Candy Stripes (Why Indiana is the most delusional basketball program inAmerica)

This is ancient history to a high school recruit now bruh!

When I go to Bloomington my first stop is always to Nick’s on Kirkwood to get some of those fire Stromboli’s. While I was eatin' the sweet pickles under the buffalo head these cats at the next table start arguin' over being delusional. Conan O’Brien said, “When all else fails there’s always delusion.” Carl Sagan, the famous astronomer, dove at ole boy and said, “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” Then Richard Dawkins, the English ethologist, shut the building down with, “A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.”

They must have been talkin' about Indiana Hoosier basketball playboy! IU is by far the most delusional college basketball program in America. It’s even more delusional than Notre Dame Football. Why? Because at least Notre Dame can use the excuse that boyz just don’t want to come up and play in the cold weather. So that’s why they can’t consistently compete for a national title.

IU on the other hand, is sittin' in the middle of Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory and can’t buy a cavity. Why? Because of the delusion that exists in B-town. Don’t get it twisted pimp, I’m an IU grad! Disco Brisco for life, the Flame Room, Mother Bears, Hooligans on Thursday nights and all that bruh 'til the wheels fall off! So this isn’t coming from some cat that doesn’t understand the culture or should I say the foolishness that goes on in B-town!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Boyz kept Bobby Knight around way too long bruh! He literally stayed about 10 years after the party was over and nobody had to guts to just push him out of the door. Then he became the dun that got drunk and started knockin' over priceless artwork so they finally had to escort him out of the front door.

The problem was, they fired the dun 2 weeks before the start of the 2000 season and just threw ole dull Mike Davis into oncomin' traffic and he was like a deer in headlights. The good ole boys down there didn’t want him but he handcuffed them and won 21 games in his first year. Then he turned around and pistol whipped them with his pants down and took them to title game the followin' season. So they couldn’t fire him as much as they still wanted to.

Then they ran the best recruiter that the program has ever had out of town in just two quick seasons because of some freakin’ text messages! Now the same rule that got Kelvin Sampson fired isn’t even a rule anymore. It’s perfectly legal to do what he was doing now. So how much of a violation was it if boyz don’t even care to enforce it anymore? Murder is still Murder even 100 years later bruh! They don’t take rules like that off of the books but spittin' in the park may be excluded.

How in the world do you think that Eric Gordon changed his mind at the last minute to come to IU? He was on his way to Illinois!! But those freakin’ phone calls and text messages kept him at the crib pimpin’! Let me put it where the goats can get it playa! Everybody that’s winning is cheatin' to some degree. There are so many freakin’ rules in the NCAA handbook that you can’t keep them straight and most of them you can’t control.

Even when the great Bobby Knight was there boyz were cheatin'! Now he probably wasn’t but all of the merchants in town sure were because I saw it with my own two eyes. If a player walks into a restaurant and eats for free that’s an NCAA violation. Well boyz were violatin' all over town all of the time. That’s cheatin'!! So stop actin' like IU has more morals than duns at Kentucky, Duke, UNC etc. etc.etc.! They just keep climbin' through Indiana's window and taking their women. If it were an elite program that wouldn't happen EVERY freakin' year!

Here’s my IU fan in his candy stripe warm-ups screamin’ at the top of his lungs, “That’s not a big deal! It’s only a free meal!” Those freakin’ text message weren’t a big deal either! Boyz just wanted Kelvin gone and that was the scapegoat. He was the best thing for IU because he proved that he could land the big fish. You can’t win titles without havin' studs all over the floor and IU keeps fishin' in retention ponds looking for sharks and pullin' out guppies.

Every year you hear the same thing, “Man next year IU has the best recruiting class in America. Boy next year they’re gonna be really good because so and so is comin'. Wait ‘til next year because they got Joe Blow and Johnny Good are comin' to town.” When in reality for at least the past 27 or 28 years the best players in the state have been givin' IU the finger and goin' elsewhere.

Am I lyin’? Sit down playboy and check out this list of duns that grew up in the state and shot spit balls at IU, signed with other programs and went to the league: Rick Fox (UNC), Glenn Robinson (Purdue, POY), all three of the Plumlee brothers with Mason and Miles already in the league and Marshall on deck (Duke), they missed on two of the Zeller brothers, Tyler and Luke (UNC and ND), Rodney Carney (Memphis), Josh McRoberts (Duke), Zach Randolph (Michigan State), Greg Odon (OSU) Mike Conley (OSU) George Hill (IUPUI) Shawn Kemp (UK, JUCO), Sean May (UNC), Jeff and Marquis Teague (Wake Forest and UK) Courtney Lee (Western Kentucky), Eric Montross (UNC), Luke Harongody (ND), Robbie Hummel, E’Twan Moore amd JaJuan Johnson (Purdue), Gordon Hayward (Butler). I could go on but why? And I didn't even mention all of the cats that played at big time programs that didn't go to the league like Chris Thomas (ND) and Jason Gardner (Arizona)! Then Gary Harris (Michigan State) Glenn Robinson III (Michigan), Mich McGary (Michigan) were drafted last summer (2014)!

Here’s the IU fan again, “Man most of those guys wouldn’t have even qualified to get into Indiana.” Really? It’s a state school you idiot! If they could get into the other schools I’m quite sure they could get into IU. John Thompson wasn’t turnin' boyz down at Georgetown in the ‘80’s and that was a private school pimpin’! Why? Because he was tryin' to win! So don’t give me the academics excuse because they let me in and I couldn’t even read until after a graduated from that piece!

Think about all of the studs that are in college right now that passed on IU bruh! Brandon Dawson's at Michigan State. Zach Irving is at Michigan right now. Mr. Everything, Tre' Lyles, is at Kentucky bout explode unto the scene in a few weeks bruh! Crean could win a national title if he could keep boyz at home! Just think of how dominant of a program IU would be if they had just signed half of these cats!

Sure, IU’s got five banners blowin' in the wind down in Bloomington but they’re ancient history. The last time they won a title was 1987 bruh! That was 27 years ago. That means that boyz that are darn near 30 years old have never even seen them win a championship and you still think that it’s still an elite program? Put the pipe down, take the needle out of the your arm, wipe the powder off of your nose and back away from the table slowly!

Until you find a cat that can recruit and you’re willin' to get out of his way. You’re gonna keep gettin' subpar talent and gettin' the doors blown off of you by cats from Indiana that went down the street to play for somebody that really has an elite program. Stop me when I start lyin’!

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The Turncoat (The REAL reason Rashard McCants is snitchin' on UNC)

"On some real talk playboy...my bread is low and I gotta eat!"

Bryant H. McGill, the best-selling author, once said, “Within the hearts of men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.” Ernie Banks hit boyz off with, “Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.” Then Richard E. Grant, the famous screenwriter and director, was on some real playa stuff when he said, “I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.”

