Hype Tour 2012 with pictures

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Hey guys, as a few of you may of know i went on the Hype 2012 tour, basically it is an aussie based company that does holidays to the USA including as much NBA related stuff as possible. A run down of the itenerary was:

October 30: LA - Opening Night at Staples Centre Lakers v Mavericks
October 31: Portland - Opening Night at The Rose Garden Trailblazers v Lakers
November 1: San Antonio - AT&T Centre, Spurs v OKC
November 2: Meet and Tour of Spurs Practice facilities with Brett Brown and later dinner and catch up with Patty Mills
November 3: Spurs v Jazz
November 4: Oklahoma - OKC v Hawks and afterwards a quick meet and pic with KD
November 6: Miami - Tour of the Heat facilites and stadium, and Heat v Nets
November 9: New York - MSG, Knicks v Mavericks


So was pretty full on, but was an amzing trip and heres just a couple of pics and highlights: Sorry for the pic quality was all on my Iphone

Opening night Lakers v Mavs (Greats seats and was great to see Lakers beaten)
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Trailblazers Opening night and Lillards debut, he was amazing this night and the crowd was by far the loudest and most passionate of all ive ever been to, highly recommend going to a game here. Picked up a sweet RIP City Aldridge singlet as well, and great to see the Lakers lose again :)
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We then headed over to San Antonio (Beautiful City) and saw Spurs v OKC, the one where Parker hit the jumpshot on the buzzer for the win...
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we got to hang around after the game in the players frineds/family section and saw a few players up close including this bloke
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The next day was the Spurs facilities tour with Brett brown, who is a top bloke and a very smart coach
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and if you dont have any hills... just make one...
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Tims massive shoes (im a 12)
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ill continue into the next post so i dont run out of space...
 
that night we caught up with Patty, we all had singlets made and got him to sign them
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We saw the Spurs beat the Jazz from a suite
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and got talking to the guys in the next suite who happened to be the owner of the Spurs and Tony Parkers dad! They were happy to come over and say hello and the owner was happy for us to throw around his 250K championship ring. We met up with Tony snr at Tony club later that night but thats a whole different story haha!
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After we went down courtside took some photos etc
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Then off to Oklahoma to see OKC v Hawks
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and after the game we got to hang around again, have a quick chat and pic with KD
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Then it was off to Miami, we had a tour of the Stadium and facilites before tipoff Heat v Nets
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There was some bum shooting down the other end of the court...
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jesus shuttlesworth i think his name was

Later that night we met a Heat owner and Championship ring #2 for the trip
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Then off to NY for the final stop and Knicks v Mavs at MSG
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So yeah thats a quick rundown, very very good trip, highly recommend!!
 
So amazing, wow wow wow!

Up close stuff, trying on a few Champ rings, munchin with Millsy, saw Lillard's debut and watched all the top guns.

That is not going to be easily forgotten to say the least.

Now such a bummer to back down to earth for ya, but it looks like you really lived it up.

I want a pool with a full-sized backboard and hoop in it. I'll pass on the man-made hill though.
 
two champiosnhip rings! wow. already more than lebron.
and what the hell is KD wearing?!
looks like an awesome trip tho. pretty jealous.
 
Holy Crap!! Spurs heaven right there!

Very jealous mate!! Thanks for sharing!

haha yeah was very cool part the spurs stuff, thought u would love it :)

That is bloody amazing! getting to wear a legit championship ring is insane let alone 2! never been so jealous of something in my life!

yeah thats what we though unreal just seing 1 let alone wearing 2!

Looks like an awesome trip mate
What's the price ag on a trip like that?

Trip was around 13K, which is pricy but that accom, flights, transfers (hummers + limos lol) and a lot of things behind the scenes i didnt mention

So amazing, wow wow wow!

Up close stuff, trying on a few Champ rings, munchin with Millsy, saw Lillard's debut and watched all the top guns.

That is not going to be easily forgotten to say the least.

Now such a bummer to back down to earth for ya, but it looks like you really lived it up.

I want a pool with a full-sized backboard and hoop in it. I'll pass on the man-made hill though.

Yeah was unreal mate, the pool was insane, cant see in the pics but has a massive spurs logo in tiles on the bottom, no expense spared

Awesome mate congrats, looks like the trip of a lifetime, who was the host of that?

Thanks mate, host was Nic Naitanui, since im from NSW id never heard of him... plays golf or something i think, good bloke!
 
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