Juwan Howard, Jr. Commits to College
How old is Juwan Howard?
His son (and namesake) just committed to play basketball for Western Michigan.
This absurd news courtesy of Slam Online.
Sorry for the 324,332 posts back-to-back-to-back. But that's crazy.
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Juwan Howard across the universe
On the star ship enterprise under Captain Kirk.
"No disrespect to Jeff Blake"
by Eat Politicians on Sep 22, 2009 11:31 PM PDT reply actions
Never apologize for that stuff...
Sorry for the 324,332 posts back-to-back-to-back.
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
No kidding!!!
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
Testify, brother!
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
Crazy that an NBA player had a kid as a teenager?
Next thing you’ll tell me he wasn’t married to the mother at the time of conception.
could we have the first father-son team ever next year?
Rudyculize: The act of Rudy making others look slow, dim and generally oafish.
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Nate's son is at Arizona. Don't know if that counts. And then there is John Lucas though I think he retired before his son became a pro. And Patrick Ewing. And Kemp of course.
"I think he can still play" - Kevin Pritchard on Juwan Howard
Nice comments guys
my son will be 20 when I am 38
he’ll be 17(and declaring for college) when I’m 35 and i would never say 35 is old.
Sophia
The Princess of Blazersedge
Sport is my boyfriend
24.9 years of age
That’s the US average age when a woman has her first child. And so for every woman that waits until she is 33 there is another at 18 who has her first child. Stats from http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_age_of_wom_at_fir_chi-health-age-women-first-childbirth
ON the other end of the spectrum, I have colleauge’s that will be 60+ by the time their children enter college…that is also a really daunting prospect.
Thank you for the statistics
I am just a little perturbed to see a person who had a child at a young age completely trashed. It’s offensive actually and makes me sad. I had a child at a young age so I take this type of stuff personally.
Princess’ feelings are hurt
Sophia
The Princess of Blazersedge
Sport is my boyfriend
Perhaps "completely trashed" is an overstatement
but Howard has been irresponsible in his private life, unfortunately. He probably wasn’t really mature enough to handle the “opportunities” and temptations well.
Not everyone is mature enough to take on the responsibility of a child at 18. Of course, lots of people aren’t mature and responsible at 33 or 50, for that matter.
Ultimately, it is not a person’s age that determines whether they are ready to be parents.
"if Nate has Roy or Miller in the game at all times, that stagnation will turn into conflagration" -- two4larue
"the absurd news"
um , that’s pretty rude if you ask me , maybe he isn’t “trashing” him but um, making snide comments about age offends me in this case because like i said already, i am a young parent.
IS ANYONE ever ready to have a child? What does age of a parent even mean ? You know?
it just really offended me that’s all.
Nothing persoal against the great authors of this site, I know ben wasn’t trying to inflict a personal wound against me but still i read that and was like “whoah, come on!”
:(
s
The Princess of Blazersedge
Sport is my boyfriend
the absurdity comes from the combination of: juwan howard is still in the nba (unusual to be that old), his son is good enough to earn a college scholarship (also unusual), that he earned the scholarship while his father was still playing in the nba (VERY unusual) and also that he was named juwan howard, jr (not unusual but the icing on the cake).
by Ben Golliver on Sep 23, 2009 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
not to mention that jr. decided to pursue basketball which is no guarantee either.
it’s a very, very unusual situation.
by Ben Golliver on Sep 23, 2009 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
for some further perspective: the only players older than juwan howard in the nba are lindsey hunter, brent barry, shaquille o’neal, kurt thomas, grant hill and kevin ollie. that puts him in 7th out of roughly 400+ players, or the top 2 or 3%.
so while it might not be unusual to be 36 with a high school senior aged child in the real world, doing so while maintaining an nba career is quite difficult.
by Ben Golliver on Sep 23, 2009 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh, come on, Sophia
That was nothing.
I can offend you a lot worse than that without even trying. You are giving Ben too much credit, that was really quite weak as far as offensive statements go.
Probably “bizarre” would have been better than “absurd”, which gives the impression that there is something stupid about it, and there isn’t really. If it is a good thing, it isn’t absurd, and if it is a bad thing, it isn’t absurd, either. It just isn’t absurd no matter which way you cut it. It is highly unusual if not unique. Poor word choice by Ben.
I propose that we roast Ben alive for 36 hours (carefully moderating the temperature so as not to induce sudden heart failure), consign him to the rack in a Spanish Inquisition prison for three days (maybe he’ll stretch enough to play in the NBA AND become Catholic AND learn to speak Spanish to Rudy), and then let Juwan Jr dunk on his head 300 times, each time saying, “I’ll show you ABSURD!”
Think that is good enough?
"if Nate has Roy or Miller in the game at all times, that stagnation will turn into conflagration" -- two4larue
WOW
i hope for your sake ben doesn’t read this comment LOL
u can offend me but only in the offseason and during a political season
;)
Sophia
The Princess of Blazersedge
Sport is my boyfriend
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