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To get a sense of what fans are really spending on game-day snacks, we analyzed prices for bare-bones basket of items most people would grab for a watch party: a 6-pack of beer, potato chips, tortilla chips, and a jar of salsa. This isn’t a full catering spread, just the essentials for a casual game-day setup. Using data from major retailers including Walmart, Target, Costco, Aldi, Kroger, H-E-B, Safeway, Publix, and Food Lion, we calculated the total basket price per city. Here’s what we found: Key Findings The cheapest city to host a basic NBA snack basket is Portland, OR ($26.69), driven by the lowest beer prices in the dataset ($10.70 per 6-pack). Salt Lake City, UT ($26.97) ranks 2nd, followed by Memphis, TN ($27.85) in 3rd. The most expensive city is New York, NY ($44.16). Retailer choice significantly affects costs: ALDI offers the cheapest beer ($0.08/oz), Food Lion has the lowest per-ounce potato chips ($0.40/oz), H-E-B has the cheapest salsa ($0.14/oz), and Costco/ALDI offer the best value for tortilla chips ($0.35-$0.38/oz). Switching stores can save shoppers up to $10-$15 per game, depending on retailer choice and item selection. The national average for a bare-bones NBA snack basket is $33.45.
Florida Blue and Orlando Magic staff members distributed 350 Thanksgiving meals to underserved families in the Central Florida area. The meals include a turkey and all the trimmings (including turkey, green beans, gravy, corn, stuffing, sweet potato and pumpkin pies). The donated meals are made possible thanks to the generosity of Magic center Wendell Carter Jr. and the Platform² Foundation (the Carter family); Florida Blue; the Magic; and supporting partner, Kroger.
“It’s always great to be able to give back to the community,” said Rockets CEO Tad Brown. “Work together and combine our resources." The Rockets teamed up with Kroger to provide groceries for multiple organizations; from the Boys and Girls Club to the Chinese Community Center. Meals from Tilman Fertitta’s Salt Grass Steakhouse were provided as well.
Mark Berman: James Harden (@James Harden) steps up for the Houston area: In response to the COVID-19 impact on Houston’s most vulnerable communities, star James Harden has teamed up with Kroger to provide a weeks’ worth of groceries to 600 families each week for eight consecutive weeks... pic.twitter.com/17BYvCZoXv
James Harden (@JHarden13) steps up for the Houston area: In response to the COVID-19 impact on Houston’s most vulnerable communities, star James Harden has teamed up with Kroger to provide a weeks’ worth of groceries to 600 families each week for eight consecutive weeks... pic.twitter.com/17BYvCZoXv
— Mark Berman (@MarkBerman_) April 15, 2020
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Monte Morris provided an assist to Flint-area families on Sunday afternoon just ahead of the Christmas holiday. A total of 11 families received a $100 Kroger gift card from the 2013 Beecher High graduate and Denver Nuggets point guard, as well as gift bags for families from the Denver Nuggets, and toys from DTLR Villa.
The Indiana Pacers will celebrate their 50th season by honoring the great players of the past with commemorative bobbleheads to be distributed free to arriving fans on "Decade Games" at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The season-long celebration begins with the Pacers Opening Night presented by Kroger on Wed., Oct. 26, when the team plays host to Dallas and celebrates the 50th season as Hall of Fame Coach Bobby "Slick" Leonard bobbleheads will be given to the first 15,000 fans. In addition, the Pacers' first General Manager, Mike Storen, will be recognized along with representatives of the Pacers' first ownership group.
The Indiana Pacers announced additional plans today for a season-long celebration of their 50th season, highlighted by six Decade Games that will celebrate each decade of Pacers basketball. The Decade Games will be celebrated throughout the season during one home game per month along with a special 50th season tip-off celebration during Opening Night presented by Kroger on October 26.
His case has been assigned by blind draw to District Judge Kimberly Small, who made headlines this past July when she sentenced ESPN analyst and former NBA and Michigan basketball star Jalen Rose to 20 days in the Oakland County Jail and one year's probation for a March drunken driving incident in which he drove off the road in West Bloomfield Township. It was Rose's first drunken driving offense, but Small frequently sentences first-time offenders to jail, citing national statistics and the deadly seriousness of motorists making the decision to get behind the wheel while drunk. According to a police report obtained by The News, the stop occurred after a patrol officer northbound on Telegraph observed the Escalade "had a hard time maintaining its lane of travel and was driving over lane markers." "The vehicle drove over the fog line on the right multiple times," Officer Thomas Smyly wrote in his report, noting he initiated a traffic stop and the Escalade pulled into a Kroger parking lot.