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The Brent Barry Ticket Experiment
Brent Barry is a fairly generous man. This page chronicles that notion.
by Brent Barry (with Ric Bucher)
Courtesy Brent Barry
"Dude, 10 changed my entire life. Seriously."
Brent Barry is on a mission. He's going to provide two tickets to random fans for every Rockets road game this season. Below, you can find their stories.
The Brent Barry Ticket Experiment Goes to Memphis, TN
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Gerald Woods, 40, was born and raised in Memphis and is a diehard sports fan. He knows the Grizzlies' history going back to their Vancouver days with Big Country Reeves. He attended 20 Grizzlies' games last season serving as a chaperone for Youth Villages, a non-profit program that works with emotionally-challenged kids. He can catalogue the moves made during the tenure of former GM Jerry West. He is convinced he knows exactly which player the Grizzlies need.
So is he a Grizzlies' fan? "I follow the Grizzlies," he says. "I wouldn't say I'm a fan."
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The Brent Barry Ticket Experiment: Gary Keoleian of Detroit
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If you need assistance at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, Michigan, bell captain Gary Keoleian is your man. If you need an eyewitness to the highlights of the state's recent basketball history, Keoleian can help you with that, too.
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Tyler Clark is 21 years old, and now has free tickets to a NBA game.
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As previously mentioned, the primary motivation for Brent Barry and this Ticket Experiment—giving away a pair of tickets to every Rockets' road game—is the surprise elicited from the recipient. You wouldn't think that would be likely with an NBA lockerroom attendant, but that's because you don't know the NBA as Barry does. Minions working for NBA teams are in the tough position of having plenty of friends asking for tickets and limited access to acquiring them.
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Brent makes a new friend in a Borders.
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A nagging calf injury and a family health issue kept Brent Barry from laying free tickets to Rockets' road games on unsuspecting citizens for a three-game stretch at the start of December. Then, the Rockets' schedule took them to places—Minnesota and New Jersey—where attending an NBA game just isn't that high on the priority list.
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Brent Barry drops tickets at 1am in a diner in Miami
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As a community-college student by day, a late-shift cook in a 24-hour diner by night and a father round the clock, Larry Bowens' chances to kick back don't come all that often. Brent Barry, after strolling into Miami's 11th Street Diner around 1 a.m. for a vegetable omelette, afforded him one.
"I put my hospitable skills to work when he came in," Bowens said. "I didn't crowd him. I wasn't gawking. I just wanted to make him feel at home."
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Brent Barry actually gives away FOUR tickets in Orlando
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Either Brent Barry has a sixth sense for finding transplants and away-from-home fans or we are truly a mobile society. So far, in his season-long project to give away two tickets to every Rockets' road game, four out of the six fans Barry's largesse has fallen upon root for a team other than the local one.
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Brent Barry's ticket experiment continues in good ol' Oklahoma
Apparently not every adult hanging outside an NBA hotel is looking to make money off the memorabilia and autographs he collects. Leon Thompson is proof of that.
He's also proof that what goes around comes around.
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Brent Barry Ticket Experiment III: Billy and B.J. Gabriel
Last week was a good one for Billy Gabriel as far as NBA game tickets are concerned. First he was awarded floor seats to the Nov. 7 Spurs-Heat game by his company, the San Antonio-based grocery chain H-E-B, for outstanding work as one of their facility managers. A week later, he and his nine-year-old son, B.J., waited between the Houston Rockets' team hotel and their bus for that night's game against the Spurs, hoping that B.J. could get Tracy McGrady's autograph. Rockets G/F Brent Barry already was on the bus when T-Mac swept by Billy and his son, prompting Barry to climb back off the bus and offer a consolation: a pair of tickets to the game.
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Brent Barry Ticket Experiment: Clippers fan Nick Jordan
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The Magazine's one-man NBA ticket kiosk Brent Barry malfunctioned this past weekend because the Rockets were on the road but Barry, technically, wasn't.
Barry made the trip to L.A. for the Rockets' Friday and Sunday tilts vs. the Clippers and Lakers, respectively, but with an offseason home in Laguna Nigel, he spent his down time with his wife and two sons rather than pursuing his pledge to hand out a pair of tickets to unsuspecting fans for every Rockets' road game.
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Brent Barry: The Ticket Giveaway, Jeff Ament style
If you're interested in Jeff Ament's take on hoops, you can read much more about it here.
Brent Barry broke form for Thursday's Rockets-Blazers game, giving his tickets to two specific—rather than random—fans: Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam and architect Curtis Names.
The reason: Ament and Names are grieving Sonics' fans who Barry befriended during his five seasons in Seattle. Ament angrily passed on a chance to attend the Sonics' last home game. "Brent told me I'd regret it," Ament said, "and I did. I just don't buy that Key Arena is that bad. We've played 2/3s of the NBA arenas, so I've seen 'em. Some are much worse."
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