of the year quality, but it certainly got exciting in the fourth quarter and most importantly ended with a win. If you went, I hope you had a blast. Now get out of there before the blue-haired Karen's attack.
Re: Should I Go to the Game Tonight?
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:22 am
by AbeVigodaLive
FNG wrote:AbeVigodaLive wrote:Jester1534 wrote:CoolBreeze44 wrote:My biggest problem is my wife is working, and I was just informed my daughter the basketball player can't get in because she's not vaccinated and doesn't have the negative test result evidence to show. So it looks like it's either solo or stay home. I could probably get a really good ticket on the street seeing as it's a Tuesday night and I just need a single. I'm going to check Craig's list quick.
Spend the extra $150 and get a seat super close.
I did this with my Wife at begging of the season my sister was supposed to come with but she ended up not being able to go so the $150-175 I was going to spend on her ticket I got us courtside seats instead.
Everyone should try at least one game courtside
Never sat courtside. Always wanted to.
Some day... some day... hopefully.
Bucket list for every NBA fan for sure, but the price tag will make anyone other than a billionaire gulp. 15 years ago or so I had a client who had the two seats right next to the 4 Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis had. He definitely could not afford the entire season, so he tried to offload as many seats as he could...with no discount. I went twice, but like I said, it was more money than I probably should have been spending on a basketball game. I saw Alan Iverson in one of the two games, and I will always be impressed by his toughness...he was so much smaller than everyone else on the court, and I've never seen anyone take a beating like he did every time he drove the lane. He won me over that night.
The good part about courtsides is, being so close to the players, you will be amazed at their size and speed. And you can hear all the play calling and trash talking! The negative part, aside from the cost, is that it's really difficult at times to see what's going on...you might have a ref in front of you, or just being so close makes it difficult to follow the play. I don't know for sure, but I suspect jester might have sprung for tickets in the first 5 rows. They offer an experience similar to the courtside experience, but it's much easier to follow the action and the cost is about 1/4 the cost of courtside.
I'm excited to go Friday night in Phoenix, but being 20 rows up, my cost will be $150 per ticket instead of $2,000!
1. Yeah. My former gig's former owner had really good seats. We'd all get tickets to a game or two a year... about 4 or 5 rows up behind the basket. Good seats... but not where you could hear all the action and feel like you were in the action good. We always jumped on those. But we ignored the Lynx tickets offer every time. So, in a fit of liberal rage for us not giving the Lynx players their just due... he took all the tickets away. LOL.
2. A good buddy and his brother always went courtside to one game per year (repeat story). My favorite story was when the Seattle Supersonics came to town. Used to pummeling the Wolves, they were probably taking it easy... so in warm-ups, Gary Payton and Greg Anthony made a bet over three pointers. They'd both take a bunch and the loser would have to make up the difference in number of shots (liquor) later that night.
Payton made several in a row, 7 or 8 or more. Greg Anthony missed his first one. And the rest of the warm-up was basically the entire Sonics team busting his balls. Seattle still won the game.
[Note: Looking at basketballreference.com... that game was the last of a 5-game road trip for the eventual 61-win team before heading home and a couple of days off. I'm sure a lot of booze flowed on that plane ride home. Probably not coincidentally... Vin Baker was on that team and soon developed a doozy of a well-documented drinking problem.]
Re: Should I Go to the Game Tonight?
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 11:30 am
by SameOldNudityDrew
If you don't live in Minnesota and have a chance to see the Wolves play a local team, definitely go. I used to live (relatively) near Memphis and I lived in Philly and Chicago too, and I tried to go see them whenever they came to town. Those were some lean years, and yeah, you can see everything more close up on TV, but we can see them on TV anytime. In person, for those of us who don't live in Minnesota, that's a rarity.
For people like me and KiwiMatt, we basically have no chance to see them in person. So if can, definitely go check 'em out because you can.
I get the sense a lot of guys on the board go pretty often in Minnesota, but for those who don't get the chance much, I recommend getting preseason tickets and getting as close to the floor as possible. Normally, I couldn't really spring for lower level tickets in the regular season, but I went to a Bulls preseason game every year for a while there in the Derrick Rose era and got as close as the 4th or 5th row. It was really mind-blowing to see how big those guys are, and you realize you can't really appreciate the athleticism of a guy like Rose until you're right there (God, he was a marvel when he was young). The game meant nothing, but just for the pleasure of seeing how big and how impressive some of the best basketball players in the world really were, it was perfect. Just a ton of fun.
Re: Should I Go to the Game Tonight?
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:56 pm
by Monster
SameOldNudityDrew wrote:If you don't live in Minnesota and have a chance to see the Wolves play a local team, definitely go. I used to live (relatively) near Memphis and I lived in Philly and Chicago too, and I tried to go see them whenever they came to town. Those were some lean years, and yeah, you can see everything more close up on TV, but we can see them on TV anytime. In person, for those of us who don't live in Minnesota, that's a rarity.
For people like me and KiwiMatt, we basically have no chance to see them in person. So if can, definitely go check 'em out because you can.
I get the sense a lot of guys on the board go pretty often in Minnesota, but for those who don't get the chance much, I recommend getting preseason tickets and getting as close to the floor as possible. Normally, I couldn't really spring for lower level tickets in the regular season, but I went to a Bulls preseason game every year for a while there in the Derrick Rose era and got as close as the 4th or 5th row. It was really mind-blowing to see how big those guys are, and you realize you can't really appreciate the athleticism of a guy like Rose until you're right there (God, he was a marvel when he was young). The game meant nothing, but just for the pleasure of seeing how big and how impressive some of the best basketball players in the world really were, it was perfect. Just a ton of fun.
Good point about going to a preseason game. For some people that means you can go to an NBA game if you don't live in an NBA city. A few years ago my Dad and I went to see a preseason game here in Lincoln. I think my Dad actually enjoyed it more than me. I don't know if he had ever been to an NBA game before that. The security to get in was a little more extensive than the last preseason game I went to a few years ago...in 1997. Lol