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SPORTS, 6>COLUMN: THE NBA FREE AGENCY DILEMMA>WHITESIDE SIGNS MONUMENTAL CONTRACT
OPINION, 4>COLUMN: BEING MUSLIM IN TODAY’S SOCIETY>STATE COLUMN
LIFE!, 3>CALENDAR OF UP-COMING EVENTS>WHAT TO DO ON RAINY SUMMER DAYS
NEWS, 2:>HEPC OFFERS FLOOD ASSISTANCE >RCBI RECEIVES GRANT FOR CAMPS
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Local bands unite for flood relief concert
LEXI BROWNING | THE PARTHENON
Lead Qiet vocalist Christopher Vincent performs Tuesday, June 28 at The V-Club in Huntington as part of the first flood relief benefit concert. The second concert series will take place July 12 at Heritage Station.
By LEXI BROWNINGTHE PARTHENON
Twelve local bands will as-semble Tuesday, July 12 to host a second West Virginia Flood Relief Benefit concert in Heri-tage Station from 6p.m. to 12 a.m.
Performing bands include The Settlment, Dub V Funk, Friendly Fire and The Shad-owmaker Band. Side stage acts will inclue Kayla Massie, Nerf, Jeremy Walters and others.
“Joe Troubetaris and Keebie Gilkerson began planning for this second event during the first one, after its massive suc-cess,” said Arika Michaelis, lead female vocalist and public relations manager of The Set-tlement. “By the end of the first event, they already had all the bands lined up for this one. It’s just wonderful to see the mu-sic community and Huntington working together for the ben-efit of our beautiful state.”
Within hours of releasing the specifics of the second install-ment in the series, the event had been shared more than fifty times on Facebook.
Michaelis said the second series has received an over-whelming amount of support and interest in attendance.
“[The first series] was such a beautifully organized event and there were so many people and donations,” Michaelis said. “I was very proud to see members of the Huntington community come out to support our neigh-bors, families and friends.”
Michaelis said she and her friends donated items for the first concert and hoped to vol-unteer one-on-one in the weeks to come.
“I’m just incredibly happy the community has come together to put on not one but two huge events,” Michaelis said. “I’m very proud to say the least.”
Donations will be collected on site by partnering group New Heights Baptist Church. Suggested donations include non-perishable food items, bottled water, first aid kits, cleaning supplies, pet care and toiletries.
Lexi Browning can be con-tacted at [email protected].
Hurley appointed executive director of INTO: Marshall
By KARIMA NEGHMOUCHETHE PARTHENON
Marshall University alumna Stephanie Hurley has been se-lected as the Executive Director of INTO: Marshall.
Her role as the Executive Director will be to bring new leadership to the INTO Center.
“INTO Marshall is a joint venture between Marshall Uni-versity and INTO University Partnerships. I supervise the staff and work with our INTO North America, INTO Univer-sity Partnerships, and Marshall University constituents to en-sure that partnership is going well,” Hurley said.
Hurley described a typical day in her new position, saying it would include many conver-sations with students, staff, faculty and campus partners. Hurley said she communicated information up the chain to key stakeholders, and to the staff in the center, and that she ensures
that day-to-day operations are running smoothly and engage in future planning efforts in the center.
Hurley is from Portsmouth, Ohio, but attended Marshall University in 2003 with her undergraduate studies. After receiving her undergrad from Marshall in 2007, she stayed on to graduate with her mas-ter’s degree in psychology. She is currently enrolled in the Ed.D. program in education leadership.
She’s no stranger to the INTO: Marshall Center, having served as the Director of Student Expe-rience for INTO: Marshall prior to her director position.
Her previous position helped her transition well into her new role and that the move into this position felt like a natural shift, she said.
“I have a love for Marshall University and am always seeking ways for us to grow.
The INTO program allows for us to recruit, support, and en-roll many more international students at the university. En-hancing the diversity in the classroom enriches the learn-ing experiences for all present,” Hurley said. “I am interested in fostering our continued growth at the center; growth measured in larger enrollments, but also in enhanced and perfected services and support for inter-national students studying the English language.”
