DALLAS — There are a lot of ways to consume an NBA game: on television (how I grew up watching the game), by listening to the radio (when I was rushing home from my high school basketball practices), from press seats that are 30 feet away (the occasional low attendance media game) or from up in the balcony (my typical press seats).
On Saturday, with the Celtics facing the Mavericks in the season’s official NBA Finals rematch, I was assigned first-row press seats — right at center court behind the official scorekeepers.