SI Nash article

[sunshine]

I knew there was going to be a bomb in this article and lo and behold I was right. Jack McCallum has been writing for SI for ages and he has always degraded white athleticism and pumped up black speed and jumping etc. He is a twerp and after all these years he is still pounding away at whites as too slow etc.. So Nash gets this big write up from McCallum who makes sure he downgrades the player by pointing out Nash's "lack of quickness". He goes on to say that back up point guard Barbosa is "twice as quick as Nash." This is garbage journalism. Twice as quick? If Barbosa runs lets say a 4.5 40 yard dash nash runs it in 9 seconds according to that twisted logic. McCallum thinks he is being clever when he describes Nash's gifts as body control.


During this basketball season from the NBA to men's and women's--(the announcers to women's games are even worse than the men's if that is possible. Gott go sorry

 

[sunshine]

Sorry I was interrupted. I was saying from the NBA on down there has been a ton of stereotyping of the white ("no athlete") going on and it is even more shameful when a guy like McCaullum who has a gig better than most of us put together uses his position of power to continually castrate white basketball players. I am wondering if it is time for us to start playing an active role and directly challenge these media clowns.

 

[Bart]

PHOENIX (AP) -- Steve Nash keeps building a case for his second consecutive NBA Most Valuable Player award.


Two nights after Phoenix was routed without him in the lineup, Nash tied a season high with 31 points and added 11 assists as the Suns beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 110-102 Saturday night.


"He's pretty good," Suns coach Mike D'Antoni said. "I don't know if you've noticed that."


Phoenix is 2-6 without Nash over the last two seasons, and 114-44 with him.


(snip)


Nash either scored or assisted on 25 of the Suns' 30 points in the third quarter, when they outscored the Timberwolves 30-22 to take a 78-76 lead into the final period.


The Timberwolves have seen this before. Nash also burned them for 31 points here Feb. 6.


"(Nash) is not the quickest guy, but he knows how to play, knows how to use his body, knows how to find guys," Minnesota guard Ricky Davis said.

 

[emefinsob]

That doesn't make any sense to me at all. Dwayne Wade, Iverson, and TJ ford all have amazing quickness, and watching Nash, he seems just as quick or maybe quicker than some of those guys. I don't get how he could be "slow" when he gets to the rack whenever he chooses, whether he scores or passes it. He was on that ankle breakers video, and he was crossing people like crazy. Tony Parker's pretty fast too, but Nash seems to blow by him pretty easily. So i take it Luke Ridnour, Kirk Hinrich, Manu Ginobili, Jason Williams and Beno Udrich are all slow too. That's rediculous, you can't say someone's slow just because their skin color is white. Darko Milicic is also probably the quickest, most athletic 7 footer in the NBA and he's white.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

I really hope Steve wins 2 MVP's in a row. Who are some of the guys that will be competing with him for it?

 

[KG2422]

Kobe Bryant, Dirk Nowitzki, Lebron James, and Shawn Marion are the names I've heard mentioned.

 

[guest301]

Chauncey Billups in addition to the above names.