What’s the buzz from the world of sports? Here are some items that will have people talking:
1
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar might be right. In fact, he is right. If there are going to be statues of great Lakers outside of the Staples Center in Los Angeles, one of those statues should be of him.
Not just for his great career with the Lakers, but also his time in Los Angeles in college as the best player in UCLA history.
But what we cannot get over is the fact that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar himself was the one who was complaining about the lack of a statue.
Who does that?
Who walks around believing that whatever they have accomplished in life warrants a statue being made in his own honor? Yikes. Which statue would be bigger, the 7-foot-2 giant, or the statue of his ego?
2
It was reported that the first game of the Heat-Bulls series earned a record-high rating for an NBA game on cable/satellite television. Not surprisingly, the cities of Miami and Chicago topped the ratings.
The city with the third-most viewers? Cleveland. Presumably to root for the Bulls. Or, more direct, to root against the Miami LeBrons.
That’s some serious hate.
So here’s some love from the Northwest. When Houston and Orlando played in the NBA Finals, the Portland-Vancouver market, if we recall, was No. 3 in the ratings. Back then, this market was rooting for one particular player.
Clyde Drexler got his ring, and Rip City was happy for him.
