Straight retro. DePaul, bring these outfits back! With longer shorts.
Thanks, @timring3tv! This is, in fact, an afrotastic photo.
“DePaul’s Curtis Watkins and Dave Corzine in the 1975 NCAA Tournament. Afro-tastic!!!”
Also noteworthy that they’re playing Virginia Military Institute, who last went to the tourney in 1977. Also, the Keydets won this game and went to the Elite Eight.
I love watching the NBA but I love watching the post-game fashion just as much as I like watching the games themselves (I know, I’m a modern man). But I have to say that this fashion moment takes the cake. Is it me, or does it seem like Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook are the first NBA duo to try conceptual fashion? This is clearly some kind of father/son costume role-play right? I mean, it looks like Durant is taking Westbrook to work with him.
Doin It In the Park - the NYC streetball documentary by Bobbito Garcia & Kevin Couliau is coming this summer. And I am crazy excited about it.
Rowan Barrett (#24 in red) playing for St. John’s in the 1994 Big East Tournament. Both photos: AP/ Bob Child.
Johnnies alum Rowan Barrett is now assistant general manager/executive vice-president of Canada Basketball’s senior men’s program - their national side. Steve Nash was named GM of the program. It’s an exciting time for Canadian hoops, with a lot of young talent emerging from the collegiate ranks.
There is so much wrong with Kerr’s analysis because he comes at it from a fundamentally flawed perspective: the one that is ultimately “what’s best for the NBA?” We should expect this from a former NBA GM and current analyst (and if rumor is to be believed, wants coach and GM titles the next time he returns to an organization.)
The real question that needs to be addressed when we talk about increasing the NBA age minimum is why professional athletes are being made to sit in the collegiate pipeline. You can say they can go abroad, play in the D-League, but we all know that for all the work of NBA scouting departments, the eyeballs and draws are in college hoops.
Footnotes 3 and 4 illustrate Kerr’s lack of facility with this argument, because 3 is all about how he cannot identify with freshmen whose lives are affected by a higher age minimum — he’s white, 6’3”, well-off, and not as skilled as an Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving, LeBron James, or Kobe Bryant, and goes on to talk about how those were great years for him at Arizona. Poverty and a need to make money do not register for him.
(Never mind his comparison arguments for Kobe, Garnett, LeBron, and Dwight Howard going to college. Part of Kobe’s legacy is being drafted by Charlotte and shipped to L.A. right out of high school, because if he’d gone to Duke for two years to play under Coach K, he’d have been a star but he probably wouldn’t have been able to develop under the watch of Phil Jackson into that kind of title-winning guard.)
Footnote 4 is basically excusing the legal and moral argument because the NBA is a business. Yes it is: one with an anti-trust exemption, a cartel, and for those advantages it should be held to higher standards since it has no competition and wields a weak and underdeveloped minor league (the D-League.)
The NBA should invest real money into the D-League and stop relying on college hoops to make its stars. Institute an MLB/NHL-style rule into the draft: if you declare and are drafted, you can go to the D-League or go play a few years in college.
I have to say, these shirts are pretty hot from the Brooklyn Nets. Taken from the Basketball Jones.
DJ Kennedy made his NBA debut for the Cleveland Cavaliers, scoring 12 points on 5/6 shooting in a loss to the Washington Wizards. More from the Rumble - and congratulations to DJ Kennedy.
The Tumblr outpost for the St. John's blog, Rumble in the Garden.
