Comments on: White Men Can’t Jump

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:04:48 +0000

Swallowed whistles held the score down?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:36:31 +0000

I don’t care how evenly matched this series was. How much tension can there be in a game where the score is 39-38 at halftime? Wondering if they can break 80 points? This was a terrible series. It was terrible for the NBA. The only good thing was that hardly anyone watched this boring hack-fest. Perhaps David Stern will realize that having the referees swallow their whistles in the playoffs is not the best way to make his sport popular.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:31:49 +0000

Yep, I hadn’t entertained that red/blue notion, but–even though I’m 45 minutes from San Antonio, and love the town’s open airy hard-working color-blind attitude, and even though the Spurs even in the 90s before it was fashionable were a team of self-sacrifing community-minded abd unabashedly God-fearing good guys, I hate to think of Detroit–great team, great coach–as another kick in the pants for the blue states.

More to the point that the teams are so evenly matched, and that good feelings toward the game itself make for great competition, excellence, and fair, coulda-gone-either-way outcomes.

By: Kyda Sylvester

Kyda Sylvester — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:37:05 +0000

I don’t follow basketball but my husband says it was a terrific series, and San Antonio is a great town, so congratulations to the winners (and condolences to the losers).

By: Barry Dauphin

Barry Dauphin — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:11:19 +0000

Congratulations to the Spurs. The last three games were tense.

As for your comment, someone, I’ll be an unruly Pistons fan. Put that where the sun don’t shine. To say that means you know nothing about basketball.

By: Stace

Stace — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:06:09 +0000

Quiet competence. Substance over style. Three championships in 7 years. YEAYYYYY SPURS!!!!

The other great thing is that the parade on Saturday will be fun and there will be no violence. This is a fiesta town, and we know how to party in the streets without turning the celebration into an excuse to vandalize and murder.

By: someone

someone — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:40:06 +0000

A team whose most effective weapon is its unruly fans shouldn’t be allowed to win anything.

By: Patrick Tyson

Patrick Tyson — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:33:23 +0000

I’m happy.

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:31:06 +0000

The red staters have won. My faith in a just God has been restored. This series would not have been close if Tim Duncanís ankles were not so tender.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:21:15 +0000

They really are a special bunch, coach and all.