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From HuffingtonPost.com:

The All-American Basketball Alliance announced earlier this week its plan to launch a whites-only basketball league. The shocking news led at least one mayor of a prospective AABA city to say he would not support the league coming to his town.

Tony McNary of WGCL, CBS’s Atlanta affiliate, sat down with league commissioner Don “Moose” Lewis to discuss his plans for the league. When asked if the league is racist, Lewis flatly responded, “No,” adding, “It’s not gonna be the street-type ball mentality. It’s going to be different.”

Charles Barkley disagrees.

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[Updated 01.19.10, 4:05 p.m.]

White Promoter Pushes For All-White Basketball League

From BET.com:

A Georgia boxing and wrestling promoter is establishing an all-White basketball league, saying it’s time to restore “sanity” and “fundamentals” to a game that has been hijacked by undisciplined thugs.

“It has come to the attention of the principals of the (All-American Basketball Alliance) that [W]hite basketball players are essentially ‘shut out’ of conventional professional basketball due to the proliferation of non-organized play on the court,” said promoter Don “Moose” Lewis in a news release, ironically, issued on Martin Luther King Day. “With players on other professional teams carrying guns, attacking fans in the stands, and going through the motions of playing the game, fundamentally sound [W]hite players are a vanishing species.

“Fans have spoken to the AABA asking to restore on court sanity to the game of basketball. Their pleas are our mission. Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league.”

In an interview with Scott Michaux of The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Lewis rejected the notion that his new league has anything to do with racism. He said it’s more about restoring the game to the way it was before it was saturated with African Americans.

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“It’s because of the fact that natural athleticism of people of color is different,” Lewis said. “They can make up for their shortfall in fundamentals with their natural athleticism. And coaches look for the quickest way to win, so they go for natural athleticism instead of the fundamentals from a White player. Is it a coaching problem? To a certain degree, but a lot of it is the culture.

“I know there’s bad apples of every color, but like my wife says, let the numbers speak for themselves,” he continued. “Turn on the local TV news and who do you see on there? Facts are facts. Now, imagine the safety and quality of play at games where there’s none of that. Anyone can be a star.”

He pointed to White professional players – i.e., “guys like Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash, (Dirk is the last great White hope)” – who he said exemplify the characteristics he’s talking about.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    I fully support this. Yes a all white NBA. No NAGAS ALLOWED

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jack_Stephen1/ Jack_Stephen1

    he’s gone to the extreme and failing to realize wht kids aren’t buying dirk and nash’s jersey like they’re buying the blk superstars. also, a fan favorite on the nuggets, the birdman (wht guy) was out of the league for a yr or 2 because of drug addiction so it’s not he’ll get a league of oppie cunninhams.

    but i can understand why he feels the way he does and it is harder for me to watch the games now because it looks like a prison league. players all tatted up, cornrows and in interviews soundin like a runaway slave. immigrants FOB (fesh of the boat)within a yr speak better english than these ni99as! the league needs more of the tim duncans and grant hills and less of the g. arenas and iversons.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BrotherJohnOfDallas/ BrotherJohnOfDallas

    This Lewis guy and the Greenberg guy from ESPN should start a new nation free of non whites and free of martin luther ‘coon’ (as greenberg uttered). although it is sad, this level of racism is still pervasive, so we should not just sleep on it too easily.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/khanine17/ khanine17

    he’s a jackass. mabey white palayers vanish because some of them just cant play. cnt get more fundamental then ray allen or tim duncan so idk wtf he talkin bout.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ambitious_balla/ ambitious_balla

    Let him do it. Just because blacks, have take the sport, like everything else we put our hands on, and elevated it and HIS people failed to adapt, he wants to cry foul.

    Since we’re taking back the things our race created, give us back rock n roll, peanut butter, computers, the internet, blood banks, gas masks, automated traffic signals, open heart surgery, and refrigeration. Keep all of ya’ll s**t and lets us keep our s**t. I’m almost 100% sure you’ll come to us before we come to you.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BIG-N-SEXY1/ BIG-N-SEXY1

    ok kool to each his own………let him do it we already know that we are better in most sports n that whites learned all their moves from our ppl so yea i say good luck to them!!!! and get ur pens n paper ready cause ur gonna need it to take notes so u can get some more moves from us……….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    I can kind of fell what hes talking about concerning the way the league is represented by the black players. They do NOT look good, and as Jack_Stephen1 stated, they dont sound good either. And that famous ‘Battle at Auburn Hills’ (Pistons Vs. Pacers), a WHITE guy threw the cup at Artest. Now on the other hand if he did actually start an all ‘caucasian’ league, he is left with probably a meeker, milder league, hardly any trouble if any at all, BUT hes left with an unexciting, very dull league at that. People pay to see these guys for the flash, the dunks, that attitude that black players bring to it. They WANT to see the Artests, the Baron Davis’ talkin trash, the acclaimed ‘posterizations’..lol ( is that a word? lol). Good luck to him…and by the way, there is a picture of Brad Miller up there…his mother is Italian and you know what they say about Italians….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/futuretennistardad1/ futuretennistardad1

    yea rite this guy is stupid who would come to the games to see a bunch of layups and three pointers people want to see moves and agility things that make you say damn how in the f@$* did he jump that high or did you see him jump from the free throw line with the ball in his right hand and switch it too his left in mid air and make the basket wtf(MJ) now thats basketball and thats what make people come to the games and thats the reason all the white women wants us brothers cause we aint boring they want to see highlites and dunks two hands in yo face take dat take dat lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    Damn… ya’ll took all the bombest talking points… good shyt people!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/omnione12/ omnione12

    LOL this should sell a bunch of tickets. Does this man not realize it is black people who help you guys (white owners) sell. Who the hell wants to watch a bunch of fundamental games with out a bit of flash. and calling our athletes thugs, F**K YOU

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/winterissocold/ winterissocold

    yeah okay and watch nobody comes to you guys game because you suck!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lacaju/ lacaju

    Believe me, there will be few white players to go along with this. The NBA dollar is too great!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/panamaniak/ panamaniak

    This is FUNNY. LMAO! FOR REAL! This is not the first time I have read something like this. I once read on an AOL sports board a white lady complaining about there are no sports where whites can compete. WTF??? All that tells me is this: Back in the days before Blacks were allowed in the organised leagues they would say Blacks were inferior physically to whites. So…Blacks had to SHOW AND PROVE,they had to step their GAME up. And they DID…Now White players must do the same. This “bringing whatever he said” back to the sport is a BS screen and even a CASUAL follower of the NBA knows that. What better excuse to get out ’cause you can’t compete is “Black players are thugs,blah,blah,blah”. LOL! PATHETIC. My sports in school was footbal/wrestling,I can’t dribble to save my life. But I can tell you this,any REAL athlete will rise to the challenge not just fall in with the mediocre. Plus…who’s going to PAY to see this BS. Poor white man,can’t get a break. LMAO!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jamon513/ Jamon513

    LOL… THATZ GONNA BE A BORING BASKETBALL LEAGUE….WHITE MAN CANT JUMP!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/redcreek/ redcreek