Sounds like Rashard McCants needs to sit down with these cats and learn a thing or two about loyalty playboy. Ole boy completely threw the UNC basketball program under the bus on Friday. He alleged that while he was in Chapel Hill that he didn’t have to go to class and that tutors wrote his papers for him and Roy Williams knew about everything.

OK pimpin’, tell us somethin’ that we don’t know. Boyz have been playin’ ball makin’ these universities millions of dollars a year for decades and boyz have barely gone to class. That happens all over the country. The real question is why are you tellin’ it?

Everybody is up in arms about what ole boy said but nobody is zonin’ in on why ole boy is turncoatin’ the program that got him what he came to get. Did he win a national title at Carolina and get drafted into the NBA? You darn right he did! So he got the job that he came to North Carolina to get right? So what’s the problem pimpin’? Since nobody has the capacity to break it down for you let Ya Boy holla at you for a minute.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! This is what happens when a boy is broke and will do anything for some bread. Call “Outside the Lines” and drop a dime on UNC for the right price. You already know that McCants had to make the call because that dun is irrelevant to ESPN. He ain’t even in the league bruh. So why would they be lookin’ for him? He’s no story at this point. Let me tell you who this dun really is though.

Rashard McCants was the 14^th overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft to the Minnesota Timberwolves. He only lasted four years in the league. Then they dumped him down to the D League to the Texas Legends in Frisco, Texas for two years from ’09 to ‘11. When that didn’t work out he’s been floatin’ around the world playin’ in dull leagues tryin’ to make a livin’! Then he went back to the D League for a year in ’13 and now he’s with some team in Brazil.

So because it didn’t work out for him he’s mad at the world and that jealous monster is rearin’ its ugly head and attackin’ the very duns that helped him get to the NBA in the first place. UNC got him where he was tryin’ to go but he tricked it off not them or Roy Williams.

"Can you believe this...!"

Let me put it where the goats can get it playa. It’s like a boy sellin’ dope with the homies until he gets enough bread to get out of the game. He starts a legitimate business and it goes well for four yours. Then it completely falls apart because of his lack of work ethic and passion. Now ole boy can’t get back on his feet. So he goes to the Feds for the right hook up and tells them about how he and his boyz did their thing in the streets. Here’s the problem though, all of his homies little brothers are on the block now and he’s tellin’ the Feds about the entire operation and how it goes down.

Now am I justifyin’ boyz sellin dope? Not at all playa! I’m just givin’ you an example of how this dun turncoated on the family with no regard to how it will affect the cats still in the game.

Oh you ain't from the streets? Let me give it to you this way then. Alfred graduates at the top of his class from the business school and gets a high payin' job with IBM. He's rollin' for four years but gets fired because he's more into what IBM can do for him than what he can do for IBM. Now he bounces around the industry for years but he can't get the same bread he was makin' with the big dawgs. Now he's flat broke so he calls Forbes Magazine and tell them that his Economics professor did all of his work the semester he graduated so that he could graduate on time.

Should players go to class and do their own work? Absolutely! Should the university hold them accountable for bein’ students first? Absolutely! However, if the university wanted them to be students first they wouldn’t be sendin’ these duns all over the country playin’ ball several times a week. They wouldn’t be closin’ TV deals for hundreds of millions of dollars annually to market and promote the school so that more non-athletes would enroll. They darn sure wouldn’t be sellin’ a boyz jersey in the bookstore for $75 a pop and auctionin’ off their shoes and other gear for profit if they wanted them to be students first or students second or third! And that’s the edited version!

Rashard McCants is a sucka because he bit the very hand that fed his punk butt. And that’s definitely the edited version. Now all of the kids that are at UNC right now are gonna be put through the rinse cycle and they were in elementary school when he was at Carolina. That’s dull playboy!

In my O’Jay’s voice, “For the love of money!” a boy will do anything. Some cats will sell out their own families for some bread and that’s exactly what McCants did. So I think that I can speak for every hood, click, faction and set in America! Rashard McCants! Your ghetto, rural and suburban pass has been revoked! Stop me when I start lyin’!

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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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What's Really Real (The REAL reason boyz like Shabazz Napier should get more than 3 meals a day)

"I'm ready to eat now bruh!"

Ezra Miller, the famous actor, once said, “I’m super down with being irresponsible. I’m just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.” Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher, broke it down like this, “It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uniformed.” Then Margaret Chase Smith, the former U.S. Representative, put the brakes on the joint with, “Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.”

Well…nothing is as irresponsible as sports journalists or sports talking heads that will speak to an audience of millions about a subject that they know nothing about. Yesterday ESPN’s SVP & Russillo proved to the world just how naive they were when it came to boyz being broke out here. My problem isn’t with them not knowing, my beef is with them not trying to know. Knowledge is power playboy.

On Tuesday the NCAA’s legislative council approved the deal to expand the meal allowance for all athletes. Basically the move would allow Division I schools to provide unlimited meals and snacks to all athletes including walk-ons. This came on the heels of Shabazz Napier telling boyz during the NCAA Tournament before playing Iowa State that sometimes he goes to bed starving. Then after winning the national championship and the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player Award it came back up.

So these cats were on the air yesterday questioning whether ole boy or any athlete that would suggest that they were starving was a real statement or not. And also if cats are just trying to jam the NCAA up or not. Well let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Everybody didn’t grow up with parents that have money enough to send to them while they’re in school playboy. You work for the largest sports entertainment company in the freakin’ world. I’m quite sure you run into enough athletes and former athletes that grew up in the ghetto that could tell you what’s really real out here.

However, since you haven’t taken advantage of your resources let me put something on your head playa. I’m gonna put it where the goats can get it. When these coaches show up in the projects and slums all over America and tell Big Momma that they’re gonna take care of her baby boy she's naïve enough to believe that. It’s not uncommon for her to sometimes to have 4 or 5 other kids so she believes every word that this dun is telling her and in her mind that’s one less person that she has to feed and clothe.

Don't ask me where his daddy is bruh because 80% of these cats don't have one. I'm just telling you what's real. I'm not trying to figure out why his freakin' daddy isn't around. That's another talk show playa.

So when the athlete shows up on campus there aren’t any care packages coming from his address because the coach told momma that he’s got it. Everything that the kids from the slums and ghettos gets comes from the clown that promised Big Momma that he was gonna take care of him.

So if the NCAA says that he can only feed him three times a day then he’s only gonna eat three times a day. Only those blessed few like the kids with parents that could send them spending money could order pizzas at 3am or buy a pop on the yard between classes etc. College athletes need to eat 6 or 7 times a day bruh. Their metabolism is running 100mph all of the time.

