re: Pelicans Focus Group: Follow up included.

My idea is to darken the arena like the Lakers do and have the floor lit up and a small jazz band stage lit up (Party Perch).

Have the jazz band play the transition music live and piped around the arena whenever the Pellies have the ball. Have the crowd involvement canned shite when we're on Defense and need a stop.

It would be one of the most unique live presentations in American sports history and would garner critical acclaim from around the sportsworld.

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I was always conscious of the connections' between jazz music and basketball,' NBA Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says.

Anyone with knowledge of both basketball and jazz recognizes natural affinities between the two pursuits: a marriage of form and improvisation, of individualism with teamwork; a primacy of rhythm (watch how basketball players dribble the ball before taking foul shots to re-establish a sense of tempo); and a requirement that players respond to one another's choices and to rapidly changing situations in real time.

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