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Damn, you beat me to it!
Edit: Updated article in post #81 (page 4).
Nuggets, WWE in smackdown over arena confict
By Brian Mahoney
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers are scheduled to be at the Pepsi Center in Denver next Monday night.
Problem is, so are John Cena and a bunch of wrestlers.
World Wrestling Entertainment says it is booked at the arena for an episode of Monday Night Raw, the same night the Nuggets are slated to host the Lakers in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals.
WWE spokesman Robert Zimmerman says the organization secured the Pepsi Center last Aug. 15 and has already sold more than 10,000 tickets for the event. He says the organization expects a sellout, with tickets ranging from $20 to $70.
“Even though the Denver Nuggets had a strong team this year and were projected to make the playoffs, obviously Nuggets and Pepsi Center owner Stan Kroenke did not have enough faith in his own team to hold the May 25th date for a potential playoff game,” WWE chairman Vince McMahon said in a statement.
Denver is usually done with basketball by now. The Nuggets had lost in the first round five straight years, but as the No. 2 seed in the West are in the conference finals for the first time since 1985.
The Nuggets referred comment to the NBA, which handles scheduling during the playoffs. NBA spokesman Mark Broussard said the league was looking into the conflict.
Zimmerman said the Pepsi Center confirmed in March with the WWE that the organization wanted to keep the May 25 date, and sent a contract on April 15— the final night of the regular season—which WWE signed and returned. Tickets went on sale April 11.
The conflict didn’t arise until Sunday, when the Lakers beat the Houston Rockets in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals. Had the Rockets won, Denver would have had home-court advantage in the next round, hosting Games 1 and 2 and putting the May 25 game in Houston.
As of Monday afternoon, the schedule on the Pepsi Center’s Web site listed WWE for 6:30 p.m. local time and Western Conference finals Game 4 at 7 p.m. Tickets for the wrestling event could still be purchased online.
Last edited by duncan228; 05-18-2009 at 10:27 PM.
Damn, you beat me to it!
so the lakers sell wcf tickets early and these guys dont even book the arena
Maybe they could all just have a steel-cage match?
so does this mean they forfeit the game? 1-0 baby already
When you're getting verbally owned by the guy who provides gems such as this, that's pretty sad.
see ya vince. go perform at some high school or something...
well, I guess they could all just beat each other up and call it a game
Move one of them to mile high...problem solved. Unless it's raining or something
Interesting. I wonder how this is gonna turn out.
I wanna say the game will be pushed a day ahead or after wwe.
I want to know who the 10,000 people are that still watch wrestling
interesting. maybe they can cut the WWE a lucrative deal to hold their event at like 10am.
It's sad really. I could understand it it was kids but grown ass people watching men play fight in their underwear while oiled up is pretty ing gay if you ask me.
i watch it when i get a chance.
yeah, I watched it as a kid, and even as a young teen in 97-99, but now that I'm a little more seasoned, I'm not really into guys on roids fake fighting eachother
With 10,000 tickets already sold for WWE, no way they're moving that now.
Nuggets will have to move around it...most likely they'll play at Mile High if it's not booked.
sons this shouldn't be a big deal. Vince and David Stern work together very closely and have been good friends for years. Vince and his creative writing crew at the WWE have written and developed many of the scripts and story lines for the NBA playoffs in the past.
Denver doesn't have another venue? Cleveland has 2 arenas that hold over 13,000
+1 for having keri hilson in your sig
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