Once my posse arrived (Bookie, Shark and Shark's friend), it was time to go see the Nuggets take on the Clippers. With the roads clear and dry, it was time to hit the interstate and venture down to Denver for the game.
The biggest surprise of the night came when we entered the arena and saw that the night’s
promotional item of the game in the gift shop was a yellow colored Chris “Birdman” Anderson T-shirt. Awesome!It wasn’t just awesome because it was a Birdman T-shirt, but it was awesome because my friend Bookie has been the BIGGEST Birdman hater. It’s called Karma. For no reason at all…besides the fact that I like Birdman…Bookie has dogged on the poor guy since day one. Bookie refers to the guy as looking like a homeless guy rolling out of a trash dumpster. Poor guy…all he wants to do is play B-ball.
The best part about all this…Bookie finally caved in and has accepted Birdman! Ka-Kah! Yep. The hater has come to the darkside. Join the flock and together we shall rule the association.
Bookie crossed over and for a cheap asking price of $10…he bought a Birdman T-shirt. Success!Highlights of the Game:
- In honor of Green week, the Nuggets came out supporting their “green”
jerseys. The jerseys are pretty cool looking, but they remind me of The Notre Dame Fighting Irish too much.
- It was “theme” night at the Pepsi Center. Tonight’s game was…drum roll…Kid’s Appreciation Night. Whoopee! The Nuggets brought in local team mascots to help out Super Mascot Rocky in entertaining the kids. In attendance was:
o Miles: The Denver Broncos horse mascot
o Cam the Ram: The Colorado State University mascot
o Chip: The Colorado Buffaloes mascot
o Dinger: The Colorado Rockies Barney-Jurassic Park-reject mascot (who by the way…in my opinion was violating little kids)
o And four Colorado Rapids mascots. FOUR!? WTF!? What happened to the Kool-Aid looking guy Rapid Man? Apparently now they have four animals, a fox (Fraz), raccoon (Jorge), eagle (Edson), and a bull (forgot the name...but it’s a Hispanic name)
- Staying along the mascot highlight…Bookie kept encouraging the kid across the row (who looked like Jay Cutler Jr.) to entice the mascots walking down below to come up to the third deck.
- Two super hot chicks that worked for the Nuggets organization. I nicknamed them “Legs” and “Greenie”. There was a third at the beginning of the game named “Boots”, but we never saw her again.- Rocky hitting his half court shot on his third attempt
- Johan Petro matching Eric Gordon in scoring with 7 pts. Big deal…right? It was! I’ve followed Eric Gordon since last year when he was a freshman at Indiana University. He was slated as the next big thing and would go as the #1 pick in the draft. Over the course of the year, I saw about 5 or 6 Indiana B-ball games…and he didn’t impress me one bit. Gordon actually sucked most of those nights. Draft night comes along and he gets picked seventh overall by the Clippers. Now I get to see him up close and personal and he gets matched in points by a very raw and unproved lanky bench player named Petro. Ah…yes…the curse of Gordon continues.
- JR Smith knocks down (7) three pointers and scores a game high 34.
- The shorthanded Clippers play eight guys and force Zach Randolph to play every minute of the game (until mid 4th quarter when they were down by 20)
- And to backup his Birdman “Item of the Game” T-shirt, Chris Anderson finished with 13 pts, 8 rbs, 3 blks and one HUGE thunderous dunk coming off the bench
My Overall Nuggets record:
46 - 34
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Is there anyway I can get you to get me a "Birdman" T-Shirt? Let me know
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