Seattle area native and Rainier Beach High school legend Jamal Crawford has won the NBA Sixth Man Of The Year Award for the second time in his long NBA career. Jamal of course plays for the Los Angeles Clippers who are currently playing in the NBA playoffs against NBA MVP Kevin Durant.

Crawford who is 34 won the award also in 2010 as a member of the Atlanta Hawks. Crawford joins Kevin McHale, a person who currently stays in the Seattle area Detlef Schrempf and former Seattle Sonic Ricky Pierce as the only two time winners of the Sixth Man Award in the NBA.

Jamal got 57 first place votes out of a possible 125 and totaled 421 points in the voting. Bulls player Taj Gibson finished second in the voting and Manu Ginobili finshed third. Crawford in reality started a lot of games for the Clippers because of players being hurt on the Clippers but he mainly came off the bench. Crawford scored at 18.6 points a game. By the way Jamal is the oldest player to win the award.

Jamal is good dude who has done a lot of work in Seattle for inner city kids with his foundation and the Jamal Crawford Pro-Am that he puts on every year here in Seattle. A lot of NBA players have flew in the play in Crawford’s event including “KD” Kevin Durant and others. Congrates to Jamal for winning the Kia Sixth Man Of The Year Award and as always we will catch up with Crawford when he returns home to Seattle this summer to do a interview with “Music Inner City TV”/”Sports Inner City Online” (www.sportsinnercity.com)

Gordon Curvey

ARTICLE FROM huffingtonpost.com (full story click here)

Readers I am asking what in the hell is wrong with Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston? Someone please explain because I am lost and confused about this brotha. I really am.

If you have not heard, Winston was cited for stealing about $32 of crab legs the other day. Where is this young man’s mind at? He has to know and has to realize he is known all over the world! He won the freakin Heisman Trophy for goodness sake! You just cannot do the things you used to do and hang out with bad guys etc. Something is not right about this young man’s thinking.

Now he has a record of negativity that is not good. This is the second time Jameis has been cited for stealing out of a store. Plus other problems including a serious rape charges that he can thank the man above that nothing happened with that because some folks think he did rape the young lady but got special treatment because he is a big Florida State football star. Something very shaky happened with that charge and I really think strongly on that.

I am the first one to take up for my African American people against racism etc BUT in this case I CANNOT take up for Winston! He admitted that he stole the crab legs from the store and was fined a few dollars and suspended from the Florida State baseball team where he is a pitcher.

Yes we know young students in college have a rough time getting a good meal at times but I heard things will get better as far as students having more meals and better choice too. But this cat is a big time football star. I do not understand why he does not a few more dollars in his pocket from should I say “under the table” ways if you know what I mean.

Let’s hope that this situation will be the LAST time we hear of this very talented young man doing something stupid. I hope he can sit down with football legend Jim Brown or Micheal Irvin or Rev. Randell Cunningham (ex NFL star) and they can talk with him and help him stay on the right path because I do not want to hear about him doing something REAL stupid and end up in jail for a long long time. He needs to realize that a lot of young kids of all colors look up to him as a role model.

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“One Man’s Opinion” by Gordon Curvey

As a sports fan today is the happiest day of my life! The head of the NBA Adam Silver today banned Los Angeles Clipper owner Donald Sterling for life from the NBA and fined him $2.5 million. I have to admit I did not see this coming.

I thought he would ban Sterling for a year or two. But he is banned FOR LIFE for his racist talk against African Americans to his girlfriend over the phone. It was just terrible listening to Sterling telling his girlfriend that he did not want “blacks” at his games at the Staple Center and he did not want NBA legend “Magic” Johnson at Clippers games!! SAY WHAT??? UNREAL!!!

What has to happen now is the other 29 NBA team owners has to vote on if Sterling should continue as the owner of the Clippers. Hey readers what owner what have the freakin NERVE to support Donald Sterling? Who in the hell would that be?

Also folks as a Seattle Sonic fan when our dearly departed Sonics were here in town I was VERY VERY sad when we found out the Kings were staying in Sac-town. But during that fight I learned to respect the Mayor of Sacramento for NBA player Kevin Johnson on how he fought to help keep his team in his home town. And now after seeing Mayor Johnson out front on the behalf of the NBA players in this Sterling mess, I have learned to respect Johnson even more. He is a leader. That is why the players wanted him out front for them.

I feel sorry for the Clipper players and Coach “Doc” Rivers. I feel sorry for the L.A. Clipper organization. Seattle native and a friend of mine is a player on the Clippers and that is Jamal Crawford. Can’t wait to to talk to Jamal when he returns to Seattle and get his views of this crap with Donald Sterling and his views of what he said about African American people.

Happy to see the tweets from players like Lebron and other players in supporting the lifetime ban against Sterling. Happy to see owners like Seahawk owner and Portland Trailblazer owner Paul Allen and Mark Cuban speak out on Sterling and the racist stuff he said about “blacks”

Finally folks what bothers me A LOT is listening to sports radio here in Seattle and the 99% white hosts discussing racial issues. A topic they know NOTHING about. There is three sports radio stations here in Seattle, 710 ESPN, sports radio KJR and 1090 The Fan and their is only ONE AFRICAN AMERICAN AS A SPORTS HOST, Jerry Brewer.

I truly believe that these white hosts do not have any contact with African Americans except when they interview a African American on the air and I truly think is true. I mean I hear the white hosts say “This is racist” etc. WHAT DO THEY KNOW ABOUT RACISM? NOTHING!!

