Talk:Robert Swift

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[edit] I Call BS

I think the George Gervin thing is total bullshit. There is no such thing as "Potts County Highschool" according to google, George Gervin never seems to have been associated with Bakersfield Highschool, and I highly doubt that the simple finger role technique made Swift a star or that blowing out your knee could really change your finger role that much.

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One of the poorest written articles on Wikipedia, focusing on inane high school controversies no doubt written by a local student and also including this little gem: "His focus was working out in order to add weight to his thin frame (a la Jermaine O'Neal). Swift is the first honky (WTF?) player to ever make the jump to the NBA"

I did not modify that excerpt in anyway; the parenthesized comments are verbatim from the article. Yes, it actually currently reads "Swift is the first honky (WTF?)". Someone made of hardier stuff than I, please clean this up.

Technically, he wasn't the first white player to make the jump from high school to the NBA. A handful of white players (Joe Graboski comes to mind) did it back in the 1940s. Zagalejo 19:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm just going to delete that part all together. I wanted to do it yesterday, but hesistated a bi as I was kinda curious to see if anyone else would do it first. It's really not noteworthy even if it were true. It's kinda like saying (random white guy) was the first Caucausion to climb (random mountain in Africa) even when a million people had already climbed it before him. The only reason the first black players in sports leagues are relevant are because of the history of racial discrimination in America. --Jakob Huneycutt 19:40, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clean-Up

I removed the clean-up tag since the article has been markedly cleaned up since the tag was applied in December. I'm not really sure if there's some sorta formal procedure for this, so if there is, someone just let me know. --Jakob Huneycutt 23:38, 1 February 2006 (UTC)