RIP -- Consequential Person Has Passed Away

While college cafeteria food... Once upon a time on 1970 I asked Citizen Tom Paine's 5-times-great-granddaughter "what is that?" as she was dishing something out for me which was somewhere between a pork chop and a Hershey bar in both color and shape, and she replied "I don't know-- it comes in cans marked 'meat.'"

I went to the goodwill and got a hot plate the next day.

 

When I was in the military I bit into a fried chicken thigh in the Mess that was mostly raw. I couldn't bring myself to eat any for more than a yr.

 

Did she say all revolutions are not the same?

 

Deadhead and basketball hall of famer Bill Walton

https://apple.news/AGbCuoIj4Sd-1gNKt6mw8YQ

 

It’s mostly forgotten outside the Triangle area now, I think, but Walton’s senior year is the year Wooden’s steak ended. NC State beat them in double overtime in the semifinals. Back then, either because I was younger or sports fandom was different, State was my second favorite team. This is all to show my memory bona fides.

Anyway, when he lost that game, he was distraught about letting Wooden down and feared he would be remembered as a loser.

Ride that train, big man, ride that train.

 

The Mountain Man, 71, cancer.



"Said it costs a lot to win
Even more to lose
You and me buddy spent some time
Just wonderin'
Which to choose.
Goes to show, you don't ever know,
Watch each card you play, and play it slow
Wait until that deal comes round
And don't you let that deal go down."

"The compass always points to Terrapin."

 

Bill contributed a lot in his last years with the Celtics! We're all Greatful!

“Playing basketball with Larry Bird,” Walton once said, “is like singing with Jerry Garcia,” referencing the co-founder of the Grateful Dead.

 

RIP Bill Walton. I was never a Celtics fan but always admired Walton. He was such a interesting character, a larger than life figure and overall a really decent and empathetic human being.

 

Great story and Rick words were really moving....Indeed Bill Walton is unique.

Kareem statement....

Today I had to say goodbye to
a great friend that I will always miss….@UCLAAthletics @UCLAMBB @NBA pic.twitter.com/JIA3sORJgY

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (@kaj33) May 27, 2024

 

I always remember him as a broadcaster that was a fan first. He seemed to absolutely love life.

Did you know that years later, like decades, at summer basketball camp that Wooden was coaching on and Walton was present. Walton talked about how Wooden just turned to him, in front of the kids and said what's the first rule of rebounding and Walton said always assume the shot of miss. Walton could not believe that he still remembered it because he hadn't said it or thought about it in decades but in that moment in front of Wooden, it all came back.

 

Nobody regrets divorce.

 

In one article I read it said he played 468 or 486 games his whole NBA career. That’s basically just 6 seasons with a game missed here and there.

 

SO much this! I could not stand the Bird-era or Havlicek-era Celtics, tho I respected their talent, and emulated the Black players in the driveway against friends ("Jo-Jo White!" as I shot the ball). You know how Boston (the city) was back then, still may be, to some degree. Kobe getting Shaq out of LA after throwing the 2004 Finals made me cheer for my favorite team's rival against my favorite team because I didn't want to see him get another ring.

Liked Walton as a Blazer, just like I liked DJ as a Sonic. Could not stand either one of them as Celtics. DJ just looked a little bit too happy to be there, like a butler or valet instead of a grown-ass man coming to Boston with a ring.

RIP to him. A thoroughly good person, despite playing for the igliest

 

The one thing I liked about that era’s Celtics was the court side enthusiasm of the guys they had coming off the bench: Walton, of course, and in the years before that 85-86 team, M. L. Carr (who once said that if he gets traded back to the Pistons he would convert to Islam and change his name to Abdul Automobile).

 

Plus Kinston’s own Cornbread Maxwell!

There’s a couple of towns in eastern NC, Kinston and Rocky Mount, that have delivered the talent. Jerry Stackhouse is from Kinston and Phil Ford and Buck Williams are from Rocky Mount. There are others, but those are the biggest names.

 

Albert S. Ruddy has died

https://apnews.com/article/albert-ruddy-producer-godfather-dead-52660154133a4ef099bf07d8a2ae9a08

 

M. L. Carr is from North Carolina, and he played college basketball at Guilford . . . same college as the legendary World B. Free.

As I went to confirm this information, I learned that M.L. Carr played for the Scranton Apollos in the legendary Eastern Basketball League (a part time, weekend-only league that was great, but alas, put out to pasture by the ABA)

 

I saw the Allentown Jets play Scranton. I think it was when they were the Miners back in the EPBL days.

 

Larry's 60 pt game against the Hawks. Watch Atlanta's bench go nuts when he scores. Multiple Hawks got fined after their reactions.

https://streamable.com/hztvew

 

Maxwells sister went to Spelman. We called her Cornbread when she was not nearby.

 

I think you’d get a kick out of this book. That’s one of the Miner’s most famous players, future Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim

 

RIP Ms Robinson!

Marian Robinson, the mother of former US First Lady Michelle Obama, has died at 86, her family has announced.
In a statement, the Obamas said that Robinson had died "peacefully" on Friday morning.
Robinson was a well-known fixture at the White House during the eight years of Barack Obama's administration between 2009 and 2017.
She spent much of that time taking care of her two granddaughters, Michelle and Barack Obama's daughters Malia and Sasha.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce551e71vl4o