Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Where's Jesse?

PHILADELPHIA -- Maurice Cheeks is running the show again for the Philadelphia 76ers.

In a surprising move nearly three weeks following the end of their season, the Sixers fired Jim O'Brien on Monday after one season as coach and replaced him with Cheeks, one of the most popular players in franchise history.

So Jim O'Brien (white guy) was fired after one season in which he went 43-39 and made the playoffs with a very bad team (Iverson, and crippled Chris Webber, and some bad role players). He's being replaced with Maurice Cheeks (black guy).

So what's the problem? There isn't one. Apparently, the Sixers wanted to play a different style of basketball, O'Brien wasn't particularly liked by his players, and Mo Cheeks is available (a former beloved Sixer with head coaching experience).

But where are the shucksters (i.e. Jesse Jackson) who howled over the firing of Ty Willingham after "only" 3 seasons? Where are the reverends who blasted the firing of Ray Rhoades? Where are they? Where?

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