Monday 2 April 2007

My First NBA Experience!!

Definitely an experience I'll never come to forget. On Wednesday, April 28th, I was fortunate to have my first taste of live NBA basketball. We went to the Air Canada Centre to watch the Toronto Raptors (my new adopted team) pit their skills against the defending NBA champs (hence my favourite team of course!!) Miami Heat.

Now as you can imagine, this being my first experience, I'm as eager as ever to get there. I was actually ready an hour ahead of schedule (it only takes about 20 mins to get to the stadium from where I'm based) and wondering, "Why the hell is it taking so long for us to leave?" Eventually we got there...WOW!! What an experience. Loads of fans and food, which was as pricey as expected. There was plenty of entertainment throughout the match during the timeouts, which made the time fly by so quickly...I was surprised. "Games usually last for ages on telly", I thought to myself when I realised we were already in the fourth quarter.

I have to admit I was a bit overwhelmed. I planned to take loads of pictures but I ended up with just a few. The Raptors won the game by 96 - 83 with Anthony Parker knocking down 20 points and Chris Bosh with a "double double" (13 points and 11 rebounds). The win moved Toronto into 3rd place, ahead of Miami in the Eastern Conference

Ummmhhhhhh.....what can I say?!!


Air Canada Centre...my adopted home stadium


Wooooow!!...... like Flava flav!!


Raptors dancers doin' their thing


Behind me, Mr. O'Neil wasn't having a good day


Didn't I say there was entertainment?

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