    BLACK PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS HAD TO PROVE THEMSELVES TO GET INTO THE SYSTEM OF THINGS IN THIS COUNTRY. WE HAD TO BE BETTER, DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY AND DO IT WITH STYLE, BASKETBALL IS NO DIFFERENT, IT GOES TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF WHITE PEOPLE ALWAYS KNEW THAT IF THEY GAVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVE OURSELVES WE COULD EXCEED ANY LIMITATIONS. ONE MORE POINT YOU ARE RACIST WHEN YOU INCLUDE A WHOLE RACE IN ANY GIVEN SITUATION THAT IS NEGATIVE. YES THERE ARE A FEW BLACK BASKETBALL PLAYERS THAT HAVE HAD SOME PROBLEMS, BUT THERE ARE WHITE PLAYERS THAT HAVE PROBLEMS ALSO, BUT WE DON’T CONTROL THE MEDIA SO THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT GO UNDER THE RADAR WHEN IT COMES TO SOME WHITE BASKETBALL PLAYERS. THERE ARE SOME BAD APPLE’S IN EVERY SPORT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH COLOR.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Splash_Waters253/ Splash_Waters253

    Let them do what they do. Now finally they can have something that is mainly a black dominated sport to themselves. I won’t be tuned in though.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/get_wit_eman/ get_wit_eman

    FUKK HIM and his wanna be “white” league..this is straight racist..so what a few brothers havent been model citizens….I BET damn there ALL the white atheletes, and NOT JUST in basketbal, but ALL sports do “Illegal shyt”.

    The media just doesnt report or blow it out of proportion like they do with a Brother!! Look at Micheal Phelps…yeah he got “scolded” but if im correct..I just saw him on a NEW commercial already with a NEW sponsor..WTF…

    Regardless of what Tiger did..I BET he gon have to work HARD to get the sponsors back…FUKK this white dude…and his wife with their “numbers” dont lie..so what?….The White boys is doing the same shyt and WORSE..they just arent gettin caught or gettin put on blast for it…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Deletha_J/ Deletha_J

    LMAO @Jamon513… white men cant jump. I wonder are they going to wear their long white jerseys with or without those white sheets on their heads in their (NBA) national basketball for amerKKKlans????

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Lifeiswutumakit/ Lifeiswutumakit

    Look at how dumb this stupid f*ckin’ cracker is…he just said “guys like Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash”…NEITHER ONE ARE NATURAL BORN UNITED STATES CITIZENS! Dirk Norwitzki is from Germany, and Steve Nash is from Canada. WHAT A DUMB F*CKIN’ CRACKER! The best white players in the NBA ARE NOT FROM AMERICA DUMBAS*! Good luck cracker! Hell, I guess everybody forgot about Dirk Norwitzki’s domestic issues with that black stripper he was dealing with from Germany. I promise you, when you do your research on these white players problems that they don’t expose, you will find druggin’, a little thuggin’, and some serious issue with the whiteboys of sports. The media just likes to do what they do. Ya’ll know what it is. DESTROY THE IMAGE OF BLACKS LIKE WE’RE THE ONLY ONES MESSIN’ UP IN THE WORLD…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ebonyblazer251/ ebonyblazer251

    Everyone should know that Don “Moose” Lewis is a sheisty, carnival-barking con-artist portraying himself as a legitimate sports promoter, primarily in the realm of minor-league professional basketball. He’s not a wannabe, he’s a ‘never was’. Take a look at the following:

    http://www.birminghamprosports.com/otherteamsbreakouts.htm

    Lewis issued this press release for his sham of a league because he knew he’d get some local publicity and perhaps a few blurbs online. Ignore this dumbazz, he’s worth less than pre-owned toilet paper.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    yes bring it back! bring it back!. . .we can finally own and operate our own league like in years past.y’all destroyed the Negro Leagues because your predecessor saw how much dollar sign the league was making especially when the league has better collection of players than the MLB. Shoot at that time, y’all best player, Babe Ruth, who is part black and has no respect for your league.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/riese2208/ riese2208

    restoring? restoring what? what the fawk iz wrong with these people? an all white basketball league? good luck with that SMBH (Shakin My Black Head)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rickblake3/ rickblake3

    incredible (no,not really…..)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SirMoonlite2/ SirMoonlite2

    …………Who cares!!!! so what!!!! why do you (NewsOne/BP) keep printing this Sh1T…the Klan is all white, same for the Neo-Nazi movement….what, you guys want affirmative action for that too!!! stop cry ‘n!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Annunaki40/ Annunaki40

    What Mr. Lewis seems to forget is that it was people from his RACE that wanted this Black African players on their teams.
    Black People be aware, this is another kick in the face which states (if I can kick them in the face with the pocket being taken away they will fold). This is another dirty trick by the cry babies who do not get an opportunity to play. It is the White owners that are picking these people, do you Mr. Lewis see any Black owners, of course not, they the Black owners draft the White ones as well.

    Now I really do hope that your league gets of the ground, but I really do think and I do believe that your foot is on your own neck.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/javon707/ javon707

    lol please start it. I wanna see how this turns out. you need donations?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sade2100/ sade2100

    all they scary of the black men may they a league of thier own sad.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/QBPOLO/ QBPOLO

    SOUNDS LIKE THE KKK LEAGUE……….LMBAO… DUMB HONKY TRY’N TO GET SOMETHING STARTED FOR HIS PEOPLE TO GET BACK IN THE LIMELIGHT. SORRY, BUT LARRY BIRD DID WORK IN THE NBA AND IT WAS MAJORITY AFRICAN AMERICAN PLAYERS THEN. TELL THOSE PLAYERS TO STEP THEY GAME UP. JJ REDICK IS DOING FINE AS 6TH MAN ON THE ORLANDO MAGIC. AND STEVE NASH HAS BEEN LEAGUE MVP TWICE……DUDE NEEDS TO WAKE UP, IT’S 2010 NOT 1950!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/37-longpipe/ 37-longpipe

    wow this is crazy.lol go ahead and start it but i bet none of the top white players would play in it.black’s didn’t get in the nba on just a gift thay worked just as hard as anyone if it was that easy then why c** my blackass an’t playing.you need tooo worry about fixing baseball look at what the white players has done for that sport “cheating”boxing the white man messed that up too.mybe if the white man stop trying too find way’s tooo cheat in sport’s that’s dam near all white.thay can’t find a way too cheat too help them in basketball that’s why there arn’t many.oh ya dam i forgot thay tryed too already with the ref who was suspended.any thing that’s all white start’s and end with cheating too get by.don’t beleave me do your reserch.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/new_year_new_things/ new_year_new_things

    the nba doesn’t make the bulk of its money in ticket sales…. the money is in the t.v sponsors and ad deals…. lets see how many tune in to watch a slow ass none athletic all white league.. im seeing something…… wait… wait…. oh i see it now……. its the X.F.L all over again… good luck buddy!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bobbyd2009/ bobbyd2009

    Uh, oh!…there goes the neighborhood!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Arrielle2007/ Arrielle2007

    lol Good Luck with that!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/N_Y_79/ N_Y_79

    SO WHAT? Let him do it the fact of the matter is that he doesn’t have enough money to pay the white players that are in the league. Even if he found some people to play in his league who is actually going to watch it or pay for season tickets to attend the game. But I do have one correction to make, that was a white fan who threw his beer on Ron Artest that incited the brawl.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/moniQTee/ moniQTee

