Ellis gets retired.. vs WAS

What a strange turn of events this night turned out to be. Let me start with how I ended up at this game in the first place. It was Monday and I had a busy day at work. By the time Noon rolled around I pretty much figured I needed a night off. It was the Wizards without Agent 0 or Butler also. I figured this was an easy win and didn't want to see those god awful Gold Wizards Jerseys anyway. Talked with my buddy and he agreed lets pass and watch it on TV. So I put our tickets up for sale on the Warriors ticket exchange. The way it works is if they do not sell before 2 hours till the game then they expire and are still valid. So 5:30pm rolls around and I get an email saying they did not sell. I am home now and feeling a lot less lethargic now. Looking at the ticket I notice this is game 25. That made me start thinking back to what games I had missed so far. Out of the 25 games well 27 if you count pre season I had missed 3 so far. Why extend it to 4 I thought. I then call up my friend and he still did not feel like going. My wife ended up joining me and Grammy and Pop Pop got stuck with babysitting duty again. We figured since I did not originally plan on going anyway that we could leave early and give the grandparents a break without feeling like we wasted the tickets.



So we make our way to the game and it's pretty dead. Lot's of open seats everywhere in good old club 200. We decide to upgrade our seats and plop down as close as we can get. Everything is going good the Wizards dont have the ugly jerseys on. Everyone is reminiscing on the old Jamison days. In first few minutes of the game though you start to notice a trend. Every single shot the Wizards put up is going in and damn near the exact opposite is happening to us. Compound that with the fact the refs seem to think every move we make is a foul and the Wizards are really Angels. It was insanely lopsided in the calls seriously. I am not talking with foolish pride here either. Anyway I started to put two and two together. The last time we played this shitty was against Chicago. Then I was wearing my Ellis jersey. I normally wear a Jackson or Davis jersey and the Jackson jersey has never seen a loss. At the Chicago game I told my friend I notice when I wear the Ellis they always lose. Anyway so halftime comes we are down by 23 and my wife starts talking about leaving. In my mind I am thinking "This Jersey has to leave the building in order for the dubs to win". So I agree and head on out. We listen to the game on the way home and we start to make some strides. By the time I arrived on my couch and turned the game on we were only down by 4 points. I then took off my Ellis Jersey and sat down. What came next was clutch of all clutchness Jackson set a new points record for himself and got us a hard won win. I know it's crazy and probably meaningless. But the Ellis Jersey is being retired from games and the Jackson is not getting washed till playoffs!