coolbly16 IP Success Thread

[coolbly16]

Did the Houston Rockets on arrival at their hotel last night- No one signed. It was late so I'm not surprised.

Today before the game wasn't much better

Terrance Jones, Ommri Casspi (I didnt have anything for them) and Jeremy Lin signed (See Below)



He would only sign in silver.....

James Harden took a private black SUV to the game. Never got on the Bus.

Chandler Parsons ignored us.

Aaron Brooks ignored us.

Kevin McHale said he was late and got on the bus

Dwight was the last person out and took like 2 steps toward us (there were about 10 of us, some kids too) and the security guard said something to him (I am assuming something along the lines of 'youre the last person, everyone is waiting on you') and then got on the bus

So today was pretty much a complete bust. I have heard that Dwight is usually a great signer...pretty disappointed.

Next up for me is the Pistons next weekend so if anyone has any insight, let me know.

[coolbly16]

Today I graphed the Pistons before the game at their Hotel

First the Good:



Got Peyton Siva on an index card. Didnt print for him, but his graph looked cool for the guy next to me so I figured why not. Nice guy too.



Got Greg Monroe on an 8x10. Happy about this.



Got Coach and former player Mo Cheeks on an 8x10. Hard to see the graph in the bottom right but its nice and he was cool too.

As for the bad:

Andre Drummond was a majority of the reason I went down there, he was the first one to get on the first bus and when we asked him to sign I guess we were too close on a PUBLIC SIDEWALK and the security guy that had just came out yelled at us. He was going to sign for us but the security guy told him he couldn't. What a DICK (the security, not drummond.) It wasnt like we were sticking stuff in his face or harassing him. there were only 4 of us trying to get autographs...it wasnt a mob...he was going to sign too, damn..

Josh Smith came out but by the time I was sure it was him he was already on the bus

Chauncy Billups ignored me so that sucked too. Those were the only guys I printed for. OH well, some good some bad.

[coolbly16]

This weekend may favorite team (OKC Thunder) and my favorite player (Durant) were in town. I have had tickets to the game for months. They played in Brooklyn friday night and didnt get in till LATE Friday night/Saturday morning. My buddy and I wrestled with going to their hotel for arrival and we ended up going. Boy I am glad we did.



Kevin Durant was the last one off the bus and it was just me and my buddy there and he comes over at 2:30am and signs a ball for me and a pic for my buddy. Not only did he sign but the sig is absolutely perfect in deco pen. Also talked to us for a second...it was 2:30am it takes a special guy to sign after they had just played a game and got in super late. Class act for sure. I will now be investing in a UV display case.


Went back down to their hotel and waited for them to get on the bus to go to the game. Obviously there were quite a few more people down there at that time.



Got Coach Scott Brooks and Kendrick Perkins on an 8x10 team logo.




My girlfriend was nice enough to go down with me and help me out so I gave her the task of getting the ball signed if Durant or Westbrook came over and Durant signed for everyone again. But you can tell this was his short form/hurried graph but got him on another ball and an 8x10.

Perry Jones, Steven Adams, Derek Fisher, Westbrook, Ibaka, Jeremy Lamb, Thabo, Collison all didnt sign. I was going to try and get everyone I could on that team logo but Perk and Brooks is not too bad.

It was a great weekend, got my favorite player 3x and he was super nice. Awesome all around. I am open to selling/trading that second ball I got. I can provide better pics/pics of proof of him signing if you are interested. I'm not in a rush to move it, but let me know if you have any interest.

[autonut97]

WOW! Great job on the Durant's! Sounds like a class act for sure! Not many stars are like that, great to still have that in the league! Congrats on your graphs and keep up the good work!

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Feel free to check my bucket and shoot me a PM about the second ball.

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[coolbly16]

The Pelicans were a pretty good signing team overall.

Went to their hotel on arrival Frida night and got Tyreke Evans on a card. He was chill, everyone else had their headphones on.



Went back to the hotel before the game and there were a ton of people there for a non playoff team which was surprising. All looking for anthony davis as was I.

Pretty much everyone on the team signed and was cool I just didnt have anything for them, except for Eric Gordon and Austin Rivers, they came out with Anthony Davis and ignored me while everyone swarmed anthony. Tried to get over to him but it was a madhouse and the security guy was trying to get us all back, I was close but he only ended up doing about 50% of the stuff in front of him. The hurried graph he was laying down wasn't great. The crowd cleared up a bit and I ended up getting Jrue Holiday on a card and Ryan Anderson on a piece of floorboard.




Would have been nice to get the unibrow but I got three solid guys. Anderson was really nice and was surprised to see him traveling because of his back injury. Overall a good signing team just not a lot of huge names. Next up is the Nets in a few weeks.

[coolbly16]

Did the Brooklyn Nets at their hotel before the game this weekend. Apparently everyone signed before shoot around INCLUDING PAUL PIERCE but alas, I was not there.

First person I saw that I wanted was Jason Kidd and had heard he is usually a friendly, and reliable signer. Since the team is finally playing well I figured he would be a slam dunk, but he was one of the first people to the bus and ignored us all (about 10 people) and sat on the bus by himself for 20 plus minutes. I guess it was because he signed earlier. Joe Johnson and Paul Pierce wouldnt sign and no one even saw KG the entire time.

I got Andrei Kirilenko on an index card. I didnt have a base card of him and didnt print for him but wish I would have because he has a nice sig and was really super nice to everyone.



Next out I got Jason Collins on an 8x10 of the SI cover he is on. He was kinda in a hurry and put down a pretty lazy sig but Oh well I guess.



Next I got Marcus Thornton on a card.



Finally, the best addition of the day-



Got Deron Williams on a card. He put down a pretty nice sig too. He did one for everyone.

A mixed bag on the weekend. Wasn't expecting PP or KG obviously but would have like to have gotten Jason Kidd. Not too bad overall though. Might do the Hawks in a couple weeks and probably the Bulls in 3 weeks.

[coolbly16]

Did the Chicago Bulls at their hotel before the game. All the players came out at once so it was kinda crazy. Most guys didnt sign but I got who I came to get- Joakim Noah on a card-



He's having a great season so I was pumped.

[coolbly16]

Went and did the Tampa Bay Lightning at the hotel on arrival. Got Hedman, Callahan, and Stamkos on cards. Although the Stamkos sig is pretty weak.