I heard Adam Silver say the NBA family is about DIVERSITY. Sports radio here in Seattle needs more DIVERSITY AND THEY NEED IT NOW FOLKS! Unlike the NBA, sports radio when it comes to African American knows about one thing…EXCLUSION!! More news on the Donald Sterling story coming up soon here at MIC News Magazine and “Sports Inner City Online” www.sportsinnercity.com

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Today I have found out that more racist comments have surfaced that L.A. Clipper owner Donald Sterling has made to his girlfriend on the phone and I will tell you this I am very very bothered readers.

I will say this to you all. The crap that I and all sports fans have heard the last few days from Sterling’s mouth is some of the worst and racist stuff I have ever heard on my time on this earth. This from a man who has a history of racism in his past. Sterling who is very very rich has a lot of property and owns a lot of houses and apartments etc and back in the day word came out he did not want to rent to African Americans and Latinos.

He also had a fallout with African American Hall of Fame member and one of the greatest players of all time Elgin Baylor. More problems with African Americans in the past. This guy in my opinion just has a problem with African Americans. PERIOD! It is shocking that Sterling is this way being the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. A team in a league that is 76% African American. He has owned the Clippers longer than any other NBA owner. He has owned the Clippers since 1981.

What has me upset more than all the racist crap that Sterling said is his comments that he does not want Ervin “Magic” Johnson at “his games” and he does not want “blacks” at his games. This is just crazy. This is just wrong. This is just racist!! I just do not understand. The Clippers had a “semi” protest before the playoff game by wearing there warm-ups inside out. But I want more than that when it comes to a protest,

How can any African American NBA player play for the Clippers ever again as long as Sterling owns the team. As I type this a player for the Clippers and who I have seen grow up from a young teenager here in Seattle, Jamal Crawford is playing for the team. I remember when I was playing basketball a lot I played pick up games with Crawford here in Seattle. And he has been a guest on my TV program “Music Inner City TV” many times and I knew he would be a great player when he was young. I wonder what is going on in his head because as I type this only LeBron James is the only player who has really spoken out against Sterling.

Back in the day Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali and Bill Russell (who know staying in the Seattle area), Kareem (aka Lew Alcindor then) and other big sports stars took a stand against racism. The African American players need to HOLD A MAJOR PRESS CONFERENCE RIGHT NOW to speak up on the racism and bigotry shown by Donald Sterling. DO IT NOW!! TAKE A MAJOR STAND!

What Donald Sterling has said against my race has me very angry. This is 2014. Not 1945!!! Again how can a owner of a NBA team in a league that is 76% African American say the things he has said against my race. And by the way I was listening to some clown on NBC Sports Radio who in a sly way had a problem on the way the recording came out in the public and even had a problem with Magic speaking out because he is a guy who had sex with lots of ladies back in the day. I quickly stopped listening to this fool.

So readers lets see what happens to Donald Sterling. Rev Al Sharpton said he is ready to bring out his National Action Network in L.A. on Tuesday at the next Clippers game to protest and he will be bring out his organization to hold a protest in front of the NBA offices in N.Y.

We will be here to report what will happen to the racist and bigot Donald Sterling. By the way I am HAPPY to see MJ and President Obama speak out against Sterling too.  When the President speaks on the issue from overseas.. that means a lot. The President loves basketball and the NBA. I knew he would speak out on the topic. I am shocked MJ spoke out but very happy.

“One Man’s Opinion” by Gordon Curvey

As I type this today is Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball. In my opinion it is a flat out joke that MLB is celebrating Mr. Robinson and a slap in his face. It is just terrible how the league is treating his special day.

On Robinson Day all players wore his #42. O.K. that is great. But let’s keep it real readers. Let’s bring out some shocking stats. In the NFL their are 68% African American players. In the NBA it has 79% African American players. In MLB their are ONLY 67 African American players out of 750 and I will say to you this is a huge problem in my opinion.

It seems MLB does not care about reaching young inner city youth about playing baseball. It seems they care about getting players from South America and Cuba etc. Since about 1997 the amount of African Americans playing in the Majors have went down and down from about 29% to the current 7%, Something is very wrong in the sport of baseball. But does management care about this? It seems not.

When young inner city kids turn on TV they see D-Wade and Blake Griffin and CP3 and Barkley and LeBron and Russell Wilson and they do not see Torii Hunter or CeCe Sabathia or Ryan Howard or Prince Fielder or former guest on my TV program “Music Inner City TV” Andrew McCutchen doing commercials. The question is why?

When I go to conduct a interview at batting practice at Safeco Field here in Seattle I see very few African Americans on their way to the game. Then when I go home and turn on the game I have to search to find a African American face in the crowd besides a few ushers. It is like I am watching the Republican National Convention event in Utah. Truly sad. Not only are African Americans not really playing baseball but African Americans are not going to games.

It is sad here in Seattle that we have a African American sports jock on sportsradio KJR who did not even discuss Jackie Robinson Day and the problems of the lack of African American players. BUT two white sports jocks did and even took calls on the topic. It seems this African American sports jock who is also a writer for the Seattle Times is afraid to discuss race issues over the air like say Stephen A. Smith or Mike Wilborn do on ESPN. It is AMAZING that he did not discuss Jackie Robinson Day and others did. I do not understand.

So again it is a joke that MLB celebrates Jackie Robinson. If he was alive he would not be happy that only 67 African Americans are in the big leagues out of 750 players. The RBI League ain’t working and it is token just like Jackie Robinson Day. MLB needs to TRULY show that they care about reaching African American youth and our community.