All-white basketball league. No. Seriously.

zagoshe · Jan 21, 2010

Let's have the first all-time all-white league draft....

First Pick of the draft: Larry Bird
Second Pick of the draft: George Mikan
Third Pick of the draft: Jerry West
Fourth Pick of the draft: Kevin McHale

OK I'm out of all-timers already...... :

Steak Snabler · Jan 21, 2010

"Several generations" is a stretch, considering 90 percent of those schools didn't pop up until around 1970, which is not coincidentally when they started enforcing Brown vs. Board of Education in Mississippi.

Zag: You're forgetting Pete Maravich and Bob Pettit, for two.

zagoshe · Jan 21, 2010

Steak Snabler said:

"Several generations" is a stretch, considering 90 percent of those schools didn't pop up until around 1970, which is not coincidentally when they started enforcing Brown vs. Board of Education in Mississippi.

Zag: You're forgetting Pete Maravich and Bob Pettit, for two.
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And Rex Chapman as well

Inky_Wretch · Jan 21, 2010

In an effort to increase scoring, the All-White Basketball League announced bounce passes would be worth 1 point. Two-hand set shots will be worth 3. Dunking is still legal, though one hasn't been successfully completed.

zagoshe · Jan 21, 2010

Inky_Wretch said:

In an effort to increase scoring, the All-White Basketball League announced bounce passes would be worth 1 point. Two-hand set shots will be worth 3. Dunking is still legal, though one hasn't been successfully completed.
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But we just added Rex Chapman to the league, so the number of dunks is going to increase.

derwood · Jan 21, 2010

zagoshe said:

Let's have the first all-time all-white league draft....

First Pick of the draft: Larry Bird
Second Pick of the draft: George Mikan
Third Pick of the draft: Jerry West
Fourth Pick of the draft: Kevin McHale

OK I'm out of all-timers already...... :
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Rick Berry, Bill Walton, Dave DeBusschere, Bob Cousy, Dave Cowens, Bill Bradley, John Havlicek.

zagoshe · Jan 21, 2010

derwood said:

zagoshe said:

Let's have the first all-time all-white league draft....

First Pick of the draft: Larry Bird
Second Pick of the draft: George Mikan
Third Pick of the draft: Jerry West
Fourth Pick of the draft: Kevin McHale

OK I'm out of all-timers already...... :
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Rick Berry, Bill Walton, Dave DeBusschere, Bob Cousy, Dave Cowens, Bill Bradley.
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Don Nelson, Paul Westpaul

derwood · Jan 21, 2010

Can't believe I forgot Stockton.

old_tony · Jan 21, 2010

Steak Snabler said:

"Several generations" is a stretch, considering 90 percent of those schools didn't pop up until around 1970, which is not coincidentally when they started enforcing Brown vs. Board of Education in Mississippi.

Zag: You're forgetting Pete Maravich and Bob Pettit, for two.
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Dolph Schayes.

I said Dolph, not Danny.

derwood · Jan 21, 2010

Chris Mullin.

Smallpotatoes · Jan 21, 2010

Inky_Wretch said:

In an effort to increase scoring, the All-White Basketball League announced bounce passes would be worth 1 point. Two-hand set shots will be worth 3. Dunking is still legal, though one hasn't been successfully completed.
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What about underhand free throws?

txsportsscribe · Jan 21, 2010

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albert77 said:

At first I thought this was about the Mississippi private-school league, which really is about 99.99% white.
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That's not exactly true, the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools has a lot of African American players. Not as many as the public school association but there are several, especially at the larger schools.
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Several. As in, there must be 20 or 30.
I've noticed an increase in the past few years, but it's rarely more than one or two per team.
But to be fair, at many public schools there are often no white kids on the team.
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And considering that many white Mississippians attend those private schools, there's no wonder why many public schools don't have any white kids on the team.
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Have you BEEN to some of the public schools? There's a reason people put their kids in private schools, and it's got nothing to do with race. In many cases, in rural areas especially, choosing the MAIS school over the public school is the lesser of two evils.
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News flash. The same problems going on in the public schools in the great state of Mississippi are going on the private schools. I find it funny that people spend thousands of dollars to send their kids to schools to be taught by teachers, many of whom aren't accredited. In many Mississippi communities, the trick is to send white kids through the public school system until the sixth grade, then switch them to the private school. Why?
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The knock that all or most of the teachers in Mississippi private schools are not accredited and that the schools themselves are populated by the children of racists is just as much an incorrect stereotype as the notion that all or most of the teachers in Mississippi public schools are incompetent and the schools filled with ignorant, out-of-control kids from the 'hood.

There are a lot of very good private schools in the state that offer an excellent education, and there are also some fly-by-night church schools that offer little more in the way of education than your average Sunday school. And there are many very good public schools in the state (not all of them in white-majority suburban areas) that are turning out tremendous students, and there are some public schools that are little better than holding pens for the next generation of inmates at Parchman.

And, just for the record, my kids all went to a public school.
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What you said is true and we're just adding to the stereotypes with our posts, but my question about why many white parents in Mississippi (which happens in other places but for now, we're talking about the Magnolia State) send their kids to public school for the first six years and to private schools the next six years still hasn't been answered.
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I really don't know, and to be honest have never noticed it. Maybe it's a money issue, maybe it's a convenience issue. In my area we have four basic groups of private school kids:
1) The ones whose families have gone to the school for several generations
2) The ones who live in a different town and commute in because the rural schools here -- public and private -- are horrific
3) Athletes who are either kicked out of public school for some transgression, fail out, or just want to play sports but aren't good enough to hack it at the public schools
4) The ones who have been at the private school the whole time
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stop messing up a serious and important thread with this mississippi school debate, dammit.

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