So unless somebody is giving them food or money it only makes sense that the dun is starving in the middle of the night. But cats like Russillo and SVP that had parents that could keep bread in their accounts all semester don’t understand that a boy could be starving.

I grew up in the hood and walked on at Purdue and there were boyz on the team that not only couldn’t eat but didn’t have clothes either. My parents could send me money but some of my boyz folks couldn’t. At that time walk-ons couldn’t eat at the training table and the dorm café closed at 6:30pm. Sometimes practice wouldn’t be over until after 6:30. So guess what? Boyz couldn’t eat dinner unless they had parents that could send them money. We finally talked Ole Lady Johnson in hair net in the café into staying open longer for us because there were times when 4 or 5 of us would be at Burger King across the street from the complex anteing up for a couple of value meals. Then after a few days of that during the week, we all were broke and couldn't eat.

There where cats from Florida on the team that had never in their lives even owned a coat. It’s against NCAA rules for the school to buy it, so we had to take them to the mall and ante up for a freakin coat bruh. If you walk into the athletic department on any big time school’s yard you’ll run into athletes dressed in full school issued gear. Do you realize why? Because for most of these cats that’s the only gear that they have playboy.

When coach so and so told Big Momma that they were going to take care of her baby she didn’t understand that he was going to gain 20-25 in a year or so because of the weight program etc. She doesn’t have money to replace his wardrobe. So guess what? He no longer has any clothes that he can fit.
So now it's easy to spot all of the athletes walking to class because they're the ones in the school issued gear. Why? Because it’s against NCAA rules for the school to buy them new clothes and Big Momma can’t afford to. It’s also against the rules for him to get a job on campus. But these talking head cats will blast a boy like Terrelle Pryor for selling his own jersey when 50,000 people show up at Ohio Stadium rockin’ his joint that they bought in the school’s bookstore and schools like Ohio State are making more than $100 million annually off of these cats.

So if you’re gonna have a mic in your face and call yourself a journalist at least do your homework before you start questioning whether a boy is being authentic in what he’s saying. The responsible thing to do would be to get in the ride and show up on campus and holler at some of these cats. Or better yet, go to the crib with some of them and you’ll understand why a boy is leaving school early to go the league or why he took the money from a booster.

If you dared to show up in the ghetto and laid your eyes on the stove door laying wide open to heat the house because the electricity is cut off you wouldn’t be so quick to discount a boyz stomach. Maybe if you saw a kid wearing the same pants and only being able to change his shirt a couple times a week or a boy at home eating “wish sandwiches” you’d have a better understanding of what's really going on. For those of you that don’t know what a wish sandwich is it’s “I wish I had some meat on this joint” playboy!

Everybody’s momma can’t send them toothpaste, lotion and hair oil pimpin’! So just because you see a boy on national television playing at a big time school doesn’t mean that his world is fine because you told him that he could go to class for free. All I’m saying is, don’t comment on stuff you haven’t spent the time to research because you’re not just talking to your boy in the studio but you’re shaping the opinions of the millions of naïve duns listening to you that don’t understand what’s really real either! Stop me when I start lyin’!

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The Most Important Game Ever Played (How some brothers in ChuckTaylor's changed the world)

Texas Western 1966 National Champions

I stopped by this little hole in the wall joint in the hood to get a bite to eat and to fill out my brackets in peace. Then all of a sudden these cats started arguing about diversity. Desmond Tutu said, "Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among us?" John F. Kennedy stood up and said, "If we cannot end our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity." Then the great Maya Angelou shut the building down with, "It's time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
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As we kickoff  the greatest two weeks in sports, I'm reminded of the greatest game ever played. On March 19, 1966 the University of Kentucky and Texas Western University met in the University of Maryland's Cole Field House for the national title. There was very little hype surrounding the game, in fact playboy, it started at 10 p.m.! None of the major networks carried the joint, and it was televised only on a tape-delayed basis in several American cities. Director James Gartner produced the highly successful film "Glory Road" about this historical game in 2006 that made diversity stand up and say hello.

If you check out the dull grainy film closely everything is lilly white, from the crowd, to the NCAA officials, the referees, the coaches, the cheerleaders and almost all the duns on press row. High up in the nose bleed joints, boyz from Kentucky were waving a Confederate flag as the Wildcats' five white players took the floor. On some real talk that's what boyz did in 1966!

Well let's keep it real of all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Depending upon where you live now duns are still waving that joint. It's nothing for me to pull up at a light anywhere in rural Indiana and see a boy rockin' an extra large flag on the back of his pickup truck. But that's neither here nor there.

Then five brothers showed up in some orange hip huggers and white Chuck Taylor's to start for Texas Western (Now Texas El Paso). "Until that moment, at the height of the civil-rights era, no major-college team had ever started five black players in an NCAA championship game. In fact, until Texas Western coach Don Haskins did it earlier that season, no major-college team had ever started five blacks in ANY game. For the first time that night, on the edge of the Mason-Dixon Line, a major American sports championship would be contested by one team that was all-white and another whose starters were entirely black."(1)

If you haven't seen the movie and you're a die hard sports fan stop lyin' to boyz that you're a die hard sports fan playboy. No.3 Texas Western beat the No. 1 ranked Kentucky Wildcats 72-65 to win the national title. After that ball game colleges and universities all over the south and for that matter, all over the country, started flying all over the joint looking for black players.

In 1966 white folks insisted at least one white starter was necessary for success. Boyz were still on some ole slavery type thinking in saying that black athletes needed the steadying hand of a white teammate. Otherwise, games would dissolve into  madness and chaos.

Yep...the game HAS dissolved into the madness and chaos of boyz runnin' and gunnin' and duns dunkin' at every 3rd minute that has made Sports Center and every other 24 sporting news channel successful. Could you imagine watching a basketball game without some brothers on the floor? It would be like a boy taking you to McDonald's and ordering a plain hamburger with nothing on it and the invention of fries is still 10 years away. It's like eating gumbo without seafood or eating ribs that were boiled.

 Now don't get it twisted, great defense is still the key to winning championships but you gotta have some spice when you're eatin' Big Mommas cookin'. Yes, that game in 1966, just one year before I was born, changed the landscape of basketball and the world for that matter forever. These young boyz take for granted that major college teams are predominately black now. Next time you take your kid to Micky D's make them order that dull hamburger without the fries and ask them how much they like it.

I'm thankful that guys on the Texas Western team endured the racism of the time and pushed in the door to prove that brothers could compete and win at the highest level. We always knew it but they showed these racist clowns out here that you can't play the game without us pimpin'! God demands diversity! If he didn't he wouldn't have had Mathew, John and Luke write the same story from different perspectives playboy. That's real talk!

