{"id":1707,"date":"2008-12-31T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/31\/new-year%e2%80%99s-eve-orlando-magic-at-chicago-bulls\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T18:16:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:16:50","slug":"new-years-eve-orlando-magic-at-chicago-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/new-years-eve-orlando-magic-at-chicago-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Eve: Orlando Magic at Chicago Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my third consecutive NBA afternoon game, the Orlando Magic embarrassed the Chicago Bulls 113-94. Dwight Howard had a double-double with 15 points and 14 rebounds, just as he did on Christmas Day and in 23 of his 30 games this season. It was the second Bulls game I have attended on New Year\u2019s Eve \u2013 the first coming on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/BoxScores\/Basketball\/NBA\/2001-02\/12-31-2001_Bucks_Bulls.htm\" target=\"_blank\">December 31, 2001<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><u>Obtaining Tickets<\/u><br \/>In a round about way, I ended up paying $20 for a $110 face value ticket and sat on the first level. However, the process to buying that ticket was unusual. Here is what happened:<\/p>\n<p>1) I had tried to buy a $10 ticket earlier in the season for this game but they said they were sold out.<br \/>2) Assuming the $10 seats were sold out, I tried to buy a seat outside of the United Center for $10. However, a scalper had a $70 face value seat and somehow got me to pay $25 for it.<br \/>3) Annoyed I had paid so much; I went to the United Center box office and asked them how much their cheapest seat was &#8211; $10 the woman tells me.<br \/>4) Even more annoyed, I run into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/andrew\/2008\/06\/chicago-baseball-in-rain-wait-in-house.html\">woman scalper<\/a> who recognizes me and sell the $70 ticket to her partner for $25.<br \/>5) I go back to the United Center box office to buy a $10 seat, but now the $10 seats are sold out.<br \/>6) Now super annoyed, I find a fan with an extra $110 seat. I offer him $20, he wants $40 but I tell him $20 is the most I will pay. Annoyed with me, he accepts the offer and I walk into the United Center.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the most skilled secondary market session I have had, but I did end up paying a low price for a great seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my third consecutive NBA afternoon game, the Orlando Magic embarrassed the Chicago Bulls 113-94. Dwight Howard had a double-double with 15 points and 14 rebounds, just as he did on Christmas Day and in 23 of his 30 games this season. It was the second Bulls game I have attended on New Year\u2019s Eve \u2013 the first coming on December 31, 2001.<br \/>\nObtaining TicketsIn a round about way, I ended up paying $20 for a $110 face value ticket and sat on the first level. However, the process to buying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}