LOL...SU, you are getting your ass handed to you bad.

Last I checked two decent tickets to an NBA game were $200-300, not including food and drink. I bet blacks, who are disproportionately poor, are not proportionately represented at NBA games, at those prices.

I said NBA fans didn't add a lot to the culture qua being NBA fans. What do they do, talk basketball? It doesn't have the same impact as a university or a symphony or a ballet, that run schools, do exhibitions at schools, heighten the community's cultural literacy.

We're having a barbeque and I took the kids for a long walk. But I have to do some work now. You?

LOL. When Rocky weighs in with one of these it's always a good sign. Rocky, how do you feel about paying part of Boozer's salary with your tax dollars?

SU, you are my brother and I love you.

Your homo-erotic avatar was what first caught my attention. Then I saw your pic and was smitten by the goatee.

It is this unrequited love for you, and really my unrequited love for everyone here, that compels me to again politely point out the following:

1. Yes, absolutely some teams get subsidies.
2. In that case, I see your point....perhaps the local govs should tend to more pressing civic matters first....clean up the schools, the local waterways, infrastructure, socialized sexology classes for frigid white male environmental attorneys with unsatisfied wives, etc...
3. You picked the wrong team and player for your cause. If you had referenced the outlandish salaries of your favorite players...Sue Bird, Recebba Lobo, and Chamique Holdsclaw, I would not have batted an eye.
4. You and I both know that Kobe does not make 30M. You basically made that salary up. I would venture to say that before yesterday's erroneous "30M" claim, you hadn't gotten anything up that high in ages.
5. Again in this post, you are trying to use hyperbole to prove a point...or in the alternative, you are a sexy dim bulb. "Every" employee of an NBA team? Seriously? That is your argument? Why single out the NBA? Why not jump on the DC pork bandwagon and follow the real dollars. How many Haliburton threads have you started?

You are down to your last dart, Helen. Maybe after this, you can try your luck at skeet shooting.

Happy Fourth to you, your wife (rowrrr!) and all the black people eating at your house today!

This is exactly what I mean.

Rocky weighs in once....with 1 sentence.....and you resort to thinly veiled references of condescension.

SU, try saying these words..."SORRY. I WAS WRONG."

You may find that they will serve you well in life.

I know you can say them. Or at least, I know you can make the O-shape with your lips.

It's clear to me that for you this whole debate has been about the Lakers. Don't touch my Lakers. What a limited perspective. How sad.

You raise a good point.

It is pretty pathetic when someone focuses doggedly on trivial minutae while ignoring the greater, more important message...

See you at Church on Sunday, brother*

*"brother" in the spiritual sense, not meant as a euphemism for black or African American.

One of these days you might want to pull those pieces of ego out of your ass that are clearly cutting off the oxygen to your brain and actually answer the question of how are we paying for their salaries and then actually SHOW the proof.

You've been asked time and again to show proof about what you're talking about, but are unable to. Give it a try and you might not look like such a buttfuck.

Thanks in advance.

Strictly speaking you're right. But the true market here is not a market for custo$ers (fans), it's a market for teams. For some of us, this debate is about values. Why are cities and states participating in this market? Personally, I'd rather see govwrn$ent in gambling. At least there's a return on investment.