Oh Bwoy! 40 Years Already

the years were 1978 and 1979 in the NBA..an epic see-saw battle between the Seattle Super Sonics and the Washington Bullets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_NBA_Finals

https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/...ack-roots/

HOCKEY with Darryl Sittler, Borje Salming , Wayne Gretzky, Guy LaFleur, Bobby Clarke et al

was my Fan spectatorship back then !

Quote:the sweetest basketball I ever lived..among my best memories those two seasons way back when.

Dennis Johnson and Jack Sikma are my 2 all time fave basketball players..Lenny Wilkens my greatest coach.

andthe Bullets Bobby Dandridge, "The Truth'', was the player I loved to hate most. Dandridge was great but he was in the way of the team I loved..Seattle. he and the Bullets beat Seattle the year before. I couldn't wait for revenge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sikma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Wilkens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dandridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Unseld

ketchim post=371587 Wrote:HOCKEY with Darryl Sittler, Borje Salming , Wayne Gretzky, Guy LaFleur, Bobby Clarke et al

was my Fan spectatorship back then !

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

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 !

Sittler and Salming

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

https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/...ack-roots/

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 !

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 ~

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