{"id":1726,"date":"2009-02-25T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/nba-orlando-magic-at-chicago-bulls\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T16:38:00","slug":"nba-orlando-magic-at-chicago-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/nba-orlando-magic-at-chicago-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Orlando Magic at Chicago Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I watched the Orlando Magic in Chicago (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/BoxScores\/Basketball\/NBA\/2008-09\/12-31-2008_Magic_Bulls.htm\" target=\"_blank\">New Year\u2019s Eve 2008<\/a>); I wrote that the Magic embarrassed the Bulls. They beat the Bulls by 19 points that day. Last night the Bulls defeated the Magic 120-102 in similar fashion. It was the Bulls first win in seven games and the first win at home in six home games versus the Magic. The Bulls scored 30+ points in three quarters \u2013 almost unheard of for an NBA game these days.<\/p>\n<p><u>Parking and Obtaining Tickets<br \/><\/u>I parked in my usual parking lot. Before the season I bought 20 United Center parking passes from Red Top Parking. Instead of paying $12 per game, I pay $10.40 for buying in bulk. Plus, I get to park in \u201cVIP\u201d parking at the front of the parking lot. Red Top owns a few other lots around the United Center. I choose this lot because it is easy to get to from my house.<\/p>\n<p>I already had my ticket for last night. As I wrote for other Bulls games, I bought $10 tickets for games during the week throughout the season. Last night there were a lot of scalpers with extra tickets, but through my experience it is generally difficult to beat $10 for a ticket unless you find a free one from a fan. The face value on your ticket will be higher than $10 if you buy from a scalper, but I sit in the better seats anyway.<\/p>\n<p><u>Benny the Bull\u2019s Birthday<\/u><br \/>Last night was Benny the Bull\u2019s birthday for everyone who likes the entertainment at an NBA game more than the game itself. At halftime, Benny competed in a slam dunk contest with three other mascots \u2013 Blaze, Boomer, and Crunch. Benny, of course, won after he threw a ball from half way up the first level to his teammate from the Chicago Bulls slam dunk team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I watched the Orlando Magic in Chicago (New Year\u2019s Eve 2008); I wrote that the Magic embarrassed the Bulls. They beat the Bulls by 19 points that day. Last night the Bulls defeated the Magic 120-102 in similar fashion. It was the Bulls first win in seven games and the first win at home in six home games versus the Magic. The Bulls scored 30+ points in three quarters \u2013 almost unheard of for an NBA game these days.<br \/>\nParking and Obtaining TicketsI parked in my usual parking &#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\/1726"}],"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=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}