And so it was. Isiah had a great time.
To my surprise, Coach PJ (dba Uncle Rusty) along with Damien Wilkens, Johan Petro and Chris Alexander were standing in the foyer waiting to greet fans. We walked right up to Coach and chatted with him for a moment before I snapped a photo of Isiah with Damien Wilkens. Pretty awesome. It's not like they were behind a table either. They were just hanging out and chatting it up with everyone.
The Thunder also had various things set up in the concourse for the kids. Magicians, animal baloon makers (is that a technical term), face painters, caricature artists and some Pop-A-Shot type games.
Once practice commenced Nick Collison greeted the crowd and then it was pretty standard from there.
PJ (we are on a first name basis now after all) wrapped things up. All in all good times and a great opportunity for people who might not get to go to a game or sit that close to the court an opportunity to see the players up close.
From a basketball standpoint it I have to say that Kevin Durant has one of the sweetest looking shots I've seen and definitely the best on the team. The players joined up with some kids for a shooting contest and KD looked like he was born taking jump shots. It was very easy to picture him in an empty gym back in the day shooting for hours and hours.
Jeff Green probably impressed me the most. He was all over the place following misses with dunks and generally getting up and down the floor really well.
Johan Petro continued to look good as well and Mouhammed Sene got some time with the starters also.
Russell Westbrook and his school age playing partner wound up beating KD in the finals of the shooting contest by the way.
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