That demand for diversity has given way to the opportunity for other blacks to go on to college and earn degrees that for many, without sports would have been simply unattainable because of the mere cost of the education. As I look around the country at our major institutions there are so many African American athletic directors, coaches and administrators that have come up through the ranks by having the opportunity to play intercollegiate athletics.

Yes, in my opinion that was the greatest game ever played because it opened the door to greater diversity on college campuses all over this country. Schools that wanted to win were forced to recruit black players even when they resisted, but winning became more important. Isn't God good the way he'll force your hand?

Sure, we enjoy watching our kids succeed on the athletic fields of play. However, more importantly it's given them a sense of pride in who they are and what they can accomplish if they are passionate about what they're doing. Many times we just look at sports as something that's fun to play but in my opinion it's more than that. I wrote a Hot Joint entitled "Why All Children Should Play Sports" that talks about the lessons that are learned through these trivial games and how sports can transform lives.

Who would have ever thought that a basketball game in 1966 would have changed the world? Well... it did and I'm thankful for it. I'm thankful to all of those people that came before me that endured the bigotry in this country and were still able to succeed. It's inspiring to know that even when the odds are stacked against you God will make a way if you would just trust and believe in him. Thanks again. Now lets play ball!!!! MARCH MADNESS IS HERE!!!!!

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Bout It (The REAL reason Cincinnati head coach Mick Cronin is a hypocrite)

"You want some if this bruh? I got it all day playboy!

Tennessee Williams, the famous playwright and author, once said, “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!” Charles Spurgeon, the 19^th century British preacher, gave it to us like this, “Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.” Then William Hazlitt, the late 18^th and early 19^th century English writer, got real on a boy and said, “A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.”

Cincinnati head coach Mick Cronin couldn’t front on us Saturday when the real cat jumped out of the birthday cake with the full Bearcat thong, heels, sexy mask and all on playboy. He got “bout it” real quick when referee Teddy Valentine got in his face in the second half of their 51-45 loss to Connecticut.

Ole boy was so fired up and ready to scrap that even his own players and assistant coaches had to restrain him. Now was the ref completely out of line for getting in his face? Absolutely! Should Cronin have gotten fired up as a result of the disrespect? You darn right! And that's the edited version bruh!

So let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! My problem isn’t with Cronin snappin’, it’s with him being a hypocrite. In December of 2011 Cincinnati and Xavier were playing the Annual Crosstown Shootout and his players got into a fight with the duns from Xavier with like 9 seconds left in the game.

Both teams came into the joint beefin’ about something that started on a local radio show and then spilled over to Facebook. Neither the coaches nor the refs took control of the game as boyz were talking crazy, pushing and shoving the entire time. Any hood dweller or former hood dweller could see that it was about to explode because you’ve got teams full of kids from the ghetto.

Where I’m from if the refs or coaches see that boyz are a little chippy early on they call a timeout and let everybody know that this ain’t that. Whoever steps out of line tonight is going home early. Then all of the woofin' is over and the game goes off without a hitch. They'll just wait and scrap after the joint is over in the parking lot.

So when it finally popped off Cronin was the main cat after the game show boating for the press saying how embarrassed he was and that he was gonna throw boyz off of the team etc. Talkin’ about how he couldn’t believe that his team acted like that and so on and so forth when he went to the ghetto and got every one of them. So cats like Yancy Gates, Chekih Mbodj and Octavius Ellis were suspended several games.

Now I was cool with boyz gettin’ suspended because they’ve got to learn how to control themselves in crazy situations. This ain’t the ghetto playboy. It's big time college basketball.

However, when three years later the same dun that was blasting his players about actin’ a fool and embarrassing him and the program makes the statement, “Where I from you don’t get in somebody’s face.” sounds like he’s operating under the same rules his players were operating with. It’s all good but be consistent big playa or should I say Lil' playa. Don't tell your players to walk away because they've got on a uniform but since you've got on a suit you can go straight to the ghetto on a boy? You're sending mixed messages.

Don’t pick and choose when you’re gonna be the disciplinarian and when you’re gonna be "bout it bout it" because you look like a hypocrite the next time you try to tell a boy he's wrong for gettin' it in! I’m just sayin’! Stop me when I start lyin’!

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Candy Stripes (The REAL reason Indiana is the most delusional programin America)

The delusional IU fan: "Man we can live off of these forever!"

When I go to Bloomington my first stop is always to Nick’s on Kirkwood to get some of those fire Stromboli’s. While I was eatin' the sweet pickles under the buffalo head these cats at the next table start arguin' over being delusional. Conan O’Brien said, “When all else fails there’s always delusion.” Carl Sagan, the famous astronomer, dove at ole boy and said, “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” Then Richard Dawkins, the English ethologist, shut the building down with, “A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.”

They must have been talkin' about Indiana Hoosier basketball playboy! IU is by far the most delusional college basketball program in America. It’s even more delusional than Notre Dame Football. Why? Because at least Notre Dame can use the excuse that boyz just don’t want to come up and play in the cold weather. So that’s why they can’t consistently compete for a national title.

IU on the other hand, is sittin' in the middle of Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory and can’t buy a cavity. Why? Because of the delusion that exists in B-town. Don’t get it twisted pimp, I’m an IU grad! Disco Brisco for life, the Flame Room, Mother Bears, Hooligans on Thursday nights and all that bruh 'til the wheels fall off! So this isn’t coming from some cat that doesn’t understand the culture or should I say the foolishness that goes on in B-town!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Boyz kept Bobby Knight around way too long bruh! He literally stayed about 10 years after the party was over and nobody had to guts to just push him out of the door. Then he became the dun that got drunk and started knockin' over priceless artwork so they finally had to escort him out of the front door.

The problem was, they fired the dun 2 weeks before the start of the 2000 season and just threw ole dull Mike Davis into oncomin' traffic and he was like a deer in headlights. The good ole boys down there didn’t want him but he handcuffed them and won 21 games in his first year. Then he turned around and pistol whipped them with his pants down and took them to title game the followin' season. So they couldn’t fire him as much as they still wanted to.

Then they ran the best recruiter that the program has ever had out of town in just two quick seasons because of some freakin’ text messages! Now the same rule that got Kelvin Sampson fired isn’t even a rule anymore. It’s perfectly legal to do what he was doing now. So how much of a violation was it if boyz don’t even care to enforce it anymore? Murder is still Murder even 100 years later bruh! They don’t take rules like that off of the books but spittin' in the park may be excluded.

How in the world do you think that Eric Gordon changed his mind at the last minute to come to IU? He was on his way to Illinois!! But those freakin’ phone calls and text messages kept him at the crib pimpin’! Let me put it where the goats can get it playa! Everybody that’s winning is cheatin' to some degree. There are so many freakin’ rules in the NCAA handbook that you can’t keep them straight and most of them you can’t control.

