Cupcakes

"Yeah I know I was wrong but I'm bitter bruh!"

The Polish author writing in England, Joseph Conrad, once said, “They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.” Also the Polish-born American author Isaac Bashevis Singer broke it down like this, “When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.” The old sistas in the church kept it real by saying, “Baby, sometimes you gotta leave well enough alone!”

On Sunday the New York Times did a profile on ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Williams. During the interview ole boy threw his 2002-03 Chicago Bulls teammates under the bus by saying that cats were smoking weed before ball games and that they were on the bench high.

Let’s for the sake of argument say that they were. That was 10 plus years ago and what was he going to accomplish by telling the media that they were at this point? Now I don’t condone boyz getting high but to each his own. Sounds like a hater move to me bruh! This cat threw his career in the toilet by violating the terms of his contract by riding a motorcycle, crashing the joint and destroying his leg. Don’t let your anger for your mistakes attack other cats. Now boyz like the Knicks' Tyson Chandler have to answer clown questions because Williams was being a hater!

“Nah, I don’t know why he would say something like that,” Chandler said during the 14th annual Knicks Bowl at Chelsea Piers as part of the team's effort to raise money for the Garden of Dreams Foundation.

“I think that’s ridiculous that he would come out and say something like that. I don’t remember that, to be honest with you. And, it's just unfortunate that he would make that kind of statement about our team.”

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! I always thought that it was weak that Jayson Williams changed his name to “Jay” when he started the analyst gig with ESPN in the first place. Yeah, I know that the other Jayson Williams was going through the legal issues for shooting and killing the limo driver at his crib.

However, like the cats in the barber shop in Coming to America would say, “His momma call him Jayson Ima call him Jayson!” How do you let a boy talk you out of your OWN name bruh? His momma named him Jayson but Disney, the duns that own ESPN, told that that wasn't his name anymore! In other words, Tinkerbell told him that he wasn't welcomed if his name was Jayson.

The crazy thing is, he was a stud coming out of Duke so his name would have been able to survive any confusion because the other clown was about to get locked up and become irrelevant anyway. Now he's walking around being some other cat and Big Momma still doesn't know that that's her grandson on TV.

Now that he's the only Jayson out here, why not use your real name? It's not like he's an actor, singer, rapper or something and boyz need to make up names to appeal to the masses. Like Jermaine Dupri for example. His name is Jermaine Dupri Mauldin but he uses his middle name because it sounds cool! Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta goes by Lady GaGa because it sounds better on stage. This dun is a freaking analyst for crying out loud! His name could be Myron Johnson and it wouldn't matter as long as he knew what he was talking about. 

When he did that I always thought that he was suspect. So it doesn’t surprise me that he’d pull a stunt on the Bulls 10 years later. It’s like a cat telling the principal that all of the other kids broke into the fridge in the cafeteria and ate all of the cupcakes only because he didn’t get one.  

If Williams had been able to play out his career in the NBA we never would have known about the Bulls smoking weed 10 years ago. Stop me when I start lyin’!

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Jay Graves
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