    These crackers just dont stop.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/drkchokolate_10/ drkchokolate_10

    lmao this should be great when they play against some brothers they will get their azz kicked all the time.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AUSSii3_BARBii3/ AUSSii3_BARBii3

    LMA0 i D0NT EVEN KN0W WHY iN THE HELL THEY EVEN DECiDED T0 MAKE A ALL WHiTE BASKETBALL TEAM LMA0 N0 DiSRESPECT T0 THEM i KN0W iM HALF WHiTE MYSELF BUT DAMN THEY ARE G0NNA GET THEiR ASS’S BEAT

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/itskindadangerous2b3/ itskindadangerous2b3

    Please you’d have to be a racist white player if you accepted his statements and played in this league. No Thank You.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/D_Sean/ D_Sean

    Let dem have all white team. I cant front like some white boyz dont be doing their thing. But dem niggaz aint going to the chip, nor winning the chip. Kobe could beat the whole team by his self

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/1BillionaireMnd/ 1BillionaireMnd

    Sad..sad..sad…..the racism in this country (so sad)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    Hey what about the European clubs. White people aren’t shut out the NBA at all. The funny thing is all of the owners are white except for Bob Johnson. No way a player the caliber of Dirk or Steve Nash would play in that lower level league.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doubledee4u/ doubledee4u

    Fundamentally sound.What a racist remark.I guess our black play ball players don’t have no thinking ability at all.They crazy.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/zman73/ zman73

    There’s no way an all white league will ever work. That is just plain stupid. It can’t be any more racist than this site or blacks in general though if you think about it, can it?
    Look at the black race and how the white man recieves all the blame for any problems at all that befall brothers and sisters. This is an all black site but is considered “okay” or politically correct. If they had a Whiteplanet Universe would that be considered racist? What about a Mrs. White USA? What about a WET channel on tv? Hmmmmmm…..sounds racist, huh?

    Racism is here for sure, peeps, but it happens to whites as well and is considered okay. It’s called reverse racism and its been growing for some time. Try to be the bigger race and act accordingly. If the race card quits getting thrown all the time and racism constantly brought up, it will eventually go away on its own with time. Acting like idiots and speaking and writing in an illiterate manner on purpose will not help the black cause, however.

    Look at the remarks on this site and people saying nigga. That is stupid and disrespectful. Be proud and smart, not loud and stupid.

    Why has everything got to be about the white man. It’s time to be responsible and shut up, step up, and put up. Time for the black man to quit thinking everything is owed and start earning it.

    We all know it, we just don’t say it. We love getting away with as much as possible.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LucemFerre/ LucemFerre

    Zman73, 1st off, “White Privilege” ever heard of it? I don’t know if ur white or black but if u r white u r the proud carrier of some serious white privilege which means u (and I) do not have to put out a WET channel or have a Miss White USA contest or a White Planet site because everything we do in this country is to our advantage. We never have to think about whether or not white women are attractive because it’s the standard set by the white majority. We do not have to consider whether or not we’ll get a job because we’re white or get a show on television because we’re white…it’s assumed our color or our race will not play a role in these and so many other things and that, my friend, is called “white privilege.” On another note, have u ever considered what it means to celebrate St. Patty’s Day or what it means to have an Italian Social Club or perhaps u’ve heard of the Polish Festivals and Christian Schools and so forth and so on…all predominately white institutions. Have u ever boycotted the St. Patty’s Day Parade because it’s about Irish folks? Think outside ur box. NOW, about reverse racism… the fact that u call it reverse racism means that u accept where it started. If blacks being racist towards whites is reverse racism, then what is racism? And does ur definition exclude all Asians and Indians and Native Americans from being either racist or from being the victims of racism? Can an Indian from India be racist towards a Native American and visa versa??? Please do urself a favor and think outside the lines of traditional bull-shiiit education relating to race, religion, gender, etc. There’s a huge world of understanding out there just waiting for some thirsty minds and hungry souls to devour.

    The “nigga” thing is not my field of expertise so I will not chime in too intensely on that one. I can only say that I know some Black people, mostly women but men too, who hate the “n” word being used by blacks in music, poetry or every day conversation but I am not one to make that judgment. I’m not qualified to do so and would never presume I am. Finally zman73, if ur Black, most things still apply, just look at it from a White person with white privilege perspective. I know i have an advantage but i also know how i live my life…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/javon707/ javon707

    @ zman73

    most black folks go about their business. like some racists white, who blame all their problems on minorities, you have a few blacks who do the same. problem is, everyone pays attention to the few that holler racism or discrimination. personally, I could careless if there is a miss white america pageant or even a white planet website. problem with alot of anything with the name “white” in it, is that its usually associated with white supremists groups. you have liberal whites yelling racism on behalf of everyone else now. I have had some white people complain to me about “reverse” discrimination. cant really have that much sympathy for them, because they may experience maybe once or twice in their whole lifetime while I have and will encounter it alot more. its funny how you say its time for “us” step up and put up. maybe you need to do some history. look at some reels of archived footage of times in segregation. and I gotta love how you say the black man thinks he’s owed everything. I know alot of whites who think that they are “owed”. I think you need to do your homework first before commenting on here.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LucemFerre/ LucemFerre

    One last thing, I used to box, not professionally, but I trained outside of Philly. In that club was a group of Irish fighters from Ireland, a group of Italians from Philly, some Black fighters and a few mutts like myself. On the other side of town is Joe Frazier’s gym, mostly filled with Black & Latino fighters. On occasion, Frazier’s nephew would come to this gym and Bert Cooper (look him up) came one day when I was there but true to his reputation, didn’t work out for long. Anyway, a funny non-racist thing used to happen at this gym. When an Irish fighter was fighting an Italian or Black fighter, the Irish guys would root for their guy and the Italian’s their guy and the Black’s their guy. It got nasty on occasion with things being said that most outsiders would never understand, but in the end, every one of those fighters hugged, all the fans paid their respects to the winners and the losers and that fierce racially and ethnically divided crowd was once again united by their trade and their humanity. Personally, I tended to root for the underdog, but on occasion I find myself rooting for the White guy because he is White and he’s usually the underdog. There is nothing racist about that or about Black people rooting for and supporting Black people in business, music, art, education, television or other. When I watch the Olympics I root for American’s to win, until I see some guy from who knows where come out of no where to shock the world. That’s just having pride in things/people similar to me…If the underdog is Asian or gay or short or fat or had a horrific life or Black or “too old” or whatever, I tend to root for them for those reasons. I’m sure most of u feel the same way and i doubt very much it’s racist.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ever_ready7/ ever_ready7

    You know, in this life you can choose to do what ever it is you choose. Everything has consequences.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Midwest_Vinyl_Vixen/ Midwest_Vinyl_Vixen

    The new segregation…WOW!!!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigum/ bigum

    Does this fool not realize tha Dirk Nowitzki(Germany) and Steve Nash(Canada)are not born in the USA?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sozo04/ sozo04

    “Moose” needs to read The Race Myth, or just read a book period…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Yung_Pimpin_913/ Yung_Pimpin_913

    Wow, if they do some s**t like that, then their only rival will be the WNBA

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/manofsteel35/ manofsteel35

    It’ll NEVER work!!! I agree that SOME of our black ball players make it bad for everyone else…but lets face facts…nobody’s gonna pay to watch a bunch of stiff players shooting set shots & layups for 2 hrs!!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mandmore/ mandmore

    it won’t last….fahget about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EDWARDS43/ EDWARDS43

    IT WANT BRING IN THE CASH LIKE THE NBA. SO IT WANT WORK.

