Basketball ban on bling is racist, claim black players

Telegraph ^ | 10/21/5 | Catherine Elsworth

[LibWhacker]

Good. If they can forego ebonics when doing interviews, they can surely forego the bling.

[Christian4Bush]

The NBA might appeal to someone, it did me once, when players could actually shoot a basketball from more than 3 feet and could hit a free throw. All the NBA is today, is a bunch of high school players who could not pass the ACT test to get into college, or quit college because they could not hack it.

All they can do is DUNK or shoot 40-foot 3 point attempts. Hell, I can stand 25 feet from the basket and hit 3 of 10 shots. And the consider that good. The NBA is no defense, shoot, pass behind the back three times, and quit dribbling 10 feet from the basket, taking 4 or 5 steps to dunk the ball. Used too, they called travels after 2 steps, but what the heck, we wanna see Shaq dunk again, like his other 3 million dunks we missed. He cannot shot beyond 6 feet. At least Jabbar learned to shoot the sky hook from 6 to 10 feet from the basket to improve his game. Not these cruds.

I quit going to the Supersonic games several years ago. I simply got tired of watching street ball for $45 a pop from the nose bleed seats. Now, ESPN carries that garbage half the night, local street dunk-a-thons. I loved it when college outlawed the dunk many years ago. It actually made them learn to play the damned game.

The NBA sucks. I no longer watch it and refuse to even check the scores. 95% of them are nothing short of big mouth punks.

Good rant.

Before anything else, THANK YOU for your service to our nation. We get to do a lot of fun things because of people like you watching over us.

Someone said once that sports (I'll use baseball to keep the example short) is the only profession where if you are successful 20% of the time, you can get a marginal job; 30%, you make millions; 40%, they make a bronze statue out of you, rename fields after you and retire your jersey.

Other sports "success rates":

Hockey..."one out of five" (goals/shots)
Basketball..."five out of ten" (jump shots)
Soccer...don't ask.

I've not paid to attend a basketball game in at least 13 years, back at the old Forum in Inglewood, and have only attended one game since...last year, a free lower bowl ticket for the Lakers vs the Spurs at Staples...when the Lakers sucked. Hockey is more of my favorite, but I don't overpay to watch that, either.

They'll get over it. If not, they can take my place...one day at my job, great as it is, and they'll be begging to go back to their "oppressive" careers!

[Mr. Rational]

I haven't watched pro basketball in years. They will be heading the way of the NHL.

[Chode]

true,i get your point. but i also think that's why there's no where near the fights in Lacrosse is cause they can beat the sh!t out of you legally with the stick that would have you in the penalty box forever in hockey!!! 8^)

[razorback-bert]

built anyway with tax payer money and higher user taxes on hotels, taxi, food

No %$#$, I was in Seattle last month and rented an SUV and paid $40 in taxes on it.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

**Look what happened with the WNBA -- although it that case, the minority culture that overcame and ghettoized the sport was lesbian. Can you even name a WNBA team? (If you're lesbian, you're excused; I assume you can name them all). **

I'm a married woman and can name one. Sac Monarchs. The unfortunate thing is that I was completely ignorant to the lesbian aspects of the WNBA...and took my daughter (who plays basketball in a private Christian school league) to a game. First thing we noticed was that very few people honored the National Anthem. Then we noticed countless lesbian couples. We left. We did some research and found that 2 of the players are Christians, with husbands and children. The rest? No comment. And as for the NBA, the Tiggywinkles are disgusted with the gangster antics of many players.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Well, it gave you a chance to explain some things to the Tiggywinklet, I guess. What the libs call a "teachable moment," maybe not the lesson they would have delivered.

I'm sorry you did not know about that angle. It's one of the many tabu things in our society -- "everyone" knows, "noone" dares speak.

I liked gay folks a lot better when they practiced "the love that dare not speak its name," than now, when they are "the love that will not get out of my face." Or course, as individuals, you have to take them as individuals, that's the only way to assess human beings: one at a time.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[RetiredArmy]

I agree. Baseball. Get 3 hits out of 10 tries and you are a hero. In life you get 3 of 10 right, you are fired or failed.

[RetiredArmy]

I rest my case! Exactly. Seattle's losing sports teams thank you for their new stadiums.

I will not buy a mean in King County. It costs that extra tax here. I even bring my lunch. I refuse to pay for the stadium. I do not shop in King Co where this tax is. I shop in our county, Kitsap or down in Tacoma, which is Pierce. But I will not shop in King County, food, clothes, nothing.

[Christian4Bush]

I agree. Baseball. Get 3 hits out of 10 tries and you are a hero. In life you get 3 of 10 right, you are fired or failed.

...or perpetually hired as a leader in the Democratic Party... /D'OH!

[RetiredArmy]

Right. Kerry's appearance at the Senate to vote. 3 of 10 issues. In Taxsachuttus he is a hero. Go figure. The one State that started the war with the Brits for independence is now one of the main states attempting to give the very Republic it helped to found to the communists. Go figure.

[Christian4Bush]

Well, I wasn't thinking of Kerry per se, but he is a perfect example. As Mr. Limbaugh (R) has said, "Failure in the Democratic Party is a cause for PROMOTION" (Dean, Carter, Gore, Kerry, Edwards, et. al).

I better be careful...I might get too far away from the original thread....eh, so what if I do? You only live once.../end sarcasm