Eleven hours on Friday and eleven hours on Sunday. Thats how much driving we would be doing to and from Denver, Colorado just to get to this game. It was the first NBA game that my mom, my dad and I had ever seen in person.

“Hello, my name is Peter and I will be your waiter for the day,” said a young man as he approached us at our seats in the Pepsi Center. I could not believe it, we did not even have to leave our seats to get hot dogs, drinks, popcorn and even candy. I could see some of the Lakers on the court taking practice shots and some of them were standing by a big crowd of fans taking pictures with them and giving them autographs.

About twenty minutes past and then he came out of the tunnel…Kobe Bryant!

“There he is, that is the greatest basketball player in the world,” my dad said to me. We were all so excited to be seeing all of these players in person.

The game started and the crowd was so loud. I felt like we were all alone because we were surrounded by Denver Nugget fans. I did not care though, by the second quarter the Lakers had taken over the game and they were ahead by 7 points at half time. The lead grew to 19 points by the end of the third quarter and that was enough for the fans to start leaving early. Not us, we stayed until the very end to enjoy this wonderful game and an even better victory.