Jun 15th 2008 9:55AM by Michael David Smith

Becky Hammon is an American who plays for the WNBA's San Antonio Silver Stars. She's also going to play in the Olympics in Beijing -- but not for Team USA.

Instead, Hammon will play for Russia's Olympic basketball team. Hammon has no Russian ancestry, but she has played professionally in Russia, and she became a Russian citizen to aid her basketball career. In the eyes of the International Olympic Committee, that's good enough for her to play for Russia.
That doesn't sit well with some in this country. During a CNN interview, Team USA women's basketball coach Anne Donovan referred to Hammon as a "traitor." Similar sentiments were expressed today on ESPN's Outside the Lines.
But that's silly. This isn't war, it's basketball. Hammon wanted to be an Olympian, she wasn't chosen for the American team, and so she looked elsewhere. People who don't like the rules that allow that can blame the IOC, but blaming Hammon for wanting to play on her sport's biggest stage is wrong.

American Becky Hammon Called 'Traitor' for Representing Russia at the Olympics - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

Interview with Becky HAMMON -

Please at least attempt to not constantly remind everyone that you're a racist ... and stop SCREAMING all the time.

I have no problem with Becky playing for the Soviets, because she clearly knows where her heart is:

Essentially, she was moonlighting with a Russian professional team and couldn't attend the tryouts for the US team, not that she was expected to make it because while she's better than the best Russian players she's not among the elite in the US.

It would be ironic if it took an American to get the women's Russian team back into the medal hunt. I would think you would be embarrassed by and not proud of that fact.

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Michael1, I am White and proud of it. Do you have a problen with it?

So she couldn't make it on a WNBA team adn had to settle for playing on a Russian team??? Are you truly proud of this??? Congratulations, you got a bench player from the WNBA playing on your Olympic team.... woo-hoo

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

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Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."

ABSoLUTELy! Anyone who takes pride in the color of skin over content of thought gives me pause.

You are a deplorable. You continously post racisist material.

That you think being "White, and proud of it" makes you someone better than me.

Your're fatal flaw is that you will eventually be minimalized. 'Brown' people like me will eventually take over the intellectual world.
People like me of mixed race are not your racial slaves.

Eventually bigots like you won't control even marginal countries like the Soviet Union. Eventually brown guys like me will be able to engage formerly racist guys like you on an intellectual level. Of course, that assumes the extinction or asshole racists such as yourself.

In one thread you praise Indians, in another you praise American 'blondes'.

YOU are the problem and never the solution.

The good thing is that Americans do not simply waste away their lives HATING Russians as much as you seem to waste away your life hating Americans.

You live in the same nightmare world your Soviet government has always and continues to lead you into. You demonstrate day in and day out that you're nothing more than a mislead propagandist believer. Whatever your government tells you is the truth, seemingly MUST be the truth and you NEVER pause to consider otherwise.

I'm no longer going to consider your posts legitimate. I want you to be able to post your rants, but at this point will completely ignore any post you make that isn't entirely preposterout or just a hoot.


I never imagined myself to be in a position where I was simply just an American refuting a die-hard Communist=Russian, but this could be cool.


Plenty of people have been compelled to fight for and die for stupid reasons, Russians foremost.

Obviously Soviets didn't learn, even from their own history. Or wait ... there's is no question of what is 'history' in modern day Russia, is there?

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