We know a whole lot of brothers are supposedly drilling j after j in gym after gym (thought you knew--the urban playground is dying out as a consequence of urban disinvestment and budget cuts). We know a FEW brothers are actually making it into the league.
The Fab Five was at Michigan while I was there (Juwan Howard is the real deal...cool as the other side of the pillow. The rest were straight too, but Juwan was cool.). I remember thinking...can't ALL of them make it into the league. The three that do (and it was pretty much known that webber, rose, and howard would get paid. i thought king would too...but jackson was a tweener with no real j or handle) should pay the law school tuition for the two that DON'T. and THEN the two that don't should represent the three that DO.
i didn't say this aloud. and blogs didn't exist then. nobody would've listened to me anyway.
but SOMEBODY GOT THE PICTURE. See the guy that represents both Bryant AND Maguette? Rob Pelinka?
White lawyer. Went to school with me too. Played ball with the Fab Five. Could shoot the lights out...but he knew he couldn't make it into the league.
Now he's got the next best thing.
This is the type of strategic thinking that we've somehow got to transmit to large numbers of young men and women. Some of us get the picture already. We need to increase those numbers.