Time to usher in some good news after last night's vomfest in Orlando. Though you've gotten used to the four of us handling duties around here, you're going to have to adapt to a new uncle. As you can now see in the masthead below, Where is Ben Rivera is now a contributing writer to the gang at Liberty Ballers. We can officially field a basketball team and also have enough guys for an episode of NEXT on MTV!
WIBR, whose real name is Dave, comes to us by way of his own Where Is Ben Rivera blog, and you'll no doubt remember him from his series on forgotten Sixers of our troubled and awkward past. We've been front paging his stuff anyway so we figured why not give him a little more room to roam while reinforcing our ranks at the same time. He'll be continuing this series and running with new series as time goes on. All of us think we have a nice stable of varying voices on the site and WIBR just adds another niche to our holster (I just made that a saying). We hope you welcome him with open arms and open fingers because he's a keeper.
Say hello and welcome aboard, WIBR!
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Congrats. Just be sure not to keep your turnovers down or you’ll quickly end up in the Doug-House.
tk76 - February 16, 2012
Also, a natural outgrowth of you forgotten players series would be a forgotten draft pick series.
I, for one, would love to reminisce about Christian Whelp.
tk76 - February 16, 2012
http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/PHI/draft.html
Or look back at the roots of Sixers “defensive specialists” (McKie, Ivey, Barnes, Buckner, , Raja Bell, Bowen, Overton, Wingate.
Sure, every franchise has its bench reserve guards, But none have built such an arsenal of plus defenders who bring those great intangibles (and often not much else.) Sure, the Sixers used to be known for their superstars from the 60’s-80’s. But that era is over- and these fringe guys are the ones that really characterize the Sixers of my memory. Then again I’m old, so AI was only a blip on my Sixers radar.
tk76 - February 16, 2012
If I ever run out of ideas, I’m just going to start posting pages from my coming of age novel loosely based on Clarence Weatherspoon’s life. The working title is “Pump Fake.”
Good ideas. Buckner was another brutal contract.
Dave Rueter - February 16, 2012
I think “Pump Fake” was already trademarked for the Andre Miller autobiography.
tk76 - February 16, 2012
Series Title – ‘Larry Brown’s Guys’
J.P.Melle - February 16, 2012
McKie...
…wasn’t a bad all-around player. Kind of a more evolved Evan Turner. He could knock down an open look, handle the ball as a point guard without screwing up, and was a decent rebounding guard. Of course, I’m a major Temple homer, but still, he wasn’t bad, and he was pretty much a perfect fit for the Larry Brown Traveling Road Show and Carnival. That’s a man what Played the Right Way.
dweebowitz - February 16, 2012
You finally have enough guys to take on Team Orton in a Survivor Series style match. Congrats!
grego314 - February 16, 2012
That’s what we were going for!
Michael Levin - February 16, 2012
Welcome
Ben16 - February 16, 2012
CholoG - February 16, 2012
Titles
Ben16 - February 16, 2012
In other news, the Dunk Contest is a veritable who’s who among NBA stars.
“Chase Budinger, Paul George, Iman Shumpert and Derrick Williams will compete in the slam dunk contest”
yosoysean - February 16, 2012
Did Blake turn down an offer?
Ben16 - February 16, 2012
He said outright that he didn’t want to do it.
soman319 - February 16, 2012
I must have been sleeping when he said it. Thanks. The dunk contest is usually the only thing I watch all star weekend but that lineup does not sound exciting.
Ben16 - February 16, 2012
Did someone say "New Addition"?
Bobby Brown Cool it Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZUq6N7Gx1c
Evan Turner would have been a huge New Addition, NKOTB and BBD fan back then…
tk76 - February 16, 2012
new edition i believe it was
J.Michael Woodson - February 16, 2012
That is correct.
tk76 - February 16, 2012
Congrats
When is your Greg Buckner edition coming out?
tst29 - February 16, 2012
Dave, welcome, keep writing interesting stuff
apfan - February 16, 2012
Welcome and please let us all know when you have confirmed the whereabouts of Ben.
jefu - February 16, 2012 via mobile
Stay tuned for next week’s episode!
Michael Levin - February 16, 2012
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