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NotSure
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Frank's 2027 Rankings
Posted Thu, Apr 10 4:44 am
https://burlisononbasketball.com/2025/04/notre-dame-guard-is-socals-top-sophomore

Well, I'm about as dumb as I look. That's comforting, at least. I think...

Apart from the top 3 usual suspects (it's hard for me to see Diop not moving up to 2026 and UCLA has offered Gene and hopefully they will do the same with the junior NaVorro), guys I like here are:

David Conerly, 6-5 G Inglewood: One of the sweetest Js I've ever seen. Jason Crowe, Jr, could average 10 APG just by throwing the ball to David at the right time (giving Inglewood 30 points) instead of averaging 5 APG and shooting some 44-footers that make no sense (note to Jason: Cronin might be your new father figure, but he won't let you shoot like your father does).

Jeremiah Profit, 6-4+ G Temecula Valley: He can shoot and create his own shot, a major scorer. Can't shoot as well as David, but a better creator with the ball.

Chris Sanders, 6-4 F Eastvale Roosevelt: Brayden has gone to Arizona, Isaac to New Mexico (hmmm, maybe he'll decommit and come to UCLA?) and Myles is still waiting for some coaches who will literally get fired if they make the mistake of not offering him a ride. If Chris grows to 6-7, he's a beast though his J doesn't go beyond 10 feet for now. In h.s., he made Nik Khamenia look like Monty Towe trying to play PF (I hope someone gets that reference).

Jerell Sessions, 6-4 PG Los Angeles Jordan: It's been a long time coming (well, apart from Reece Dixon), a high major player from South Central (though my Moms went to Dorsey, which is kind of almost Koreatown now). 4.2 GPA. Logline pitch for a Hollywood story: Trent Perry, but a lot faster. A lot.
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Wasn't Monty Towe the diminutive PG from NC?
Posted Thu, Apr 10 12:50 pm
In response to Frank's 2027 Rankings (NotSure)
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mjbruins33
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Towe
Posted Thu, Apr 10 1:24 pm
In response to Wasn't Monty Towe the diminutive PG from NC? (Wife a Bruin)
Played on the 74 NC State team with David Thompson. Played 1 season in the ABA and 1 in the NBA with the Nuggets
bruinstan22
Joined: 11/22/11 Posts: 3,025
I met and had a great conversation with
Posted Tue, Apr 15 2:19 pm
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Towe outside of a New Orleans restaurant when he was hired as the head basketball coach at UNO years ago. We talked about the semi final game against UCLA. Monte said that was the greatest night of his basketball life. I'm not sure about him reaching 5'7" in height. I'm 5'7" and towered over him! lol. He was an extremely nice guy.
NotSure
Joined: 3/09/23 Posts: 1,147
Indeed He Was
Posted Thu, Apr 10 6:36 pm
In response to Wasn't Monty Towe the diminutive PG from NC? (Wife a Bruin)
Just 5-7 and no rebounder or shot blocker or inside terror.

But as pointed out by someone faster than me, he did play 2 years of pro ball.

That was a dang good team. Tom Burleson, the 7-4 C, played possibly as many as 10 years in the NBA and I think he got 15.7 PPg and 10.4 RPG one season (something like that, my mind is going blank with age). He played mostly for the Seattle Supersonics.

Tim Stoddard, of course, at 6-8 240 became a HOF relief pitcher.

Moe Rivers, 6-2 shooter, can't recall if he ever played in the NBA or ABA.

And above all, there soared TWA.
8years
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LOL, I went to Dorsey, back in the day
Posted Thu, Apr 10 6:56 pm
In response to Frank's 2027 Rankings (NotSure)
when Marques Johnson was a 10th grader on the JV team, ready to move to the varsity, when his Pops decided that he wanted him to play for his friend Willie West at Crenshaw, and the rest is history.
NotSure
Joined: 3/09/23 Posts: 1,147
But What Is The Best Of The Rest Of History?
Posted Thu, Apr 10 8:35 pm
In response to LOL, I went to Dorsey, back in the day (8years)
Here's a true story (hopefully, the guy who runs this site won't delete it):

My Mom, Alice Alexander, who eventually married a guy named Dave with an M before I was born, went to Dorsey,

When I went to work for an entertainment law firm then called Armstrong, Hirsch & Levine (it's been called many things before and since and some of them not so nice), I told my Mom about Barry Hirsch who was called "The Actress Whisperer" in the trades because he repped all of the top actresses (or, as Mr. Spock would say, actors whom humans label as females for reasons that aren't logical) of the day: Streisand, Keaton, etc, etc.

My mother blushed a little and asked me to ask Barry Hirsch if he was the same Barry Hirsch who had graduated from Hamilton High (Hamohi) in the class of 1950 (it might've been 1949, but my memory is 1950).

My Mom was 18 when she graduated from Dorsey in 1952. Barely.

I asked her why I should ask Barry Hirsch this and she replied, "Because he f'd my brains out in 1950, when I was almost 16, and I always wondered what happened to him. Just wondering."

