RIP to the Logo

Jerry West has passed. "Mr. Clutch" was one of the best basketball players I had ever had the pleasure to watch in person. I remember seeing him in the 1970 NBA finals against the Knicks. He was the epitome of "White Basketball" which is gone today. You see there was a constant battle between the NBA and ABA style. The ABA style has come to dominate the league. 3 pointers, no defense, high scoring, and no passing. That is why ratings have precipitously declined and the reason why the new outrageous TV deals are so foolish.

The influence of white people in the NBA is not encouraged anymore because of black racism. Witness the attacks on Caitlin Clark in the WNBA which is the angry black woman's league. They are doing everything they can do to drive her out of the league when she is only bringing interest to their sad ship of fools. 

I used to have season tickets. 

I have not seen a game for the past ten years.

One of the many reasons you don't hear about Rick Barry anymore.....

Bill Russell gives you a taste of his personality.

RIP Bill.

What's my favorite charity? Bertha Williamson!

Do you know what a chucker is? Nothing to do with polo or any of that bullshit. It is a basketball player who shoots as soon as he touches the ball. He never passes even if his teammate is alone under the basket. He could be covered by three or four guys and he will still chuck it up.

One of the biggest chukkers of all time was Super John Williamson of the ABA's New York Nets. Which was hard to be since he played with Dr J when they won the ABA championship.

That's not the reason I remember him though. You see the Long Island Nets had a radio promotion in the 1970's. They would interview the star of the game and after the interview they would give $100 to the player's favorite charity. Mike DiTomasso goes to Super John "As the Gillete Star of the game Super John we are goning to donate $100 to your favorite charity. Who would that be?" "Yo you wants to know who be my favorite charity?" "Yes." "Bertha Williamson."

Bertha was Super John's wife.

So whenever anyone asks me who my favorite charity is I always reply "Bertha Williamson."

Never fails to totally confuse everyone.

Like the turning of the earth...we never think we will get old

In 1985 I bought season tickets for the New York Knicks when they drafted Patrick Ewing in the first pick of the draft. I got two tickets for $12 a seat for 40 home games plus two exhibitions. All in all it cost about a grand. I kept buying the tickets for 17 seasons as they got more expensive and the Knicks failed to win over and over again.

On that early team they had a good little player named Gerald Wilkins. He played shooting guard or small forward. Not much of an outside shot but he was very athletic and could go to the hole. Nowhere as good as his brother Dominique but still he was a very serviceable player and a fan favorite. The reason he was a favorite was because he was a happy guy. Always smiling and happy on the court he was great when he met the fans. I met him a couple of times at team functions that I got invited  to as a season ticket holder. All  in all I liked him a lot.

Now basketball has abandoned me. Filled as the game is with hatred towards white people and our country the league is not for me and I have haven't seen a game in five years. I don't know one player on the Knicks roster. Gerald Wilkins has fallen even more than my regard for the game.

From today's New York Post:

"Former New York Knicks guard Gerald Wilkins was reportedly arrested on assault charges Tuesday after a string of arrests over separate incidents earlier this spring.

Wilkins, the younger brother of NBA legend Dominique Wilkins, faces two counts of battery after he was arrested in Cobb County, Georgia, TMZ reported Wednesday.

The second-round pick has had numerous run-ins with the law lately and was cuffed three times in 10 days over late May and early June."

The Gerald Wilkens I knew is long gone. The game of basketball as well. I never thought I would despise the game and its players so much. But it is par for the course. I never thought I would despise Brooklyn the way I do. I can't even bring myself to talk about the Yankees I am so distraught.

You can only go on and try to carry on and drop the things that have changed beyond redemption. Nothing ever gets resolved. Nothing ever gets better. The dystopian horror that I read about in so many science fiction stories seems to be upon us. Nothing anyone is doing seems to make it betterr.

It's like putting out fires with gasoline.

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What the NBA has lost.

I was a New York Knicks fan for forty five years. I had season tickets for twenty. Spent thousands every year for two tickets. Had them through the entire Patrick Ewing Era. Got them when we drafted him. Got rid of them two years after he was gone.

I gradually drifted away from the game. The game I was obsessed with as a kid. The game I used to live for playing pick up games all summer long in Carroll Park or down near Fort Hamilton. Some seasons I haven't seen even one game. Once they started bringing in entitled losers like Carmelo Anthony they lost me.

Now the NBA is showing how far they have  fallen when they kowtow to China about the Hong Kong bullshit. They put a muzzle on their coaches and players so as not to upset their rice bowl. Bigmouths like Steve Kerr and Popovich from the Spurs who never miss a step in denouncing my President have nothing to say. Assholes like LeBron James who have no problem dissing the flag and the police are silent when the commies attack and murder protestors. It shows what complete and utter pieces of shit they are.

All I have left is the good memories of players like Anthony Mason who came out of the minor leagues to star and stymie people like Michael Jordan. His hard nose violent play was my style. Unfortunately he is dead. Just like the NBA is too me. Dead. Dead as Anthony Mason.

Reason 1,689 why I love the God Emperor!

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

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Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do. I like Mike!

The God Emperor tweeted this out when loser moolie Lebron James went on TV to trash him. The President told it like it is. The mix of contempt and mockery is just sublime.

The black athlete is just at sea these days. Did you see what happened to the black quarterback of the Cowboys. He said he would never kneel for the anthem and was attacked non stop by the press and the social justice warriors. These fuck-wits are all about an athlete expressing his opinion as long as it is bullshit liberal claptrap. Step out of the box and they are all over you trying to end your career.

Sports like regular broadcast TV are on a tightrope these days. They are no where near as important as they used to be. In fact there core audience is old white guys like me. As they alienate me they alienate the people who put money in their pockets. The young whippersnappers of today are more interested in their phones and Instagram they are in Sports Phone and what the score is. The urgency of watching baseball or football is gone just as the urgency of watching your favorite TV show. You don't rush home to watch "Who Shot JR" or the finale of Mary Tyler Moore. Because everything is on Youtube and is streamed to your phone. Soon the only people who will follow sports are the degenerates who are betting on it. Sports bettting is being legalized in every state. That is what is going to destroy it. Just like horse racing.

The Russians are coming!

Russian billionaire to spend more time in NYC

By Richard Johnson Page Six NY Post September 15, 2016

The Russian is coming. Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov will be spending more time in the US now that he’s moved some of his billions from Moscow to Brooklyn, sources say.

Prokhorov sold off his $2 billion stake in Uralkali, the world’s biggest potash mining company, after Russian police raided his offices in April.

The 6-foot-8 bachelor has increased his holdings in the US, buying control of Nassau Coliseum last year. In December, he became the sole owner of Barclays Center and the Nets.

“Prokhorov will be more and more in New York,” one source told me. “It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t have an apartment here. He is happy at his penthouse at the Four Seasons that he always books.”

As I reported five months ago, Prokhorov got on Vladimir Putin’s bad side when a newspaper he partly owns named members of the Kremlin’s inner circle who turned up in the Panama Papers — a list of tax avoiders with money in offshore accounts.

A spokeswoman for Prokhorov told me, “He continues to have a strong business presence in Russia across multiple industries, including banking, insurance, media and real estate. He is a full-time resident of Russia.”

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