Posted on 06/16/2015 9:19:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Andre Iguodala was his team's best player, yet he still heard boos.
They were coming from his mother.
"Ball hog!" Linda Shanklin howled from the stands. "Pass the ball!"
When the game ended, Iguodala, then a sixth-grader, pleaded with Shanklin's husband: "She's booing me! She's my mom!"
"Dude, you need to pass the ball!" she fired back. "You're not the only person on the team. You look really sad just scoring all of these points."
A ball hog? Even then, Iguodala thought of himself as a team player. Three years earlier, he had asked the coach of his local community center team to let him come off the bench just to keep the peace with the older players who hated that he started.
But he had fallen into a habit of doing what was easy. And what was easy for the most talented sixth grader in Springfield, Illinois, was to score.
"It was like, man, he just knew he was the s---," Shanklin said.
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Held LeBron to 32 points on 33 attempts AND scored 25 himself.
Deserved.
Iknowright?
ESPN is just mad because they are all about LeBron.
Probably watched 15 mins of Thug ball the entire year.
Pray America is waking
Thug ball? Not the Warriors....
WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT????
Agreed
The refs must wear blinders,, they consistently blew a couple calls.. wouldnt have mattered fortunately,, but this is the saddest officiating I have ever seen in an NBA Finals.
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