Tuesday, June 2, 2009

NBA Playoffs and Mel's Parents

LeBron and the Cavs got beat by the Magic and won't be playing for the NBA championship; I am crushed. This was supposed to be their season!

Nevertheless, Mel's parents had the opportunity of a lifetime to go see Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals in Cleveland on Saturday (May 30). That by itself is pretty awesome, and I couldn't help but to be jealous of them. But to top it all off, their seats were two rows behind the Cavs bench! And regular season Cavs games are exciting enough to begin with; I can't imagine how great the atmosphere is at a do-or-die playoff game!

The whole time I was watching the game I'd look very closely every time there was a shot of the Cavs bench, squinting to make out their faces on our tiny analog TV. (It definitely would've been nice to watch this game in HD). Well, I finally pegged down where they were sitting--it's pretty tricky when the people in the crowd are just little blurry blobs. Here's a photo pointing them out, along with a few other celebrities* sitting in the row in front of them (the 'friends and family of the team' row). And yes, I took a picture of the TV with my camera.

(click the picture to enlarge it)

The Sports Illustrated photographers also captured a photo of Jim and Linda behind their famous seat-buddies. It's much better quality of course.

-jason

*For those of you uninformed about sports, Mariano Rivera and A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez) play for the New York Yankees, and Josh Cribbs plays football (kick returner) for the Cleveland Browns.

3 comments:

Andy said...

GO MAGIC GO muhahaha

Jason said...

Andy, it's cute how you only care about sports when your hometown team beats one of my teams (and by cute, I mean irritating). I should delete your comment. I have that power! I own this blog! So be nice.

Deanna Risser said...

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing!