ORLANDO, Fla. — While the rest of Orlando went wild watching the Magic in Game 2 of the NBA Finals, Kiah Nickerson, 12, spent the evening playing 18 holes with friends at Dubsdread Golf Course.

Like many other Central Floridians, Kiah isn’t dazzled by the Magic’s once-in-14-years feat of making it to the Finals — this time against the L.A. Lakers.
“It’s just shooting a ball in a hoop,” said Kiah, who planned to play video games when he got home rather than turn on the game.
Yes, the Magic mania apparent at sports bars and downtown haunts was decidedly absent Sunday at restaurants, movie theaters and stores — although crowds were thinner than normal. Workers said they assumed people were busy watching the away game on TV.
At the Denny’s on Lee Road in Winter Park, Jesse Ballard, 25, checked e-mail on a laptop, sipped coffee and didn’t think about the Magic until he was asked.
Ballard said he doesn’t care who wins and pronounced the hoopla surrounding it overblown.
“I don’t think Orlando deserves to be here,” said Ballard, who has enlisted in the Army. “I think (Dwight) Howard’s a big whiner.”
Lucy Williams, 26, and Matt Thomas, 29, had just finished watching Terminator Salvation at the theater in Winter Park Village and said they probably wouldn’t tune in the Magic until the deciding game.
Thomas said he has never quite forgiven the team for getting swept by the Houston Rockets in 1995.
“The tennis was better,” he said, referring to Sunday’s French Open men’s final won by Roger Federer.
At Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar in Winter Park, two televisions were tuned to the game, but nobody was watching
Head bartender Jon Finzel, a fan, said the playoffs are hurting business because fans flock to sports bars.
“I wish they would hurry up and win it all, or hurry up and get on with it (lose in a sweep),” he said.
Cole Langridge, 35, watched the game at an Orlando sushi restaurant but cared so little that he left with six minutes to go and went shopping at Walgreens.
“I think it’s cool that it’s Orlando, but there’s more important things to worry about,” Langridge said. “When everything gets good in life (the economy), we can start going crazy for the Magic.”