Hurley said she is hoping to refine the future of INTO: Mar-shall in the coming years and that she can see INTO play-ing a large role in the growth and development of the entire university.
“We have the opportunity to bring the best and the bright-est students from the world to Marshall University,” Hurley said.
Hurley said although she
has traveled internationally, she is much more eager to do so with her new role. Working with her international students has changed her perception of American society, she said.
“It is wonderful to experience your own culture through the eyes of another. When I work with the students in our center, I love to see them experience things for the first time,” Hurley said. “One of my favorite days of the year is each time it snows. You will see students running outside the center to catch snowflakes on their hands and tongues. It is these little things that I sometimes take for granted.”
Hurley said she has one regret from her undergrad experience— not traveling abroad.
“My students are my heroes. I was never brave enough to study abroad. These students leave everything they know
behind them and come to a new place, often without a mastery of the English language. Study-ing abroad can be scary,” Hurley said. “Where will I live? Where can I shop? Where can I find foods that I like to eat or that fit my dietary restrictions? How do I get to campus when I arrive at the airport? How will I know what classes to pick up or what teachers to work with? What about insurance, healthcare, jobs, internships, textbooks and immigration paperwork? Will I fit in? Will I make friends?”
Hurley and the Marshall INTO Center are here to assist students in answering all of their questions and addressing all of their issues, and aiming to ensure that students who are arriving INTO Marshall are given a soft place to land in the United States
Karima Neghmouche can be contacted at [email protected].
LEXI BROWNING | THE PARTHENON
INTO: Marshall director Stephanie Hurley poses for a photograph inside the INTO Center on Marshall University’s Huntington campus on Thursday.
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Student f lood victims may qualify for more aidBy CLARA MAYNARDTHE PARTHENON
The West Virginia Higher Education Commission Policy has announced students af-fected by the recent floods could qualify for more finan-cial aid.
Senior Director of Financial Aid Brian Weingart said those students will need to work with their respective colleges to obtain the aid.
“What they would need to do is contact the financial aid office at the school they’re attending and ask for what’s called a professional judge-ment or special circumstance [form],” Weingart said.
Weingart said students may be required to show doc-umentation regarding their situation.
“That allows the financial aid office to go in and adjust the student’s FAFSA based on the documentation,” Wein-gart said. “Those adjustments then could result in addi-tional financial aid for the students.”
Recent graduates affected by the flooding may also be eligible to postpone payment on their student loans as well.
“If they are struggling mak-ing payments or they can’t make the payments they can ask for what’s called a defer-ment or forbearance where
they can get a postpone-ment,” Weingart said.
Weingart said those gradu-ates also have other options for making loan repayments easier.
“If they are not currently working they may want to ask for an income based repay-ment plan which would be based on how much they’re earning if they have no job or a low-income job,” Weingart said.
Sophomore exercise sci-ence major Jasmine Wright has felt the impact the floods left on her hometown of Clendenin.
“My brothers and I were trapped in a friend’s house with no power or running water,” Wright. “We were unable to leave and had to scavenger around the house for flashlights, lighters and nonperishable foods.”
Wright said she believes Clendenin and the surround-ing areas will take a long time to recover.
“The next town, Elkview was also affected greatly,” Wright said. “A bridge to the very popular shopping plaza broke off because of the high waters and debris in the water.”
Wright’s family lost a car during the flooding, among other items.
“Losing a car at this time is going to be difficult to re-cover over,” Wright said. “The car was my oldest brother’s. He had just moved out the weekend of the flood and is now without one.”
Wright said the chances of her bringing a car to college to help with the commute will now be slim.
“My family will have to fig-ure out how they can finance another vehicle while having to still finance me for 3 more years at Marshall, while Mar-shall continues to increase their tuition.”
Wright said she is “dis-heartened” by the damage left in Clendenin, including that of a local library, which had recently been renovated.
“I would love to see the state continue to fund a pub-lic library in our town and use this event as a way to encourage more repairs on roads and ditches,” Wright said. “As well as actually plan a flood emergency plan, since there was very little informa-tion going around for those trapped in that area.
