If only the Portland Trailblazers had the touch of David Dalla Gasperina this season.
The basketball fan drained a 94-foot putt from one end of the court to the other during an in-game promotion at the Trailblazers game on March 25 at the Moda Center. The putt earned him $50,000.
No one had won the promotion, sponsored by mortgage lender Directors Mortgage, which gave one lucky fan a chance to hit a putt and have the ball go through the front door of a model house at the opposite end of the court, all season. As detailed by KGW, the NBC affiliate in Portland, Dalla Gasperina got a call the night before saying he’d been picked to take part in the promotion during the game against the Houston Rockets.