Even when the great Bobby Knight was there boyz were cheatin'! Now he probably wasn’t but all of the merchants in town sure were because I saw it with my own two eyes. If a player walks into a restaurant and eats for free that’s an NCAA violation. Well boyz were violatin' all over town all of the time. That’s cheatin'!! So stop actin' like IU has more morals than duns at Kentucky, Duke, UNC etc. etc.etc.! They just keep climbin' through Indiana's window and taking their women. If it were an elite program that wouldn't happen EVERY freakin' year!

Here’s my IU fan in his candy stripe warm-ups screamin’ at the top of his lungs, “That’s not a big deal! It’s only a free meal!” Those freakin’ text message weren’t a big deal either! Boyz just wanted Kelvin gone and that was the scapegoat. He was the best thing for IU because he proved that he could land the big fish. You can’t win titles without havin' studs all over the floor and IU keeps fishin' in retention ponds looking for sharks and pullin' out guppies.

Every year you hear the same thing, “Man next year IU has the best recruiting class in America. Boy next year they’re gonna be really good because so and so is comin'. Wait ‘til next year because they got Joe Blow and Johnny Good are comin' to town.” When in reality for at least the past 27 or 28 years the best players in the state have been givin' IU the finger and goin' elsewhere.

Am I lyin’? Sit down playboy and check out this list of duns that grew up in the state and shot spit balls at IU, signed with other programs and went to the league: Rick Fox (UNC), Glenn Robinson (Purdue, POY), all three of the Plumlee brothers with Mason and Miles already in the league and Marshall on deck (Duke), they missed on two of the Zeller brothers, Tyler and Luke (UNC and ND), Rodney Carney (Memphis), Josh McRoberts (Duke), Zach Randolph (Michigan State), Greg Odon (OSU) Mike Conley (OSU) George Hill (IUPUI) Shawn Kemp (UK, JUCO), Sean May (UNC), Jeff and Marquis Teague (Wake Forest and UK) Courtney Lee (Western Kentucky), Eric Montross (UNC), Luke Harongody (ND), Robbie Hummel, E’Twan Moore amd JaJuan Johnson (Purdue), Gordon Hayward (Butler). I could go on but why? And I didn't even mention all of the cats that played at big time programs and didn't go to the league like Chris Thomas (ND) and Jason Gardner (Arizona), etc.

Here’s the IU fan again, “Man most of those guys wouldn’t have even qualified to get into Indiana.” Really? It’s a state school you idiot! If they could get into the other schools I’m quite sure they could get into IU. John Thompson wasn’t turning boyz down at Georgetown in the ‘80’s and that was a private school pimpin’! Why? Because he was trying to win! So don’t give me the academics excuse because they let me in and I couldn’t even read until after a graduated from that piece!

Think about all of the studs that are in college right now that passed on IU bruh! Gary Harris is at Michigan State along with Brandon Dawson. Zach Irving, Glenn Robinson III and Mich McGary are all at Michigan right now. Crean could win a national title with these five and Plumlee last week! Just think of how dominant of a program IU would be if they had just signed half of these cats!

Sure, IU’s got five banners blowing in the wind down in Bloomington but they’re ancient history. The last time they won a title was 1987 bruh! That was 27 years ago. That means that boyz that are darn near 30 years old have never even seen them win a championship and you still think that it’s still an elite program? Put the pipe down, take the needle out of the your arm, wipe the powder off of your nose and back away from the table slowly!

Until you find a cat that can recruit and you’re willing to get out of his way. You’re gonna keep getting subpar talent and getting the doors blown off of you by cats from Indiana that went down the street to play for somebody that really has an elite program. Stop me when I start lyin’!

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Young Thunder Cat (How Marcus Smart screwed his teammates & coaches)

"Dang bruh! I wish I could get that one back!"

William James, the 19^th century philosopher and psychologist, once said, “Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” Confucius says, “When anger rises, think of the consequences.” Then Robert Louis Stevenson, the 19^th century Scottish poet, got boyz attention with, “Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”

Well ole Marcus Smart sat down sooner rather than later to a table full of those joints on Sunday a day after shoving a Texas Tech fan during a loss in Lubbock on Saturday. He was suspended for the next three games for his actions. He’ll miss the Texas, Oklahoma and Baylor games.

What blew my mind on Sunday was the amount of duns on social media that were caught up in what the fan said as opposed to what Smart did in response to what was said. Was the fan dead wrong and needed his butt whooped for saying whatever he said? Absolutely! Should his season tickets be revoked? You darn right! And that’s the edited version playboy.

However, the entire sports world isn’t talking about the fan today, they’re talking about Marcus Smart. The fan isn’t trying to get drafted bruh! He isn’t trying to improve his game either. He isn’t even trying to make the NCAA tournament. The fan isn’t trying to put himself into a position to make easy money with endorsements down the line but Marcus Smart is.

In my Big Momma voice, "Marcus better take care of Marcus before Marcus get's himself into a lot of trouble."

So whatever ole boy said wasn’t worth being suspended for the next three games and having to deal with the embarrassment of the last couple of days. All of these young thunder cats that I’ve talked to since the incident have completely been focused on what the fan said like that was more important.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! That ain’t the first nor the last time ole Marcus is gonna run into some racist cat during the course of his lifetime. Let me put something on ya head playboy. You can’t jump bad every time some cat says something crazy to you. Otherwise, you’re gonna be fighting everyday of your life and nobody is gonna want to fool with you if you can't control your freakin' emotions. Like I told you in the Hot Joint entitled, “The Wish Factor” on yesterday Big Momma always said, “The penitentiary and cemetery is full of cats that didn’t want to be disrespected.”

I guess I can throw in the unemployment line too. We all know the fool that can't keep a job because every time somebody pisses them off they're ready to fight. Well good luck with that playa. Is it comfortable down at the mission bruh? And guess what? Somebody is gonna piss you off down there too.

Think about this pimpin’! Oklahoma State has lost 5 of 6 games and now four straight! Smart is the whole freakin’ team playboy and with him being out for the next three they’re sure to lose those. So by the time he comes back there’s the real potential of them having lost seven straight. Not to mention that they still have No.8 Kansas and No.16 Iowa State still on the schedule. Can you say, “Oklahoma State's not making the NCAA Tournament this year playboy?”

In hindsight, stepping to ole boy and shoving him wasn’t really worth it now was it? Not only did he screw himself but he screwed his entire team, coaches and the program. Also every time they bring up the name Marcus Smart during the pre-draft conversation guess what tape they’re going to show playa? Not the joints of him ballin’ these boyz out here but the joint of him pushing some old fart that means absolutely nothing to him.