    IT WILL BE BORING ASS HELL…LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/greywolf5/ greywolf5

    I love the name “All-American Basketball Alliance”…Which seems to imply that if your mama and daddy were white and born in America that you’re a REAL American….It would be real interesting to see what would happen if the best of the NBA (white and black) played a serious $$$ game with the AABA…This reminds me of that STUPID line in “White Men Can’t Jump” that Rod Shelton wrote. “A black man is more concerned with looking good than making the shot” (or somethin like that). What Mr. Shelton didn’t understand about black people ( no matter how many black women he sleeps with for free) is that we are obsessed with both. It’s like Yin Yang with us. Which is why when we master a thing its done with unprecedented genius and flare.

    Now as far as the knuckledraggers which are paraded on the news almost everyday…I can only shake my head in reluctant agreement…There was a time when we understood that what one did affected all…But that was before we started “Keepin it real”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Classickal/ Classickal

    sh!’ted thats a good thing whitmen can’t compete with us anyway thats the real reason their tryna start a all white league……lol who cares they are SUM BUMS ….no one come to watch a white guy play they are almost none existence in NBA superstardom…LMAO so they play the race card do to their athletic inabilty to compete with niccas LOL this is too funny.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dopegurlmagic17/ Dopegurlmagic17

    i dont honestly think dat they white players would go for it anyways cuz they wouldn’t get paid as much AND DIRK NOWITZKI wasn’t even born in the US there prejudice and dumb as fu*k!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mrbrmann225/ Mrbrmann225

    If only he knew that the so-called “White” person came from Africans. Look up the Human Family Tree. Darwin was all wrong with his orgin of the human species.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blknall/ blknall

    OK, TAKE BACK YOUR GAME

    BUT GIVES US BACK OUR MUSIC, STYLE, FREEDOM, HOMELAND, ETC. ETC. ETC.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ORIGINALSMACKS/ ORIGINALSMACKS

    WHITE PEOPLE GET IGNORANT ALSO, THEY’RE NOT INNOCENT. THE GAME WAS BORING BEFORE MORE BLACKS WERE ALLOWED TO PLAY PROFESSIONALLY.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/burgstyle82/ burgstyle82

    lmao This is the same thing they say about the WNBA that it’s about “fundamentals”. No one wants to watch a bunch of lanky white dudes shoot jump shots all night. lmao No dunking or alley-oops in this league. Good luck with that. Silly azz crackas…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lilmisswitesheep/ lilmisswitesheep

    lol who the hell would want to watch that??

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Blackbarbie189/ Blackbarbie189

    Who the hell is going to watch an all white team play? White boys can’t jump. They can’t dunk or slam. So why waste your damn time? Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Majic, Dominique,should i say more. There are more black professional ballers than there are whites. These guys paved the way for all the other players. We all make mistakes, but we learn from them and move forward. Can you imagine what the stands would look like at those games. F—–g EMPTY.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Raine_86/ Raine_86

    man that is straight up racist of this guy…. man done went crazy…’nough said bruh!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blessedwer2/ blessedwer2

    I just pray that none of those so-call “white” promoter, players and none of their families are adopting any HAITI children. That would be too sad! But maybe that wuold be a good thing,they might have been born with VOO DOO power from birth an cast “MAGIC” on those cold hearted “white folk”.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/panamaniak/ panamaniak

    manofsteel35 It’ll NEVER work!!! I agree that SOME of our black ball players make it bad for everyone else…but lets face facts…nobody’s gonna pay to watch a bunch of stiff players shooting set shots & layups for 2 hrs!!

    LMAO!!! LMAO!!! For REAL! Woooo!!! Now I can go to bed! That was good!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blessedwer2/ blessedwer2

    burn in Hell!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blessedwer2/ blessedwer2

    I just done “BLACK MAGIC” on all of them!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blessedwer2/ blessedwer2

    I just hit all of them with a nasty brew of my strongest “BLACK MAGIC” that will fix each one, by one! NAH!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mesearching4ago2girl/ mesearching4ago2girl

    is this legal? It is a for profit business he can’t have an all white team can he? If so then I guess I can discriminate legally too!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DESTINEE20/ DESTINEE20

    im not surprised

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DMY19151/ DMY19151

    LOL…THIS IS SOME FUNNY S**T……THAT’S WHY THEY NEED TO SHOW ROOTS ON TV FOR EVERYONE TO SEE HOW MOST WHITE PEOPLE ARE OR MAKE A REMAKE OF IT WITH MORE GRAPHICS OF HOW THIS LAND WAS AND STILL IS TODAY….SAD!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/john_jetter/ john_jetter

    Here we go again y’all. I think we blacks will have to also stop taking planes because of the christmas day bomb attempt. it all has to do with blacks hijacking and dunking the ball

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Nastalgic1/ Nastalgic1

    This is really funny! What he is really trying to say is: the mass majority of white players in the NBA are not as athletic as the black athletes. Therefore, they do not receive the same fan fair as the black players in the league. This is why he would like to create an all white league. The question is, who would watch it? The even bigger question is, would the truly gifted white athletes like Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki, want to play in a league that does not feature competition amongst the best that the game has to offer? Truth be told, this promoter isn’t really serious about starting and all white league in today’s America, he knows it would not sell. What he really wants is a platform to express how frustrated he is over the fact that athletes of color dominate every major sport and is slowing taking over sports like, golf, tennis, soccer and even hockey! My comment to him would be: Get use to it because we arn’t going anywhere. We run sports and entertainment.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ms_Leondra/ Ms_Leondra

    haaaa, haaa, haaa. these mofos must plan on getting paid on hope lol. we all know ain’t nobody watchin this ish. it’s time to admit it. black folk make ish fun. yeah i said it lol, music, sports, food…don’t hate. appreciate the fact that we let ya’ll get in on it. white folk gettin outta control, i mean ridiculous. i officially ban all white folk from joining in on black activities which now pretty much means all activities including the electric slide and the cupid shuffle lol. jk. you have to admit that is funny though.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/21stHoliday/ 21stHoliday

    i kinda hope that does happen…i really want to see how this country will turn out if it does…
    i say go for it

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shippper2009/ shippper2009

    the funny thing is he pointed out steve nash and dirk nowitzki as players that exemplify characteristics that hes talking about, but before that he said that the league would only be for usa born whites. nash and nowitzki were both born out of the usa

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/juniorsayouh/ juniorsayouh

    If This is the case…Lets have a all black basketball league and see which is more exciting?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/masculine31/ masculine31

    LMAO…wuteva happened to CHANGE? or UNITY? Jesus, please help us ALL! We need it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/chocolatekisses2109/ chocolatekisses2109

    what does he mean that its not racist when you say things like before it was saturated with african american people sounds like racism to me the ignorance of some people white people werent even the first to start playing basketball it was brought over from africa when they brought the slaves but i agree with juniorsayouh we should have our own league

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BigJ01/ BigJ01

    Wow ignorance persist onward

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/40hours/ 40hours

    sound like some pretty boring basketball. This leauge will not last a full season. The WNBA is a very fundenmental heavy league. But to most its boring. And is struggling to make money. So try it and lets see how long it last.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pullum/ pullum

    LOL WHITE FOLKS TIRED OF COMPETEING WITH BLACK FOLKS

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rayray_nyc/ rayray_nyc

    HI-larious. funny that the 2 white ball players he mentioned are NOT from America…one is form Canada, and the other, Germany.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mixedking85/ mixedking85

    wow……….. seriously?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Angilix/ Angilix

    “Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league.”

