On wednesday, I saw my first basketball game! It was the Toronto Raptors vs. the Washington Wizards. The original idea was for the b-girls to go see Mae Hem and her b-boy crew perform their breakdancing at the game, and Andrea was able to score us tickets for half price. It turned out that the b-boy team could not perform due to an emergency, but once Noel explained to us (a group of majority girls who had no clue about b-ball) that basketball is cool and if the Raptors score 100 points, everyone gets free pizza, we were all in for not scalping our tickets.
I was convinced I was gonna get the pizza.
The game was fun and riveting--the Raports were ahead of the Wizards the whole time and eventually won. The stand out parts:
- basket ball players are cute
- Chris Bosh threw the ball into the net from past the halfway line, and the ball went through exactly when the buzzer went to end the period. The crowd went nuts!
- The Raptors scored over 100 points, so free pizza. I was vindicated, because I held on to the hope while others made fun of me.
- The raptors dancers are pretty lame--break dancing would have been cooler.
The only downside is that you can only get your pizza the day after, and I missed the boat--I forgot my ticket at home, and there is a Pizza Pizza around the corner from my house, but it is now past midnight, and I don't want pizza anyways. But, whatever, tickets are so expensive that I just wanted to know that I won the pizza, cause it's likely a tiny percentage of the cost of my ticket anyways, it's not much of a deal.
Overall, I'm gonna be a basketball fan.
1 comment:
Next time invite me to the game too!
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