Listen up all of you young thunder cats! If you’ve got aspirations of being great at anything you’re going to run into some haters on your way to the top. The key is to not let them keep you from accomplishing your goals. If they know that by saying something crazy to or about you will derail you, they’re coming at you every time. It's a set up bruh! Keep your eyes open for it.

Now on some real talk let me ask you, was pushing ole boy worth the consequences regardless of what was said? At the very least playboy you gotta live up to your last name! I’m just sayin’ and stop me when I start lyin'!

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The Wish Factor (Why Marcus Smart put all the homies in a bad situation)

"C'mon dawg! You gone get us killed in this joint!"

My homeboy Royce Bradley always says, “Life is a thinking man’s game.” Albert Einstein gave it to us like this, “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” Then C.S. Lewis, the famous novelist and poet, shut the building down with, “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”

Well on Saturday night ole Marcus Smart not only didn’t think but he definitely didn’t think less of himself and not at all about his teammates. With 6.2 seconds remaining in what turned out to be a loss to Texas Tech, ole boy was trying to block Jaye Crockett’s dunk attempt. When he fell out of bounds some clown fan said something crazy to him. Instead of Smart thinking he just reacted and shoved the guy.

Now on some real talk, the fan probably said something real crazy to him that was completely unwarranted. So I understand in the heat of the moment that in his mind it made sense to go at him. However, my hood survival instincts tells me that he was nuts to even step to ole boy in that situation.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Did the fan say something crazy! Sure he did! Why else would Smart turn around, go from 0 to 60 in a split second and go at him! Did Smart put himself, his teammates and coaches in a bad situation? Absolutely he did!

Growing up in the hood has taught me several things and survival is at the top of the list playboy. One thing you learn in the ghetto is that things can pop off in a heartbeat. By pushing ole boy he could have ignited a riot in the joint and Texas Tech fans could have stormed the floor on him and his boyz. Now it’s suddenly 15,000 on 15 and those aren’t good numbers I don’t care what kind of new math you’re using.

Should a boy get the brakes beat off of him for throwing a cup a beer on someone? Absolutely! Should Ron Artest have gotten up and went at that fan in the Palace? No way! Why? Because once he went at him he forced everybody that was in the ride with him to fight their way out of the joint.

You can’t be in rival gang territory throwing matches into paper homes regardless of what a boy says or does to you. You always have to be in survival mode. “If I do this…this could pop off!” If you swing a boy in his hood there's alway a good chance of you not getting out of there alive.

The only reason that that joint didn’t explode last night was because it was on a college campus.

They don’t serve alcohol at college venues and the rest of the duns sitting there couldn’t afford to get kicked out of school. Guess what playboy? They were THINKING! That’s why Smart and his boyz got out of the joint without a scratch.

Sometimes you’ve got to be smarter than that and just walk away. No pun intended playa. Big Momma always said that the penitentiary and the cemetery are full of cats that didn’t want to be disrespected.

Had that game been at a neutral site in a big city somewhere like at Madison Square Garden or something like that where they serve alcohol it would have gotten ugly because that oil would have triggered some fools to go at ole Marcus. Why do I know that? Because I grew up in the hood and I’ve seen boyz die for less.

Did you see the panic in his teammates faces trying to get him off of the court bruh? They already knew that it was brewing but luckily there were no G’s in the building. The last place in the world Ron Artest could have swung on a boy was in Detroit! The joint was full of Master P’s that was Bout it Bout it that night!

You’ve got to understand that 99.999% of the cats that started squabbin’ with the Pacers that night didn’t even know the cat that threw the beer and would have beaten the brakes off of him had he hit them too. Some cats just have the “Wish Factor” and are always looking for a fight because they care nothing about going to jail.

The cat that was killed a few weeks ago at the movie theater for texting his babysitter made one critical mistake. He reacted to a fool sitting behind him that had the "Wish Factor" telling him to stop texting. Once he got up and started jawing with the old man he put himself and his wife in the middle of a war zone. Then he threw his popcorn at the dun. Does that justify the ole geezer shooting and killing him? Not at all and he should spend the rest of his life in jail too!

However, it shows those of you that didn’t grow up in the hood just how fast things can pop off. If ole boy had just gotten up, taken his wife by the hand and moved to some seats on the other side of the theater he’d still be alive today. If Marcus Smart had just gotten up and ignored that fool regardless of what he said he would only be dealing with an “L” today instead of all of this foolishness.

Now he’s a young intelligent cat with a bright future and I know that he’ll learn a valuable lesson from all of this. So I’m still gonna ride with him because only suckas bail on a boy when he makes a mistake. I’m just gonna put the big homie Royce in the front seat with him so he can always hear him say, “Life is a thinking man’s game.” Stop me when I start lyin’ playboy!

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Do Yo Thang! (Stevens to Celtics)

"They gone give me what?"

Ben Franklin said, “To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.” Ralph Waldo Emerson got up and said, “The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” Then Robert H. Schuller, the retired televangelist,  shut the building down with, “High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams comes true.

After six years at Butler Brad Stevens is leaving for greener pastures playboy literally! The Boston Celtics have made him an offer that he couldn’t refuse; head coach of the most historic franchise in the history of the NBA! Before we even talk turkey on this one bruh, a 36 year old cat that loves to coach the game of basketball is offered an opportunity to lead the Boston Celtics? Are you kidding me? Who wouldn’t take that job? That’s a coach’s dream bruh!  

The Celtics have won more NBA titles than any other franchise in the history of the league at 17. You can’t be mad at this young coach for wanting to jump into the water on that one playa. Now let’s talk turkey! They offered him a 6 year deal worth $22 million! That’s $3.6 million per pimpin’! That’s more than 3 times what he was making at Butler. It’s a no brainer.

Here’s my roof top screamer again, “Brad Stevens has no loyalty man! He just left those kids high and dry for some money! What kind of crap is that?” It’s called taking advantage of an opportunity you freakin’ idiot! And there is no such thing as loyalty in business and professional sports! If Brad Stevens had started losing at Butler they would have ran his butt out of town real quick.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! He did them a huge favor by staying this long. When a boy takes a mid-major program to back-to-back national championship games in 2010 and ’11 and sticks around he was as loyal or as crazy as you can get. I wouldn’t have been mad at him for bouncing after the 2010 season playboy. Do realize how many schools offered this dun a job and for major bread? He had every right to leave for a big pay day then but he stuck around.

Here is this fool again screamin’ from the roof, “How many college coaches succeed in the pros anyway? He’s gonna fail miserably and come crawling back to the college game just wait and see.” See, this is the definition of a hater right here bruh!

Boyz that sit around with absolutely nothing on their resume’ talking about people that are willing to take chances to increase their ability to be even better in their careers are suckas! How is Brad gonna ever find out if he can coach in the NBA if he doesn’t try? I hate jealous underachieving cats that sit on the sideline with their mouths open. In my Lil’ Kim voice, “All that “crap” you kick, playa hatin’ from the sideline, get your own “stuff”, why you ridin’ mine?”