    So if you’re an orphaned black kid born in the U.S. and adopted by two gay white parents you can play? Cool!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dark_Zero/ Dark_Zero

    So white people now have fundamentals and principle huh? Last time I checked, white men and women fight, curse, and get drunk like black people do too.. Come downtown Chicago and see what I mean on a Friday or Saturday night. If you have a brain, you would know this is racism and ignorant outright. When it was all white, it was dull, boring, and those white ball players do drugs, get prostitutes for many years. Whites have done so many drugs that’s it’s pathetic, but just because it’s not in the news to defend the so called “pure Christian white man” from looking bad, but putting a brotha or sista on the tv to show the word how bad we are.

    This is sad, and if you don’t think this is racist, you will learn what it means by the end of this decade. Black people, wake up please and stop being so blind to the truth. This is racism at best…wow…but we’re the thugs huh? Just because it’s not in the papers, don’t mean that whites aren’t doing drgus, abusing their wives, and doing other negative things in this world.

    You have a white man (Hugh Heffner) who has a playboy mansion and another who in Las Vegas has the Bunny Ranch home. That’s called Prostitution people? But Magic Bishop Don Juan, or Slik who is a pimp can be arrested for having a brothel? Prostitution is wrong on all angles, but I am showing you how whites can do it, and it’s fine, it’s funny, entertainment. We do something like that, and prison is the only answer. Next it’s going to be whites only, and color only bathrooms people. We are going back to the 50s, 60s, and 70s because us educated niggas and thug niggas are becoming sell outs, stupid, and justly ignorant to what’s going on around us…WAKE UP MY PEOPLE!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/baldy29/ baldy29

    A all white league will never happen. The league will be boring. Last time I check, The average college and nba basketball roster are all black males. Go figure Mr Lewis !!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/we_b_s/ we_b_s

    LMFAO!!!!!! Is this serious? I hope not. C’mon Son, git the f**k outta here wit that s**t. Step ya game up. Go practice. Tell the truth man. Ya mad. Ya mad cuz you can’t do it. STEP YA GAME UP!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/YooDown/ YooDown

    SMH ..what money can do to some people’s mind …damn shame!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ONE_DAMN_GOOD_MAN76/ ONE_DAMN_GOOD_MAN76

    WHO THE F**K CARES?! LET THEM HAVE THEIR LEAGUE. ITS GONNA SUCK ASS ANYWAYS….ONLY 3′S, PASSES AND NO DUNKS!! AKA…..THW WNBA!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KHAKIsuiteKING/ KHAKIsuiteKING

    MAN…EVERYBODY KNOWS WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gawga_Kang/ Gawga_Kang

    It should come to life I mean they can televise the games on Comedy Central b/c it will be just that “comedy” I’ll watch just for Sh8Ts and giggles

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mr_Patches/ Mr_Patches

    F**k yo all white league.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LegendBlkOne/ LegendBlkOne

    Seriously looking at their faces alone is boring, and they want to make their own team?! That’s funny but they should be able to do it. Watching them play would’ve given us certainly something to laugh.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smokingjoes01/ smokingjoes01

    Man that would be like attending a wake of somebody you don’t know! Get real and face reality. This entire country will be in due time a place of color, so set back soon to be brown man and enjoy my jump shot and slam dunk all up in your face!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/koupleMTL/ koupleMTL

    chocolatekisses2109

    Please Google Canadian James Naismith for your origins of basketball.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/thekid1986/ thekid1986

    This is not only racist,but very funny…..an all white league in any sport will not survive.Why? Because “minorites” usually make better athletes.Think of golf without Tiger,basketball without MJ,CB,Kobe,Wade,Dr.J.baseball without Barry Bonds,Roberto Clemente(who was from cuba),American Judo without Rhadi Ferguson,Gymnastics without Dominigue Dawes,not to mention the US National Soccer team which would never even reach the World Cup without “minorites” playing.International sport is what it is today because the focus was not race,but athletic abilities.So j.a.c.k.a.s.s go ahead with your b.u.l.l.s.h.i.t youll be lucky if ESPN even farts on you.hahaha

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BabyGyrl810/ BabyGyrl810

    an all white league??? LMFBAO!!!How many games are they gonna win???lol…they’ll never have a playoff!! LoL!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigbfoeva/ bigbfoeva

    It is a known FACT that blacks invented basketball LOOK IT UP! they even evidence dat we had HOOPS AND BALLS! Don’t be given me this naismith bullshat! It is a known FACT that naismisth STOLE his ideas from the blacks! he probably went to africa to found the HOOPS AND BALLS hisself! we gotta kill these white people be thinking they can BALL like us~

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    There’s nothing wrong with an all white basketball,football and baseball leagues for all of the racist to make them happy.that’s how these sports started out and they should have them again.the country is so racist now that,this may calm down some of the racism that’s eating america alive.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mr_fingers/ mr_fingers

    Not only that I hope it fail but I hope it never gets off the ground. Athletes in all sports get in trouble with either their prospective leagues and sometimes the law. Law officials in every city big or small would be out of their minds to allow this segregated league into their town and nobody in their right mind should waste their money to watch this. All sports have their problems with athletes getting in trouble, however, segregating the sport is nowhere near the solution. This man should be ashamed of himself and banned from every sport.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/supamanluva4eva/ supamanluva4eva

    This comical. This is going to fail. The gentleman says white “American” players are being shut out. Who shuts them out? The majority of the fans, owners, coaches, and executives in the NBA are white. The paying customer has decided. If there is a true competitor of any race they will want to play against the best. The best players play in leagues that are open to competition from all nationalities.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/supamanluva4eva/ supamanluva4eva

    Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitski, Manu Ginobili would not be eligible to play in his league because they are not American. Steve Nash is from Canada, Dirk from Germany, and Ginobili is from Argentina.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/german_cutie_13/ german_cutie_13

    I watched Roots at the weekend, his comments remind me of those Whites 300 years ago.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kolossus1/ Kolossus1

    It is really pity that such dangerously ignorant fools like this man exists still in 21st century America. I thought that his kind has expired eons ago. This man is either ignorant or consolidatedly stupid. History does not teach him any lessons.I live in Germany; a country that could attest to the dangers of racism and as well as the danger a´society faces when fools have some power. This man is a fool with a pulpit from which he could spread ignorance and hate. The first thing for him is to go to school and learn that diversity is the last hope of humanity.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/matt0587/ matt0587

    I heard on the radio that there only gonna have 9′ rims and use a WNBA ball. I think this is more of a joke.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/RedDevil4Lyf/ RedDevil4Lyf

