Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 at 12:20 pm  |  81 responses

Win tickets to Game 2!

adidas has two tickets for a SLAMonline reader. Enter now!

by Ben Osborne

Our good friends at adidas—who have had a pretty nice postseason with Derrick Rose’s coming-out party and Dwight’s establishment as the game’s top big man (both celebrated in the FreeDarko video Lang linked to a couple weeks ago)—have come to us with an amazing offer: two tickets to Game 2 of the Finals in L.A.

This contest is open to anyone who wants to enter via our comment section. Here’s what you have to do: write a 100-word (MAX!; longer than that is instant elimination. Shorter than that is welcome.) piece about how you have used Brotherhood to support your favorite team. It’s open-ended, so be creative. Also, while I expect a bunch of Laker and Magic fans to enter for obvious reasons, this is the FINALS. Any hoop fan who can be in L.A. Sunday night should want to attend, and the team you want to write about supporting can be any of the League’s 30 franchises.

The sort of small print: the game starts at 5 PM PST at Staples Center. There is no assistance with travel to or from the game so you need to be able to get there. This contest will run til mid-afternoon Friday and then a winner will be selected and contacted by SLAM with further details. PLEASE make sure the email you sign in to comment with is a working one and that you have regular access to it (I’m consistently amazed at how many people take the time to enter our contests with an email address that either doesn’t work or they don’t read…you can’t win if we can’t contact you!).

Have fun with your entries (only one per person, please) below, come back late Friday to see who won, and be sure to follow The Brotherhood at adidasbasketball.com.

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  • James Golfo

    “Will I drive up from San Diego to go to game 2? OF COURSE!”… My cousin’s elation set the tone for our journey to Staples Center for game 2 of the Western Conference Finals. Fast-forward to gameday: my cousin made the long, traffic-filled drive to pick me up at UCLA on time for the game. Equally challenged, I rushed through a midterm so we could make tip-off. The Lake Show got off to a quick start; euphoria and cheers ensued. But the Nuggets prevailed. Cheers were replaced by silence and sobs. We left Staples arm-in-arm, our playoff experience spoiled.

  • http://n/a Euhn Lee

    B-efore I moved to NY from LA, I always watched games on TV with my older brother.
    R-ooting for our team together drew us closer.
    O-thers that shared our LALove easily joined our brotherhood.
    T-ime passes, scenery changes…
    H-ere in NY things are different.
    E-veryone hates the Lakers.
    R-EALLY hates them.
    H-owever, it doesn’t bother me.
    O-ver there, thousands of miles away, I’ve got my brother, my family.
    O-ver there, thousands in purple and gold are my brothers, my family.
    D-oesn’t matter if results are bad or good. That to me spells BROTHERHOOD.

  • http://www.jameyburke.blogspot.com KobeWearsAPurpleThong

    Brotherhood..? How ’bout Brother and Sisterhood..?? My sister and I have been to just about every Boston Celtics homegame for the last 2 years, and I’ve been a supporter for about 25. My sister was always a sports fan, but I took her to her 1st real-live NBA game 2 years ago, and she was hooked. Sharing basketball has brought us closer and we have a better brother/sister relationship due to it. Too be able to support the Celts last year and spend time with my sister was just awesome-especially watching them paste the Fakers in Game 6. We are there, screaming, clapping and yelling at the refs for our brothers! So Brother and Sisterhood will continue to support our team, or should I say, our brothers. GO GREEN. (and oh yeah..GO MAGIC-BEAT LA!!!!!)

  • Lakersgonnabechamps

    To me, brotherhood is helping others out. It is being with a group of special people who give up important things to help their brothers out. It is Kobe Bryant skipping surgery on his pinky finger to help his brothers win a championship. It is Lamar Odom playing with a bad back, knowing he can aggravate it, to help his brothers out. Down here in LA it’s me putting on my Lakers jersey before every game to root my brothers on, no matter what. Please Slam; let me go to a Lakers game for the first time in my life.

  • yep

    Regardless of our differences in race, creed, nationality, talent-level, past successes and failures, we form a bond and have a goal bigger than any one individual. That is the Brotherhood of the Lakers. We give tough love and fight with each other but it only makes us stronger against the competition. We learn from and look up to our older more accomplished brothers so that we may all accomplish something together, as a family. They say Kobe can’t win without Shaq? But I ask, could Kobe win without D-Fish??? The KB24/D-Fish relationship is a perfect example of our brotherhood.

  • nope

    Since 2003, the Denver Nuggets have hoped, and expected a big change. They wanted to be a playoff team and become a respected team again. They drafted Carmelo Anthony, making him the face of the franchise. They got better and better each year but never got over the hump. Then, they finally got a true leader in Chauncey Billups. Lots of people say that the Nuggets are a bunch of thugs, but this Denver Nuggets team has come together to form a true team. As some people would say, the thugs formed a Brotherhood.

