Any of you guys ever make basketball pilgrimages?

[Eja117]

I admit I dragged my wife around the state of North Carolina once going to UNC, NC State, and Duke. Totally worth it.

[Roy H.]

Not usually.  My wife and I did get engaged in front of the Red Auerbach statue in Faneuil Hall, though, and we kicked off our honeymoon at the Garden watching the Celtics vs. Heat.

[Eja117]

Not usually.  My wife and I did get engaged in front of the Red Auerbach statue in Faneuil Hall, though, and we kicked off our honeymoon at the Garden watching the Celtics vs. Heat.

Well she probably knew what she was getting into, or if she didn't she needed to.

Getting engaged in front of a guy who was a part of so many rings is probably a good move karmically

[bdm860]

For any friends or family I have in NBA cities I try to schedule visits for when the C's are in town, same thing for business trips 


So far I've been able to scratch the following cities off the list:

Boston
Toronto
New York
New  Jersey
Indiana
Dallas
San Antonio
Utah
Denver

*Also told my fiance I'd gladly visit her family in Springfield, MA, coincidently Antoine Walker's D-League team was in town that weekend.

Will probably get to Philly and Phoenix sometime in the '12-'13 season.

I'm gonna get to them all, some day...

[Eja117]

I was at UWV today. I took a pic of the place Jerry West played college ball. I took a pic of the sign with my Celtics watch, cause u could always set your watch to the Celtics beating Jerry West

[Edgar]

I was in Boston mainly to see my Celtics play and thats 15,000 miles , thats a good one even if i cant catch another game.
One of this days I plan to do one Miami Boston to see a couple more.
Thats about it

[Mencius]

I've caught the Celtics in several different cities, but I don't really regard going to those games as pilgrimages.

I did, however, make a special out of my way trip to go to the hotel/restaurant that Larry Bird used to own called Larry Bird's Boston Connection in Terre Haute when I happened to be in Indiana one time.  Don't remember the exact year, but it was late 80s.  That, I think, qualifies as a pilgrimage ;^)

[Eja117]

I've caught the Celtics in several different cities, but I don't really regard going to those games as pilgrimages.

I did, however, make a special out of my way trip to go to the hotel/restaurant that Larry Bird used to own called Larry Bird's Boston Connection in Terre Haute when I happened to be in Indiana one time.  Don't remember the exact year, but it was late 80s.  That, I think, qualifies as a pilgrimage ;^)

How out of your way are we talking? Where did you start from and how long did it take? Tell the story! I muuuusssT know.

[Mencius]

I've caught the Celtics in several different cities, but I don't really regard going to those games as pilgrimages.

I did, however, make a special out of my way trip to go to the hotel/restaurant that Larry Bird used to own called Larry Bird's Boston Connection in Terre Haute when I happened to be in Indiana one time.  Don't remember the exact year, but it was late 80s.  That, I think, qualifies as a pilgrimage ;^)

How out of your way are we talking? Where did you start from and how long did it take? Tell the story! I muuuusssT know.

My wife was taking a class in Indianapolis about then, so it really wasn't all that far away; about 80 miles I'd guess.  It really was nothing spectacular, but it was filled with cheesy paraphernalia everywhere that you could buy.  It was fun, though, as I loved those 80s Celtics teams like no others.  I was in the military back then, and I used to go to the on-base library, which would have Sunday papers from all over, and I'd scour them for any tidbits of Celtics news (especially the Globe back then), plus being subscribed to the old Celtics Pride magazine.  You actually had to work to be an out of town Celtics fan back then.  So easy these days with the internet, and league pass, and cool websites and blogs devoted to the Celtics.  Who'd have thunk back then that you could kick back clear across the country and watch a Cs game on league pass while you're simultaneously in a Celtics chat about the game.  It really is tremendous all the access you have as a fan these days.

[Aristotle]

I live in Ohio, made a basketball pilgrimage to Indiana quite a few years ago. Went to Terre Haute, ate at Larry's restaurant.His golf tourney was being played that weekend. Drove from there to French Lick, spent the weekend. Very cool, found Larry's house, took some pictures from the road.

We stayed at the main hotel there which was a big deal place in the olden days.