I’m happy to see the two teams that I’d been attached with over the years are finally growing into some prospect since I started watching NBA in 2000.
The Toronto Raptors and the Washinton Wizards.
Going to see a basketball game is such fun. I still remember the times I went to a Raptors’ game on a cozy cool summer night with friends and drinks. I enjoyed sitting upper rows and looking down at the shiny hardwood floor, the giant maple leaf flag and the glowing Raptors’ logo. And of course sometimes when I got lucky, I found myself having a slice of free pizza from pizza-pizza the next day because the Raptor’s won and scored over 100 pts.
I still remember once, after the game, at the entrance of Air Canada Center where the crowd was exiting, I looked up in the sky and saw an eclipse. When the beautiful pale moon was being shadowed, right over the lake, the stadium, the street lights and the people, I couldn’t help but thinking of J D Salinger and I depicted myself as the catcher in this land. I logged the scene and the emotion I had at the time, but from time to time, I can’t resist thinking back of that night over and over again and asked myself:
Where was I ? In the middle of the crowd, under the moon being shadowed, or I was nowhere, no one, no water, no moon ? Should I be there, or should I be somewhere else ? Was all these just my mere imagination ? The voices, the water, the echoes and the moonlight ——- all just illusions and hallucinations, and I was just by myself, totally detached from the scene, just one isolated piece of existence. I was nowhere.
The bottom line is, you don’t need a championship team to become a fan, to enjoy the games and a good time. Some good old days.