LMA for Kevin Love?

I meant that they are the good guys. And I’m sorry you’re not a Duke fan…

Not because that’s what we needed, but because that’s what he is capable of in the situation. I can see trying to involve others in the regular season, but should have been playing balls to the wall in the playoffs.

I’m far from a racist or bigot.

I was only saying that yes P-town is approx 74% white, 6.5% black.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon) and speaking on the terms of stereotypical white/black cultures, the predominantly whitebread P-town might relate better to someone who is similar in culture/background etc.As humans we tend to LIKE what is LIKE us, whether that is right or wrong that’s just the case more often than not it seems IMO.

Quantifying those attributes might be the stickier of the issue, but I think most of us can get a ballpark idea of those norms, attitudes, habits etc.

For all I know LA could come from very similar background as KLove, and both seem to be very likable guys, it’s just on face value perhaps more Portlanders based on sheer numbers may come to find a closer connection to a white player with similar background as themselves. Once again, right or wrong, who knows, but that’s my conjecture(guess).

Personally, if said NBA player was a hardcore gamer like myself, well that would be a bigtime factor with me identifying with him, white/black/asian whatever doesn’t matter. The only thing that might affect your affection further is what culture does this player most ascribe too on top of that gamer status? Nowadays a lot of folks are really a great mish-mash of cultures so I would say it’s harder to generalize, but our minds are constantly trying to put things into boxes/categories, despite our best efforts to get out of stereotypes, it’s just part of how we are wired as animals.

(bad anology but….If 95% of creatures with wings eat meat, then would you know for sure if the other 5% you encounter DIDN’T eat meat? Not to say 95% of white folk like Rock over Rap, but your brain will usually go there and then you have to manually backtrack to openess, unless you train it over time to not “auto-assume”…we predict/guess/assume so we can try and know the situation better..survival instincts etc.)

Perhaps it’s more of a Suburbs(Metro) vs Urban(Ptown proper) cultural question that could be thought about nation wide on how people identify with players, whom they claim as their favorite etc. As obviously these cultures can go beyond your skin color, just like your nationality.

Another example(s) of culture/race:

Zydrunas is much loved in Cleveland because of the ton of Lithunania/Ex-Soviet Bloc peoples who can identify with him.

Or would Allen Iverson, himself pretty polarizing when it comes to portraying the “gangsta”(i.e.had a lot of run ins with Stern over dress code) lifestyle predominantly made up of the black demographic, be more popular 6% black Portland, or the place he grew to star status in 42% black Philly?(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philedelphia) I don’t really know, but if my limited conjecture is followed you would think Philly might be a better suited home place and embrace him more than P-town. Who really knows.

In the end, it’s not rocket science, we tend to like people/players more like us than different. And unfortunately in our overly PC world today I don’t think we really like to even go there much, but it’s worth a good discussion without throwing around words like Bigot/Racist.

WIth the whole Arizona racial profiling issue, and the recent bomb scare in NY Times Square (did you ASSUME it was a Islamic Terrorist?Or maybe it was homegrown McVeigh style eh?.. knee-jerk reactions can be often wrong or right considering many factors…but universally a BAD IDEA to stick with your initial observations).

Did the pic of me holding fake guns with a fake Lincoln(at Enchanted Forest) somehow give the knee-jerk impression I was a Redneck or something?

He was the freaking Great Emancipator! ;) >>>>sarcasm interwebz