An all black basketball league? Would it benefit black players and owners?

Larry Johnson was a junior college transfer who became the top star of the 1989-1991 Running Rebels of UNLV, leading them to two final four appearances and one championship. He later had a successful ten year NBA career with the Charlotte Hornets and the New York Knicks. In 1993, Johnson signed what was at the time the most lucrative NBA contract in history -- $84 million over 12 years. Nevertheless Johnson apparently believes that NBA players, despite their compensation levels, are still slaves to their white masters, and wants a new all black league. The idea for an all black league was Johnson’s initial angry reaction to the story that sports networks and sportswriters are now obsessing over, the racist comments of 80 year old Los Angeles Clippers’ team owner Donald Sterling.

What would the diversity counselors say about Johnson’s approach? African Americans make up about 13% of the US population, but 76% of NBA players, a percentage that has hardly fluctuated in recent years, even with the surge in European players joining the league. African American make up 68% of NFL players, and 9% of major league baseball players, a percentage that has been dropping for many years as Hispanic and Asian players have come into the league, and young blacks show less interest in the sport. A surprisingly large number of NHL players are black, almost 5%, 3/4 of whom are Canadian.

The guy from NAACP says they are negotiating for Sterling to give more moneys(sic)??? So then, is the NAACP standing for any high principle here, or does money make this all go away soon?

Amazing. So much for any principled stands.

Really a very good idea. Our kids would not have their time wasted and could get back to studying. Further, we could re-introduce academic subjects back into the curriculum and not have to waste our kids time with feel good classes such as "The Black Experience," Introduction to Barrio Thinking" and last but not least "Black History."

I realize it is mostly all speculation but had heard today that the tapes of ‘THE BIGOT’ were tampered with dramatically and she seemed to be baiting him - Much along the same lines as Marion Barry and his ‘crack’ bust. I am not denying his guilt BUT she certainly went out of her way to get him to ‘smoke’. At that time all ‘hizzoner’ wanted was a little leg. Am sure he may have taken a hit or two afterward but she clearly coerced him by dangling ‘herself’ in front of him ONLY AFTER he smoked.
STILL guilty but definitely MB was correct in his “The Biatch Set Me Up”.

Now, playing the “Devils Advocate” here, what will the reaction be when Magic Johnson buys the team for a steal WHEN he was a large part of the ‘take down the Cracka Scandal’ - whether he knew it or not it sure wouldn’t pass the smell test.

For the Jackson/Sharpton entourage etc what would the reaction be if say a ‘Blond’ friend of Magic J was to do hours of taping and end up using say Donald Trump as the ‘Trump’ Card and when MJ was ‘on the ropes’ “The Donald” stepped in and bought the Dodgers for a ‘steal’? ........HMMMMMM

"profitable"

I doubt somebody as stupid as Johnson would have thought that far ahead. Obviously, his idea will go nowhere, but it does give an indication of how deluded are many lib athletes and fans. I've been on a few sports forums following Johnson's statements, and there are number of commenters who actually believe he might have a good idea. They were outnumbered by the commenters who informed them about the difficulty of getting an enterprise like that off the ground, racist implications aside.

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