Sunday, August 15, 2010

Nostalgia (Sports Edition)

Since I now watch nearly no television I content myself with memories of it. Basketball Hall of Fame goings-on:
The fact that Barkley and two other Dream Teamers, Karl Malone and John Stockton, had been cut from the Bob Knight-coached 1984 Olympic team came up several times during the weekend. C.M. Newton, an assistant to Knight on that team and later one of the USA Basketball Committee members who picked the Dream Team, mentioned it on Thursday night. "Charles could've been on that team, but he wanted to go back to Leeds and eat fried chicken or whatever they do back there," said Newton.

He probably regretted it the moment he said it, but no one took it as racist, which it wasn't. (Barkley has talked about eating fried chicken himself.) Barkley didn't miss a beat. "What you really wanted to say, C.M., was that Bobby Knight was a prick," said Charles. The room roared but it will probably be edited out of the official Hall of Fame video.

1 comment:

M. Bouffant said...

You gotta give it to C.B.* as far as people in the public eye who don't give much of a shit.

But this brought a tear to my eye: Since I now watch nearly no television I content myself with memories of it.

*He's no Captain Beefheart, 'though.