Pacers to host draft party

Post #1 » by **Grang33r** » Thu May 28, 2009 6:52 am

# Attendance is free
# Free hotdog, chips, and Pepsi product to the first 1,000 guests to the event
# Free parking in the Virginia Avenue Garage
# Enjoy exclusive coverage and in-depth analysis, commentary and live interviews from the Pacers broadcast staff throughout the night
# Register to win great Pacers prizes
# Live interview with our draft pick from New York

Link- www.pacersdraft.com

Anyone going? Looks like a lot of fun. Wish i lived closer or i'd go.

Post #2 » by **Miller4ever** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:44 am

My god, if I was in Indy...

greenway84 · Post #3 » by **greenway84** » Thu May 28, 2009 12:37 pm

I went last year and it was fun. Many players were in attendance. You get a chance to actual stand around and talk to the players, unlike a autograph session. I will be going again this year.

cdash · Post #4 » by **cdash** » Thu May 28, 2009 1:38 pm

I went last year too, and echoing greenway, it was really fun. The draft this year is on my birthday, so I might force some unwitting friend to go with me again. Either way, I am going to try to make it there.

boshjonesford · Post #5 » by **boshjonesford** » Thu May 28, 2009 2:39 pm

what if on draft day they trade the pick for cash, lol

fans would be pissed

cdash · Post #6 » by **cdash** » Thu May 28, 2009 3:27 pm

This isn't the Suns' board. But that would blow.

greenway84 · Post #7 » by **greenway84** » Thu May 28, 2009 5:25 pm

^
Which by the way, I'm still pissed that Bird didn't shell out some cash for Fernandez. I was under the influence he was a big fan of his. I bet the Suns would have went a bit lower to send the player to the Eastern conference instead.

cdash · Post #8 » by **cdash** » Thu May 28, 2009 5:41 pm

greenway84 wrote:^
Which by the way, I'm still pissed that Bird didn't shell out some cash for Fernandez. I was under the influence he was a big fan of his. I bet the Suns would have went a bit lower to send the player to the Eastern conference instead.

I don't think you can pin that on Bird, that is more of an ownership decision there. I'm sure he wanted to, but I'm sure a lot of teams want to, but not all owners are willing to fork over the cash.

Kuq_e_Zi91 · Post #9 » by **Kuq_e_Zi91** » Thu May 28, 2009 6:43 pm

Miller4ever wrote:My god, if I was in Indy...

Seconded.

The Pacers have been giving out great deals all year and it kills me to not be able to attend any of them.

chatard5 · Post #10 » by **chatard5** » Thu May 28, 2009 8:01 pm

Are you guys making all of this up, enticing me with free hot dogs, and then I go down to Conseco and no1 is there. All so you can have draft night w/o me? Good plan.

I might go. I kinda like watching it at home to hear all of the trades that might go down and all of that. My friend texted me yesterday and was like are we going again, it was awesome last year. And I said were you hammered, I wasn't even there. Actually he is the one that showed me this site, but he doesn't post very often. Hey fredjones20!

In conclusion, thanks for the info and I may be in attendance.

cdash · Post #11 » by **cdash** » Fri May 29, 2009 2:34 am

The only thing that sucked for me is that my buddies I went with aren't big NBA fans, and wanted to leave after the Pacers picked, so that was a downer.

Post #12 » by **Grang33r** » Fri May 29, 2009 4:12 am

chatard5 wrote:Are you guys making all of this up, enticing me with free hot dogs, and then I go down to Conseco and no1 is there. All so you can have draft night w/o me? Good plan.

I might go. I kinda like watching it at home to hear all of the trades that might go down and all of that. My friend texted me yesterday and was like are we going again, it was awesome last year. And I said were you hammered, I wasn't even there. Actually he is the one that showed me this site, but he doesn't post very often. Hey fredjones20!

In conclusion, thanks for the info and I may be in attendance.

lol

I remember fredjones20! Bring him back to the forums. What the heck. haha

I usually watch it with a few friends. Order some pizza. Get a 30 pack of labatt. And just watch it on tv and dicuss all the moves like we're some kind of experts. haha. Last year i remember i spend almost all night chatting on realgm and had to work at 7. This season, i took the Friday off! For those who don't go, we should do a realgm chat room party... lol

chatard5 · Post #13 » by **chatard5** » Fri May 29, 2009 11:36 am

I will talk to my friend and have him submit more messages.