  • Ben

    I got a school team that I coach and we got the finals coming up pretty soon. We got some guys rockin’ Adidas but most of them just wear runners. It doesn’t matter who we play we always win because we play as a team. In fact we’re more than that. We’re a Brotherhood.

  • http://mynameinblue.blogspot.com Hisham

    Euhn Lee ftw. I’d win it if i could enter, of course, but unfortunately the tickets don’t include a flight from Amsterdam to LAX

  • Debbers

    The shot clock dims. Players flood the hardwood, locating their position amid the X’s and O’s, searching for The Shooter. The whistle pierces, momentarily silencing 20,000, and the band of Brothers watching eyes-peeled, elsewhere. The collective dreams of the Brotherhood consumes you. A winning play, and the Brotherhood resounds. Anything off mark, and the Brotherhood is harshed by disappointment. Belonging overwhelms you, knowing that somewhere, everywhere, awaiting the same fate, the heart and soul of the Brotherhood throbs. It’s the understanding that the rhythm of the Brotherhood beats as one, that keeps the flame of support for your team alit.

  • http://www.slamonline.com/online/category/blogs/fear/ Freedom Fries

    Brotherhood means not minding winning nosebleed tix :)

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com Dacre

    I wear Adidas, If I couldn’t wear Adidas I would rather not have feet.

  • http://representkobe.com gabe yeh

    My buddy and I run a small design business in SoCal. We’re Laker fans and we recently launched a whole street art project, posters, hand printed shirts etc just to support Kobe and get LA pumped for the Finals. We’re offering the posters as free downloads on representkobe.com so fans and other members of the greater LA brotherhood can print and post their own and participate in the campaign themselves.

  • Ralph ‘chaps’ Rodriguez

    We drink we smoke we party we watch the lakers in unison. females fake it (haha nah not like that) but when its just the guys its a connection we can sense that tension in the atmosphere all that drama at work, with the girlfriend its all put aside. Them boys from LA been bridging, forging a long lasting tradition. Even the young ones recognize Magic’s hook, Jerry West getting heart broken again and again till finally breaking through! Kobe just another link in yellow and purple chain of tradition that holding us together.

  • serevei

    well brotherhoood is when…

    actually scratch that as if there gonna give it to a kid from australia

  • http://www.hbo.com/thewire/ jasondolemite

    Brotherhood is sticking with your team no matter what – high times and low. Brotherhood means sweating with your teammates during long practices in a losing season. Brotherhood is team celebration after victories. Brotherhood is Dwight Howard, Derrick Rose, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, etc.

  • Johannes Neukamm

    Brotherhood naturally arises from family. As there are many kinds of brotherhoods not relating to one’s blood, the most natural sort of brotherhood has to be the one shared with your actual brother. So take two frantic hoops fans – one Laker, one Celtic – that bond over the most legendary rivalry in sports history to stay up till very late due to time difference, just so they can watch the games bugging each other but still enjoying it and wishing to be there in person some day. There you’ve got some serious brotherhood.

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  • http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/.a/6a00d83451c3cb69e201156fbef83c970c-pi ENDS

    I BLEED BLUE & BLACK! Since the First Day in 89 I saw the Pinstripes in Action to the day I cried after Dream made our Dreams null & Void I Knew that Loyalty is Royalty. Never have I strayed and never will I, because like a family (A Brotherhood have you) family is Loyalty. With this recent turn in our City’s history many have jumped on board and donned the Colors. I don’t shun them, I say let’s use this experience to start our own legacy for our town; a True Brotherhood that Our grandkids will Respect

  • http://www.fnl4.com Miguel Rodriguez

    Loving the game, loving others, loving people no matter were there from is the true sense of brotherhood. Teaching this concept everyday whether at work, watching your kids grow up before your eyes; all of these moments created the brotherhood of the 2 teams left standing. Everyone has been impacted in their lives to one day prove to the world how this season of brotherhood will impact the rest of their lives and ours. Good Luck in the finals everyone.

    From one brother to the next.

  • http://myspace.com/jrcfl Justin

    Brotherhood is unity through good times and bad.
    Brotherhood is Blue and White Ignite.
    Brotherhood is getting to see your team win the Eastern Conference Championship from the last row of the Arena.
    Brotherhood is having the team flag fly from your car even in torrential Central Florida rain.
    Brotherhood is wearing your team’s jersey despite ending the year 21-61.
    Brotherhood is entering a contest with your fingers crossed, hoping that you can make it 2500 miles across the country wearing your team’s colors in the other team’s Arena.
    Brotherhood is Let’s Go Magic!

