Hawai’i basketball fans again showed just how much they love their live NBA action — even if the Lakers and Kobe Bryant are not involved — as 8,018 of them cheered enthusiastically throughout the Toronto Raptors’ 121-113 preseason victory over the Los Angeles Clippers late Sunday afternoon at the Stan Sheriff Center.
This was despite the newly adopted “home” team losing and reportedly up to almost 2,000 fans being delayed entering the arena, some as late as the beginning of the third period due to a massive bottleneck at the gates caused by tightened NBA security protocol.