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Oh Bwoy! 40 Years Already

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15 May 2019 09:26 - 15 May 2019 09:52 #371586 by mapoui
the years were 1978 and 1979 in the NBA..an epic see-saw battle between the Seattle Super Sonics and the Washington Bullets

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_NBA_Finals

www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/sports/k...bar-goes-back-roots/
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15 May 2019 09:30 - 15 May 2019 09:31 #371587 by ketchim
HOCKEY with Darryl Sittler, Borje Salming , Wayne Gretzky, Guy LaFleur, Bobby Clarke et al

was my Fan spectatorship back then !
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15 May 2019 09:39 #371588 by mapoui



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sikma

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Johnson

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Wilkens

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dandridge

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Unseld

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15 May 2019 09:43 #371589 by mapoui

I cud not get my soul into Hockey but those two made it interesting for a while. but the time I really got into Hockey was with the OIlers and Gretzy... and the goalie Grant Fuhr

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15 May 2019 09:43 #371590 by ketchim
I was caught up in HOGTOWN Toronto Hockey

BasketBall had NOT reach Toronto as yet !

so I had no interest in the Amricans and dem sport !

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15 May 2019 09:45 - 15 May 2019 09:55 #371591 by mapoui
Sittler and Salming
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15 May 2019 09:48 - 15 May 2019 09:54 #371592 by mapoui
I knew basketball from home. Trinidad had lots of basketball..and a lot of basketball connections to the USA

Lew Alcindor aka Kareem Abdul Jabbar is part of the Alcindor family of Trinidad..the top member of which was lawyer, magistrate Francis Alcindor

www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/sports/k...bar-goes-back-roots/
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16 May 2019 10:05 - 16 May 2019 10:06 #371629 by ketchim
Our tall boys were all Intellect and Academics.
Guyana Afros wanted to be Doctors and Lawyers
and their sport of choice was the colonial CRICKET !

we did not even compete in Track and Field
BUT produced great writers and theorists from our Afro segment of SIX races !
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16 May 2019 10:08 #371630 by ketchim
My only explanation to friends from Jamaica and Trinidad :

We got a different TRIBE dropped off from the slave ship
IN Guyana ~

The academic/intelligent Tribe .....

we can debate this but research will be necessary ~

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16 May 2019 11:10 #371631 by mapoui
well you right..it is a cultural thingy.

TT's with the ac academics..everybody. but is opportunity. lots of titty people doh have a chance man! none at all

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