Here’s another piece of very interesting news. Again, I do not know exactly how it is going to help you make your wagers but I could not help but share this with you guys. Remember Spencer Hawes from Seattle? He has been drafted into Sacramento. As it turns out he is a right-wing fan Governor Schwarzenegger. Very interesting comments from the young guy:
Hawes says he “loves” Arnold, and that he brought True Lies with him on the trip to New York, with plans to watch it on the flight home. “Now it has a little extra meaning for me,” Hawes said.
Before we expect some kind of right-wing, basketball-and-politics partnership to form, though, Hawes might need to change his stance on global warming. Schwarzenegger, who most recently discussed the issue with world leaders during a tour of Europe, has become a leading figure in the fight for action against climate change. Hawes has a different view.
When I spoke with Hawes at the league’s predraft camp on May 31, he talked about a recent Public Debate class exercise at the University of Washington. In it, he said, he denied the entire existence — and human cause — of global warming. When asked for his take on Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Hawes said, “It’s one big lie. I talked about that in my opening speech — it’s the media’s liberal overexaggeration of just about everything.”
I wonder how Hawes will be in his opening game in the NBA? We have yet to see if his passion for politics will be anything like his passion for the game.