10-27-2009. Opening game w/ the ring and banner segment before the game recap. Game starts at 14:12. Blake Griffin was DNP, dunno why. Also Artest's 1st RS gm in Lala land. Amusingly enough, this ceremony covered the prior year where LAL defeated Ron's Rockets including the ejection and Kobe face off scenes and the Fish block on Luis Scola (aka Giant Sasha Vujacic). Ronald eventually made his own mark, tho. This was a fantastic reclamation project that doesn't get the credit it deserves. After the Palace Malice, Ron was persona non grata. I'm sure the Pacers wished they had the straight n narrow Ron, but they didn't seem to provide the encouragement for him to get some talk therapy goin. Ron has admitted numerous times that the Tony Sopranoish sessions w/ his own Dr. Melfi helped him tremendously.