    This has to be a joke right???? Don’t white folks got other smarter white friends who act as friends and keep them outa trouble? SMH

    And some of these comments kill me sayin that slaves brought basketball from Africa… u know dam well we wouldnt have got enslaved if we claim half the things that we come up wit these days… Tryin to rewrite history n makin excuses for the predicamint we in just make us no better than white folk.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/davettalashley/ davettalashley

    Yet Another Angry White Man.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shotgun517/ shotgun517

    Yeh, but who’s gonna watch the games?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EugeneHolden/ EugeneHolden

    Ok and who is this all white team going to play, another all white team, i don’t think so. there going to play these same so called undisciplined thugs and end up having the worst losing record in the history of the game.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/charmsparties/ charmsparties

    he says turn on the news and who do you see you see caucasin kids going on killing sprees, killing people at schools or killing the whole family and then themselves.you see caucasians kidnapping and raping kids of all races and creeds,so how can you down grade african americans for fighting for what they believe in and carrying protection on them.where not born with silver spoons in our mouths,we put in blood sweat and tears to get were we are today as a people. if you want to change things do’t sergregate fix it as a whole.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/85SouthBrotha/ 85SouthBrotha

    So I guess The Professor from And1 and Jason Williams are excluded because they showcase their flashy athletics skills over fundamentals. Cancel out Mike Miller because he has a habit of making it rain 3′s all day instead of looking for the open man. Toss out JJ Reddick and Adam Morrison as well because they are both shoot first guards. Gerry McNamara who played for Syracuse would be out as well. Now we’re looking at a league of big names like Luke Walton, Coby Karl, Tyler Hansborough, Kevin Love, David Lee… And I doubt the last 3 would give up the higher level of competition to join. It would be interesting if it got off the ground. I mean college powerhouses and the Harlem Globetrotters would have teams to tune up against, and the New Jersey Nets would get a win streak going!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST/ CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST

    Next they will put up all white signs and everything else that has no blacks. What I don’t get is why in the hell would they want an all white basketball team in a sport that was invented by black men? Basketball,baseball,football,boxing and track was invented by black people-it was not a white sport.(JMO)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blackboy136/ blackboy136

    The only reason facts show that Black Men are always gettin locked up is bcause yhe the news is designed to expose the Black Community an dnever ever show all the crimes and wrong White america is doin they only show certain things and what they want us to no bout white america.F**k the news is ran by white people so do u think the will expose themselves b 4real and i guarantee u that all white team would not be average below 500…….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Azrael3/ Azrael3

    CarolinaGirlSRDABEST, you wrote:

    “What I don’t get is why in the hell would they want an all white basketball team in a sport that was invented by black men? Basketball,baseball,football,boxing and track was invented by black people-it was not a white sport.(JMO)”

    …Surely, you don’t believe that these sports were “invented by black men”…do you mean to say that these sports have been DOMINATED by black men? These sports had been around years before blacks entered them. For instance, basketball actually had a high number of Jews participating in the sport from around the 1920s to the 1950s. Basketball was always considered a “city sport”; since many Jews lived in the urban areas, the males played in this sport. It was a means to upward mobility because they often got scholarships. (Oh, and surprise–the term “ghetto” applied to Jews living in slums before it was used to describe blacks living in them!).

    However, the INVENTION of basketball was invented in the mid or late 1800s. I believe it was invented by either a physician or a teacher…and he WAS caucasian.

    Baseball is actually an Americanized version of Cricket, which is a British sport.

    Again, I hope that you meant that blacks have raised the bar in these sports because they did not invent them.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Azrael3/ Azrael3

    bigbfoeva
    “1-24-2010 2:44 pmIt is a known FACT that blacks invented basketball LOOK IT UP! they even evidence dat we had HOOPS AND BALLS! Don’t be given me this naismith bullshat! It is a known FACT that naismisth STOLE his ideas from the blacks! he probably went to africa to found the HOOPS AND BALLS hisself! we gotta kill these white people be thinking they can BALL like us”

    Why don’t you cite some sources about blacks inventing basketball since you know all about it?

    Secondly, learn how better grammar–it’s not “hisself”, it’s “himself”.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Azrael3/ Azrael3

    Correction, learn to use better grammar. Damn, why don’t they allow editing instead of requiring a new post?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Azrael3/ Azrael3

    Lewis stated, “It’s because of the fact that natural athleticism of people of color is different,” Lewis said. “They can make up for their shortfall in fundamentals with their natural athleticism. And coaches look for the quickest way to win, so they go for natural athleticism instead of the fundamentals from a White player.”

    Sounds like he’s been reading “The Bell Curve” by Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein. What a munch.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST/ CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST

    @Azrae13-NO I MEANT JUST WHAT I TYPED. And don’t you mean the CAUCASIAN/WHITE MAN CHANGED THE NAME of the sports. It was Blacks who INVENTED the sports I named. Now back when slaves was out playing the slave master would watch them play and how well they played the sports-that-we NOW know of as basketball,baseball,football,boxing,and track…so they formed a team. Like boxing they called the black men Big Bucks and they maded money off them fighting. Baseball-it was just a stick-to being a bat and ball. Football-was of a sock filled with something in it and then ball and then to football. Track was from the blacks having to run and be on the run all the time. Surely you didn’t mean to say that CAUCASIAN/WHITE was the one who INVENTED these sports-you really meant to said,they maded ALOT OF MONEY OFF THESE SPORTS and gave it a name.(JMRBTU)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Azrael3/ Azrael3

    CarolinaGirlSRDBest:

    Stick ball is something that many cultures came up with. Ever hear of cultural syngery? That is when an activity or practice occurs amongst cultures that have had no previous interaction with one another. However, the rules and basics of baseball came from cricket.

    Where are you getting your information from? I’m curious to know. I understand that whites have had a history of stealing from other cultures, but unless you can cite your sources, I’m not going to accuse a white man of stealing many of these sports.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST/ CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST

    Azrae13-And im not asking you too. You think what you want to and I know what sports blacks have invented and then named by the white man like the music use to be. So my respond would be to you is show me an all white sport from back in 1800…and where are you getting your information from? I really would like to know that…and the white man stole everything that had a black person name to it-that they could back then.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigbfoeva/ bigbfoeva

    pssh carolinagurl and me be the only one who know da truth bout the HOOPS AND BALLS they founded in AFRICA! restore da game to tha true inventors, the AFRIKANS!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Azrael3/ Azrael3

    “The History of Basketball” by Greg Proops
    and Basketball Manitoba (online source):

    “…Naismith’s school days in the area where he played a simple child’s game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a “duck” off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.”

    So where is your source?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Azrael3/ Azrael3

    Better yet, you don’t even have to cite your sources, CarolinaGirls, because I have a sneaking suspicion that no matter what doc**entation or sources I can provide or what is available to you about anything, you (and others) will not believe anything that counters your argument(s). It’s wasted energy, so yah–let’s agree to disagree. I have to get back to work anyway (got deals to close!)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/evolution_824/ evolution_824

    Lol, not even worried about that happening.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ron247/ Ron247

    There needs to be an all did not get a chance league, I went too an racist school, all four years I did not get too play basketball, Mind you I and a friend of mine we were like 15 beating college players, and I was only like 5’11 and my friend 5’8. We both got cut from the basketball team, becuase we were outstanding players on the court. Sounds stupid right, well it was true.

