Knicks’ Larry Johnson calls for all-black basketball league

wash times ^ | 4/28/14 | Cheryl K. Chumley

[thackney]

His solution to racism is more racism?

[rktman]

Let’s not forget a latino league and a greek league and a dutch league................. I’m getting really tired of the whole thing. Lucky for me, I don’t a hoot about b-ball anyway. Even though I know I’m supposed to since the lyin’ king likes it. :>}

[bray]

Isn’t it already?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

NBBA ?
Never heard of it.

[Rich21IE]

because the people excluding whites would be the blacks and by definition blacks can’t be racist because they’re a protected class of perpetual victim status.

Duh! you been living under a rock the last 60 years? Everyone else knows about it.

Bet you didn’t know this either! An all black basketball team is “diverse” of and by its own definition; adding white players to an all black team doesn’t render it diverse because whites aren’t “diverse”.

/sarc

[blam]

"Who would want to attend such an event, with members not decided by talent, but by race? "

Why not?

Everything else these days is decided that way.

[Salvavida]

Don’t criticize Mr. Johnson. Think of ways to get behind this kid, and make it happen.

[momtothree]

They’ll create that after the all black swim team. /s

[Tupelo]

WOW!
Now there is a novel idea. Another wonderful example of thinking outside the box. After all, just look at how successful the Harlem Globe Trotters have been. And how great the old Negro Leagues in baseball worked out. Add in today's WNBA and just look how much money the players and league are making. Yes sir, Larry Johnson has an idea whose time may have come..............Again.
I say go for it

[longfellow]

Good. They play a GAME.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Who would want to attend such an event, with members not decided by talent, but by race?

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Racists, that’s who!

[Resolute Conservative]

Don’t watch it now and surely wouldn’t watch that either.

[kjam22]

There could be some rule changes. We currently have technical fouls, personal fouls, team fouls, clear path fouls, intentional fouls. They could add Felony Fouls.... for a weapon being involved.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Reduce their audience and THEIR INCOME! I want to see King James be the first to sign on...

[FlingWingFlyer]

Won’t they have to engage in “racial profiling” to form their teams?

[Hotlanta Mike]

Wonderful, and the new league could admit high school graduates so NCAA men’s basketball doesn’t have to deal with the one and doners anymore.

[cripplecreek]

I recently read about one of the NBA stars complaining about how much money Miguel Cabrera makes because he thinks he should make the same.

When you compare the number of games played in an NBA season to the number of games played in an MLB season, the basketball player makes nearly than twice as much. (82 games in an NBA season vs approximately 162 games in an MLB season)

[the_daug]

Make a sideshow.

[.45 Long Colt]

I know it seems whites don’t play, but in Memphis, the whites play more than occasionally. 40% (6 of 15) of the Memphis Grizzlies are white and each played meaningful minutes this season. One regular rotation featured 4 white players.

The Memphis Grizzlies and Memphis Tigers (college) unite blacks and whites in my community in a way nothing else does.

[Buckeye McFrog]

We could have cool team names like the Pittsburgh Crawfords and the New York Black Yankees...