New Rule*
by Sonny Bunch | July 23, 2008
If your NBA franchise loses one of its stars to a foreign league, you get contracted.
Honestly: This kind of blows my mind. I get that the Hawks are terrible, and that Childress will probably make more money in those three years in Greece than he would have in the States. But c’mon. This is just embarrassing. For the entire city of Atlanta. What an awful, awful place, both for sports and (apparently) to live in. How about we just contract that entire city, leaving nothing but the airport and a Coca Cola bottling plant?
*Courtesy of one Jonathan V. Last
3 Comments - add your own
Joe — July 23, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Atlanta, a city incapable of selling out playoff baseball games, and site to the Olympics 12 years ago. I remember almost nothing about those Olympics other than the bombing and subsequent wrongheaded “investigation” of Richard Jewell.
Yes, I think we can safely contract Atlanta.
Sonny Bunch — July 23, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I remember watching the Olympic torch when it passed through Stafford. An Olympic biker was on it, and he blew through town at about 30 mph. We were all very excited.
Joe — July 24, 2008 at 6:51 am
I had the joy of watching one of my professors carry the torch down Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. That he was the legendary Chuck Stone had something to do with his assignment and my appreciation.