Let’s say that Brad fails in the NBA, he can always go back to the college game and be successful just like ole Rick Pitino. He went to Boston, nose-dived and went to Louisville and hasn’t looked back. How’s that working out for him playboy? It is what it is.

 The fact that this cat is only 36 years old and is coaching in the NBA is unbelievable. Give the man props for waiting on the right opportunity to bounce because he could have stayed at Butler where he was king until he retired. However, overachievers are always looking to better themselves and their situation. Congrats to Brad Stevens!  All of the real playas out here support you 100%. In my Big Momma voice, “Do yo thang baby!”

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Ready or Not!

"Let's do this! MAAAN!"

A Yiddish Proverb says, “A half-truth is a whole lie.”  The famous Dutch writer, Multatuli, gave it to us like this, “Two- left-handed gloves don’t make a pair.  Two half-truths don’t make a truth.” The author, Minna Antrim, hit boyz off with, “An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.”

Now that the NCAA Tournament is over and Louisville has gone to the crib with the hardware boyz are starting to announce their plans to leave school early to go to the NBA. The crazy thing is everybody and their momma has an opinion about it. The problem I have with those so-called expert opinions is that boyz are spittin' foolishness.  The cats that are talking aren’t making sense including Charles Barkley. Now normally I’m all in with Chuck but this time he’s giving the brotherhood half-truths playboy. In hood terms he's talking crazy!

I do agree with him when he says that guys leaving school early is hurting the college game. Fact!! He also says that many of these same cats aren’t always prepared to play in the NBA. Fact! Then he goes on to say that boyz should stay in school for those reasons. That’s when the freaking train comes off of the tracks playa.

Is it the player’s fault that the NBA is offering them jobs to make millions of dollars at 18 and 19 years old? You sound like a fool telling a kid to stay in school and he can make $4.6 million in year one like Michael Kidd-Gilcrist coming out of Kentucky did last year as the No. 2 pick or $2.6 million like Andre Drummond did coming out of Connecticut as the No. 6 pick.  It’s asinine to tell a kid that he shouldn’t take the freaking job if it’s offered. Yes it's hurting the college game but the kid doesn't care about the college game bruh! He's in it for himself! He's not a fan!!!

The rookie contracts have changed with the new CBA which makes it a 2 year guarantee with two additional years as the teams option. So a boy could get cut after two years if in fact he isn’t ready but I’m still trying to figure what the problem is? Unless you can tell me where else he’s gonna make millions of dollars playing a freaking game then he made the right decision. Even if he only plays two years!

Everybody’s not gonna be a stud in the NBA playa. Everybody’s not gonna play for an extended period of time.  Somebody’s gotta be a superstar, somebody’s gotta come off of the bench and somebody’s gotta sit that joint. So if you gotta be him, I say why not! The Yiddish must have been reading my joints because they kept it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st too by saying, “If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoon full of water.”  If he's gonna get cut, he’s gonna get cut whether he stays one or four years playa!  Staying in school longer isn’t going to change his DNA because the cat that is better is going to still be better!

 Sitting on the bench in the NBA sure is better than starting in college working for free and making somebody else a boat load of money. If you come out early you can pay for your own education. That’s if you even want or need it. Y’all do realize that everybody doesn’t NEED a college degree to become successful in this world right?

The same Smart Phone or Windows joint you’re reading this article on was invented by some genius without a degree. I’m just sayin’! You do realize that people that have the ability to play professional sports are geniuses? There are only 450 NBA jobs in the WORLD bruh! If he’s good enough to fill one then he’s ready for the NBA. They aren't just going out on the street giving just any cat an NBA contract. 

Boyz get confused when they hear, “He ain’t ready!” Being ready to play and being ready to get paid are two different things pimpin’! Was it Kwame Brown’s fault that the NBA was dumb enough to draft him in the 1^st round? Not at all! He took the job that was offered. An old timer once told me that you are always worth what people are willing to pay you. So for duns to get on these sports radio shows and say that a cat should stay in school is nonsense because if somebody offered them $4.6 million to clean toilets for a year they would have dropped out of school too.

The hypocrisy of it all makes me nauseous! Barkley and any other cat out there knows full well that if the NBA had offered them $4.6 million to come out of school after their freshman year they would have been the first person in the green room drinking all of the Kool Aid. So stop it! Just stop it!

Boyz act like they can't remember Big Momma struggling back at the crib trying to take care of younger siblings and seeing an opportunity to move them out of the ghetto. Just because you got rich playboy doesn't mean that other cats aren't still struggling out here. You got your bread so how are you going to tell another boy not to get his money just because they offered it to him two years earlier. "Sound like a hater mayne!"

Every kid in the first round last year is making at least $1 million. The top 11 or making a minimum of $2 million and the top 5 are making at least $3.3 million.  So unless you’re doing some different kind of math stop talking crazy playboy. Remember when ole boy Quick in Harlem Nights asked the Champ was he ready? He said, "Wa Wa Weady? Sh Sh Sh%$ Yeah! I'm Weady!" That's these young boyz!

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Free What?

"Honoring Ware? I call it taking advantage of him playboy!"

King Abdullah II once said, “Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.” Bill Clinton gave it to us like this, “There will always be bad guys out there in the world who will try to take advantage of people’s vulnerabilities.” Old man Mr. Willie down at the shoe shine joint just said, “Aight young fella, don’t take no wooden nickels out there!”

Since the beginning of time boyz have been taking advantage of folks. You can go back as far as 92 BC during the Roman-Persian conflicts then travel through time to the early American slave trade on to big time college athletics. If there’s ever an opportunity to take advantage of people some dun will find and exploit it.

Louisville’s Kevin Ware shattered his leg last week in the Regional Final as he and his Cardinal teammates were attempting to get to Atlanta this week for the Final Four. Adidas and the University of Louisville have been selling shirts all week with ole boy’s number 5 on the joint. It reads, “Rise to the Occasion” with Ware’s No.5 substituted for the “S” in “Rise.”

Now they stopped selling the joints on Friday after they’ve already made a grip. For y’all that are sitting here dazed and confused, that’s hood for a boat load of paper, scratch, cheese, scrilla, dinero or bread depending upon where you’re from! These cats told you and I that they were honoring Ware by using his number. Big Momma calls it taking advantage of my baby because they clearly didn’t cut him in on the action. If they would have he’d become ineligible to ever play again. How’s them apples?

There is already an existing law suit pending against the NCAA and EA Sports for using the likeness of players without their permission filed by former UCLA Bruin Ed O'Bannon. Schools have been selling student-athletes jerseys in the bookstores for years and now a cat can even buy a video game and be himself on the joint! How cool is that? Not very, once he figures out that he’s not getting paid for it. But the NCAA will tell you and I that it’s all about the student-athlete!

