Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Wat the Ute, not Yuta!!!

While looking for some blogs about whether or not people think the Golden State Warriors are, at this rate, going to get into the NBA playoffs (I personally don't think so -- to finish, say, 4 games above .500 and if they keep going barely above the Mendoza line on the road at .250 or so, they would have to finish 16-3 in their final 19 home games and there are at least 4 elite teams left to play at home), I ran across this post at The City blog:
"Notable players on [Warriors draft pick Patrick O'Bryant's NBDL Bakersfield Jam team] are Syracuse PG Gerry McNamara and Yuta Tabuse — the first Japanese player to play in the NBA."
Well, we know from A-Mac's history lesson about Wataru "Wat" Misaka, former Utah Ute national champion and New York Knickerbocker, that that's not true!...

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posted by dreamleague @ 1:33 AM   2 Comments Links to this post  

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At Thu Jan 18, 11:54:00 AM PST , dave said...

Hey,
Thanks for the comment. But looking at Wat's basketball-reference page (http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/misakwa01.html), it looks like he only played 3 games for the Knicks of the BAA, not the NBA.

 
At Mon Jan 22, 04:07:00 PM PST , dreamleague said...

Finally got around to researching this a little. Took me nary a single click...

The BAA became the NBA, and according to Wikipedia, "Misaka...was the first ethnic minority to play in the National Basketball Association (then known as the Basketball Association of America)."

And according to the 1947 BAA draft link on the webpage you referenced, we can instantly see that, among others, the NY Knickerbockers, Boston Celtics, Philadelphia Warriors, and Baltimore Bullets were all (obviously) BAA teams that went on to become the oldest teams in the NBA.

"WAT THE UTE, NOT YUTA!!!" is still valid.

 

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