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01-21-2010, 10:03 PM
Proposed All White Basketball Team Not Sitting Well With Some in Augusta
Augusta, GA—This is not the type of news that Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver wanted to hear the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Mayor Deke Copenhaver: “I am a sports enthusiast, myself, but I just don’t think that idea is going to fly in Augusta, Georgia.”
It’s the idea of an all white professional basketball league. According to a press release from the All-American Basketball Alliance, the group is looking to target southern cities such as Augusta, Albany and Chattanooga, Tennessee to form a team.
Mayor Copenhaver: “We have done to much to really foster a spirit of inclusiveness in this city.”
The press release goes on to say that only natural born United States citizens and players, whose parents are both Caucasian, can join the league.
Dip Metress, ASU Head Men’s Basketball Coach: “Nobody is going to put money behind this. Basketball is an international game. We have three, four international players here and coaches international.”
Don “Moose” Lewis is the league commissioner and says that “white basketball players” are essentially shutout of conventional professional basketball due to the growth of non-organized play on the court. This statement is not sitting well mistress.
Metress: “The game has changed throughout the years. In a sense, it’s more athletic games, but the fundamentals are not eroding.”
Lewis also states players on professional teams are carrying guns, attacking fans, and fundamentally sound white players are a vanishing species.
Mayor Copenhaver: “You still see lots of players who are fundamentally sound that basketball is played in a bunch of different fashions. You have five different positions. You have a point guard who distributes the ball, so I think basketball is basketball.”
http://www2.wjbf.com/jbf/news/state_regional/georgia/article/proposed_all_white_basketball_team_not_sitting_wel l_with_some_in_augusta/52144/
http://www.upi.com/Sports_News/2010/01/21/All-white-basketball-league-proposed/UPI-93851264111412/
Augusta, GA—This is not the type of news that Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver wanted to hear the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Mayor Deke Copenhaver: “I am a sports enthusiast, myself, but I just don’t think that idea is going to fly in Augusta, Georgia.”
It’s the idea of an all white professional basketball league. According to a press release from the All-American Basketball Alliance, the group is looking to target southern cities such as Augusta, Albany and Chattanooga, Tennessee to form a team.
Mayor Copenhaver: “We have done to much to really foster a spirit of inclusiveness in this city.”
The press release goes on to say that only natural born United States citizens and players, whose parents are both Caucasian, can join the league.
Dip Metress, ASU Head Men’s Basketball Coach: “Nobody is going to put money behind this. Basketball is an international game. We have three, four international players here and coaches international.”
Don “Moose” Lewis is the league commissioner and says that “white basketball players” are essentially shutout of conventional professional basketball due to the growth of non-organized play on the court. This statement is not sitting well mistress.
Metress: “The game has changed throughout the years. In a sense, it’s more athletic games, but the fundamentals are not eroding.”
Lewis also states players on professional teams are carrying guns, attacking fans, and fundamentally sound white players are a vanishing species.
Mayor Copenhaver: “You still see lots of players who are fundamentally sound that basketball is played in a bunch of different fashions. You have five different positions. You have a point guard who distributes the ball, so I think basketball is basketball.”
http://www2.wjbf.com/jbf/news/state_regional/georgia/article/proposed_all_white_basketball_team_not_sitting_wel l_with_some_in_augusta/52144/
http://www.upi.com/Sports_News/2010/01/21/All-white-basketball-league-proposed/UPI-93851264111412/