Last night, a group of friends and I went to watch the Golden State Warriors take on last year’s league MVP, Derick Rose, and the Chicago Bulls. To say that the game was fun to watch would be an understatement. In order to understand what we experienced, you need to know the history of both the teams and the people in our group who attended the game.
Vicky and Juan are die-hard Warriors fans, always have been and always will be. My girlfriend and I are fans of the LA Lakers. Although we don’t live in Lakers “territory,” we still support the local Warriors. Now Enrique and Adriana are even further out of their team’s “territory,” because they are Bulls fans and obviously so, in full Bulls attire last night. Now that you are familiar with the attendees, let me explain the irony of the night’s matchup.
The Warriors were the underdog in this game. Why wouldn’t they be? They had just lost to a newly formed team, the Los Angeles Clippers, full of championship potential the night before, and were now up against a team, the Chicago Bulls, who made their presence known in last year’s playoffs, and are expected to only do better this year. The Bulls had just dominated the Lakers in their own house and had every intention of repeating that same punishment to a team that is not that familiar with playoffs and championships as of late. Shockingly, the Warriors had control of the game the entire night, balancing a pretty solid lead and making sure the Bulls fans in attendance remembered whose house it was.
Throughout the entire night, my friends and I shared some pretty memorable moments. We laughed, we cheered, we yelled, we got nervous, we got upset, and some of use even got saddened by the outcome. In the end, we all had fun. I absolutely had an amazing time with my friends at the Warriors game last night.
This was a paragraph I really wanted to include but would have made the blog too lengthy and off topic. Enjoy.
ReplyDelete"The Chicago Bulls are on the road and had just come from Los Angeles, where they stunned the entire Staples Center in a beautiful comeback against the Lakers, on the season opening game on Christmas day. On the same night, the Warriors were beaten by the Los Angeles Clippers, after spectacular performances from Blake Griffin, Mo Williams, and the-would-be-Laker-had-the-NBA-allowed-the-trade Chris Paul. Chris Paul was the main factor in the New Orleans Hornets team that swept the Lakers in the playoffs last year. Major moves were made to have Chris Paul traded to the Lakers, but higher forces ,NBA Commissioner David Stern, stopped that from happening. Now Chris Paul is in Los Angeles, but with the Clippers instead of the Lakers. All four teams who played the opening day games were serendipitously connected to our group and our presence at the game."