This months winner of the Rae Carruth Award for Excellence:
We’re very busy here at The Truth Sports so we usually we wouldn’t address such nonsense, but when we heard of Don “Moose” Lewis‘ plan to create an “All White” basketball league it definitely caught our attention. However, the more thought that was given to the subject the clearer things became. The habitually shameless American media will report anything that will get ratings, no matter how ridiculous or irrelevant. I’m confident that the majority of Americans(Corporate America aside) are long past the type of overt Racism that would allow someone to take a segregated basketball league in 2010 seriously, however, for the sake of our readers pleasure we’ll humor you for a moment.
An all-white basketball league was proposed earlier in the week by a group calling itself the All-American Basketball Alliance. The league’s commissioner, Don “Moose” Lewis, said that in “the culture today” you have to “worry about a player flipping you off or attacking you in the stands or grabbing their crotch.” Therefore, he said, he wanted to create a league that focuses on “fundamental basketball” instead of “street-ball” played by “people of color.” A whites-only basketball league aims to launch in twelve cities this summer, according to areport in the Augusta Chronicle. The All-American Basketball Alliance would also ban players born outside the United States.
“Fundamental Basketball”?! Tim Duncan is black, a foreigner and, nicknamed “The Big Fundamental”. Its not a new trick, and he may even have a viable audience who would pay to see such a novelty, but if Old man Moosey and his cohorts succeed he’ll be profiting off all our years of working against desegregation. Mr. Moosey should understand that in “New America” we’re only interested in results. Long gone are the days where Major “Taylor” is asked not to show up to the racetrack because its not in the rules of the game for a black person to win a race against his white contemporaries. In the last 30 years or so good American Sportsmanship has helped usher in a new era of tolerance. I can safely say without any doubt, that the majority of American children these days idolize their favorite player in any sport based on their performance and their ability to play the game. Merchandising statistics from every league have time and time again confirmed this.
We compiled what the AABA All-Star team might look like:
Luke Ridnour, J.J. Redick, Mike Miller, David Lee, Brian Scalabrine, Brad Miller, Chase Budinger,Mike Dunleavy, Jeff Foster, Tyler Hansbrough , Kevin Love, Nick Collison
