Vicki Beam can count the quantity of Denver Chunks games she's missed since she first sat in quite a while at McNichols Sports Field a long time back.
There were two games in 2005 when her mom passed on and the four of every 2022 after Beam suffered a heart attack. One when she was snowed in at her Solitary Tree home and every one of the games shut to fans during the Covid pandemic.
And afterward there are the 14 games she's missed since Kroenke Sports and Diversion authorities renounced her floor-level season tickets over claims she abused NBA and field rules for contact with players and refs.
Beam, 72, said the squabbles didn't occur and guessed the organization denied her tickets for different reasons.
"My most memorable response was someone needs my seats, since I've had those seats the entire time the field has been open," Beam said in a meeting with the Denver Post this week.
In a proclamation, Kroenke authorities said the tickets were repudiated "because of rehashed infringement and alerts of the NBA's Governing set of principles as well as Ball Field's General set of rules."
The organization's assertion refered to "undesirable contact with members" that proceeded "even after rehashed alerts."
"We are disheartened to make this move yet have done as such as per association and setting rules," Kroenke authorities said in an explanation.
Kroenke authorities declined to address further inquiries concerning disavowing Beam's tickets. The Public B-ball Refs Affiliation and Public B-ball Players Affiliation didn't answer demands for input.
Whenever Beam first knew about any issues was Feb. 2, when two safety officers moved toward her after the game and said she had gotten a ref, who drove her away and said "No."
On Feb. 4, field authorities told her a player revealed she hit him in the face. Beam said she just at any point holds her hand out for players as they're coming and leaving the field, and giving her a high-five is their decision.
The call denying her season tickets came on Feb. 13, two days after she had put a store down for the following season.
It was a shock to Beam, who feels as close as family to the Pieces group.
Her parlor is fixed with racks of Pieces memorabilia - many marked Nikes, incalculable photos of her presenting with players and famous people at games, get-well banners sent by the group after she had her stroke and a teddy bear and birthday card sent by Marcus Camby.
Beam said she's thinking about legitimate activity however declined to give the name of her lawyer. She'll have the option to apply for season ticket participation again one year from now, however that is no assurance she'll get in, she said.
"I simply need my seats," she said. "I need to be there."
Luna Ella