Hood Rider (How by signing Jabari, Krzyzewski finally got a temporary ghetto pass)

"Hey dawg since you bout to bounce, I need you to hook me up with some
of yo boyz!"

Albert Einstein once said, “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Sigmund Freud got real on a boy and shouted, “Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.” Then Lao Tzu, the ancient Chinese philosopher, pulled the table cloth from underneath the dishes with, “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

Well playa…things are flowing naturally forward down in Durham with freshman sensation Jabari Parker bouncing out of Duke to enter the NBA draft. The consensus All-American from Chi-town decided that one year was enough and leaving Duke is what it is playboy.

I just remember that it wasn’t that long ago that ole Mike Krzyzewski was adamant about not having “One and Done” cats on his roster. Now he’s seen his fifth roll out like Ludacris on him. It all started with Corey Maggette then Luol Deng, Kyrie Irving, Austin Rivers and now Jabari. Like the big homie Lao said, “Reality is reality.” In order to win you gotta have the studs to do it and if they’re “One and Done” cats then so be it.

Yeah I remember hearing the stories of when the good ole boyz down in Alabama didn’t want brothers on the football team. “Over my dead body” some of these clowns would scream from the roof tops. Then Bear Bryant got on a plane and went to LA after coming off of a 6-5 season in 1969 and sat down with the boyz from USC. Bear wanted to have some brothers on his team but knew that the good ole boyz in Tuscaloosa wasn’t gonna buy that even if it was on sale playboy.

At the time, the Trojans were a fully integrated team and Bear wanted them to come to Alabama the following year in 1970 to play in front of the Alabama faithful at Legion Field. He figured that if they could see the talent up close and personal they’d be ready to buy even at full price.

Sam Cunningham, a brother, came in totting the rock on them. He rushed for 135 yards and two touchdowns on just 12 carries. As a team they rushed for 559 yards that day which was almost 300 yards more than the Tide. They beat the brakes off of ‘em 42-21 and the face of Alabama football has never been the same.

All it took was for Mike Krzyzewski to see that in order to compete he had to conform to what everybody else was doing. You can’t be in the hunt without having the proper ammunition bruh. You can't go to a gun fight with a water pistol. You can holler all that you want about not taking any “One and Done” cats but if you want to still be relevant you already know what you need to do.

That’s why Bobby Knight isn’t coaching today playboy. He was adamant about not conforming to the ways of the world and could no longer compete. Yes, he probably has forgotten more about the game of basketball than 98 percent of the duns coaching today. However, he could no longer compete with the elite programs because they had “One and Done” cats and he didn’t. It was just that simple.

Ask Major League Baseball if it made sense to accept reality on April 15, 1947? Now you need and freakin’ interpreter to holler at a boy in the league. You have to conform in order to compete. You need the best to win and it doesn’t matter where they’re from, what they look like or how long you’re going to have them. You better figure it out.

One of the major reasons that most folks from the hood hated Duke for years was because Mike never went to the ghetto to get players. Well, he killed two birds with one stone with Jabari. He grabbed a “One and Done” from the heart of the side south of Chicago. It doesn't get any more hood than that bruh. Chicago Simeon? You already know! As far as I’m concerned ole Mike gets a temporary ghetto pass now. That means that the fellas in the barber shop still have the authority to take it back if he doesn’t use it within the next year or so. I'm just sayin'!

It takes a real cat to admit that he was wrong but it takes a REAL G to actually show up in the ghetto where he already knows that he’s not welcomed and ride out with the hood’s finest (talent and grades). Stop me when I start lyin’!

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