DownToBuck doesn’t normally attend NBA games live. It is much more comfortable for me to watch at home while eating my own snacks and petting my own kitty. With that said, I attended this Bucks/Nets game live and in the flesh. The Bucks didn’t win, but that’s not even a big deal to me.
The big deal to me is that all the people sitting around me were complete NBA casuals. It frankly disgusted me. I’m not even kidding. It was horrible. Since I have a vast, though admittedly shallow, knowledge of basically every NBA player of the past decade, I sometimes need a reminder that not every viewer of NBA games is as knowledgeable as myself. However, the people seated in my immediate vicinity were driving me insane with their unabashed homerism and complete lack of familiarity with the Nets’ roster, the Bucks’ roster, and the rules of basketball.
I honestly don’t think anybody in my section even remembered that Jared Dudley was once a valued veteran presence on the Bucks. Instead, I heard a multitude of stupid comments when he started dropping triples on the home team:
-“He looks like he has a condom on his head” (that one was pretty funny. I’m gonna use it in a description)
-“He’s made out of cheeseburgers” (this one was me)
-“Was that the foreign guy?” (referring to Rodions Kurucs, who is about 500% skinnier than Jared Dudley)
-“Tubby boy is kicking our ass” (okay, this one was true)
-“No way that was a foul, the Nets can hack us all they want but as soon as we touch them it’s a foul” (Jared Dudley was clearly fouled on the play, also I’m sick of homers)
In a perfect world, I could go to a live NBA game and only have to interact with people who actually understand the sport and know the players. This is not a perfect world. This is an imperfect world. That’s why I stay at home and make highlight videos and shun human interaction as much as possible.
Also, if anybody who works for the Fiserv Forum is reading this, can you please put a mini-donuts stand in the upper-deck concourse? I walked around the whole damn thing and there weren’t any mini-donuts, but I’m not going to ride the escalator down to get them. I value my time more than that.