Posted on 03/20/2014 11:41:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Never got basketball although I played a bit in an ROTC program at Duquesne. To me it’s tree hockey. Same with soccer just on a field.
Sometimes watch baseball, mostly for nostalgic reasons. The NFL, especially the Steelers, is dead to me. Ice hockey is ok for about two weeks.
Golf is ok early for the scenery and promise of Spring.
I do enjoy NASCAR but it’s nothing like it used to be.
All major sports are over hyped. Basically I’d rather play than watch.
Hey, Jonathan - I just don't bother to watch basketball. In that way, I don't have any racist, stereotypical thoughts.
And unlike President MomJeans, I don't get unnatural desires to sniff sweaty jockstraps...
So basketball a sport where blacks, 12% of the population fills 80% of the roles available
is really the place to look for racism against blacks
Sheesh How StOOOpid
Basketball would get a lot more people following it if they would get rid of the draped in a potato sack look!
They are hideous!
What I don’t see watching basketball are white players.
No, but they do talk him up as a player, even though Giroux is the guts of that team. No mention of P. K. Subban’s color either. I guess there isn’t a “black stereotype” for Hockey. But as far as “diversity” goes, you probably don’t get more diverse than the NHL, where they have guys from every hockey playing country in the world out there. Give it another 15 years and there will be Asian players.
We will die waiting..............
What a load of B.S. I watch as many Michigan Games as I can.
Jordan Morgan has had plenty of press this year given their Starting Forward Mitch McGary is out with a back Issue for the season. Jordan is commended by most announcers as the Team Leader on the floor, taking the freshmen under his wing, being a 5th Year Graduate Student.
However it has taken both Jordan and Jon Horford to get the same numbers as McGary was providing.
As for Nik Stauskas, he has worked his ass off to improve his game. He is only a Sophmore. If he went Pro at the end of the year he would at worst be a low lottery pick. Jordan will be on the market come next fall looking for a spot or playing in Europe.
Am I in the cell next to you?
“Racism” is the product of 60 years of Marxism-driven multiculturalism—divide us and conquer us.
What he says about the (sometimes correct, sometimes incorrect) assumption that white guys aren’t as gifted in basketball is probably true. But, seriously, who cares?
If that is true, then the same can be said about blacks. They have a preconceived notion that all whites are racist and spend a great deal of time and planning, meting and maintaining some great oppressive infrastructure that spans everything from fast food to mortgages. They see the things they imagine and miss the actual reality.
Whats Basketball?
Yaaawwnn !!!!
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Have you been following me around?
One of the most athletic basketball players ever was Tom Chambers. So athletic, he didn’t work much on his game and did not put in much effort on defense.
“Give it another 15 years and there will be Asian players.”
Paul Karyia?
What the author doesn’t (and couldn’t) see is the TEAM, and the concept of team.
A N Y
TEAM!
“Basically we’re all racists.”
Basically, we’re all TRIBES. Seriously. This stuff is SO stupid!
Who doesn’t gravitate towards their own? Why were there enclaves of German, Jew, Irish, Italian, etc. when America was filling up? You are who you are born unto and you gravitate towards the familiar! It’s freakin’ HUMAN NATURE!
I work in one of the most FORCED ‘diverse’ towns in the Midwest, yet - no Asians or Hispanics or Blacks or Jews or Democrats of ANY stripe go out of their way to befriend me! What’s up with that? I’m a lovely person! They discriminate against ME because I’m white? I ain’t rich! I ain’t nobody’s fool! I’m street smart! I’m hip. I’m cool. ;)
My DOGS do NOT go out of their way to hang out with my CATS on any given day and my laying hens are not the LEAST bit interested in befriending either the dogs OR the cats! And we ALL hate the raccoons! Chicken-killing, trash dumping, rabies-spreading B@stards! ;)
Man, this stuff is so TRANSPARENTLY ‘divide and conquer’ by the LefTards all across the land. (Who, I do NOT want to knowingly associate with, LOL!)
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