While making fun of the corporate-whorish NBA TV/Nike “24 Hours of LeBron” to celebrate LeBron James’ 24th birthday, I jokingly stated that the next Hornet birthday, I’d top that. January 13th is James Posey’s birthday. And I am a woman of my word. Check out the rest of the silliness here.
The X Factor
James Posey graduated from Xavier University in Ohio in 1999, where he led the team in rebounding each of the three seasons he played. It was only the beginning of the tradition of 6th Man excellence that we know and appreciate today. Posey was drafted by Denver with the 18th pick… sans (according to the pic) headband, high socks, knee pads, and hand tat.
Of course, a piece of Hornets trivia that most fans know is that David West also played at Xavier (in case you missed the big X tattoo on his left shoulder), graduating in 2003. (Which gives DX and me two things in common– graduating in 2003 and having our respective alma maters’ logo tattooed somewhere on our bodies. Now that is a little-known piece of trivia.) West got there the year after Posey left, which means they didn’t play together. A third Xavier connection on the current Hornets team is the fact that, in addition to West and Posey, Chris Paul was also coached by Skip Prosser in college, except at Wake Forest a couple years later. A fourth is that there’s an Xavier in New Orleans, but it is of course not the same one.
Busy
I would have my alma maters’ logo tattooed somewhere on my body except that LSU’s current “Toonces” logo is arguably the worst in all of major collegiate athletics.
Not so much into the hovering tiger thing?
I like the “X” myself.