2 years ago we did a "power hour". A Chatard power hour is different.... We don't use beer... Some cheap vodka and 5 guys. Each person has to take a shot every minute for an hour. It isn't healthy. I think a few of us had some sort of "stomach flu" when we woke up. Oooh, good times. And by good I mean awful. I need to go to this draft party just to avoid that cherade.

cdash · Post #14 » by **cdash** » Fri May 29, 2009 12:43 pm

Grang33r wrote:
chatard5 wrote:Are you guys making all of this up, enticing me with free hot dogs, and then I go down to Conseco and no1 is there. All so you can have draft night w/o me? Good plan.

I might go. I kinda like watching it at home to hear all of the trades that might go down and all of that. My friend texted me yesterday and was like are we going again, it was awesome last year. And I said were you hammered, I wasn't even there. Actually he is the one that showed me this site, but he doesn't post very often. Hey fredjones20!

In conclusion, thanks for the info and I may be in attendance.

lol

I remember fredjones20! Bring him back to the forums. What the heck. haha

I usually watch it with a few friends. Order some pizza. Get a 30 pack of labatt. And just watch it on tv and dicuss all the moves like we're some kind of experts. haha. Last year i remember i spend almost all night chatting on realgm and had to work at 7. This season, i took the Friday off! For those who don't go, we should do a realgm chat room party... lol

Man, are you sure you aren't Canadian? Hockey and Labatt?

I like the chat idea, kind of like we had for some Pacer games. We had some decent turnouts in AIM. Hell, even if I go to the draft party, I'll still partake in that. It would take me all of two seconds to get that AIM app on my phone.

chatard5 · Post #15 » by **chatard5** » Fri May 29, 2009 2:15 pm

Do you think Conseco has Wi-Fi?

cdash · Post #16 » by **cdash** » Fri May 29, 2009 2:32 pm

I know the Starbucks in Conseco has Wi-Fi, but I don't think the rest of the building does.

Post #17 » by **Grang33r** » Fri May 29, 2009 3:47 pm

chatard5 wrote:I will talk to my friend and have him submit more messages.

2 years ago we did a "power hour". A Chatard power hour is different.... We don't use beer... Some cheap vodka and 5 guys. Each person has to take a shot every minute for an hour. It isn't healthy. I think a few of us had some sort of "stomach flu" when we woke up. Oooh, good times. And by good I mean awful. I need to go to this draft party just to avoid that cherade.

What kind of watered down vodka were you guys drinking? You guys would be dead after 20 minutes of that game. lol

chatard5 · Post #18 » by **chatard5** » Fri May 29, 2009 3:52 pm

Well 5 guys, so each person takes a shot every 5 minutes. 12 shots in an hour gets kinda tough, especially when it's a nice $10 half-gallon of Skol. I don't drink as much now, though, so I gotta get better stuff. Man, we would drink a lot after that "power hour", too. Definitely some rough days after the few times we did that.

Post #19 » by **Grang33r** » Fri May 29, 2009 3:53 pm

cdash wrote:
Grang33r wrote:Man, are you sure you aren't Canadian? Hockey and Labatt?

haha Labatt up here is actually considered domestic beer. Everyone drinks it up here. It's Labatt or Molson.

Dunthreevy · Post #20 » by **Dunthreevy** » Fri May 29, 2009 4:05 pm

I went with 4 of my buddies last year and it was pretty cool. I just remember taunting the guys sitting near us who wanted us to draft Brook Lopez. Turns out he's actually pretty good, lol. I was kinda bummed that we didn't get DJ Augustin, but was happy with Bayless. Then by the time I drove home, my buddy had called me and said "did you hear about the trade?" I was so ticked off that we traded Bayless. And as it turns out yet again, Brandon Rush is my favorite Pacer not named Danny.

I'll be in attendance this year as well, most likely with the same group of friends.