Marshall students can con-tact the Financial Aid Office at (304) 696-3162 or at [email protected].
Clara Maynard can be contacted at [email protected]
Bristol, Va. Fire Department Chief Mike Armstrong looks over clothing and cleaning items, Wednesday, July 6, 2016, in Bristol, Va., that have been donated for the flood victims of West Virginia. The fire department sent several fire fighters to the flood area and was credited with saving 44 victims during the flood in Rainelle, WV.
EARL NEIKIRK | BRISTOL HERALD COURIER VIA AP
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THE PARTHENONThe Robert C. Byrd Institute
for Advanced Flexible Manu-facturing has been awarded a $7,000 grant on behalf of The Toyota Foundation and The Manufacturing Institute to assist in continuing and implementing new STEM-related summer camps for students across the mountain state.
With the financial assis-tance of the one-time grant, RCBI will use the funding to support an additional 3-D Printing Camp in South Charleston, said Becky Cal-well, interim director of student recruitment.
“We have had a lot of inter-est in a Charleston-area camp in previous years, but this is the first year that we have been able to offer one there,” Calwell said.
RCBI will be hosting seven camps and workshops this summer in Huntington, Charleston, Bridgeport and Fairmont, which will unite and encourage students to explore their passions for computer coding, computer design and manufacturing.
Two of the seven camps of-fered were partnered with the Fairmont Education Re-source Center at NASA IV and V for robotics workshops.
“RCBI camps offer students an opportunity to explore new technologies and gain new skills that will help them at school and in their future careers,” Calwell said. “They also practice their teamwork as they collaborate on special projects.”
Upcoming camps include a 3-D printing camp July 11-13 in Charleston, an additional printing camp July 25-29 and a Python coding camp in Charleston Aug. 3-5,
Students may register for upcoming camps online at http://www.rcbi.org/index.php/education-training/summer-camps.
RCBI receives grants to fund summer STEM camps for W.Va. students
STEVE KARNOWSKIASSOCIATED PRESS
The fatal shooting of a black man in his car by a Minnesota police officer went viral Thurs-day, its aftermath broadcast live over Facebook by the vic-tim’s girlfriend, who cried that he had just been shot “for no apparent reason.”
The shooting happened late Wednesday during a traffic stop in the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights. The interim police chief in nearby St. An-thony, Jon Mangseth, said he was aware of the video but had not seen it.
In the video, the woman de-scribes being pulled over for a “busted tail light” and says her boyfriend had told the of-ficer he was carrying a gun for which he was licensed. She says he was shot as he reached for his wallet.
The video appeared to be genuine, but The Associated Press could not immediately verify it with family members, and authorities did not confirm its authenticity.
As word of the shooting spread, relatives of the man joined scores of people who gathered at the scene and outside the hospital where he died. They identified him as Philando Castile of St. Paul, a cafeteria supervisor at a Mon-tessori school.
Castile’s girlfriend said Thursday that he was killed even though he complied with the officer’s instructions. Dia-mond Reynolds told reporters that Castile did “nothing but what the police officer asked of us, which was to put your hands in the air and get your license and registration.”
Speaking to CNN early Thursday, Castile’s mother said she suspected she would never learn the whole truth about her son’s death.
“I think he was just black in the wrong place,” Valerie Cas-tile said, adding that she had underlined to her children that they must do what authorities tell them to do to survive.
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Minnesota police kill man in car; video is widely shared
LEILA NAVIDI | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Protesters hang signs on a post near the scene of Philando Castile’s shooting in Falcon Heights, Minn., Thursday, July 7, 2016. Castile was shot in a car Wednesday night in the largely middle-class St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights.
“My family will have to figure out how they can finance another vehicle while still having to finance me for 3 more years at Marshall, while Marshall continues to increase their tuition.”
— Jasmine Wright, Marshall sophomore
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Indian Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers in Gauhati, India, Thursday. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the Islamic holy Islamic month of Ramadan, during which devout Muslims all over the world fast from sunrise to sunset.
