I WAS THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'M FROM DETROIT AND I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED AND PLEAAAAASE STOP
DWELLING WITH SOME PHILOSOPHICAL AND SELF CONTRADICTING
STATEMENT...IN FACT, IF ANYONE READS YOUR ARTICLES ABOUT THIS
WONDERFUL PLAYER, THEY WILL SEE THAT YOU YOURSELF ARE A GREAT
POLITICIAN IN YOUR WAY OF SPEECH...

THIS CONVERSATION IS OVER!!!!



--- In lebanesebasketball@yahoogroups.com, lebanesebasketball
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> What I quoted on Salpy Tchokarian was based on "Daily Star" feature
> articles about her some years back also documented on an unofficial
> Hekmeh website. I have no reason to discount those aricles.
Although
> personally I don't have priviledged information about the exact
> reasons why she was turned down by WNBA's Detroit Shock, I don't
> want to speculate further.
>
> Politics may have been involved in turning her down, I can perceive
> that. There is always some politics in anything we do, so why not
> here in this case. This is very possible indeed. But frankly, I
> don't have the details (I wasn't there...), and I certainly
wouldn't
> try to delve further.
>
> On the other hand though, couldn't it have been just a "technical"
> decision on part of the team staff rather than an a biased and ill
> perceived "political" decision as you claim? I mean tens of people
> could have applied to the tryouts in that specific day but were
> never signed eventually. One doesn't follow the other
automatically,
> and we shouldn't see red in every decision we are confronted with
> that turns out not to our favor.
>
> I mean just yesterday, I attended tryouts for young players at
> Ghazir. There were no less than 120-130 young men in the tryouts
and
> only 15 or 20 must be chosen. Should the rest of the guys cry foul
> and bad politics simply because they were not eventually chosen?
The
> picking panel / committee whatever cannot choose each and every one
> who came to the tryouts would they? Some will be turned down even
> when they were good and made the cut in all aspects.
>
> Coming back to the NBA and the WNBA choosing process, there was
> always an American bias earlier. But don't forget that these
leagues
> are increasingly becoming more and more "international", so adding
> Salpy Tchokarian would have only added more to the WNBA mosaic and
> improved its "political" image too.
>
> Charming,
> I was just commenting that particularly with Detroit being one of
> the earliest and biggest of Lebanese and Arab communities in the
> States, inclusion of a Lebanese player in the Detroit Shock would
> have created far better goodwill and attendance and politics would
> have helped rather than hindered her prospects. But I rest my case.
>
> I have become tired of arguments in this particular case. After
> reading all the countless comments by you and others that I have
> received throughout these months yet again for so many times, I now
> have come to the conclusion this matter will remain an endless
> source of argument, will never be resolved and has become counter-
> productive. It will only serve in helping spread of even more ill
> feelings, and very needlessly if I may say so. Throughout my posts,
> I just wanted to have some pride in the fact that Salpy is very
> deserving to have been even considered for such a position, and
> acknowledge her undoubted talents, only to be confronted yet again
> with a higher dosage of bitter response. So let's rather let it
rest
> if you may.
>
> You will no doubt have your last right of response, but without
> further comments from me, and then we move on to other things....