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    Great White Hope Nonsense

    Great White Hope nonsense: Doug McDermott hurt by racist Larry Bird hype as NCAA tourney heats up

    Chris Baldwin
    Mar 23, 2014 | 10:19 am

    Doug McDermott, Creighton University's scoring wizard, is compared to Larry Bird because, well, he's white.

    Oh, Sports Illustrated will claim it made McDermott replicate the Larry Bird cheerleader cover simply because he's the nation's leading scorer on a small team. Considering Creighton plays in the Big East — a far cry from the reality for Bird's Indiana State — it's a forced rationalization without legs though.

    No, McDermott is compared to Bird because of his skin color. He's been shoehorned into the Great White Hope role, one held by players such as J.J. Reddick, Adam Morrison and Christian Laettner over the years. It's an offensive designation, a clearly racist one that everyone should be long past in 2014. And, no, pretending it's not there by coming up with absurd reasons to compare McDermott to Bird does not qualify as enlightened progress.

    The dumb Larry Bird comparisons end up highlighting what Doug McDermott can never be. Instead, we should be celebrating what he is.

    This campaign is hurting McDermott even as it falsely promotes him.

    Doug McDermott is not as big as Bird. He doesn't have Bird's shooting range. He's not close to as skilled a passer as Bird. And he's certainly no Larry Legend-level trash talker. McDermott's a polite coach's son who grow up in a life of upper-middle class privilege, not someone who endured a hardscrabble upbringing that include his dad's suicide by shotgun like Bird.

    McDermott is no sure NBA talent who has NBA general managers salivating like Bird was at Indiana State. He's no Andrew Wiggins or Jabari Parker certain top five NBA draft pick. McDermott will be lucky to go in the very bottom of the lottery.

    The dumb Larry Bird comparisons end up highlighting what Doug McDermott can never be. Instead, we should be celebrating what he is.

    That's an excellent college basketball player who has the chance to live a driveway dream. If McDermott helps a limited Creighton team beat a talent-packed Baylor one in the higher-seeded Bluejays' second NCAA tournament game Sunday night, he'll have one of those great March moments.

    And a scorer's chance at getting to the Final Four in Arlington.

    McDermott would be a huge story in Jerry World. He brings star power, even if he'll never be anything close to an NBA star. He's a fascinating player to watch because his entire team's offense depends on him.

    In the first full round of the NCAA tournament, McDermott keeps San Antonio at rapt attention, twisting and turning his way to his 13th 30-point game of the season. It wasn't even the best performance at the AT&T Center on day one. Providence point guard Bryce Cotton's 36-point, eight-assist, five-rebound line in a two-point loss to North Carolina was much more impressive.

    McDermott's best skill? Finding the holes in a defense. He's not particularly fast. But he's always in motion.

    But McDermott's play had to be the most unforced 30-point game you'll ever see.

    "Doug lets the game come to him," his coach and dad Greg McDermott says. "He'll go through a five to six minute stretch where he'll get up eight shots. Then, he'll have another stretch of five to six minutes where he won't take a shot."

    McBuckets' big Baylor challenge
    Any stretch where McDermott stops shooting will be welcomed by Baylor. If Dougie McBuckets doesn't score another 30 points (at least), Baylor will almost assuredly find itself in the Sweet 16.

    McDermott isn't Larry Bird great at a lot of things. But he's good at most things that involve putting the ball in the basket.

    "Normally people are more limited, but he's so good at every area on the court," Baylor coach Scott Drew says. "He's great from the midrange. He's good from the post. He's good from the perimeter."

    McDermott's best skill? Finding the holes in a defense. He's not particularly fast. But he's always in motion.

    McDermott describes himself as "old school." He's a player who analytics-obsessed NBA general managers like the Houston Rockets Daryl Morey — who only loves layups and threes — would struggle with.

    Yet McDermott manages to make those so-called inefficient midrange shots very efficient. This is a guy with a career 55 percent field goal percentage.

    "I just try to stick to the fundamentals, because I'm not as athletic as some of the guys I'm going against," McDermott says.

    That's not Larry Bird. Bird was much more athletic than his skin color gave him credit for — especially pre-back injuries.

    There is no way for Doug McDermott to measure up. And he shouldn't be asked to try. He's no Great White Hope. He's just Doug McDermott.

    And that's plenty compelling enough.

    Doug McDermott is more than the latest Great White Hope.

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    Women's Basketball News

    Dallas Wings new women's basketball stars get warm welcome from city

    Alex Bentley
    Apr 23, 2025 | 12:15 pm
    WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert and Dallas Wings No. 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers
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    The Dallas Wings No. 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers brings big hopes for fans in the 2025 season

    The newest members of women's basketball team the Dallas Wings are already making waves: Paige Bueckers, the No. 1 pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft, and her fellow new recruits were welcomed by a press conference at Dallas City Hall on April 23 — part of the Dallas Wings' official introduction of the rookie class.

    According to a releasae, Dallas Wings draftees Paige Bueckers, Aziaha James, Madison Scott, JJ Quinerly, and Aaronette Vonleh were welcomed by Mayor Eric Johnson and City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert, and gifted with cowboy hats by the City of Dallas Economic Development Corporation.

    The team will start the 2025-2026 season playing at the Memorial Arena in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Their home arena is College Park Center on the UT Arlington campus, with one exception: They'll be playing their June 27 game against the Indiana Fever, featuring superstar Caitlin Clark, at American Airlines Center in Dallas.

    Fans will have to pony up the big bucks for that epic game, with the price for two tickets starting at $255, although the upper 300 level has not yet been opened for sale. Those wanting to sit near the floor behind the baseline will run themselves a pretty $1,205 for two seats.

    After Clark joined the WNBA in 2024, almost half of the other teams in the league moved their home games against the Fever to larger arenas. All of the other Wings home games are currently scheduled to take place at College Park Center.

    If all goes as planned, 2025 will be the last season for the Wings at that venue. In 2024, the team announced plans to move to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas Memorial Arena in Dallas, starting with the 2026 season.

    Bueckers joins the Wings after closing out her college career by winning her first national championship, with Connecticut dominating the previous champions, South Carolina, 82-59. She's considered by many to be the league's next superstar.

    The 2025 Dallas Wings season comes with much anticipation. Since the end of the 2024 season, the Wings have revamped their front office, which included the hiring of Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations and General Manager Curt Miller and Head Coach Chris Koclanes. In addition to the 2025 WNBA Draft Class, Miller made significant roster moves during free agency which included signing reigning WNBA Most Improved Player DiJonai Carrington, 2022 All-Rookie Team pick NaLyssa Smith, former Wings guard Tyasha Harris and 2020 All-WNBA Second Team member Myisha Hines-Allen.

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