I love Russell Westbrook. He’s the same age of my son. Everything about Russell over these ten years or so has me even more fond of him as a young man than just a basketball superstar.
His relationship with his parents touches my heart. He calls them every day. He’s been a wonderful big brother to his younger brother Ray.
He married his college sweetheart from UCLA. He appears to be a wonderful father. His college coach at UCLA still talks about him fondly and his devotion to his alma mater.
What do you not like about Westbrook other than the fact he doesn’t like the college level media in Oklahoma? He shouldn’t be rude to them, but when every friggin day you’re taken apart on the Sports Animal I’m sure it gets old. You’ll notice Russell is always polite to the national media. Know what I mean?
But that comes with territory. If only these same people were so lazer focused on our sitting president and his performance.
But again, I don’t think Brian Davis is a racist. I don’t see that in the man. What I see is a savvy career announcer who knows his viewers in Oklahoma aren’t the sharpest pencils in the NBA pencil jar. I think what Brian Davis does is basically just dumb it down to the level of a certain percentage of the Fox audience–much like Sean Hannity does on Fox News Network.
But I don’t think there was any malicious intent by Brian Davis. Just more of the same in a market which went almost 70% for a sitting president who ran the Birther movement as a prelude to his presidency… and the same person who picked Jeff Sessions as the top lawyer in America.
If I were a black player would I want to play and live in Oklahoma City?
No–I wouldn’t. And again this isn’t to insinuate every Trump voter is a racist. Not at all. But if I were a black man this isn’t the place where I’d want my son to learn every man should be judged by the character of his heart as opposed to the color of his skin.
No preaching intended. Just the way I honestly feel.
Oklahoma City was very fortunate Russell Westbrook decided to stay here. He could have taken an easier route, but he didn’t.
So while I don’t think Brain Davis is a racist, it’s Westbrook as a man who has won my admiration as a man beyond what he does on a basketball court.
Every parent in America should pray to be as fortunate that their son turns out like Russell.
And you know what—I don’t think there would be anything wrong with Clay Bennett or Sam Presti saying in public what I just wrote. But they won’t because the people who buy their tickets wouldn’t think that was cool.