    However I did get to play football, running back even though I could throw the football over 60 yards and was trying out for quarter back.

    High schools are a part of every kids life and should not have the option too kill a kids spirit and dream, let a lone natural skills and talent just becuase they think they should try keep you down for their own reasons.

    So there should be a league for players like myself there are all type of awesome basketball players out here on the street who had something happen to them too keep them out of the NBA like myself or other, that’s the new league that needs to be started for players who never got that shot on the big wood like I and my friend and millions of others someone should start that league.

    We would not have time too act a fool like some of the real NBA players if we had a league becuase we would be too happy to just be there and enjoying the game we love.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hellcat4lyfe72/ hellcat4lyfe72

    It’s pretty funny coming from a race of people with the biggest history of Rapist murderers, and thieves. White people always act like they haven’t done anything that they are victims,truthfully they are the ones that have caused so many problems within our country and others that it’s not safe for us to go anywhere. They love taking traditions of others and making it their own they have always and will always be The BIGGEST losers,because they can’t think of anything for themselves, and can’t accept that they are the ones who screwed everything up.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST/ CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST

    @Azrael13-Like I stated before those are things you looked up-the white mans lie and you believed it. Listen to what you wrote and close your eyes and repeat what you said,and see the truth for what it is-BLACKS INVENTED the sport. A duck on a rock-now thats really funny and which sport did it invent? LOL) Its good to know your closing deals because you don’t know nothing about who invented sports. Once again I agree with you-you are a waste of energy and my time.(JMRBTY)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST/ CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST

    @hellcat4lyfe72-I feel you and I agree.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mima57/ mima57

    We DID NOT invent basketball. We did revolutionize it, however. Ironically enough, there is evidence that black canadiens did invent hockey. Real talk. As far as this league is concerned, will they be able to fill rosters for more than 2 teams??? If so it will be w/eauropean players. The day of the American born white player is soooo over.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/honey_brown_79/ honey_brown_79

    LOL this is too funny, no one is going to watch this it will be sooooo boring, there will be no action or charisma that black palyers bring to the game, what an idiot this is so beyond dumb and it is ractist no matter what this fool says white people smh

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/wcorowitz/ wcorowitz

    Why go Backward? (Stop living in the Past!)
    An open letter to Don “Moose” Lewis, the Georgia community, and the world at large.
    By Corey Washington

    Regardless of what you think about Martin Luther King Day, many recognize that day as a time to reflect on how far the United States has come concerning race relations. So when a news story came out of the Augusta Chronicle on Martin Luther King day of 2010, most people thought it was a sick joke. Don “Moose” Lewis, the commissioner of an all-white basketball league, released a press release to the Augusta Chronicle, that expressed interest in Augusta, Georgia as one of the cities for this all-white league.

    According to the press release of the AABA (All-American Basketball Alliance), the only players who qualify are “natural born US citizens with both parents of the Caucasian race”. When asked why the restriction on color, Lewis said that the NBA is shutting out many white players. Lewis wants the AABA to focus on basketball fundamentals instead of the typical “streetball” played by “people of color”. Lewis cited recent events involving the gun charges of Gilbert Arenas and past events in the NBA involving black players as a reason for an all-white league. Lewis claims that it will be automatically safer for patrons if all of the players are white. He goes on to state that fans would not have to worry about players flipping them off, attacking them, or grabbing their crotch. (Don’t go to a baseball or hockey game) it’s obvious that Lewis is referring to the incident at the Palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan, where Ron Artest, Jermaine O’Neil, and Stephen Jackson of the Indiana Pacers got into physical altercations with white Detroit Pistons fans in the stands. What Lewis fails to mention is that it was the drunken and obnoxious behavior of the fans that provoked the incident. (Someone threw a cup of beer at Ron Artest.) Clearly, those NBA players crossed the line, but those fans also went way beyond being spectators.

    Let’s look at Lewis’ other line of reasoning for wanting an all-white league, the issue of streetball versus fundamentals. While it is true that the NBA has its share of showmen, those who are the best players know when to hotdog and went to stick to the fundamentals. Players like Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas, and Michael Jordan come to mind. They were very flashy at times, but very effective. They worked on basketball fundamentals first, then they developed and honed their skills in order to even have the option of performing more complex maneuvers. When the game was on the line, they were all business. My favorite player, Dominique Wilkins, was known as one of the most flamboyant players in the NBA. However, his greatest moment was a duel with the fundamentally sound Larry Bird. In Game seven of the 1988 NBA Eastern Conference Semi-Finals, these two small forwards went back and forth and played a game of basketball at such a high level, that it moved the legendary and fundamentally sound coach, Red Auerbach to declare: “Greatest quarter I ever saw in 42 years in the NBA”. Then you have non-flashy black players like: Kareem Abdul Jabar, Craig Hodges, Tim Duncan, Oscar Robertson, and even Wilt Chamberlain. All of these players were very fundamentally sound in their positions. On the other hand, you have flashy white players like: Pistol Pete Maravich, Steve Nash, Jason Williams (white chocolate), Da Professor (streetball And One legend), Rex Chapman, and Brent Barry(the only white winner of a NBA slam dunk contest-1996).

    I mention all of these players to show that you cannot categorize basketball fundamentals according to race. According to Lewis, he subscribes to the Jimmy “the Greek” Synder theory of blacks being “natural athletes”. He says people of color can “make up for their shortfall in fundamentals, with their natural athleticism”.(He has obviously never heard of Harold Miner.) Let’s be perfectly clear. You have to be fundamentally sound to make it to the professional level of any sport. Coaches want people who are going to help them win. It’s not like in college, where you are limited to selecting from your student body. Professional leagues attract the best players. If all of those players happen to be white, then so be it. If they happen to be all black, same rule applies. If there is a mixture races, then so be it. As long as you put together the best team, that’s all that counts.

    With Augusta’s murky and tempestuous past concerning race relations, one begs to wonder: Why select Augusta? Ray Charles refused to perform at the Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Georgia because of segregation. When they agreed to desegregate, he came back and fulfilled his obligation. Desegregation of education has also been very messy here in Augusta. Even in 1899 (C**ming versus Richmond County Board of Education), this issue garnered national attention, going all the way to the Supreme Court. This case shot down an attempt to close white high schools until they reopened black ones. This was three years after Plessy versus Ferguson, which gave us the “separate but equal” doctrine, thus clearing the way for state imposed segregation. With Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka in 1954 making segregated schools illegal under the “equal protection” clause of the law, how would Augusta respond to this landmark case? Not very well!

    The Richmond County school system had to be sued by a group of private citizens to force them to desegregate the schools. That was in 1964, 10 years after Brown versus Board of Education. It wasn’t until the 1970s, that Augusta’s Board of Education finally came up with a plan for desegregation. As of this writing, Augusta is still under a federal court order for the desegregation of its schools.

