Hammon named first full-time female assistant coach in NBA

The Day ^ | 8/6/14 | JON KRAWCZYNSKI

[driftless2]

In the long run it's just a chunk of metal. But she is trying to win that chunk of medal by playing against her own country. I wouldn't play against my own country for any amount of money or shiny bauble.

And you are avoiding the central issue: she joined the team of a foreign country just to get a medal. Even if it meant competing against her own country...which obviously didn't mean much to her.

[Osage Orange]

I agree with laotzu...you can’t back up you statement.

[MikeD]

Exactly. I’ve seen Hammon play, and she has a great basketball IQ. Many of her passes are worthy of Ginobili, and she has an excellent knowledge of where everyone on the court is now and where they will be as the play executes. That’s the kind of stuff that makes a good coach. Plus, she already did a turn as an “unpaid assistant coach” last season and has a great rapport with the players. Since everybody from the Championship squad came back, I don’t see any issues.

Not to mention Pop will like having someone on the bench with whom he can converse in Russian.

IN POP WE TRUST!!! GO SPURS GO!!!

[laotzu]

I wouldn't play against my own country for any amount of money or shiny bauble.

Ah...to be recognized as the best in the world.

Would you box Pelosi to be world champion? I would.
(I could take her too...and you would cheer me on)

[discostu]

I’m not avoid the “central issue” I’m pointing out that your “central issue” is dumb. It’s just sports, it doesn’t actually matter. Her home country’s team said no, some other team said they wanted her, she opted to play. Most athletes care more about playing, which is their life, than which flag inspired their uniform, which is kind of pointless anyway. Only silly people wrap up national pride in sports, whether or not “our team” does well really says nothing about our country, because “our team” is NOT the country. She didn’t play against her country, she played against a team with uniforms vaguely inspired by our flag.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Eight NBA Players with [reputed] gang affiliations:

1. Marquis Daniels

2. Javaris Crittendon (currently charged with murder)

3. JR Smith

4. Zach Randolph

5. Caron Butler

6. James Harden

7. Tony Allen

8. Carmelo Anthony

source: http://hoodhustle.biz/8-nba-players-with-gang-affiliations/

In the locker room of the Dallas Mavericks, two bandanas hang from two different players’ lockers. Antoine Wright hangs up a blue bandana, while teammate Jason Terry has a red one. And anyone who has followed gang culture knows that these are the calling cards of two of L.A.’s most violent gangs - the Crips & the Bloods.

source: http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/crips-bloods-showing-up-in-nba-locker-rooms-22468

On the same day that five professional basketball players and seven fans were charged in connection with a brawl that took place during a November 19 Indiana Pacers v. Detroit Pistons game in Auburn Hills, Mich., nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh said that the National Basketball Association (NBA) should be renamed the "Thug Basketball Association"

Source: http://mediamatters.org/research/2004/12/10/limbaugh-on-the-nba-call-it-the-tba-the-thug-ba/132430

I could find at least 100 more references, but like your chicom bud, mao laotzu, I guess you think just because some guy can throw a ball through a hoop, that makes him a fine upstanding pillar of the community.

[driftless2]

Good day sir.

[Osage Orange]

I could find at least 100 more references, but like your chicom bud, mao laotzu

ROFLOL!!! My chicom bud!?!?!? HAHAHAA!!!

Thanks for the laugh...

If Tony Allen and James Harden are "gang members" I'll eat my hat....

You do realize reporters lie...especially rags and blogs like you are sourcing.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Two, who may not be gang members out of how many makes the rest of the them good guys? Come on. Have you ever heard the saying "one bad apple"? And no, I don't believe every reporter, most reporters are morons to begin with, and others have an ax to grind, so of course you have to take anything they say with a grain of salt.

If you want to continue to delude yourself that the NBA doesn't have a high percentage of thugs, then fine. That kind of hero worship is why Hillary is still even in the conversation.

[Osage Orange]

I'm not deluded..sister!! Ha!!!

Fact is...I quit watching Pro-B-ball a long, long time ago, along with Pro-Football...Could care less.

So....hahaha..there's no "hero worshiping" going on here...Lol...

You made me laugh...so I like that.

Here...maybe I make you laugh...

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The finals of the National Poetry Contest last year came down to two finalists.

One was a San Francisco State University graduate from an upper-crust family; well-bred, well-connected and all that goes with it.

The other finalist was a redneck from Texas A & M. Go figure.

The rules of the contest required each finalist to compose a four-line poem in one minute or less, and the poem had to contain the word “Timbuktu.”

The San Francisco State graduate went first. About thirty seconds after the clock started he jumped up and recited the following poem:

“'Slowly across the desert sand Trekked the dusty caravan. Men on camels, two by two Destination -- Timbuktu.”

The audience went wild! How, they wondered if the redneck could top that?! The clock started again and the redneck sat in silent thought. Finally, in the last few seconds, he jumped and recited:

“Tim and me, a-huntin' we went. Met three whores in a pop-up tent. They was three, we was two, So I bucked one and Timbuktu”

[The Sons of Liberty]

You’re right - made me laugh!

[Osage Orange]

Then we are good!

[The Sons of Liberty]

I’m still walking around thinking of your joke an chuckling. Thanks

[Osage Orange]

No worries!!!

Ha!!