Last week, the NBA announced it has “rebranded” its MVP award from the Maurice Podoloff Trophy to the Michael Jordan Trophy.
While that doesn’t rise to the level of beheading a Christopher Columbus statue or vandalizing one of Abraham Lincoln, the demotion and eventual elimination of Podoloff as a significant NBA figure and founder nonetheless stinks.
Fleeing murderous pogroms in Russia, Podoloff’s Jewish family emigrated to New Haven, Conn. — where Podoloff, in his early teens, learned English and in 1915 earned his law degree from Yale. Along the way to establishing the NBA, he served as commissioner of the American Hockey League, thus a chosen leader of two sports at one time while also serving as a distinguished attorney.
Podoloff, we read in the Basketball Hall of Fame’s NBA history, “was fair to all teams and owners, regardless of their power. Through his foresight, wisdom and leadership, he advanced fan interest and improved the overall welfare of the NBA.” Instead, Samuel returned to the field by arrogantly and callously stepping over the fallen man, never even looking down toward him as he didn’t want to delay his self-smitten TD celebration. Couldn’t miss it.Announcers Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen pretended that they didn’t see it, thus we must’ve missed it, too. They just kept tossing bouquets at Samuel.Staying with Buccaneers-49ers, a 68-yard TD pass, Tom Brady to Mike Evans, was called back on a holding call by left tackle Donovan Smith.
Yannis, as were the rest of us, was a character, only he often didn’t know it. When he was with the N.Y. Times, we shared year-round beats — the Cosmos and NBA Piscataway Nets. In her expressions of gratitude for arriving “home,” Brittney Griner continues to skirt or intentionally miss the mark.
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