In my Big Momma in extremely large curlers and that dusty old house coat voice, “You right! It’s all about you making as much money as you can off of my baby and then finding somebody else’s child to take advantage of when you're done with mine!” Y’all can stop me when I start lyin’ playboy!

For the clown in the background that’s about to fix his mouth to say, “THEY’RE GETTING A FREE EDUCATION MAN!” First of all, somebody punch that dun in the eye for being dumb enough to even think that. Is it free? Looks like a whole bunch of work to me homie. Ask the kids that are about to play in this Final Four how many classes they’ve been to over the past two and a half weeks. Then look up the amount of bread that each school is pulling in as a result of the freaking tournament through outright payments from the NCAA and the ancillary products sold as a result of licensing agreements etc. We haven’t even began to talk about all of the bread the alumni is channeling the schools way because they’re winning right now.

 Then put your eye on the 14 year $10.8 billion contract that CBS and Turner Broadcasting inked in 2010 to televise the joint. Did I mention the $740 million that the NCAA gets as a result of all of this? It doesn’t sound free to me playboy! Sounds like free labor especially when you understand that a scholarship is nothing more than an absorbed cost to the university. It doesn’t cost the school any more money to teach a class if there are 400 people in the joint as opposed to 401! Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st!

If you’re a young stud out there and the opportunity presents itself for you to go the league NOW, you better pack yo bags pimpin'. There are no guarantees in life except the guaranteed bread in the NBA for a lottery pick at 3 years $10 million! Sign on the dotted line and keep your nose clean playa! If you get hurt they've got to pay you all of that bread!

Don’t let some clown tell you that you need to stay one more year in school to improve your game. Didn’t you see Kevin Ware shatter his leg without contact with another player? Every time you step on the floor there is the potential of suffering a major injury that could potentially end your career. Trust me! When you can't play anymore you are worthless to the university! Why? Because a regular student doesn't make the school any money. In my Jay-Z voice, "On to the next!"

The only question that needs to be answered is how much is the NBA willing to pay you right now? If that number is more than free then you need to bounce. You can always go back to school playa! School has been open for more than 2,000 years and in my Puffy voice, “It ain’t go-in no-where!” If you want a degree you can always pay for your own because you’ve got the bread to pay for it now.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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"Are you freaking kidding me?"

The Buddhist monk, Bidhidharma, that lived during the 5th century once said, “The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. greed, anger, and delusion.” The English ethologist and biologist, Richard Dawkins, spit this one to boyz in the barber shop, “A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.” My man Carl Sagan, the astronomer, shut the building down when he said this, “It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” For duns that can't follow the intellectuals we got Big Momma saying, "Boy you better wake up and smell the pork baby!"

The University of Minnesota fired Tubby Smith one day after they lost to Florida in the NCAA Tournament. The athletic director, Norwood Teague, while announcing the decision said that it was time for a “fresh set of eyes “on the program.

Now ole Tubby was 124-81 (.610) in six seasons at Minnesota and had been to the NCAA Tournament three of those seasons. That means that half of the time that he was there they went dancing. Keep in mind playboy, this is Minnesota! This is the same program that has only been to one Final 4 in the history of the freaking program in 1997. They’ve been to only 4 Sweet 16’s (’82, ’89, ’90, ’97) and two Elite Eight’s (’90, ’97).

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! The 1997 Final Four was forfeited due to NCAA sanctions because of academic fraud from ole Clem Haskins and Co running game. For all of my slow to comprehend duns out there in my Jed Clampett voice, “them boyz was cheatin’!” So that means that the freaking program hasn’t been worth a dime since 1990 pimpin’! It took them until 1972 to even make an NCAA Tournament appearance playa and they started playing basketball  up there in 1895! That's 17 years before GM started making the Cadillac homeboy! Shock value for all my boyz that like ridin' good!

But you fire a cat that has won more than 60% of his games? I keep hearing the clown in the background saying, “Well, they never finished better than 6th in the Big Ten and they were 46-62 in conference play!” You’re MINNESOTA for crying out loud! You play in the Big Ten with Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Wisconsin and Illinois! On bad years those duns are gonna have better players and teams than you. I don’t care if John Wooden was coaching and had assistants like Bobby Knight and Jerry Tarkanian chewing that freaking towel and paying boyz with Vegas money. The Gophers will always be the Gophers bruh!

That's like Indiana firing it's football coach for losing its bowl game bruh! Pick one, any one! All programs like that want to do is win 6 games just to go to a bowl. I mean, they're cool with going to the toilet bowl bruh! That's Minnesota basketball! All they can do is win enough games to go the Big Dance. On some real talk, they should be cool with going to the NIT every other year! Like Big Momma used to say, "You can't get blood from a turnip."

It’s like the group of bad chicks that show up to the club every Friday night. There’s one that never gets hollered at because she keeps hangin’ out with a group of amazons. Now she’s a solid 6 but nobody pays attention to her because she's always with a group of 8's, 9’s and 10’s! She’s cool with it because she knows her place in the pecking order of good looks. Now when boyz start looking for a wife she'll move up because they're looking for something more than looks but at the club it's all cosmetic.

Minnesota jumped off of the deep end bruh! It’s like a boy going home and asking for a divorce from his faithful and loving wife because he was at a party that Beyonce’ was AT! So he thought to himself that he deserves HER. She didn’t say high or even look in his direction but he said, “I deserve that one so I’m going after her.” Who’s Minnesota going to get to come to that dump of a program that’s better than Tubby?

He had a national championship and 6 SEC titles in 10 seasons at Kentucky and the only reason he showed up in the freaking arctic is because nobody wanted him. You gotta be smart enough to figure that out! Now with all of that coaching talent he was only able to win 60% of the time up there. Now that they’ve dove off of the side of the cliff they’ll forever be the big chick at the club that always squeezes into the same outfit that her girl that’s a size 2 has on. Boyz are laughing at her but she thinks she’s getting all of the attention because she's drinking for free because she's with the dime that cats are really trying to get with.

Minnesota on the low low is going after Shaka Smart because ole boy Teague was the A.D. at VCU when they hired him! That's cool but just say it. Don't try to run game on us because I can spot a hustle a mile away!

Why? Because I grew up around criminals and gangstas! For y'all that's checkin', they ARE two different species of human being. You can be a criminal without being a gangsta but you can't be a gangsta without being a criminal!

Now what's gonna happen when UCLA backs the truck up and makes Shaka an offer that he can't refuse? Or he decides not to leave at all! Minnesota is gonna end up with the big chick in the tight sun dress with the crooked wig on just like the Lakers!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport
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