Posted on 08/31/2009 7:36:57 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
MIAMI — Tim James apologized for being late. A rough day at work, said the Miami Heat's 1999 first-round draft pick. Vehicles broke down, problems flared up, and he simply fell behind.
"It happens," James said. "Even here."
Even on the front line of the Iraq war.
A former NBA player who often wondered about his true calling, Tim James is now a U.S. Army soldier, a transformation that even many of the people closest to him never saw coming.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
To hear some people talk, NBA players are just thugs and basketball is an un-American sport. So much for that stereotype
That says it all Cpt. K... and the fact it appeared in the AJC makes it all the better..
God bless you and keep you and all of our war fighters safe, Tim.
Sorry, but stereotypes come into being for a reason. You have heard of "outliers," right?
...good man!
And not a word about this from the NBA, which I suppose has a glowing public reputation and wouldn’t need the good publicity.
Maybe the outliers are also the smaller lawless element that gets a disproportionate amount of attention.
Perhaps.
Red came up a lot in Vegas last night, too.
Wonderful story. Thank you for posting it.
Not true,
The reason this story rings true is because of the rarity of this type of positive nba story.
Remember a few years ago when the players in the nba fathered more illegitimate bastard children than their were players in the league for the year?
Remember the strict dress code that was enforced?
Remember the embarrassing, childish incident where they climbed into the stands and started beating up the fans.
It is society, not just the NBA, there’s illegitimate children fathered by players in all sports these days. Is baseball a thug sport? You had Ty Cobb running into the stands to beat up a crippled fan and his teammates joining him in the mayhem but that’s just the All-American excess of a hard competitor. Every sport has had it’s ugly incidents, yet the NBA is somehow the thug league.
I remember seeing hockey players going into the stands to fight fans but you don't hear about hockey players being called thugs.
Broad Street Bullies,,,1974-1975
Althought I did love the number they did to the Russian Hockey Team.
"Oh this young man has had a very trying rookie season, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country's refusal to accept him, well, I guess that's more than most 21-year-olds can handle... Ogie Ogilthorpe!"
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