Where did that come from?
Life is often about confusion especially what other folks say or do; this is certainly one of them. Cavs owner Dan Gilbert dropped the mic on us; “CLE, Lets put those silly rumors to rest: I will never move the Cleveland Cavaliers out of Cleveland. Period. And that’s unconditional. @cavs” read the tweet. Could the rumors have begun due to citizens rejecting the Quicken Loans renovation?
On the other hand it’s possible the owner started the rumor? For all the success the Cavs have experienced on the court the front office appears somewhat disorganized and confused. The Cavs could be headed to Seattle or somewhere else however I seriously doubt it. For now I guess we must wait for further develops on this story.
I could care less
LaVar Ball rises early in the morning and decides; “What outlandish thing can I do today to generate publicity for me and BBB?” LaVar appears to believes “What I do and what I say I could care less what the public thinks.“ I’ve written several stories when I first began publishing Words eye View and I ripped the NCAA for some of the organizations antiquated decisions. This one is easy although we have a couple of years before a judgment must be rendered. .
The elder Ball in his wisdom has decided to produce a signature shoe for his youngest son Melo. Placing his name on a shoe on the surface doesn’t sound that harmful except to the NCAA. The organization that must determine the youngsters’ eligibility might say the decision will affect his son’s eligibility. I read a letter from a fan defending this move. “The money is going in LaVar’s pocket not Melo.” That’s certainly true however it looks improper but what does LaVar care. It’s all about the publicity and people like me writing about him and the shoes.
Home run king
Giancarlo Stanton has 51 home runs and 110 runs batted in (as this is written); he’s on the road to 60 plus homers for the Miami Marlins. Hey Larry you writing about a baseball player I thought Words eye view was strictly a basketball blog. Hold on a minute our emphasis remains basketball however I read an article and found out the 6-6 250 pound Stanton played round ball in high school. The publication indicated he “was like Charles Barkley on the basketball court.“
That statement makes it easy to understand how Stanton managed to average double-digits in rebounds his sophomore year of high school. In addition he was a standout football player too, Stanton might have been one of the few athletes talented enough to play which ever sport he desired at a high skill level. Stanton decided in favor of baseball which is a loss for football and basketball fans everywhere.
It was an epic championship game
Texas Western (now University of Texas-El Paseo) faced Kentucky for the 1966 NCAA Championship. This NCAA Championship game would be far different from those previously because it effectively changed the basketball landscape. The Kentucky Wildcats (27-1 going into the game) would face the unlikely Texas Western Miners for the championship. Both teams had coaches who later would be elected to the hall of fame, Adolph Rupp certainly was well know, Don Haskins at Texas Western would gain notoriety after the game and into the future. For the first time the game found an all-white Kentucky team facing Texas Western with 5 black starters, today for any team with an all-black lineup on the floor is not that unusual. In 1966 this certainly was not the norm even for schools with white and black athletes.
Texas Western was the victor over the Kentucky Wildcats 72-65 and basketball was changed forever. The world did not change immediately history tends to move much slower however it did change. Texas Western was not invited to The Ed Sullivan Show a popular television program of the period. Every NCAA Championship team had received an invitation to the television program up to that time. A year after this historic game (1967) the Southeastern Conference would begin recruiting black players and the world would be changed forever. In 1969 Kentucky’s first black player arrived on the campus, schools throughout the Deep South began recruiting black players and the system changed. Hollywood would later tell the story for a younger generation in the 2006 movie Glory Road.
