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Message: [QUOTE="DoctorBombay, post: 2229237, member: 626"] I too, don't want to turn this into a RACE discussion- that's totally beside the point of what we're both saying. But here are a couple of quotes from Earl Woods. To say they're not, at the very least, "controversial"...well, you be the judge. Earl Woods talking about Tiger playing in Scotland/British Open: “That’s for white people. It’s the heart of golf for people who came from there. It sucks as far as I’m concerned. It is the sorriest weather and I’ve made the public statement that people had better be happy that the Scots lived there instead of soul brothers. The game of golf would have never been invented. We would have been inside listening to jazz and we wouldn’t have been stupid enough to go out in that weather and play a silly-ass game and freeze yourself to death. We would have been inside laughing and joking with rum and stuff. Now, Africa … I played golf in Africa and I knew I was home.” And: "Tiger will do more than any other man in history to change the course of humanity. He is the Chosen One. He'll have the power to impact nations. Not people. Nations."—[I]Earl Woods, Tiger's father Earl Woods, pressed to justify his belief that his son could have greater humanitarian influence than Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, or the Buddha, explained that Tiger "has a larger forum than any of them. Because he's playing a sport that's international." [/I] And this quote about Richard Williams sounds eerily familiar to what's being said about Lavar Ball. "When people ask me if Richard's crazy, I say, 'Yeah, crazy like a fox'," says a former tennis instructor who worked with the girls in their early teens. "He may pull that simple thing on you, but it's all a farce." Indeed, Williams is so savvy that he managed to get his family out of Compton and into the sports-history books. But that same determination may have strained his family relationships. People close to the Williamses say the sisters struggle with their father's reputation. "They're good girls, but they often get overshadowed by their father and his antics," says a former Women's Tennis Association player. "People project their dislike for him onto them, and that's a difficult place for them to be." If the sisters are upset with their father's behavior, however, they don't let on publicly." Obviously, I don't want to focus on "controversial" versus "bombastic", and anyone can pick and choose statements that fit either definition. My point is that what Lavar is doing is no different than what alot of "stage" parents have done in the past. At least from a purely marketing perspective, I believe he's a genius, much like Kris Jenner of the Khardashians. Lonzo and the Lakers will be the biggest draw in the NBA next season, in large part because of his father, Lavar Ball. JMHO [/QUOTE]

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