Today’s Alumni Classic between Arizona and ASU was more disappointing than the Suns’ 2008-09 season.
After all, at least the Suns showed up. We knew yesterday that the big guns (Gilbert Arenas, Jerryd Bayless) were out, but Hassan Adams, Eugene Edgerson, Kenny Lofton and Ben Davis were all no shows as well. Arizona’s only former scholarship men’s basketball player was Joseph Blair, a key force on the 1994 Final Four team. Meanwhile, the Devils had many of their top guys of the past decade aside from their 2009 draftees and their two NBA players (Eddie House and Ike Diogu), with guys like Curtis Millage, Bobby Lazor, Donnell Knight and even Serge Angounou leading the way to . Arizona’s second-best player was Lute Olson’s grandson Matt Brase, a former UA walk-on whom I once played against in Intramurals. Sure, Brase’s team crushed mine, but somebody I once played against in Intramurals shouldn’t be the second best player on an Arizona alumni team. Honestly, I’m pretty disappointed in my fellow Wildcat alums. I can understand Gilbert backing out and even Bayless (I never expected them to play, Gilbert at least, and such an event is really below Bayless when he’s the only NBAer), but what did guys like Hassan Adams and Ben Davis have to do today that was more important than a rivalry game for charity I can understand the NBA guys with big contracts wouldn’t want to take part, but why shouldn’t the others have chipped in for charity and enjoyed another 15 minutes of fame
I would definitely watch that, wouldn’t you