Harlem Globetrotters!

On January 6, I bought two tickets to see the Harlem Globetrotters with Spence on March 24 at the Verizon Center.  On January 10, Spence was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. (You can read updates about Spence here.) I was really excited about going with him, but after he went into the hospital and started chemotherapy, I soon realized that he would probably not be able to go with me. I kept on hoping that maybe that would be the week he was out of the hospital and he could still come, but alas it was not.

Although I was sad about not be able to go with Spence, I was able to go with Adam. And it was a lot of fun! If you've never been to a Harlem Globetrotters game, I would recommend it.  It was highly entertaining!

 During one of the plays, one of the Globetrotters got on the shoulders one of the other ones and they ran to the hoop and made a basket like that.  This is the player that was on the shoulders and he held on to the hoop and couldn't get down because he was "afraid" of heights.

 The mascot came out during one of the plays and started dancing.  This guy was hilarious!  I can't describe it, you just had to see it.

 The globetrotters dancing with the mascot. The dancing happened quite a bit and it was hilarious every time!

 This player got himself up on the hoop while they were playing and when the opposing team would shoot a basket he would kick the ball away from it so they couldn't score.  Then they started playing music and he was dancing away up there on the hoop. It was awesome!  

 Adam. It was hard to get a good picture of this boy.

 Me at half-time.  Adam wouldn't be in the picture with me. 

 

They had a guest player on the team.  I can't remember his name, but he was some professional football player that I also can't remember from what team.  (He's the one on the far right.  Number 21.  With his back towards us.)  

 

 Another picture Adam Adam bo badam during half-time.

 Some of the players up-close.

 So throughout the game, one of players (Special K), had a microphone attached to him and he was talking almost the whole time.  He would crack jokes and make fun of the players on the other team and the referees etc. It was quite funny!

A couple of times they brought kids out to the court to distract the other team.  They did cool tricks with the ball as they were playing.

Oh and they had two rules in the game that they normally don't have.  When someone got a penalty for bad behavior, they put the player in the penalty box for a certain amount of time and wouldn't replace him with another player.  So at one point there were three globetrotters in the penalty box and so it was two against five.  The two smallest players were the ones playing against the five from the opposing team.  They did some pretty awesome tricks at that time.

The second rule was when there was three minutes left in the quarter, they would sound a buzzer and there were four spots marked on the floor where if you made a basket from there it was worth four points.

 The one semi-decent picture of Adam and I.

The final score.  The game was awesome!  Thanks Adam for coming with me!  I loved it!