NBA 10-11

[Maclowery]

Sorry, luke. I didn't infer that you are a racist or anything extreme. It's just an extremely tired question to wonder why black star athletes are more prevalent than white ones, and one that very often has biased undertones instead of honest curiosity.


I get pretty reactionary to "why are black people better at sports than white people" generalizations. It just serves to backtrack what we should be going for, which is true colorblindness regarding this stuff. I consider it completely irrelevant what color an athlete's skin is. I misinterpreted your original post comparing American players to overseas players.

It's more interesting to look at cultural, economic, or regional differences. Why does Indiana rural culture celebrate high school basketball, but further midwest states focus so much more on football or baseball? Do urban cultures prefer basketball over football or baseball due to race or culture, or simply because there isn't room for a good football field? Or is it more important that basketball requires less equipment than baseball or football. I didn't even know, as a St Louis kid, what lacrosse was until probably age 19, but a gal I dated in college from an affluent New Jersey town who said that she knew about lacrosse and field hockey before she knew the difference between a field goal and a home run.



Public apology my post. You're a good guy, luke, one of my favorite contributors here. I am sorry for the vitriol.


I'll try to swing conversation away from my incendiary post and back to the NBA: Holy crap I wish I'd stayed up for the 4th quarter through 3 OT's for that OKC/Memphis series. It kind of has the feel of Chicago/Boston 2008 to it, doesn't it? It's gotta go to 7.

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It just serves to backtrack what we should be going for, which is true colorblindness regarding this stuff. I consider it completely irrelevant what color an athlete's skin is.

Colorblindness is what we should shoot for? How about an appreciation of and lack of fear for our differences?

[lukethedrifter]

It just serves to backtrack what we should be going for, which is true colorblindness regarding this stuff. I consider it completely irrelevant what color an athlete's skin is.

Colorblindness is what we should shoot for? How about an appreciation of and lack of fear for our differences?

Right on.

[Maclowery]

So anyway. NBA!

Yet another confusing win for the Bulls. Started out looking confident and solid in the first 18 minutes or so. Was hoping for a nice blowout win. Then the Bulls looked a 45 win team struggling for a good 15 minutes. Sucked. Then we shut em down nicely enough in the fourth.

Boozer. If you showed me this team with no beforehand knowledge, I would never, ever guess he's our best paid player. Ugh. I am not a disbeliever that the turf toe hurts like hell. Just bad timing for him, perhaps, as he looked like total garbage for plenty of time before this toe injury deal. All in all, I'm pretty pessimistic about his next four years with the team.

My man Asik sure looked lost tonight, in his most minutes of the postseason. Meh. I was working, so I didn't get to see all of his minutes, but I sure hope the guy works his ass off this postseason on finding some sort of offensive ability.

I am hyped up to watch the Memphis/OKC game. I don't know if I said it here or elsewhere, but it has the feel of 2008 Bulls/Celtics, where every game was terrific, contested, and generally why I love watching the NBA.

[thrill]

Omer was a beast defensively. Also sets noticeably getter screens for Derrick than Noah or Booz. He had a very nice game tonight.

[Jocephus]

former nba player robert "tractor" traylor found dead

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ear ... _blog.html

[JackofDiamonds]

2 huge 3s from LeBron. Wow.

[MrSaigon]

Until he hit those shots and posed, I didn't realize how much I really hate LeBron.

[MrCrowesGarden]

First time since the Jordan era the NBA Finals don't have at least one of Shaq, Kobe or Duncan.

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First time since the Jordan era the NBA Finals don't have at least one of Shaq, Kobe or Duncan.

In that case, its been since, what, 84, since a finals w/out them, MJ, Olajuwon, Isiah, Bird and Magic?