9 and 20 wrote:Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:queridiculo wrote:
Eh, I don't think age has anything to do with it, it's all about personality.
Kwame had demons that he never faced up to and he kept failing everywhere he went because he never had the sense to reflect and to realize that he was standing in his own way.
I met Kwame. Pete Newell had a basketball camp which was held in Hawaii some 20 years ago.Kwame Brown respectfully listened and attentively watched with eye contact as I spoke supportively to him…
(Unlike Etan Thomas, Brendan Haywood, and above all Obinna Ekezie—a couple came off as jerks IMO).
Norman Vincent Peale—The Power of Positive Thinking
I don’t give a damn what anybody says I like Kwame.
At the same time people were talking a lot of **** about Zach Randolph. He was also extremely nice. He became an all-star just as I told him he would someday be.
All this stuff about Kwame getting in his own way; all I gotta say is he played a lot of years and made a lot of money in the NBA. Others cannot say that.
This was legitimately a cool story. Interesting about those other guys coming off as jerks, especially a scrub like Ekezie.
I mostly like Kwame too. He was just an overly sensitive dude. Not really made for pro basketball, I think, despite his physical gifts. Or really any profession that required that ability to channel full on aggression. Probably should have been an art teacher or something.
Gil was a maniac and naturally just so good. Probably the most gifted player to play for this stupid franchise in decades. Damn Gerald Wallace.
Guess who else was cool? Chicago's two young guys at that time, Eddy Curry and Tyson Chandler. Some players had family there as I recall. Won't say who, but I recall... That camp was fun because it had premier big pros as well as collegians.
The nicest guy in the world: Antawn Jamison. Spoke with him different years at Pete Newell's. Jamison and Herschel Walker are the two nicest athletes I've met along with my encounters with Albert King and Leonard Bias. Jamison is as down-to-earth as can be.
Also super cool conversationalists: Clifford Ray, Marques Johnson, Rick Carlisle and Kiki Vandeweghe.
Kwame is of course, very tall, but I have sons a bit younger than he is. He struck me as a kid in 2001 or 2002. How they yelled at him and expected SO MUCH from that young man was a shame.
(That's the draft I wanted the Wizards to trade down and to take Shane Battier PLUS either Troy Murphy or Zach Randolph)
