If I were you, KS, I'd use the trip as a little celebrity photo op. Contact the Blazer PR department and tell them of your plans, and how you do it every year.
You are exactly the kind of guy that is everything Portlandia is about (quirky supporting cast guy on a discontinued tv show who happens to be gay and also a little manic/depressive). I don't mean that in an offensive way--I just think you have exactly the kind of story the VP of Marketing at the Blazers was talking about in that interview a few weeks ago about authenticity. You are authentically Oregon--even grew up in Springfield--even if you moved on to NYC.
I think you could turn yourself into a B-Level Spike Lee of the Blazers if you wanted to with trips like this. It could get you publicity, which is always good for your own acting career. If nothing else, you could write off some of this trip as a business expense, because you'd be using it to try to further your career.
If nothing else, it could be one of the many little talking points announcers of other teams bring up at the beginning of games if the Blazer PR department point it out. Just an idea.
