OT: The Whitewashing of the Pacers

Interesting read. What the Blazers could have done after Jail Blazers era, but didn't. Remember the Draft the Stache campaign?

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so wut u sayin is

we shoulda turned into an all white team?

Oden...Aldridge...Roy.....THE REAL BIG THREE

by CroRupt on Jun 30, 2009 5:24 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

he is saying we didnt for the better but we almost did

OMG. even comparing Morrison to Roy just gave me chills of what we almost did

"shaq and zach randolph have the same trainer... "

best one liner i ever heard.

by bowdown on Jun 30, 2009 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

yea we would have been in loterry for another 5 years

Oden...Aldridge...Roy.....THE REAL BIG THREE

by CroRupt on Jun 30, 2009 6:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

yea

In KP we trust.

Brandon Roy, 'nuff said.

by johnv59 on Jun 30, 2009 7:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

no,

what hes saying is there were other avenues the blazers front office could have taken instead of the one were on now. I for one am glad the blazers chose the one they did.

Resident Smartass.

by Devyn on Jun 30, 2009 6:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'll gladly take Jeff Foster off of their hands

and send them an “extra” SF with an expiring contract…

by two4larue on Jun 30, 2009 6:29 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

can of worms

just re-opened with that article. Interesting read.

Brandon Roy, 'nuff said.

by johnv59 on Jun 30, 2009 7:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Terrible article.

It is simply an outlet to accuse Larry Bird of racism.

I’m pretty sure Bird would’ve taken Lebron, Wade, Kobe, and Howard if they had been offered for his apparantly miscreant blacks.

The bottom line is this is the NBA. Winning is what sells tickets. A plan of targeting white people would be unlikely to win as talent is not heavily concentrated in a minority group in the NBA. I really doubt, even if Larry Bird is racist, that he would put that above winning.

by staylost on Jun 30, 2009 7:16 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

+1

Larry Bird might be a bad evaluator of talent, but to think he’s deliberately putting together his roster based on skin tone to connect with fans is laughable. These are what score points with the fans (1) good product and (2) good guys. If you have a crappy team with bad guys (e.g. the Pacers, the Jailblazers) nobody is going to spend money to watch that. Bird’s pitch is the same as KP’s was a few years ago – come watch our young, high character, hard working tam as it is rebuilding, not a racial play at all.

Team Bayless - The takeover begins in 2009

by blazeraddict on Jun 30, 2009 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Factually he has a point that Indiana did employ a lot of white players, but it's an assumption to see a strategy behind it

There definitely is a strategy to get rid of players with off-court issues. Maybe subconsciously Bird thinks he will have less problems with some white kids than more Ron Artests and Stephen Jacksons and Jamaal Tinsleys. But in 2008 he drafted two black players, and his best player is black. So it’s not like the color was the major screening criteria. It’s not Adolf Rupp running Kentucky all over again.

by Norsktroll on Jul 1, 2009 1:04 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs