So, I'm reading the paper yesterday and apparantly, I'm not making this up, there is a movement to try to open up an all-White basketball league.
The conditions to be able to play in the league is that a) you must be a citizen of the US and b) you must be a product of two caucasion parents. Really.
The guy making this league, named the All-American Basketball Alliance, is named Don Lewis. And apparantly his premise is that white fans are tired of black "street-ball" and are ready to see a fundamental game once again. But he swears he's not racist.
Remember that article I wrote about Tyler Hansborough? There's that nutty group of folks out there who are really dying to have the next Larry Bird. And not for the right reasons. They don't want the next Larry Bird because of great talent. They want they next Larry Bird because he will be opposite of Lebron, Carmelo and Dwyane. This is that group. But what idiocy. Are you telling me that a Nowitzki or a Nash or a Gasol wouldn't be allowed to play because they're foreign? It may as well be titled the American Socialist Basketball Aryan Fundamentalists....or something.
Obviously this thing isn't ever going to happen. Lewis wants to start out with 12 teams. He won't get one. This is a legal nightmare - though I don't think Lewis cares. This is obvisously a ploy. For what God only knows. But it just goes to show you that we're not "there" yet.
It's kind of a sad commentary on how far away from "there" we really are still.
3 comments:
Nash and Dirk are both the product of two white parents.
Gasol is spanish, so no, he couldn't play.
As for the all white league, I have one word for it: Ra. Tard. Ed.
Hmm, fundamental basketball. Because the WNBA is so f-ing fun to watch.
AK,
Nash is Canadian I believe and Dirk is German. So they wouldn't qualify for the league.
Like I said, they're way out there.
TJ,
Again, hilarious. I do love to watch a perfect form layup every now and again though.
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