Free Ballin’

I left Washington D.C. on Wednesday, Nov. 12th, on the 8:30PM Greyhound to Oklahoma City. I arrived in OKC around 6AM on Friday, the 14th, something less than when I departed. Oh, I was fine, but I’d had maybe 4 hours of restless sleep since we’d left and Greyhoud buses are not made for people [...]

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Indiana is a good example of a bad team. Danny Granger seems to be big-time (I’ll give you more impressions when I see them play in a few days) but they have a third of their cap-space tied up in two non-stars, Mike Dunleavy and Troy Murphy, for three more years. Neither can defend their [...]

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I haven’t encountered many, because I haven’t had as much of an opportunity to go out and about as I’d like (as explained in previous post) but also, the Thunder don’t seem to have entrenched themselves in the community, yet. It’s perfectly understandable; it’s a new team and the way the Thunder came to OKC [...]

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Tonight is the highly anticipated first game for Free Ballin’ for the ’08-’09 season, between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Houston Rockets. I’m excited, and I’m also meeting Jake (with whom I’m riding-sharing to Dallas) at the game; his girlfriend had tickets. Of course I also need to find a place to stay tonight. [...]

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I went online to get tickets last night, but I didn’t feel like paying Ticketmaster $17 for $10 tickets, so instead I just went to the Ford Center early this morning.  Too early.  OKC doesn’t wake up until noon on Sundays, and the Ford Center’s box office didn’t open until 1PM. Actually, all OKC downtown [...]

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