Super busy weekend.  My two best friends from my 2 years in Huntsville, AL came up for the game from Miss St. and Bama.  They witnessed our great win on Saturday vs. Florida.  They were impressed with the atmosphere in Stegeman and I can’t thank the fans enough.

My brother and my dad came up for the game and had a funny story from their (basically) courtside seats:

In the first half a fan yelled at Parsons, “Parsons! You can’t guard him (Travis Leslie)”. Parsons pointed at the scoreboard. I guess he was saying that Travis hadn’t scored yet or something because we were winning. Later after his NASTY dunk, he looked up into the stands, shrugged and said, “He can’t guard me either!”

Thankfully we got the last laugh.

On Sunday I went home to catch my sisters Georgia Tech intramural All Star game at Philips Arena following the Hawks/Bucks game.

I stopped by the house before the Hawks game for a couple hours and was just enjoying myself and relaxing.  My mom started yelling my name, “CONNOR, you have to come up here right now and look at these pictures!”

In my head I was seriously doubting the pictures would be more interesting than the new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue that I found in my brother’s lair in the basement.

She had found some pictures from a Hawks game I went to on my birthday April 2nd, 2002.  I started looking at them and then I realized why she called me upstairs.  There I was, with my brother and sister looking goofy as can be in my bucks cutoff and a Wisconsin Badgers visor getting an autograph from Mark Pope of all people!

It just blows my mind.  I mean 8 years ago who could have ever guessed that I would be playing basketball at UGA and Mark Pope would be the Operations Coordinator?