Posted on 01/10/2020 4:53:34 AM PST by 1raider1
Cleveland Cavaliers coach John Beilein made an emotional apology to his players Thursday morning, insisting he regrets referring to the team as "a bunch of thugs" in a Wednesday film session, league sources told ESPN.
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He didn’t mean for “a bunch of thugs” to come across as negative. He was just stating a fact.
It may be true but no way he survives this. Probably trying to save his buy out with the apology.
Later in the article it says, “He meant to say SLUGS.” If anybody believes that, I have some ocean front property in North Dakota to sell him.
After his apology, the team beat him up.
He’s White and old...game over.
He’s a 66 year old rookie NBA coach. He obviously knows better. Lebum James and the rest of the thug players run the NBA. He’s a goner for sure.
As an aside, I’d rather be a Pharmacist than an NBA coach.
John just remembers the old days when there was nothing but Italian and Polish mafia type basketball players in Cleveland.
This is why I haven’t watched an NBA game in years.
The NBA has never been the same since World B. Free retired.
If he wanted to be negative he would have called them a bunch of nappy haired thugs.
He said, "C'mon, ya big lugs, I wanna give you a buncha hugs!"
No, he meant to say “thuds” as for all the flopping around looking for fouls. :P
(seriously, if I had to listen to the music in most NBA clubhouses, I would think they are thugs. It’s not Vivaldi in there.)
Besides which, the stereotype of thugs (PS: racist only because idiots let offended people control free speech) hardly describes the way the Cavs play. Thugs are quite often folks who hand out on Basketball courts and make a pretty aggressive game of it. The Cavs might play tougher if they took a ride down Superior Ave to Glenville and recruited some "thugs" off a Basketball court.
Definitely not Chinee.
Sandwich and a roadmap, Coach.
Actually, I believe that he meant to say “slugs”. It was in the context of a film session. There hadn’t been a fight or a series of rough fouls; his players were moving too slowly and getting beat on their assignments.
Beilein is a first class human being. When he coached at WVU, he once came out at halftime to ask the crowd to stop using a chant that contained profanity.
It’s a shame that the word ‘thugs’ (which actually derives from a notoriously violent Hindu sect) has become racially charged. Someone quoted Orwell earlier in this thread, and one of Orwell’s main themes in ‘1984’ was that controlling language and reducing the set of allowable vocabulary, the range of ideas could be controlled. That is certainly the left’s intent.
It is beyond insane that someone like Beilein, who has performed as a basketball coach for 40 years with spotless conduct and outstanding success could have his career threatened by a single misspoken consonant.
Back in the late 70’s, the Houston Rockets had a front line consisting of three very tall black players who took their time coming up the floor - Moses Malone, Joe Bryant (Kobe’s dad) and Major Jones. They dubbed themselves the “Water Buffaloes” because they were “big, black and slow”. That was back when people could laugh at themselves.
“It’s not Vivaldi in there.”
Made me laugh.
I hear the same thing in stores at the mall...leaves me pining for a little Led Zep, some Steely Dan or even Barry Manilow!
Did he go to the hood get a bunch of thugs together and apologize for comparing them to NBA players? That kind of language is a total insult to self respecting thugs everywhere.
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