Posted by MS:
Typical New York Knicks lately.....
Start a brawl, and then defender yourself in the media and make an even bigger ass out of yourself, Nate
Get waxed and Chicago and try to start another fight because your unprofessional......
You play in a leauge that rewards self promoting dip ****s, your all overpaid you have been in the lottery for the past three season and your team sucks
You make a public comment that puts fuel on the fire when the league is at it's most vulnerable.....
But I guess it's sterns fault that he is the best commisioner in pro sports and tries to make a bunch of thugs around the leauge remove 100k chains, sunglasses and stupid hats and dress more professional like Jordan, Magic, Pippen, Clyde etc used to do. But I guess it's racist to preserve the integrity of the league and ensure fans keep coming and the game keeps growing and these babies get their millions and max deals, then whine after they sign them force buyouts because they try to sabatoge the organization, and generally dog it only to go to other teams and be inspired again......
I don't know if it's q, but I would be willing to bet it's Curry, who still thinks he got jobbed in the allstar voting, according to magic another idiot, as well as Marbury and the rest of his teammates that in typical fashion believe it's all about numbers.....
Excuses and lack of professionalism is all this team is about, make comments like a man or don't make them at all.
Its interesting that you make culturally specific accusations about things that are occuring league-wide, and NO ONE on this thread has challenged your assertions. Throwing out the names of some older black players doesn't make your assertions about today's hip hop influenced players any more valid. 100k chains and sunglasses and stupid hats, as you put it, doesn't make someone a thug. If its a style of dress that you dont find appealing, I'm fine with that, I also dislike much of it. But to characterize all players who dress that way, as thugs, is frankly, a racist assumption.
A thug is someone who engages in criminal behavior. And while the NBA has a few bad apples, it is a gross mischaracterization to make sweeping negative genralizations about its majority hip hop influenced black players; and lets be clear, with the culturally specific remarks you have made it is quite obvious you are talking about black players.
The NBA isn't a league of thugs, and there is very little illegal activity going on in general among NBA players, so it is striking that you would use such strong language and others would co-sign it and find no fault with it.
This thinking, that lumps one group of people into a box (a box marked criminal), based on their sunglasses, jewelry and stupid hats, is what leads to greater misunderstanding in our society. This type of thinking, often becomes part of the lazy logic of racism that puts my college-educated black life in danger, when the police shoot based on how people look, rather than on whether they are behaving illeagally.
Ironicly, this conversation is happening because an NBA referee, is alleged, to have participated in something illegal, in concert with our country's largest organized crime gang, but I guess because he's white and doesn't wear jewelry, sunglasses or stupid hats, he would never qualify for characterization as a thug.
Just some food for thought.
[Edited by - Killa4luv on 07-27-2007 11:18 AM]
7/27/2007 10:16 AM