I bet Sheed, Stale Davis,and Bonzi would have never done anything like this.

That’s hard to read with no line breaks to rest our thoughts, so since I am bored I decided to break it up into pieces for others to read. Here goes:

We would love to share our story with all of the Trail Blazers fans and Portland Oregon.

We want to thank the Blazers President Larry Miller for making this experience a dream come true. We recently moved from Portland to Topeka Kansas. We are extremely excited about this up and coming Portland Trailblazers team this season. We were able to go to many games last year and the games we did not make we watched on t.v.. However, this season we were devastated for we knew it just wasn’t going to be the same. No Portland,No Rose Garden! Just thousands of miles away from Blazer Nation.

We discovered the Blazers were going to be playing a pre season game in Kansas City Missouri one hour away from from our home, no words could describe how happy we were. We had one final opportunity to see our team play in person.

Little did we know a much bigger dream was about to come true! We were walking around inside the sprint center before the game. We were dressed in our blazer gear. Then a guy in a suit walks up to us and I could not believe my eyes, it was Larry Miller the President of the Blazers.

We talked Blazers and told him our story about moving to Kansas from Portland. We asked him if the team was staying all nigh and he said no they were leaving right after the game to go to the airport. He then asked us where we were sitting and we told him upper level. Then Larry reached in his suit and asked us if we wanted two tickets in section 105 but they were not together and he said you probably want to sit together though. We said yes we did and thanked him anyways. Larry then said that if we can find him down by the court after the game that he would give us passes to go back and meet the Blazers. We knew we had to find a way down to him because thiswas the chance of a lifetime!

We moved down to the 100 level in the 4th quarter. The ushers were everywhere and the lady told us we had to go to our seats and that we could not stand there. With 2 minutes left in the game we started heading down the stairs as a few fans were exiting. We were so nervous our hearts were racing. We didn’t stop until we found some empty seats behind the Blazers bench. When the game ended we jumped up and made our way over to Larry Miller. When our eyes met he smiled and reached into his suit and handed us 2 passes to wear around our neck. We thanked him and made our way through the tunnel and to the outside of the Blazers locker room.

We stood by about 5 reporters including Jason Quick of the Oregonian. We watched Nate McMillan give an interview. Afterwards we introduced ourselves to Nate. He talked about the Blazers with us and said Portland misses us. He said he was happy we got to see them play again. Nate answered all of our questions he was in no hurry at all. We told him we were going to go see them play in oklahoma city in february this year. He said that would be great. He even told us the hotel they were staying at in Oklahoma and told us to call him.
Nate opened up his briefcase and gave us a sharpie to get autographs with. As he signed our hat ,Greg Oden walked out and Nate said we better catch Greg because his autograph is worth alot more than mine. We all laughed. Nate was great!! So we ran after Greg Oden and shook his hand and got his autograph.

We met Shavlik Randolph,Luke Jackson,bayless,Sergio,Hill, Kevin Pritchard. Last but not least, we got to meet Travis Outlaw and LaMarcus Aldridge. They were both friendly and alot of fun. We walked them through the tunnel and to there bus. We tried to convince Travis to enter the Slam Dunk Contest this year.

We saw only 3 Blazers Jerseys in the crowd of 12,000 plus. We were lucky they spotted us and allowed us to go backstage. This goes to show you that the Blazers Organization believe in there fans as much as we believe in them. We would like to say thank you to the Blazers for making this experience one we will remember forever. Thank you to all of the Blazers players for being so nice and giving us autographs.Thank you Nate McMillan for your time and thoughtfulness. Thank you Larry Miller,President of the Portland Trail Blazers, for going above and beyond for us. Thanks for turning one special night into a dream come true.

GO BLAZERS!!!!!
SEE YOU IN OKLAHOMA!!

Thanks,
Shannon and Megan

I cant even imagine seeing all those guys that up close and personal on what you would guess was going to be a normal day.

I saw the Indianapolis game last year… but nothing like that happened to me! I’m envious but very, very happy to hear how cool the Blazers were when you met them.

Just kidding (ok maybe not but oh well) . Anyway, you too are very lucky and deserve that treatment because you are soo dedicated. Thanks for being such classy fans. I dont really care for Larry Miller much but it’s all right, he’s a classy dood too. How was KP ? Is it just me , or has he lost weight?

Great story.. Rec!

Sophia

But I got a little teary-eyed after reading this. Classy players! Classy organization! Classy fans! Go get ’em in Okie City!

Something similar happened to me during the not so great years and it’s great to see that it still happens with the amount of fans expanding 10 fold.

You guys must have great karma. Thanks for giving us a vicarious thrill. Go Blazers!

I suppose that would have been pushing it.

But still, I feel bad for the other Blazer fans who happened to be there but did not have the incredible good fortune of meeting Larry Miller.

This Larry Miller dude sounds like some kind of Santa Claus figure. What does he do, just walk around wherever he goes with extra back stage passes? What if you had been a group of 5 or 10 Blazer fans. Would he have pulled out an equal number of passes, all attached to little neck bands? You guys really hit the jackpot.

Somewhere Steve Patterson is slithering through the grass, looking for small rodents to eat.

Great story, thanks for sharing it.