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What it’s like to be a Muslim in today’s society
By KARIMA NEGHMOUCHE THE PARTHENON
Wednesday was what used to be my favorite day of the entire year: Eid. It’s a religious holiday Muslims celebrate after Ramadan, a month of fasting from food and water until sundown every night. It’s a huge cel-ebration, where families gather together to eat and pray.
Wednesday morning, I woke up, got dressed in my traditional outfit, and headed to the Mosque with my mom.
We parked a few blocks away, and as we were walk-ing, I noticed the drivers in the cars passing by gave us really suspicious looks.
That’s when it really hit me: Muslims, including my-self, are allegedly the most disliked and feared religion in America right now. People dislike me—not because of my looks or personality— but because of my culture and my religion.
I got an uneasy feeling in my stomach when I walked into the mosque and saw the police officers standing outside.
I grew up in this Mosque, and for the first time in my entire life, I felt unsafe.
I looked to my mom and sister, “I’m so scared,” I said, waiting for some reassur-ance that this feeling was just my anxiety. But I didn’t get that reassurance.
“We are too,” they said. We looked around and found an exit, just in case something happened. I tried to avoid crowded areas. I looked ev-eryone up and down that came close to me.
This is supposed to be the happiest day of the year for my family and other Muslim families. Instead of focusing on celebrating and visiting,
I was worried about how I could get out of there if I had to.
It’s so sad that we live in a world where so many are against such peaceful people.
I was greeted and kissed upon the cheek. “Mashallah,”
the ladies who watched me grow up would say to me. “You’ve grown up to be so beautiful.” I saw little kids running around playing and smiling. I saw people hugging and kissing. I saw teenag-ers helping the older people around. I saw so many acts of kindness.
“These are the people soci-ety has taught us to hate,” I thought to myself.
Being a Muslim in Amer-ica is so much scarier than what it should be. We are portrayed to be violent, com-mitting acts of crime in the name of Allah, which is the exact opposite of what Islam represents. Islam represents peace, charity, kindness, love and family.
It is so exhausting to have to explain to people that the radical acts that are commit-ted are not by real Muslims.
“We’re not bad people,” I’ll say as I rant to Twitter after
Muslim’s receive any nega-tive light in the media. I’ll go on and on, talking about how peaceful the religion is, but after all that we see in the media- I wonder to myself “Do these people really even believe me?”
These horrible acts of vio-lence have happened so often lately, sometimes I feel my-self questioning if I’m even comfortable identifying as a Muslim.
I often wonder if there was a religion I was unfamil-iar with, and all I constantly heard were the horrible things from the media and other people about it, would I still respect it? Who would I believe?
That’s why we can’t keep letting people be ignorant to others beliefs. The only way to make the world a more peaceful, melting pot, is to educate others. Peace can-not be kept by force; only by understanding.
Muslims aren’t much dif-ferent than the “average” person. We’re not some kind of programmed threat to so-ciety. Allah isn’t some made up God that goes against ev-eryone else’s beliefs.
Allah means “God.” The same God Christians and Jews worship. We are not dif-ferent, and we have to learn to start loving people, even if they’re not exactly like us. We have to stop hate crimes and violence. We all have a voice; we all have friends with voices. Begin by being the change you wish to see. “We’re all going to the same place,” my mother used to tell me. “We’re just taking a different road there.”
Yesterday, I posted a picture with my dad on Face-book, in front of the Masjid. Hours later, I realized I posted it on Facebook… a so-cial media platform where I know I have some “friends” who don’t agree with Islam, and have called me out for my beliefs before. “Friends” that I was too scared to un-friend, and kept me silent, due to my fear of backlash if I posted anything about my beliefs.
“You have always been so proud of your heritage. That’s one of your main characteristic. Don’t compro-mise that because of them,” my best friend told me as I started to freak out over the post.
I’m done worrying about what other people will see or think of my religion. I’m done hiding my heritage, because my heritage is all of who I am. My culture has shaped me into the person who I am today, the person who I’m proud of. And no one should have to live in fear of who they are.
