Golden State Warriors Fans Are Weird as Shit, Last Night a Man Was Eating a Plate of Spaghetti Courtside
Excellent play-in NBA basketball last night. In the Western Conference at least. Vintage Steph Curry basketball. It's a travesty that the game was even played, but it was a treat to watch. If the NBA is going to insist on doing the play-in game, they should at least put a stipulation in place where if the 7 & 8 seeds are so clearly more deserving of the playoffs than the 9 & 10 seeds, then they can scrap the play-in altogether. The 9 & 10 seeds should have to be within a certain number of games for them to get a crack at crashing the playoffs. For the Warriors and Grizzles to both be 14 games over .500, and one of them be forced into a 1-game playoff with a team who's below .500... that just isn't right.
Especially considering who these teams are. Everyone wants to see Golden State in the playoffs. The Grizzlies were a playoff team all year long, and have a box office superstar in Ja Morant. Golden State and Memphis so clearly deserve to be. Dallas and Sacramento so clearly don't. Dallas is actively trying to blow up their franchise. Sacramento traded away arguably their best player in the middle of the season, and are likely looking at a rebuild. When the divide is this clear, it's ridiculous that a 7 or 8 seed is forced into a 1-game winner takes all scenario where if the shitty team catches fire for just one night, they can knock the deserving team out of the playoffs entirely.
But back to the spaghetti. It looks like the Chase Center has a pro-spaghetti policy. I'm assuming the Warriors aren't selling plates of spaghetti at the regular concessions. I'd imagine this man's third row Italian dinner was ordered from the Chase Centers' Courtside Lounge™. Unless this probable crypto-tech millionaire really did pull a Charlie Kelly, and rolled up to the play-in with a personal bag so he could have a courtside spa day.
Speaking of personal bags. This man and his spaghetti wasn't the only noteworthy courtside fan at a play-in game last night.
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Anyways… regardless of where the Warriors fan's spaghetti came from, never have I cheered harder for Draymond Green to two-piece Zach Edey from behind, and send 7-foot-4, 300-pounds of bumbling big man flying into the third row. There aren't many "concession items" more high risk than spaghetti to eat so close to the wood. Red wine is always a dangerous one. Idk how many people drink coffee at NBA games, but that would be even worse. If you're at a Farleigh-Dickinson Knights game in Hackensack, New Jersey, you can apparenlty order a full plate of BBQ.
But spaghetti is up there with the worst. It's just a wildly inconvenient food to eat at a game as well. It requires too much focus. There's zero chance I'm eating a plate of spaghetti off my lap in tiny stadium seat without getting a stain somewhere on my clothing. If I could even manage to keep my spaghetti stains to myself, I'd consider that a win. This really does feel like the type of thing that would especially happen at a Golden State Warriors game. It's a weird brand of basketball fan in the Bay Area. There's too much money there. Those seats are so expensive. The people who have the money and can afford the seats aren't really basketball fans. There multi-millionaires cosplaying as regular people. The exact type of people who don't realize how preposterous it is to take a plate of spaghetti back to your seat.
This league, folks.