A very kinda attending, Dr. Dong who seems at times more like a resident than an attending, invited me to a Sacramento Kings game wit him. Him and his business partners share a season ticket to the Kings games and divvy up the games they go to.
Last night it was the Kings vs. Blazers. We were both eager to see Greg Oden in action (last year's first round draft pick who had knee surgery and thus wasn't able to play all year, so this year is actually his debut year).
First of all, I have to mention how close the seats were to the floor, I counted the rows and saw that we were only 15 rows away from the court. It was amazing, I could see what kind of shoes the players were wearing, and even see the number 7 Brandon Roy (star player of the blazers) had on his shoes. I also noticed that two of the players had the same shoes as me, the nike Hyperdunks, although I have to say that the color of my shoes are way better (black and gray). Dante Green, a forward for the kings had the white and purple version, and Rudy Fernandez of the Blazers had the black and white version.
But the fact that I could see their shoes was amazing.
During the starting line up announcement the Sacramento Kings Dancers stood in the aisleways right next to us. If I wanted to, I could reach right out and touch one of them (don't worry Lana, i didn't). But compared to the Staples Center, we never could get that close to the Clipper girls.
Also Arco Arena is very small and cozy, where Staples Center has three tiers (we always sit in the nosebleed third tier seats), Arco only has 2 tiers. In fact it wasn't very large (it always seemed very big on TV), and is comparable in size to Pauley Pavillion in UCLA.
It was also only about 40% filled to capacity. There were a lot of empty seats, which was new to me since I was used to the full crowds in Staples Center.
There were only 2 Sacramento Kings girls performances in total compared to the minimum of 4 the Clipper Girls usually do. During time outs and breaks the Kings girls were no where to be found. One of the Kings girls dance routines was a line dance. During the rest of the breaks they showed clips from rodeos. My attending kept commenting on how appropriate this was for what a "hick town" Sacramento is.
At first I was making fun of the Rodeo video clips, and then suddenly I found myself being really entertained. It was a lot of fun seeing those bulls toss up the rodeo riders like rag dolls! sometimes almost 20 feet in the air!
During one of the time outs, the Jumobtron (big monitor in the sky) went around and did the kiss cam thing (they focus in on a couple and the couple is supposed to kiss), and on the last couple, the camera lingered, and the guy bent down on one knee and proposed to the girl sitting next to him. She said yes. Everyone cheered, as did I, after all, isn't it nice to see true love on the jumbotron? I couldn't help but think that it would have sucked if she said "no" or "i need some time to think."
Oh yeah, the Kings are horrible and lost by a large margin. They're horrible. Greg Oden appears much bigger without his warm ups on.
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