Friday, December 9, 2005

Once you Go White...

White Guy NBA All Star Game:

   This would be a living museum of how the sport would have looked if it weren't for the ground-breaking done by men like Fritz Pollard and Jackie Robinson. I'd work it into the Dunk Contest/3 Point Shootout part of the festivities.

   The big problem for me would be whether to count Hispanic guys as white or not. Charlie Sheen would say "yes," but Mariah Carey may have a different view.

   I'll leave it to my audience, and I'll just go by looks (i.e., Nene isn't white, while Manu Ginobili is).      

   This was more difficult than it sounds. Some solid white big man talent is sitting on the waiver wire for Bob Sura's inclusion, but we needed guards. Likewise, only some creativity on my part prevented the East from being an entire team of huge European centers.     

   In case you ever wondered about this, only the injury-prone status of Andrei Kirilenko prevents one from fielding a White Bread NBA fantasy team. There also seems to be a Petrovic-sized hole at White Boy shooting guard.         

 

My Eastern and Western Squads:

   EAST:  

C- Zydrunas Ilgauskas

F-Raef LaFrentz

F- Austin Croshere

G- Kirk Hinrich

G- Jason Williams

  

Bench:

Zaza Pachulia, Primo Brezec, Darko Milicic, Sarunas Jasikievicus, Andrew Bogut, Nened Kristic, Hidayet Turkoglu, Kyle Korver      

 

WEST:  

C- Brad Miller

F- Dirk Nowitzki

F- Andrei Kirilienko

G- Manu Ginobili

G- Steve Nash

Bench: 

Mehmet Okur, Bob Sura, Wally Sczerbiak, Marko Jaric, Pau Gasol, Troy Murphy, Keith Van Horn, Peja Stojakovic

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Monponsett,
nice entry MOnponsett!
hugs, nat

Anonymous said...

Do mixed players like Jason Kidd and Mike Bibby not count??  Just need a ruling.  

And I think you need to have the best white players in the history of the NBA to be coaches for those teams.  Have Larry Bird coach the East and Karl Malone coach the West.

-Sportz
SportzAssassin.com

Anonymous said...

I think there's a good chance that the comish would do something like that to get people to watch...... he might even have the black men against the white men i wonder who would win.......
LeBron James PG                         Steve Nash PG    MVP
T-Mac            SG                         Brent Barry SG  (heck i don't know)
Vince             SF  <allstar team    Peja            SF    bad season
KG                PF                         Dirk            PF
SHAQ              C                         Vlade Divac  C (in prime)


I wonder if it would be a blowout......

Anonymous said...

I think pau gasol gets the starting spot