Starting in the NBA

[Skipperron]

All year the Magic announcers talked about the fact that white players (never saying the word white of course) didn't care if they started, just so they could play minutes every game. They continually stated how such and such a player is actually better coming off the bench, always white players incidently. and of course no matter how good the white player was, again remember, they don't care about starting. However, Dwight Howard, black, was talked about continually for the fact that he "started every single game in his rookie season" and he said he was "extremely proud of the fact that he had started them all" because it was a matter of pride. What tha???? I thought it didn't matter?


Now once more we are seeing this play out. In the summer leagues Travis Diener outplayed EVERYONE in the league. Did the Magic say they had found their starting guard? No, they said this could help raise his value in a trade. Great. And meantime they go and resign a player that they had got rid of before, Keith Bogans, who started at guard in the first exhibition game of course. The best guard in the game at the end of the day????? Travis Diener, of course, it doesn't matter that he didn't get to start, does it. Everyone knows that whites don't care.


And a side note. Adam Morrison was the best scorer in the game for Charlotte. He was the highly picked top forward in the draft, a place that would automatically earn a black player a starting spot in the NBA. Uhhhhh he did not start and they talked about the fact that he would probably just come in off the bench until he could get used to the NBA game. WE ALL KNOW HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT STARTING, DON'T WE?

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

it's a two-edged sword that you're talking about here, Skiperron. one of the great virtues of white society, and white athletic teams, is the unselfishness of individuals in order to achieve greater team success.

this is incredibly successful in life, hoops, football, whatever. it only hurts individuals in the cases where black superiority is already assumed or in cases where white players are competing for their just rewards on a team with blacks. for example, you never hear white players in the NFL bitching about not getting enouogh playing time. but if an average black player has a decent game, then he suddenly thinks he belongs in the Pro Bowl, and bitches about his un-deserved status on the bench.

in the case of the black culture of the NBA, a white player's natural drive to foster greater team unity and success with little regard for his personal glory only serves to undercut his own worth.

all his "team first" attitude does is put "him last."Edited by: Jimmy Chitwood