I’ve seen several posts talking about our Magic fandom now that we are back.
My family had front row corner seats in the old “Orena” for every game since the Magic came into existence. This is my favorite photo. The photographer that took the photo chatted with us pretty regularly. When he took it, he gave us a couple of 8x10 photos the next week. We got Tracy to sign it, but were never able to get Kobe. The two people in the front row, right in front of Tracy’s face, are my mom and dad. We watched a lot of good basketball in those seats until they moved to Amway and they got too expensive. Lakers Nation has used it a few times over the years.
https://lakersnation.com/this-day-lakers-history-kobe-bryant-tracy-mcgracy-scoring-duel-magic/
Wow, just realized that this game was 22 years ago yesterday.
T-Mac in '02-'03 was my goat growing up, unmatched. I had his T-Mac 2’s in white and wore them in all my YMCA basketball games. If we had a better team that year he would’ve been MVP easily. I got to see him play plenty of times but y’all are lucky to be that close and see him matchup with Kobe, cool story.