nba musings

The Maine Red Claws, Portland’s NBA Development League team, announced today that the expansion club will be affiliated with the Boston Celtics (no surprise) and Charlotte Bobcats (mild surprise). Previously, the Celtics D-League affiliate was in Provo, Utah and Charlotte’s was in Sioux Falls, S.D. Should make for a shorter commute for both.

I heard the news on the radio (Big Jab) this morning driving in to work. They mentioned that they’d be holding a rally to announce the news in Monument Square at noon, so since I work on Congress, I figured I’d head down and check it out.

Needless to say, it was fairly uneventful. I decided to cover it on Twitter and I think I covered the press conference in two tweets and the whole experience in four. Basically, they just announced the exact information I had already heard that morning on the radio. It wasn’t a complete waste of time though, because I got a t-shirt and bumper sticker. Whether I actually ever wear the shirt (I’m not one generally speaking who would wear a shirt with a lobster on it… with basketballs on the end of its antennae no less) or put the bumper sticker anywhere near the bumper of my new car, is not the point. I got swag and swag is swag.

Here are some pics taken with my super lame Sidekick phone camera:

Press conference. I couldn’t be bothered to get any closer than this apparently.

They had a hoop set up for the kids.

The swag.

Pondering buying season tix, but am waiting to see the final schedule. If they play on the same nights as the Celtics, no can do.