  • Danny

    Brotherhood is owning every jersey on the roster
    I had a LAKERS jersey but made sure I lost her
    Brotherhood is skipping practice and nite school
    Knowing this the year ur Magic will rule
    Brotherhood is making CAVS SUCK shirts
    Kobe ready to walk off? ask Bron Superman hurts
    Its changing your life style for this team
    Like B.I.G said, This season was all a dream
    We got 5 on it Hedo,Lewis,Alston,Lee and Howard
    It takes 5 homie we dont need no selfish Coward

    Brotherhoods BEAT LA and Beliving in Magic!

  • Dave

    True brotherhood is what life is all about. Practicing the way of ubuntu, I am because we are. Last year, Doc River’s Celtics proved this, reminding the city of Boston and the NBA, that a brotherhood is most powerful. In both life and the game of basketball, we build on each other to surpass levels of individual greatness. This year, Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard have led their brothers to the NBA Finals. Alone one may be superman, but only a team, a brotherhood, will triumph over kryptonite, uniting in the fight to win it all and save the world.

  • Joshua Lo

    Brotherhood is being connected with your team from birth. I was born months before the Lakers beat the Celtics for the second time in 1987. My best friend in elementary school became my enemy when he moved to Chicago. I imagined greatness when the Lakers signed Shaq and traded for Kobe. I rejoiced throughout the three-peat. Then last year, I was stuck in NY where I was surrounded by Celtics fans and their Beat LA t-shirts. Come next year, when I’m going to be teaching English in Korea, I’ll still be following my team in LA. Brotherhood never ends.

  • Tarn

    Feb.1 2008 ,start saving money for 08 finals. Gasol’s traded. My Brotherhood: REJUVINATED. First round exit pain, GONE! Catcha flight to Boston for game 1. Only Indian Sikh wearin Yellow Turban/Yellow Jersey. Missed final exam for math,fail the course. Racist looks,Death threats. But love for Lakeshow too much to get distracted from screaming, cheering, cussin at KG. A BETTER ME equals BETTER WE. LA lost. But learned true BROTHERHOOD’S about SACRAFICE, HEART,LOVE,DEDICATION, SAME GOAL. EVERYBODY’S involved water boy and fans. My BROTHERHOOD with LA togethers dominating as Shaq and Kobe. But this DUO UNBREAKABLE.

  • Mase

    Boring.Stupid. Words me and my brother hurd our entire lives describiing most dominating team in sports:SPURS. Yeah. We stuck with the team everyone hated,was “too boring to love/watch”. And the team that KEPT WINNING. We acted like Spurs, Humble,Boring and celebrated every June. When Spurs BROTHERHOOD led to Tim Raising his arms, Popavich cracking boring smiles. Wasnt hard loving the Spurs. But was sticking to your teams fun? Your team win 4 titles in 8 years?. Loving the Spurs was very fun. You shoulda tried. 4 titles in 8 years. Now thats BROTHERHOOD.

  • Steve

    The Lakers have and always will be family to me,is that brotherhood enough for you…

  • Nas

    I always have been a long time Kobe fan. It was always more about Kobe for me than the Lakers. During my pre-brotherhood days I would not find any fault in anything Kobe did on the court. For example back in the 2006 season I would always be mad at the rest of the players for not being good enough. After seeing the Brotherhood concept on addidas I realized, that I have to support the entire Lakers and not just Kobe. This has helped me to become a True Lakers Fan Now. I Would LOVE to attend game 2.

  • Scott McWilliams

    I’ve been brotherhood with the Lakers since ’87 at age 10 when I saw Magic drop the sky hook with 4 seconds. 22 years later and I’m raising my own young one to bleed purple and gold from the lone star state. Through wins, losses, trades and injuries, I’ve been there. Watching my favorite team on tv (thx league pass) from 1000 miles away. Don’t think I’ll make the trip for 2 free tix? The kicks are laced and ready to go – just like my Lakers.

  • Genenene

    A-ll
    D-ay
    I
    D-ream
    A-bout
    S-eeing the NBA Finals live with my Laker Brotherhood!

  • http://slamonline.com Ben Osborne

    Good stuff, everyone. Considering the short notice and that the winner needs to be able to get to Staples Sunday on their own, I think this was a great success. I’m going to shut comments down, pick and contact a winner and announce them later today. Thanks for playing!

  • http://slamonline.com Ben Osborne

    We have a winner! Euhn Lee (Posted: Jun.3 at 10:00 pm) gets the tickets. Congrats to him and thanks again to all of you for entering. Big thanks as well to adidas for providing the tickets.

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