“The Believers are but a single Brotherhood, so make peace with your brethren.” -The Quran 49:10.
Karima Neghmouche can be contacted at [email protected].
“This is supposed to be the hap-piest day of the year for my family and other Muslim families. Instead of focusing on celebrating and vis-iting, I was worried about how I could get out of there if I had to.
—Karima Neghmouche, Life! Editor”
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The U.S. Justice Department opened a civil rights inves-tigation Wednesday into the videotaped police killing of a black man who authorities say had a gun as he wrestled with two white officers on the pave-ment outside a convenience store.
Alton Sterling, 37, was con-fronted by police on Tuesday after an anonymous caller said he had threatened someone with a gun outside the store, where he was selling home-made CDs, authorities said.
In a cellphone video taken by a community activist and posted online, the two officers pinned Sterling to the ground, someone yelled, “He’s got a gun! Gun!” and gunfire erupted moments later.
At a news conference Wednesday, Baton Rouge Po-lice Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. said that Sterling was in fact armed but that there are still ques-tions about what happened.
“Like you, there is a lot that we do not understand. And at this point, like you, I am de-manding answers,” Dabadie said, calling the shooting a “horrible tragedy.”
The officers, identified by the chief as Blane Salamoni, a four-year member of the de-partment, and Howie Lake II, who has been on the force for three years, were placed on administrative leave, standard department procedure.
Authorities would not whether one or both fired their weapons or how many times.
Gov. John Bel Edwards and the U.S. Justice Department an-nounced the investigation by the department’s civil rights division.
“I have very serious con-cerns. The video is disturbing, to say the least,” Edwards said.
The shooting fueled an-ger in Baton Rouge, with hundreds protesting Tuesday night and demonstrations continuing Wednesday. Com-munity leaders and Sterling’s family demanded a federal investigation.
“Mr. Sterling was not reach-ing for a weapon. He looks like a man that was actually
fighting for his life,” said state Rep. Edmond Jordan, an attor-ney for Sterling’s family.
Quinyetta McMillon, the mother of Sterling’s teenage son, trembled as she read a statement outside City Hall, where a few dozen protesters and community leaders had gathered. Her son, Cameron, 15, broke down in tears and was led away as his mother spoke.
She described Sterling as “a man who simply tried to earn a living to take care of his children.
“The individuals involved in his murder took away a man with children who depended upon their daddy on a daily basis,” she said.
The police chief urged pro-testers to remain peaceful, and Mayor Kip Holden like-wise sought to ease tensions,
saying, “We have a wound right now, but we’ll be healing and making this city and parish whole again.”
Police said they have dash-cam video, bodycam video and store surveillance footage of the shooting that will be turned over to the Justice Depart-ment. But Lt. Jonny Dunnam said the bodycam footage may not be as good as investigators hoped for because the cameras became dislodged during the scuffle.
The Justice Department will look into whether the officers willfully violated Sterling’s civil rights through the use of unreasonable or excessive force.
Similar investigations, which often take many months, were opened following the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in
New York.Federal investigators must
meet a high legal burden to bring a civil rights prosecution, establishing that an officer knowingly used unreasonable force under the circumstances and did not simply make a mistake or use poor judgment. Many federal probes conclude without criminal charges.
In the video, which appears to be shot from inside a nearby parked car, one of two offi-cers outside the store can be seen tackling a man in a red shirt and wrestling him to the ground. Then the other officer helps hold the man down.
At one point someone can be heard saying, “He’s got a gun! Gun!” and then one officer on top of the man can be seen pulling his weapon from his holster.
After some shouting, what
sounds like a gunshot can be heard and the camera pulls away. Then more shots can be heard. At one point, a per-son in the vehicle asks, “They shot him?” as a woman can be heard crying.
The store’s owner, Abdul-lah Muflahi, told The Advocate newspaper that Sterling was not holding a gun during the shooting but that he saw of-ficers remove a gun from the man’s pocket afterward.
On Wednesday, when a pastor told the small crowd gathered that the protest should be peaceful, 45-year-old Sharon Alexander, her voice cracking, countered: “We don’t need peace. We need an-swers; we need justice.”
