Posted on 07/21/2015 9:47:51 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Bobby Marks who now offers incredible NBA insight on Twitter, recently said something sort of remarkable about San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon.
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I have no problem with her advancement. If Popovich is on board, she’s a strong addition to the Spurs team and she is likely deserving of all future opportunities.
Now, watch ESPN pivot to women’s issues in sports just as Hillary(!) enters the fray. Right on queue.
I could see her getting a shot at a head coaching job after several more years learning under Popovich, but there are many more qualified people out there now. If anyone gave her a head coaching job now it would be a gimmick based solely on her gender.
You mean her sex.
Is she still a Russian citizen? She became one in 2008 to play on the Russian Olympic Women’s Team. To me that’s a low thing to do.
People often use the word gender when they mean the sex of an individual. In today’s world, people tend to use the word sex to refer to intercourse or other sexual activity, and not the state of being male or female.
I don’t know why or when this happened, but this is how people use the word gender nowadays.
Ditto. I think very little of people who change their allegiance to their country for something like that. I can't imagine rejecting my citizenship just to play on some athletic team.
Who? :)
What a slap in the face, especially to the members of the 72 Men's Olympic team.
That’s a very common thing in the Olympics. Italy in particular hands out citizenship to great-grandchildren of people who left in order to build their squads. Italian hockey and baseball teams in international tournaments are filled with Americans and Canadians of Italian origin who generally don’t speak the language and have never been there.
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