S6 Media Entry of the Year

[BigDaddyd8720]

Anybody who submits a nomination can claim 1 point (excluding self-nominations).

The max points allowed to receive for submitting a season 6 award is 1 point, even if you submit nominations in other categories

Winning nomination gets an additional point awarded for the win.

Nominations are due by Tuesday November 4th at 4pm central.

[Mike Lowry]

C'Mon now, It's Barbara Freaking Walters!!!!
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I think I can't get over that touch alone, but the interview with Joe Dumars is one of the things I like to see in the league. I know he gets a lot of love in the Pels Discord Channel, but giving standout SLOE players a character and an identity that is different, or may mirror their real life persona is one of the greatest aspect of this game of ours.

Barbara Walters Special: “A Conversation with Joe Dumars” (1985)
By Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters: Consider it my personal assignment. Now, indulge me. Dream big. If everything goes perfectly, what does your career look like?
Joe Dumars: All right. I stay loyal. One franchise—build a life with a team and a city. I play with great players—guys who end up in the Hall of Fame. We win—more than once. I somehow make that Hall myself. Then I go upstairs, learn the front office, maybe win Executive of the Year if the votes are kind. I’ll bounce around a bit—learn different organizations, different ways to build. And then, when the timing’s right, I go back home to Louisiana and try to turn around the shittiest franchise in the NBA.

Barbara Walters: (laughing, bewildered) But Joe, there isn’t even an NBA team in Louisiana.
Joe Dumars: I know. (smiles) But I have a feeling they’ll get one someday. And if they do? Well, Barbara… they’ll definitely be the shittiest team in the league. Somebody will need to love them anyway. Might as well be me.
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Rookies can be loud or quiet, reckless or careful, charming or guarded. Joe Dumars is a study in balance: an unassuming voice that grows firmer when the subject is defense; a worker’s mentality wrapped in a gentleman’s manners; a teenager from Louisiana who steps into a professional locker room and does not try to outrun his age, only to honor it. He talks about loyalty without bravado, about winning without a sales pitch, and about the long arc of a possible life in basketball without sounding like he’s selling a fairy tale.

He blushes when he flirts, and then, just as quickly, he resets to footwork and angles, to the small truths of improvement that are almost invisible on television and essential in real life. He projects steadiness. He projects care. He projects the kind of future that is built quietly, with the same patience it takes to make ten in a row on an empty hoop when no one is watching.

And then there is the joke about Louisiana—the “shittiest franchise” no one has yet seen. It is a wink to a future not yet written, a line with enough audacity and affection that you can almost imagine it one day becoming prophecy. If it does, Joe Dumars will have been ready, because Joe Dumars is making a habit of being ready: for the next possession, for the next town, for the next conversation, and perhaps for a career that continues long after the last whistle. For now, he is a rookie with a good head, a quick step, a steady heart—and a very dangerous sense of humor.

[AngryBanana]

ReviewBanana - Trade of the SLOE

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