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Re: Slam piece on Twon



Just for the record, if you're referring to me, the name is Dorine with a “D”.
“Norine” is a combination of my husband's name, “Norm” and mine.
Dorine

J Ozersky wrote:

> Slam magazine has a big feature on Antoine this month, besides featuring Ron
> in its "slamadamonth" centerfold.  For those of you who don't know about it,
> Slam is a hip-hop basketball magazine where they lay on phony slang so thick
> that you would think it was written by Norine Pratt after marathon viewings of
> Above the Rim and Menace II Society.  "Sup.  Baron is da mad point g," etc.
>
> anyway, if you can read a whole article of such stuff without throwing up,
> there's a long piece on Antoine which says that the young forward has been
> petitioning Slam to put him on the cover.  It says some nice things about
> antoine, calling him Scottie Pippen without the triangle offense. etc.  An
> interesting sidelight, although few on this list will be sympathetic, I think.
>
> Josh