The "BrickJames" monicker was born in May of 2008, during Eastern Conference Finals (game 2, I believe)
The Infamous Banner Faithful in the back row of section 314 (where my seats were last year) were iconic in the Garden. Believe me or not (you probably don't) but we were the first ones to start hanging the plastic sticky hooks to the back wall of the Garden so that we could hang our jackets and other accessories. I kid you not. You may also have heard our "POWE" chants (in the stadium or on National Televison) to the tune of the FSU Tomahawk chant. Yep, that was us.
In any case, that crew was classic -your typical rambunctious slightly inebriated Boston rafter/bleacher dwellers. As you may have come to known, I am NOT a fan of LeBaby, and was undertaking a copious amount of non-PG-rated heckling during the ECF. Every time one of LeBaby's patented ill-advised shots were hoisted, I kept screaming "BRICK", foreshadowing its outcome. LeBron was having one of those games (that he had been having all too frequently) where early on he was something like 2 for 37 from the field (or it at least seemed that way...) yet still had 25 points in the first half due to his being 22 of 53 from the charity stripe.
In a stroke of genius, the guy next to me paid homage to the comic genius of Mr. Dave Chappelle by bumping me with his elbow, leaning over and stating, "I'm Brick James, b1tch". While I cannot personally take credit for inventing this pseudonym, I felt obliged to see to it that its legacy would live on to posterity, that the pedantic observation which inspired its forthcoming would be disseminated to the masses.
That night, when I arrived home, I eagerly created this account - BrickJames.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