Hey, that was my Mom.

So I asked Barry Hirsch if he went to Hamohi and he answered in the affirmative in the Star Trek sense. I asked him if he had ever met a girl named Alice Alexander who went to Dorsey.

He suddenly started to cought and choke: "Why do you want to know? Why is that any of your business?" Kind of in a panicked way.

Me: "Because she's my mother and you f'd my mother when she was either 15 or 16 and you were 18."

I didn't say it with malice or glee, I was simply informing him of the facts, just the facts and nothing but the facts. In a Mr. Spock way.

That's when Barry turned bright red and had to get up and take a walk all of a sudden. Maybe he had to pee?

I burst out laughing and went to my office (I had been working there for about 2 weeks).

Can you top that with Marcus going to the Shaw to play for Willie West?

?

Some people think Barry f'd everyone at some point in his life, one way or another. I don't know.

I honestly don't know if he's even alive and I don't care. He wasn't my Dad, he just acted like it prematurely.

George Hayum, Bob Wallerstein, Gunnar Erickson, Tony LeWinter and Jim Jackoway were cool. Art Armstrong too. Like Jack LaLane. For real.

Then, there were some guys named Dick.

You know, short Richards...

Nothing to see here. Really, nothing at all. Move on and back to basketball now...
8years
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That’s a hilarious story
Posted Thu, Apr 10 10:07 pm
In response to But What Is The Best Of The Rest Of History? (NotSure)
The funniest part is that your Mother told it to you in the first place!
NotSure
Joined: 3/09/23 Posts: 1,147
Like I Said, That Was My Mom
Posted Fri, Apr 11 3:15 pm
In response to That’s a hilarious story (8years)
She once turned to 3 of us (there are 4 brothers) after our grandparents left to go home: "They've been married for 50 years and your grandmother told me she's only had two orgasms. I believe it. I didn't need to hear it, but I heard it."

We all agreed that we did too... or didn't, depending on what part we were referring to.

Several entertainment attorneys who know all those people have been emailing me about it.

I guess all sorts of people read this board.
NotSure
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Mom At the Ballet
Posted Fri, Apr 11 3:37 pm
In response to Like I Said, That Was My Mom (NotSure)
My Mom died of ovarian cancer in 1991. She had been diagnosed in 1987 and underwent a year of brutal treatment that seemed more like torture.

Prior to that time, 1989, I had bought a house with her in LA (she was out in LA, depressed and floating away, and I thought, well, maybe she can do better with one of her sons).

Then two of my brothers moved in right away. 3 sons. She definitely did better.

In 1989, I took her to see the ABT doing a special performance of "Giselle," with Cynthia Gregory, who I think was about 35, and Rudolph Nureyev who was over 50 (he had been diagnosed with HIV, but this had not been announced in public).

I remember being in the lobby of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for quite awhile and we overheard a bunch of people questioning "allowing" the "elderly" Nureyev to dance the lead male role, which includes in the final; act a series of pas de deux lifts of Gregory from an Arabesque pose (and, for the last one, Gregory would have to take a running start and he would catch her in the air and lift her overhead).

"He's going to die of a heart attack!"

"He's going to drop her and break her neck and break his too!"

That sort of stuff.

My Mom got really angry. This was Nureyev. If he couldn't do it, he wouldn't do it. How dare they question him?

We were in a box, great seats (hey, it was my Mom).

The terrifying moment came.

The house was dead silent as he made the first lift.

He made the second lift.

My mother actually said out loud, "Yawn."

Some people glared at her.

Gregory races towards him and leaps up into the air in an arabesque (friggin' hard to do). He catches her and lifts her overhead.

Then he lets go with one hand and keeps her aloft with one hand.

My Mom says in a very loud voice: "Well, it looks like the old man can still get it up!"

People were so shocked at both events, there was still total silence.

Nureyev looked out into the darkness and looked up and, with his free hand, he saluted my Mom.

Then he set Gregory down.

In 1989, people didn't applaud until the act or ballet was over, they didn't keep interrupting every ballet, play or whatever by applauding like they were at a pop concert or a basketball game.

I am laughing about this again right now.

That was my Mom.
123456bt
Joined: 1/16/14 Posts: 14,832
I am a bigger momma’s boy than
Posted Sat, Apr 12 8:57 am
In response to Mom At the Ballet (NotSure)
you

Mom’s rule
NotSure
Joined: 3/09/23 Posts: 1,147
Don't You Know Dr. Nash's Equilibrium Theory?
Posted Wed, Apr 16 12:53 pm (Edited Wed, Apr 16 12:54 pm)
In response to I am a bigger momma’s boy than (123456bt)
You're so competitive, Numbers.

Everybody loves their mother. That;'s why most of us are so miserable.
123456bt
Joined: 1/16/14 Posts: 14,832
moms rule
Posted Wed, Apr 16 6:46 pm
In response to Don't You Know Dr. Nash's Equilibrium Theory? (NotSure)
tears me a new one just about every other day.

I have become her...lol