Carmelo
After 10 games he’s gone, for reason the Rockets and Carmelo Anthony have decided to part way. Anthony could have re-signed with the Thunder but indicated he had no desire to be a 6th man. That was his basis for heading for Houston after a temporary stop in Atlanta and then the Rockets, is his NBA career over? I believe only the player can answer that question, he’s 34 years old and will turn 35 prior to the 2019-20 season. If this is the end the run has been outstanding with some bumps, he’s headed for the Naismith Hall of Fame. At one point in time I doubted this however his work speaks volumes despite what might appear to be a negative.
After 10 games he’s gone, for reason the Rockets and Carmelo Anthony have decided to part way. Anthony could have re-signed with the Thunder but indicated he had no desire to be a 6th man. That was his basis for heading for Houston after a temporary stop in Atlanta and then the Rockets, is his NBA career over? I believe only the player can answer that question, he’s 34 years old and will turn 35 prior to the 2019-20 season. If this is the end the run has been outstanding with some bumps, he’s headed for the Naismith Hall of Fame. At one point in time I doubted this however his work speaks volumes despite what might appear to be a negative.
Bet you didn’t know
The Harlem Globetrotters are known world-wide as an exhibition basketball team, they have a lengthy history having been founded in 1926. Abe Saperstein would later join them as manager and eventually he became owner of this African-American team until his 1966 death. The Trotters played during the segregation era which was prevalent in America at their founding. Despite the time-period they would often be matched against white teams. Saperstein the business man wore many hats including being part of the Negro baseball league during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
The Harlem Globetrotters are known world-wide as an exhibition basketball team, they have a lengthy history having been founded in 1926. Abe Saperstein would later join them as manager and eventually he became owner of this African-American team until his 1966 death. The Trotters played during the segregation era which was prevalent in America at their founding. Despite the time-period they would often be matched against white teams. Saperstein the business man wore many hats including being part of the Negro baseball league during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
His Trotters were better known than many of the fledgling NBA
teams of the late 1940’s and early ‘50’s.
The NBA utilized the prominence of the Trotters by scheduling
double-headers. The Trotters playing the
first game and the NBA team the second, it was hoped the crowd would remain for
the NBA game. Because of this
arrangement Saperstein said, “he’d been
promised an NBA team in Los Angeles.”
It wasn’t too be, the NBA allowed then owner Bob Short to move his Lakers from
Minneapolis to Los Angeles in 1960.
Saperstein feeling betrayed by the NBA declared war on the
NBA by starting his own league. The
8-team American Basketball League begin play in the fall of 1961. Like the later ABA a handful of former NBA
players moved to the upstart league. It
was the American Basketball League and not the ABA that first originated the
3-point basket, in addition Bill Russell is generally considered the first
black coach in basketball not true. John
McClendon coached the Cleveland Pipers, ownership of the Cleveland franchise
was one George Steinbrenner, several years later Steinbrenner would purchase
the Yankees. The Kansas City Steers were
one of the leagues teams, they played for the 1961 championship losing to
Cleveland 3 games to 2. The 1962-63
season saw the league shut-down and the Steers declared champion. The ABA would not suffer the fate of the ABL,
Saperstein’s league hemorrhaged money and had to ceased operations.
The first
It’s difficult to be the first at anything, you set the example and the world believes it can occur again. Rui Hachimura in his junior year at Gonzaga is projected to be a lottery pick in 2019. The 6-foot 8-inch small forward is from Japan, despite that fact there have been few Japanese players in the NBA Hachimura is not the first. We must travel back to 1947, Wataru “Wat” Misaka began play as a point guard for the New York Knicks the same year Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball.
It’s difficult to be the first at anything, you set the example and the world believes it can occur again. Rui Hachimura in his junior year at Gonzaga is projected to be a lottery pick in 2019. The 6-foot 8-inch small forward is from Japan, despite that fact there have been few Japanese players in the NBA Hachimura is not the first. We must travel back to 1947, Wataru “Wat” Misaka began play as a point guard for the New York Knicks the same year Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball.
In 2004 Yuta Tabuse began play for the Suns although his NBA
career was brief, Tabuse is still active at the minor league level. Although the numbers of Japanese descent have
been few Hachimura is likely to be the best, I make that statement with no
reservation. His numbers have increased
each season, 22.7 points and 5.7 rebounds a game. Will Hachimura be a star…I have no idea
however I believe he can play.
