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June 08, 2011
Popeye Jones' Son Is A Rising Star, But Not In Basketball: Hockey?
To Popeye Jones this had to be a phase. His sons wanted to play hockey? At first he smiled when the subject came up after he returned home from an NBA season away.
Didn't basketball players' kids want to be basketball players too?
Something's not right here. Were their kids born at the same hospital on the same day?
posted by rcade at 10:47 AM on June 09, 2011
Nice feature, and glad Popeye didn't say "no." How many parents try to force their children to be something the kids don't want to be?
posted by jjzucal at 11:44 AM on June 09, 2011
Mike Grier is the son of Bobby Grier, a football player at Iowa and a coach and later an executive with the New England Patriots and the Houston Texans. The best advice for those with athletic children is to let them pick the sport they prefer rather than trying to mold them into the one you pick.
posted by Howard_T at 12:57 PM on June 09, 2011
Wonder what the day was like when Jah told Bob Marley that his son Rohan would eventually flourish in his own way within the continental bosom of dissolute frivolity and exile to play a cruel contact sport and live among lawbreakers and ruffians in a sponsored environment of skewed priorities.
posted by beaverboard at 01:34 PM on June 09, 2011
It was partly cloudy.
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 06:32 PM on June 09, 2011
And Wayne Gretzky's Son was drafted by the Cubs. Go figure.