From: trube@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Todd Trubey) Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.pro Subject: Other players' thoughts during anthem Date: 15 Mar 96 22:20:56 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: So MAR will now pray during the anthem. Probably in Arabic so I won't understand what the heck he's thinking. I have, however, read the minds of some other players during the Star-Spangled Banner. Here's a sampling: Anthony Mason: I am the point forward. Point. Forward. I run the offense. That Davis gets in my way again I'm going to smack him. Magic Johnson: Look at them all, looking at me. They came here to see me. Me alone. Larry' gone and I think I can outlast Mike too. Dennis Rodman: Man, this song sucks. They need a cool song that rocks. Like that song I heard in the gay bar last night. Zo Mourning: I'm angry, but not angry enough. I gotta get really mad. Like I was at that little shithead ref last night. DAMN he sucked. We should have won that game. Stupid jerk. OK, now I'm ready. Brian Shaw: I can feel it. Tonight my slump is going to end. Tonight I can shoot the lights out. Christian Laettner: Only in America can you bad-mouth a teeneage millionaire and get out of a nightmare of a job in the process. God Bless this country. Kenny Anderson: Be the ball, Kenny! Love the ball! Be the ball! Shawn Kemp: How come they sing about the Rockets but not the Sonics? Charles Barkley: Some day, this'll be my theme song. Along with "Hail to the Chief." Heh-heh, in Dave Kevin Kline sang it: "Hail to the Chief, He's the one we all say hail to . . ." Reggie Miller: This line is too close now. I must shoot like 80 percent from downtown now. What's the challenge. Karl Malone: My muscles are bigger than his. And his. And his. And his. Brian Hill: OK, new strategy. Pass the ball to Shaq every time. Win. Chris Webber: Those stupid chumps. PLAYING to make millions. Why not just sit? Shaq: I can't believe they won't let me rap this song for them. That would be Shaqadocious. David Robinson: Don't these morons know what attention is? Ooops. say does tha-at Star-Spang-led Ba-anner yet wa-ave. Dennis Scott: I can't believe Shaq actually thinks they're going to let him rap the national anthem some day. Bill Walton: Julius Erving, Wilt Chamberlain, and Larry Bird were much better standing there listening than these guys. Gheorge Muresan: I ask and still nobody tell. What is spangle? Trube