LA Times (April 13)
“Kobe Bryant, the first player in NBA history to play 20 seasons with the same team, heads to his final game with the Lakers tonight.” By the time his 1,556th and final game finished, Bryant had scored “a stunning 60 points on 22-for-50 shooting in a 101-96 Lakers victory over the Utah Jazz.”
Tags: 20 seasons, Final game, Jazz, Kobe Bryant, Lakers, NBA
Wall Street Journal (April 30)
“It is good to push racism down when it rears up in such a public way.” By suspending the owner of the LA Clippers for life, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver handed out a harsh sentence to a tarnished Donald Sterling. “The widespread public revulsion over Donald Sterling’s truly stupid private remarks and the punishment imposed on him by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver show that holding racist views will cause you to be drummed out of the public sphere.”
Tags: Adam Silver, Commissioner, Donald Sterling, LA Clippers, NBA, Owner, Public, Punishment, Racism, Revulsion, Sentence
Wall Street Journal (February 17, 2012)
Basketball guard Jeremy Lin is capturing the hearts of NBA fans as he revives the hopes of the New York Knicks. He also provides a policy lesson. Originally from Taiwan, Lin’s parents immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s. “The policy lesson is that America wins when it welcomes talented people, whether or not they start semiconductor companies.”
Tags: Immigration, Jeremy Lin, Knicks, NBA, Taiwan, U.S.
