The Maverick's Game
Sharing my experience with you... I had an offer from a good friend to attend the Dallas/Portland NBA game Wednesday night and although I am not a big NBA fan, I chose to go along for the company and the experience. It just so happened that these tickets were free to us but the price printed on them was $334. With a price tag like that, we knew they would be good. In fact, they were 3rd row on the floor! Just so you can appreciate the expense here, there are 45 home games in a season ticket package. That means, someone or some company wrote check for a little over $60,000 for our four seats. A really nice guy named Chris was sitting behind us. As it turns out, he is one of the guys that sells the season tickets. He pointed out several people around us that were "important", including "Don", an eccentric 67 year old gentleman who owns half the land in Uptown (Dallas area) and gives a lot of money to charities and the church and supports a lot of missionary work. He ...