    We have not even mentioned one of Augusta’s ugliest racial incidents, the riot of May 1970. We are approaching the 40th year anniversary of the riot. On May 11, 2010, Augusta will mark the anniversary, not with joy and celebration, but with somber reflection and forethought. With all of these issues of the past, not to mention the current uncertainty of the racial make up of the County Commission, do you think Augusta is ready for an all-white basketball league? If you think so, please go back and read this article over from the beginning. In fact, keep reading it until you join the rest of us in the present, and stop living in the past!
    Corey Washington

    (Author of Plain Talk volume 1)
    This is an excerpt from Plain Talk Volume 2-Digging a little Deeper

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST/ CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST

    @mima57-No disrespect but,please do your history and you will see all the sports black people invented and the white man stoled from them and gave it a name. Just like they did the land we live on-stoled it-put a flag on it and gave it a name.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LucemFerre/ LucemFerre

    Blackbarbie189 wrote: “Who the hell is going to watch an all white team play? White boys can’t jump. They can’t dunk or slam. So why waste your damn time? Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Majic, Dominique,should i say more.”

    Do u know what is really silly about ur comment, not that there are lots of Whites who can and have dunked and even dunked over Black players and one even won a slam dunk contest (Barry I believe), no, that’s too easy and obviously silly. But what’s even more silly about ur comment s this: If it were true that Whites can’t jump, like in the movie, the implication is that that is all we Whites can’t do, therefore, once we get some springs in our legs or some hops, there won’t be anything we can’t do. Ur comment also implies that the only thing Blacks can do is jump and dunk. Now, do u really want to be putting that s**t out there like that? Think about it. Oh! Do u remember that poster dunk Tom Chambers (Suns) had where his knees were in the upper chest and rising over top of some Black player as he was about to do a 2 hand monster dunk? Probably not but I’m sure it’s out there somewhere. :)

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/devilsgirl00/ devilsgirl00

    YOU KNOW WHATS FUNNY, ALL THIS RACISISM DID NOT FLARE UP SO RAPIDLY UNTIL THE PRESIDENT TURNED BLACK. NOW NOT ONLY CAN THEY BLAME EVERYTHING ON BLACK PEOPLE THEY WANT TO MAKE A CHANGE SO THAT THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER BLACK PRESIDENT. IF HE CARED SO MUCH ABOUT BASKETBALL, COACH A TEAM, BUY A TEAM TEACH THEM WHAT THEY NEED TO KNOW, WHAT “FUNDAMENTALS” THEY LACK AND CALL IT A DAY. IGNORANCE HAS NO COLOR, BUT AS HIS WIFE SAY FACTS ARE FACTS AND THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE IGNORANT ARE WHITE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/donjrjuan/ donjrjuan

    lol white can jump but i guess only with each other ?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/xcalibur55412/ xcalibur55412

    You know what are the most hilarious things about these arguments? The fact that all of you are getting mad that the “Whites” are talking about the “Black” people; and you all are sittin’ there talkin’ crap about “White” people. I’m of mixed race…My father is Black and my mother is White, so I know the feeling of being slurred ’cause of the color of my skin. But, with that said, it didn’t make it just or give me the right to go out there and do what was done to me. That’s pure ignorance in it’s true form.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DJNASTYNUKL/ DJNASTYNUKL

    HE IS RIGHT. THE GAME SHOULD BE BACK TO ITS STANDARD BEFORE BEING SATURATED WITH ALL THOSE BLACKS……..BORING AS HELL !!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DJNASTYNUKL/ DJNASTYNUKL

    I GUESS NEXT WILL BE A WHITES ONLY TRACK TEAM….AGAINST AFRICANS AND JAMACIANS……… AND THEY WILL WIN………..YEA RIGHT

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/aaronaroc/ aaronaroc

    LISTEN PEOPLE!!! THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE SHOULD NOT CARE ABOUT, AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM. SO WHAT IF THEY WANT TO HAVE A ALL WHITE LEAGUE. WE DON’T HAVE TO ALWAYS WANNA BE A PART OF EVERYTHING THEY DO. THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE NEED TO FIGHT FOR, BUT NOT EVERYTHING WHITES DO; IF THEY WAS HAVING A ALL WHITES JUMP OFF A BRIDGE DAY GET IN LINE, I THINK SOME OF OUR PEOPLE ARE CRAZY ENOUGH TO THINK THAT THEY NEED TO BE A PART OF THIS AND FEEL LEFT OUT.
    WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND WATCH HOW THE CAUCASIAN SAY “HEYY WHAT ARE YALL DOING!!! LET ME SEE” AND LET THEM FEEL MORE LEFT OUT AND WE COME TOGETHER LIKE THE CHINESE. I’M JUST SAYING……

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/waynelaboy/ waynelaboy

    THIS IS GOOD. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER WE ARE GOING TO BE SEPARATED FROM WHITES, BECAUSE IT’S THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS AND SPECIES. LET THEM HAVE THEIR OWN LEAGUE, SO WHAT! which of us is going to be foolish enough to try and martin luther king our way into one of their ballgames except toms and cheap prostituting groupies. let them have their LEAGUE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/waynelaboy/ waynelaboy

    P.S.- dr. naismith went to africa and found the natives playing a game with a basket trying to put a ball in through the basket that had a hole in the bottom of it with their knees or feet then came up with the game of using your hands to put the ball through the basket so he DOES NOT have an original idea, and THAT’S YOUR BLACK hisTORY MOMENT. NOTE THE LOWER CASE his(ALL PUN INTENDED)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/landob/ landob

    That all white basketball team would be the “loosinest” (I made a word up) team around. That was one of the major downfalls of segregation. So called major league or all-pro white teams were being decimated by blacks and other minorities to a point where talent and skill could not be denied based on skin color.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/INTLLVR2000/ INTLLVR2000

    I think it’s a good idea they should have their own league. I won’t watch it but those who would like to should. I think it’s more of a competition thing, most whites can’t compete with Blacks and that’s why there aren’t many whites in the NBA. I don’t think them wanting to have their own league is racist, but I do think some of the comments made about Black players were…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pimpininamajorway/ pimpininamajorway

    I really wouldn’t care if this league started. I’d never watch it on TV or attend an exhibition. My issue is with this comment. “I know there’s bad apples of every color, but like my wife says, let the numbers speak for themselves,” he continued. “Turn on the local TV news and who do you see on there? Facts are facts.
    The fact is the majority of criminals are white. If you do a search of sex offenders and child predators they make up 85 percent. Is that to say all white people are pedophiles and rapists? Just because the media reports it so extensively doesn’t mean black people are typically criminals and thugs. It’s all propaganda. Then these people always want to complain about affirmative action and he’s trying to start an entire league for caucasians because they can’t jump as high or move as fast or in other words they don’t deserve the job. People like him always want to bar black people from competing because he knows in the end no matter what claims are made to the contrary white people are not superior to anyone at anything.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TURYHGH25BOYZSWJIHOJOWT6BU T.S. Lennon

    Jerry West and many other league managers are blocking the white players out of the NBA. Talk about racism – well, West and his ilk take the cake. They do not want white players in their League. One has to ask WHY??

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TURYHGH25BOYZSWJIHOJOWT6BU T.S. Lennon

    Jerry West and other league officials are Black Listing white players from competing in the NBA. Talk about racism – West and his ilk take the cake – they are blatantly racists. I’d like to ask West if he could play in the NBA today?? I really don’t think he could.

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