Clippers owner Steve Ballmer flies 125 L.A. fans to build ‘The Wall’ at Ball Arena

The Clippers have gone Wall to the Ball for Match On Friday Los Angeles season-ticket holders David Evans and Paul Boulos and other bastions of The Wall the Intuit Dome s famed baseline section that specializes in free-throw distraction had an email pop into their inbox from the Clippers It stated as they recounted roughly that owner Steve Ballmer had selected them to fly out to Denver to invade enemy turf for Tournament Ballmer they noted chartered a bus Chartered a plane Paid for tickets And so Los Angeles agents met for a secret mission Saturday at the West Garage of the Intuit Dome fan Mason Cook disclosed and headed for LAX where a jet awaited to bring a special dash of L A mania to Denver on Saturday That s unheard of first off for an owner of an NBA unit to even recognize his fans like this Evans narrated The Denver Post before Saturday s challenge Second who do you call to say I want tickets a charter plane and three charter buses to get these people to the arena I ll tell you who Boulos interjected standing beside him Steve Ballmer does it Cause ain t nobody else in the world can do that It created a surreal scene pregame as a slowly-filling Ball Arena suddenly bellowed with the hoots and hollers of a contingent of Clipper fans sitting behind the baseline Denver s promotional We Believe towels tossed aside and replaced by signs like FEAR THE WALL Get out of here Go home a lone Nuggets fan dressed as The Joker shouted from a nearby section He was met appropriately by a wall of jeers Related ArticlesMay Grading The Week With Colorado locked out of No overall pick in Dick Monfort s Rockies can t even tank right May Nuggets vs Clippers Challenge Three keys to series-deciding encounter in Denver May Renck TV schedule is heck for Competition heaven But let s savor Nuggets Avs moment May Gregg Popovich the NBA s all-time wins leader retires after seasons as San Antonio Spurs coach May David Adelman calls out Championship refs but what can Nikola Jokic do to help himself in Tournament After the Clippers knocked off the Nuggets in Los Angeles on Thursday to extend the series Adelman urged fans to go to brunch and come to Saturday s Contest They needed vitality Adelman mentioned They needed juice They were beaten at their own encounter by Ballmer on Saturday in a truly outlandish move from an owner who s had a penchant for out-of-the-box marketing hijinks since he bought the Clippers in If the Denver Nuggets thought that they could take the Clippers to their house in enemy territory and not expect the whole swell the whole Wall to come crashing down upon them well that s going to be a great surprise for them Boulos boasted Saturday