On the other hand...speaking of basketball, were you folks
aware that the Clippers point guard Baron Davis vies for
Emmy award for documentary on L.A. gang life?
The former UCLA star hopes to shed some light on
the root causes of gang life, a world of frustration,
hopelessness and despair that all too often leads
youngsters to believe that they have no other options.
The information provided in this film "Crips and Bloods
Made in America" was first released in 2008.
It is narrated by Academy Award winner Forrest
Whitaker & includes interviews with gang members
and NFL Hall of famer Jim Brown who works well
with inner-city youngsters.
Baron Davis himself will be at training camp when the
Emmy awards for News and documentaries are handed
out in New York City next Monday. From afar though
he will be rooting for the film for which he acted as
executive producer and put up the money & provided
entree into the world from which he escaped from...
largely because of basketball, but he has not forgotten.
In an interview with the Associated Press Davis said
that the film is "very prestigious". The 31 year old
Clipper player longs to be more than a star athlete
and believes he can be an agent for social change.
This is why he formed the production company "Verso
Entertainment" & pushed to make the film about two
of America's most notorious gangs.
And then there is the quote from our Laker player
Ron Artest, Laker forward, believing that the next season
will be even better than our last NBA season whereby we
won the Championship....saying "We're hungry and you
know Kobe Bryant is. Kobe's after something. I don't even
know what it is. I think he's after stardom of Pluto or something" !!
So on that note we will await our players to bounce out onto the
courts once again as NBA next season will very soon begin for us.
Babs Wells