Alexander, who was there with her daughter and three other relatives, said later: “We sound like a broken record. It’s
time for a change.”Protesters and friends cre-
ated a memorial to Sterling on the white folding tables and folding chair he had used to sell homemade music compila-tions on CDs.
“He never bothered nobody. He was just trying to make an honest dollar,” said Arthur Ba-ines, who came by to pay his respects.
Mufleh Alatiyat, an employee of the store, said Sterling often gave away CDs or petty cash or bought food or drink for some people. “He was a very nice guy,” he said. “He helped a lot of people.”
The man who claimed to have shot the cellphone foot-age, Arthur Reed, said his company, Stop the Killing Inc., makes documentary-style vid-eos about killings in Baton Rouge.
GERALD HERBERT | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nishka Johnson touches a makeshift memorial for Alton Sterling, outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, July 6, 2016. Sterling was shot and killed by Baton Rouge police outside the store where he was selling CDs.
Feds open investigation into deadly police shooting
“I know my son ... we know black people have been killed ... I always told them, what-ever you do when you get stopped by police, comply, comply, comply.”
Castile’s exact age was not immediately clear. Relatives said he was 32. Reynolds said he was to turn 35 later this month.Castile’s exact age was not immediately clear. Rela-tives said he was 32. Reynolds said he was to turn 35 later this month.
Police did not release any details about the officer who fired except to say he had been placed on paid ad-ministrative leave. Reynolds described him as Asian.
It was the second fatal shooting this week, com-ing only days after a black
37-year-old man was killed by officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling’s death was caught on video.
On Wednesday, the Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation into Ster-ling’s shooting, which took place after he scuffled with two white police officers out-side a convenience store.
In a written statement, Min-nesota Gov. Mark Dayton said he asked the White House to begin a Justice Department probe into Castile’s death. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension opened its own independent investigation overnight, he said.
Castile’s cousin, Antonio Johnson, told the Star Tribune that because Castile was a black man driving in a largely
middle-class suburb, he “was immediately criminally pro-filed and he lost his life over it.”
The site of the shooting in Falcon Heights is close to the Minnesota State Fairgrounds and not far from a clutch of fields associated with the University of Minnesota’s ag-ricultural campus.
Late Wednesday, protesters moved to the governor’s man-sion in nearby St. Paul, where around 200 people chanted and demanded action from Dayton, a Democrat. By day-break, around 50 protesters remained outside the man-sion despite a light rain.
The video posted Wednes-day night on Facebook Live shows the woman in a car next to a bloodied man slumped in a seat. A clearly distraught person who ap-pears to be an armed police officer stands at the car’s window, telling the woman to keep her hands where they are and intermittently swearing.
Mangseth said he was “made aware there was a livestream on Facebook” but that he did not know anything about its contents.
In the video, the officer tells her to keep her hands up and says: “I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand out.”
“You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration,
sir,” the woman responds.The video goes on to show
the woman exiting the car and being handcuffed. A young girl can be seen and is heard saying at one point, “I’m scared, Mommy.”
The woman describes being put in the back seat of the po-lice car and says, “The police just shot my boyfriend for no apparent reason.”
A handgun was recovered from the scene, police said.
Clarence Castile spoke to the Star Tribune from the Hennepin County Medical Center, where he said his nephew died minutes after arriving.
He said Philando Castile had worked in the J.J. Hill school cafeteria for 12 to 15 years, “cooking for the little kids.” He said his nephew was “a good kid” who grew up in St. Paul.
Minnesota court records online show Castile had some misdemeanor violations, mainly related to driving.
The president of the Min-neapolis NAACP, Nekima Levy-Pounds, told the crowd she has no faith in the system in the wake of this and other police shootings of black men.
“I’m tired of the laws and policies on the books being used to justify murder,” Levy-Pounds, a civil rights attorney, said as rain began to fall. “This is completely unaccept-able. Somebody say, ‘Enough is Enough.’”
