Photo TR: Warriors Opening Night

[Bush985]

So those of you who know me, know that I'm a huge Sacramento Kings fan, but I just enjoy the sport period. Needless to say, I love going to Warriors games, just for the atmosphere.

 

So I called Sarah this afternoon and said, Lets go to the Warriors game tonight, it started at 7:30, and I bought $10 tickets online. We get to the arena, pick up our tickets at will call and go in and sit down, top row of the arena, not suprising, cheap tickets.

 

We are sitting there and some guy comes and sits down next to us, we start chatting and we find out that this guy works for the NBA, well diving more into it, he is the Sacarmento Kings Emcee and his main job is too pump up the crowd during games. If any of you are NBA fans, he is knwon around the league as "Big Mike." Of course naturally me being a sports fan we started chatting it up. Sarah wasn't interested at first, but once we found out his list of credentials included the MTV Movie/Music Awards voice... I think we were both impressed. He even did the voice for us, it was pretty cool.

 

Needless to say, if that wasn't enough, I was telling Big Mike bout my radio stuff (I do sports announcing in San Jose for San Jose State University) and he says, "Well this is your lucky night, my wife is the Executive producer for KMBR." KMBR is the SF Bay Area Sports Station which is home to the Golden State Warriors and San Francisco Giants. I was shocked. So we spent the rest of the game hanging out with this semi-celebrity and his wife who are awesome contacts for me and my career.

 

They ended up leaving mid-way through the 4th quarter, but Jenn (his wife) gave me her card and invited me into the studio sometime, and Mike (Big Mike) invited me up to a Kings game in his personal seats. I was stoked! The other cool thing is Jenn knew one of my friends who I worked at the station with, and was now working for her. That six degrees of seperation is pretty crazy.

 

Just thought I would have to share this pictures are below... Here is more information on Big Mike.

 

http://www.nba.com/kings/news/Big_Mike.html

 

Here is his history:

 

As an Announcer .....

 

 

The Kings

NBA All-Star Game and All Star Saturday

MTV Video Music Awards Red Carpet

MTV Movie Awards

Hersheys Million Dollar Kick (Superbowl)

MTV Rock n' Jock Basketball

MTV Rock n' Jock Superbowl

AT&T Legends Shootout

ESPN Celebrity Game

Nickelodeon's "Let's Just Play"

 

As a Host......

 

The ESPY's Red Carpet w/ Linda Cohn

Frankie Muniz Hoopla

Mary Kate and Ashley Olsens' "To Russia with Love"

Hoops in Vegas with Tom Arnold

NFL Beach Bowling with Warren Moon

Fox's Celebrity Softball

 

As an Opening Act or Audience Warm up for ........

Jay-Z , Pink, Smashmouth, The Foo Fighters, Blink 182, Ludacris, Outkast, Brittney Spears, No Doubt, Mary J. Blige, Tribe Called Quest, and many others.

 

As Television Host....

 

Do It Yourself Kids

Halloween Helpers

Christmas with Nsync

 

Needless to say, onto the pictures.

 

Sarah and I on BART on our way to Oakland Arena.

Great... the first thing you see when you get off BART. Three cops and a guy lying on the ground. Hopefully he didn't get shot.

Look familar Rick? Luckily I didn't get shot tonight either.

The newly renamed Oracle Arena. They were quick to get the logo up.

The view from our seats.

Good game till second half, then the Lakers broke it open.

Another shot.

They did win a championship way back when? Will this be the year again.. Probably not.

A shot of me.

I liked this picture. That is it.

 

Warriors ended up losing the game, but it was still an awesome experience meeting "Big Mike" and his wife Jenn.

 

-RD