Another reach

[mustang@gis.net (Michael A.DiZio)]

>gives them some hope that they are not playing in some backwards town
>that wants to stay in 1962, when things were great, black guys rode on
>the back of the bus, player's salaries were low and if you didn't like
>it you knew where the door was.  I mean, would it really be so damned
>terrible if the players felt like Boston was not 30 years behind the
>rest of the league?

> Find someone on this list who wants to go back to 1962. Has anybody said
>that? NO! Read the posts.Do you think not having the embarrassing mascots
>and dancing girls puts us behind the rest of the league? That's the crap
>that's bringing down the whole thing, a poor attempt to disguise the
>watered down action of today's N.B.A.  The rest of the league is behind us
>, just like in 1962, when the rest of the league was years behind the
>Celtics. Who drafted the first black player in those days?  Who had the
>first black head coach? In 1965,did anybody else have an all black
>starting five? The Celtics did. In the rest of the league, the black guys
>weren't even on the the goddamn bus. Don't bother trying to inject race
>into your pathetic arguments. You want a sideshow, go to a circus.