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Members of Together Baton Rouge bow their heads in prayer at the start of a news conference, regarding the recent shooting of Alton Sterling, in Baton Rouge, La., Thursday.
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Heat bank on Whiteside staying “white hot”Former Herd center remains with Miami,signs reported 4-year, $98 million contract
“I’VE PLAYED ON EIGHT TEAMS SINCE COLLEGE — FROM RENO TO SIOUX FALLS TO SICHUAN, CHINA.
I AM NOT READY FOR THERE TO BE A NINTH.
I HAVE DECIDED TO RE-SIGN WITH MIAMI. I JUST WANTED TO TAKE THIS TIME TO TELL ALL THE FANS HOW MUCH YOU MEAN TO THIS TEAM, AND TO ME.
CAN’T WAIT TO GET BACK TO WORK AND TRY TO BRING ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIP TO MIAMI. #HEATNATION”
— HASSAN WHITESIDE,THE PLAYER’S TRIBUNE
Whiteside earned an estimated $3.27 million during his first four NBA seasons, with $1.75 million of that coming during the last two season in Miami. The Gastonia, N.C. native averaged 13.3 points, 11.1 rebounds and an NBA-leading 3.2 blocks per game his two years with the Heat prior to signing his new deal.
AP PHOTO/CHUCK BURTON, FILEBy BRAXTON CRISPFOR THE PARTHENON
There’s no denying that sports have become one of the biggest money markets in the world.
Most of that money changes hands between television companies and teams or leagues for their broadcast rights. But now all the talk about giant contracts is centered around NBA free agency signings of the last week.
Besides the fact that he’s left Oklahoma City to go to Golden State, Kevin Durant is expected to make a pretty penny in Oak-land. To the tune of $27 million for each of the next two seasons. It’s hard to say that Durant doesn’t deserve that kind of cash. He’s been an All-Star each of the last seven seasons and he’s averaged over 27 points per game throughout his career.
But what about some of these other play-ers who are raking in some serious coin?
One player who falls into that category is Jon Leuer, the big man out of Wisconsin.
He’ll be with the Pistons this fall after Detroit signed him to a four-year con-tract worth $42 million.
In case you don’t recall, or simply didn’t know that Jon Leuer is in the NBA, he’s averaged 5.6 points and 3.5 rebounds in 13.7 minutes per game through 253 career contests. His best season was last year in Memphis, with 8.5 points and 5.6 boards per game.
Still, those numbers aren’t worth $10.5 million per season for the next four years.
An explanation to my anti-basketball fi-ancé of the contracts being doled out yielded the following quote, and I can’t blame her.
“You should start playing basketball. Ob-viously you don’t have to be very good at it.”
That’s quite a flattering statement, and rest assured I won’t be trying out anytime soon. Every player in the league is quite good at what they do to even be in that position. But
at some point the contracts are ridiculous.For comparison sake, Luke Kuechly of
the Carolina Panthers is making a hair over $12.36 million per season to be one of the meanest, nastiest and all-around best linebackers in the NFL. Kuechly also went to the Super Bowl last season.
Leuer and the Grizzlies were swept in the first round of the NBA playoffs by San Antonio.
Another case in point is Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson. He made $14.325 million for his efforts last season. Those efforts culminated in being an All-Star, American League MVP and Silver Slugger at third base for the American League.
Arguably two of the best players at their sports are making within a few million dol-lars of a pine-riding role player in the NBA.
Part of the blame should be directed toward the NBA for raising the salary cap a drastic amount for next season. In the last two off-seasons, the salary cap has gone up about $4.5 million and $7 million respectively. Heading into this coming season, the salary cap jumps from an even $70 million to over $94 million.
But part of the blame should also be directed at NBA ownership. Haggling over money is a two-way street, and based on some of these contract values it seems like player agents have shot high but still managed to get the deal signed without much kickback from owners.
Ironically enough, it’s almost as if NBA players, agents and owners are sticking to this saying from Republican presump-tive presidential nominee, Donald Trump: “Money was never a big motiva-tion for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”
Braxton Crisp can be reached at [email protected].
NBA free agency way beyond ridicilous
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