Last night was amazing.
First, the Singapore Slingers beat the Perth Wildcats in a thrillingly close match.
Second, Ben Knight remembered me!
Ben is one of the Singapore Slingers’ star players.
If you read my blog about the first Slingers game I attended, you’d remember that I got chased out of the court during the after-game mingling because I was wearing chunky boots and the stadium management didn’t like that.
So, what happened that time was I got stuck waiting on the outside of the court while the other bloggers continued to mingle with the basketballers for photo opps. Kind Nicholas, noticing my predicament, brought the photo opp to me.
He asked Ben Knight if he would walk over to the side to pose for a picture with me. Ben said okay and asked why I was standing at the side. I told him the stadium people didn’t like my shoes. He said that was a shame because my shoes are fantastic, or something like that. Then we took a picture.
That was more than two weeks ago.
Last night, we were doing our groupie thing again, swarming all over the players for photographs.
Precious and I got Ben Knight to pose with us.
After it was done, Ben said to me, “I see you’re wearing the right shoes this time.” And then he gave me a charming smile.
ZOMG! I was very charmed.
I started jumping all over the place and tugging at Precious and Nicholas and making them go crazy with my maniacal squeals: “He remembers me! He remembers me! OMG!”
I am such an amazing groupie. So proud of myself.
I’m also very excited over the Slingers’ win last night. They’ve played 10 games and only won twice, including last night, so it was super exciting, especially since the match was terribly close the whole time. A tie happened in the very last minute, literally, and the game went into overtime.
It was nerve-wracking watching the two teams slug it out for the win. But the Slingers emerged triumphant. Well, they’re still at the bottom of the ladder in the NBL Hummer Championship, but that’s because they’re a new team. So I think every single win is a major achievement.
The Slinger Girls had different costumes last night. I like!
During half time, a group of cute little girls were brought in to “dance” with the Slinger Girls.
The Slinger Mascot joined in midway.
But he soon got tired of dancing and went to socialise with little fans.
This little one was totally enamoured of the big white lion!
Well, the basketballers played really well and all. I think they were in a better mood to be mobbed by fans for photographs and autographs than the last time.
Here’s Shane McDonald. He’s not as tall as the other players but he’s really cute! And he played very well last night.
Actually, all of them played well. Including my favourite Rod Grizzard.
Well, they are all becoming my favourite!
I never thought I would enjoy watching basketball so much. The Goonfather loved it, too. It was his first time catching a live basketball game and he was hyped throughout!
After the photo-taking with the basketballers, I was introduced to Ash, co-owner of the Singapore Slingers, and Riaz, executive producer for The Contenders Asia.
Ash is second from right and Riaz is second from left.
What an exciting night!
Okay, that sounded lame, like some stupid primary school composition ending. So, let me end on a more classy note, instead.
Go catch a Slingers match before the season is over!!!
