Wow what a night this was. Hands down the best game of the season and one of my new favorite stories as well. Let me start with a little history. In negotiating my season tickets I tried milking every little thing I could from my poor sales rep. One of the thing's he promised me was to get down on the court before a game and watch the players warm up. Now for those lucky to be on the Club level this is a given if you show up at 6pm when they open the doors. But for us Club 200 folk i.e nose bleed non corporate real fans we don't get to see the players close up unless it's at home in HD. Anyway it was time to cash in on one of my purchase promises. So he meets us and gives us Club level coupons. These basically give us Access to the main bar on the Club level. Been there and done that many times in the past so nothing to new exciting. Made me miss those ticket hook ups that ran dry though. So he brings us down on the floor, front row Nike to the maple. A bunch of kids already had taken all the seating on the Warriors side so we sat closer to San Antonio. I started snapping pictures left and right watching everyone and their various warm up techniques. This was a lot different warm up then you see if you arrive a half hour or so before the game. It seemed to be a more specialized warm up rather then the old shoot around. Guys are working with coaches on certain things etc.
So here I am snapping pictures of Spurs and Warriors. Every now and then a ball comes over my way and I get to toss it to one of the coaches. Never got to bounce pass to Robert Horry or anything. But it was cool none the less. Then as I was snapping pictures of the Warriors I hear out of my right ear "So how was the sandwich?". I look up and in amazement Brent Barry is asking me this. First thing I thought was what the hell is he talking about. Mind you I have no Sandwich in my hand and had not eaten anything inside the Arena. So I answer him back with a "Huh...What Sandwich?". He then responds with "Didn't I see you a few hours ago in SF getting a sandwich?". Realizing now he has mistaken me for someone else I respond back telling him no it was not me. That's when it got real funny and he said "Damn to bad I was hoping it was you. Because the guy's girlfriend was hot". He then went back about his business warming up. So that's my Brent Barry story. The thing I find the most interesting about it is how random it was. Normally when you have a story involving a famous person it's you approaching them. This cracked me up cause here I am minding my own business and I get to hear Brent Barry talking about some guy's hot girl friend. Anyway that was a blast we stayed on the floor for a almost an hour just watching and chatting it up with the sales guy.
Then comes arguably the best game so far this season. Duncan was rumored to be not playing and he never showed his face when I was down on the floor. He did end up playing and although it was bad for the Warriors for fantasy reasons I was happy. I think it also made our win that much more sweet. Knowing San Antonio had their best players suited and we still pulled off a Win made it that much more meaningful. Sure the Spurs played the night before in LA but this is the champs we are talking about. The entire game felt like a playoff game. It was intense and the crowd was into every possession. Overtime scared me because both our big men had 5 fouls. So one or two wrong moves could of cost us the game. We buckled down though and finished strong. Jackson finally came to life and Baron my god he is amazing. Those MVP chants are starting to have some serious meaning now. Well great game great story to tell what more can you ask for. It sure is a great time out!
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