Subscribe“Faster than a speeding…”
Before you complete that phrase, read Dan Steinberg’s “D.C. Sports Bog” from The Washington Post.
Steinberg does an in-depth parsing of remarks made over the years by the late Abe Pollin, owner of the NBA’s Washington franchise, formerly known as the Bullets (a name they had since their origins in Baltimore) but changed to the Wizards in 1998.
Abe Pollin with Michael Jordan
The situation is even more timely thanks to the Wizards’ poster boy for the NRA, Gilbert Arenas, who was suspended by the league for brandishing an unloaded handgun in the team’s locker room last December. He also faces criminal charges for unlicensed gun possession, loaded or not. (More about Arenas and his recent op-ed apology in the Post here.)
Why the name change? Was it because of the violent connotations of the “Bullets,” made all the more prominent by the assassination of Pollin’s friend and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin? Or was it a crass maneuver for more merchandise money? Opinions vary.
Pollin died last November at the age of 86.
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