NBA All Star Game Is Just a Business

You know there are things in life that we as fans like to enjoy, you know those once in a lifetime events that you have to experience for yourself. New Year's in Times Square, Walking along the Great Wall of China, you know things you must experience at least once. For sports fans it's things like the Super Bowl, I've been to three, the Summer Olympics, seeing the friendly confines of Wrigley Field, even being a part of Wrestlemania, but there is one that I have been anticipating for quite some time the NBA All Star Game. Each year a city is awarded the opportunity to host the event, but yet this is not an event for the fans of said city. The NBA All Star Game is here in Orlando this year and everyone is excited about the opportunity it presents to experience the event, but in an 18,000 seat arena only around 3,000 of those will be available to the people who live in the city, and even those seats are only available to those who have season tickets here in Orlando. If you've never been to a Magic game you know we have perhaps the worst fans of any contending team in the league, maybe even some non contenders as well. Most season ticket holders here are big money lawyers or doctors who go to games just to go not because they're fans but because they have the money to do so, leaving people like me, the true fan who makes little money compared to the big money people, out in the dark with no opportunity to check out the game they love on the one stage that brings them all together. Now this will be great for the city in terms of economic boom and it shows off the best arena in the world and maybe this will attract someone to come play with Dwight Howard before he leaves, but what about the real fans of basketball? This shows that the NBA is just a business like any other who only cares about the money and not the people who gives them their hard earned money. It's upsetting to go to a game meet a season ticket holder who doesn't know who Glen Davis is but is sitting lower bowl on his iPad 2 making adjustments to his stocks. These people sure they can afford it and sure they can spend their money however they want, but for the little guys like myself who live here in the city have to resort to contests and giveaways in order to secure tickets before shelling out 1,000 dollars for an event we can appreciate more than the big money spenders here in the city. It goes to show that, just like the lockout, it's all about money. Corporate sponsors and their families, players and their families, celebrities and their families all will flock here to occupy our arena on a night where the city itself should be rewarded, instead gets over looked for the almighty dollar.