Lost Time Is Not Found Again: Sept 3. 2009
Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew has been reading today. Maybe.
+ Curt Schilling the politician? {The Sporting Blog.}
+ Win a meal at Michael Jordan’s Steakhouse. {SLAM.}
+ The evolution of Brad Childress’ facial hair. {Kissing Suzy Kolber.}
+ Larry Fitzgerald pitching pancakes. {Bugs & Cranks.}
+ Non-sports: Chris Brown’s bow tie goes meme-ing. {Mashable.} Auto-tune the news … featuring T-Pain! {YouTube.}
Quotable:
“No, what is more interesting here is the larger theme: the devaluation of the NBA experience. Think about it: Ten years ago, can you imagine a Spanish point guard being chosen as a lottery pick and not wanting to come play in the U.S.? Of course not. Partly because no Spanish point guard would have been drafted in the lottery 10 years ago, but mainly, I imagine, because the NBA was seen as the terminus for all basketball dreams, the pot of gold at the end of David Stern’s rainbow.
When Pau Gasol was taken with the third pick in the 2001 draft — making him the highest-drafted foreign player to date — I remember sitting in a hotel room in Memphis with him during his first training camp, talking about his new life. Though Gasol was moderately interested in discussing basketball (for example, he was confused after playing in an American pickup game because nobody passed the ball), he was more interested in discussing the fruits of the American lifestyle. In his case, this meant his new PlayStation 2, his Ja Rule album and his recently purchased mammoth SUV. Gasol was living the dream — and he was in Memphis. What’s more, he saw this as the final step in his basketball evolution. “That’s why I came here,” he told me. “To be one of the best players in the league.”
Contrast that with Rubio’s reaction — Minnesota? Um, no thanks — and you’ll get the point: The NBA has become an option, not just the destination.” – Chris Ballard
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