Racism In The NBA?

(say it isn’t so…)

I could really not give a rats ass about the National Basketball Association. In my opinion, their season starts way too early and ends way too late each year. How their fans endure so much boring basketball is beyond me.

I attended a few Atlanta Hawks games twenty odd years ago and the games, played by ten millionaires at a time, would put an insomniac to sleep. Give me the college basketball game any day. Costs half as much and has twice the excitement and action.

In a league populated largely by gigantic, sweaty, foul mouthed, overpaid black men, sportswriter Dan le Batard of the Miami Herald writes this article questioning racism as a factor in Canadian Steve Nash beating out Shaquille O’Neal for MVP of the National Basketball Association.

I did a little checking, and out of the past 24 NBA MVP’s, Bob Pettit, Bob Cousey, Dave Cowans, Bill Walton, Larry Bird, and now Steve Nash are the only white boys on the list.

So what is le Batard crying about any way?

Big deal. White men comprise one out of four MVP’s in a league that in modern times is at least 90% non-caucasion.

If the white guys outnumbered the black guys by this ratio, I bet Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson would be screaming foul and demanding quotas and affirmative action programs.

Hey Shaq…get over it buddy…