B-ballers,
What’s good? This holiday weekend is going to have your MannofStat in b-bal withdrawal. There are no games for me to break down on this idle Thursday (9/2/10). To some, the grilled hot dogs were priority. Na mean?
Since the ballers will be off until next week, I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge my fellow point guard, “The Blueprint” of our league, Earl J. Richmond, aka E (D.O.E, 5/6/2005). Like me, E was a true basketball fiend. Our league was his brainchild. Real talk.
Chris Gregory, aka “Bigg Dogg” said it best: “Death row basketball is taken seriously. A lot of pride and enthusiasm has been integrated in this long process from day one. Earl J. Richmond, aka “The Blueprint,” put our b-ball tournament together in 2000. It has since expanded and evolved into an organized, bonafide event.”
I most definitely agree. This b-ball tournament is the real deal. It has been a template of positivity. A morale booster in the most trial some of times and it has also been a teaching mechanism, not only to the prisoners, but the prison administration as well. Death row b-ball has been good for all of us. Somehow, way, shape or form, it affects anyone who encounters the enthusiasm, the euphoria or the mere camaraderie of its existence. That’s what’s up!
Our league represents perseverance and improvement. The b-ball lingo, the team names and the player’s monikers are all characterized by how the ballers compete in the league. I mean, “Pistol” Pete Maravich earned his moniker because he was one of the deadliest shooters ever. Without a doubt, he was one the greatest to ever pick up a basketball, but the name “Pistol” was just that, a name. Feel me?
Julius “Dr. J” Erving earned his nickname for the way he operated on the court, not in the emergency room. Believe me when I say that death row basketball is the embodiment of positivity. The public shouldn’t be alarmed by death row basketball. The real concern is how the SBI’s allegiance to prosecutors rather than truth and justice is sending so many ballers to death row. Na mean?
Good look E. You’ve changed the lives of many in your short existence. R.I.P Dunn.
Nuff said,
MannofStat
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