Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Brooklyn, New York Knicks, Politics | Tags: Basketball Politics, Stephon Marbury
LET’S MAKE STEPHON MARBURY THE FIRST ALL STAR TO PLAY 0 REGULAR SEASON MINUTES. YES WE CAN!
vote here, vote often, vote coney
Filed under: Bread City, Brooklyn, New York City, Photography, Poetry | Tags: 1990s Culture, Brooklyn Poetry, New York City Culture
suitcases packed with cigarettes
new sneakers sealed in plastic
men hustling umbrellas
hoping for the storm to break
photo by Bonnie Natko
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Michael Jordan, Video | Tags: 1980s NBA, Basketball History, European Basketball, Italy
Summertime ball in Trieste, Italy, land of weak backboards. Before Jordan could beat the Celtics, he still came correct. Notice that he is the only dude on the court without socks up to his knees.
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Poetry | Tags: Basketball Culture, Basketball Photography, Basketball Poetry, Native American Basketball, Sherman Alexie
It is just a game
we are told by those
who cannot play it
unless it is play.
For us, it is war,
often desperate
and without reason.
We throw our body
against another
body. We learn to
hate each other, hate
the ball, hate the hoop,
hate the fallen snow,
hate our clumsy hands,
hate our thirsty mouths
when we drink from
the fountain. We hate
our fathers. We hate
our mothers. We hate
the face in our mirror.
We play basketball
because we want to
separate love from
hate, and because we
know how to keep score.
– Excerpted from Sherman Alexie’s five-part poem, Why We Play Basketball
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Politics, Video | Tags: Barack Obama, Basketball Archeology, Basketball Politics, Kuwait
I LOVE THIS GAME MY COUNTRY
via Free Darko
Filed under: Basketball, Bread City, Politics | Tags: Barack Obama, Basketball Archeology, Basketball Politics, Pick-Up Basketball
Fans of athletic metaphors, take note: Barack Obama is a wily player of pickup basketball, the version of the game with unspoken rules, no referee and lots of elbows. He has been playing since adolescence, on cracked-asphalt playgrounds and at exclusive health clubs, developing a quick offensive style, a left-handed jump shot and relationships that have extended into the political arena.
- Jodi Kantor, The New York Times, 06/01/07
