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Originally Posted by dlishsguy
can anyone tell me which white man has scored the most points in an nba game? just curious..cos i doubt it'd make the same headlines that these two stories have made if it were ever broken.
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Pete Maravich, 68.
The reason it wouldn't get news is because it's not a breakthrough achievement. All of the records were held by whites up to the late 50's early 60's, when guys like Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, and Oscar Robertson started getting in regularly. There's no "white barrier" to break in basketball, so it isn't news.
Progress isn't necessarily when you have the first person of group X to do A. That's a milestone, the first step in real progress. Real progress is when people from group X do A so routinely that it's no longer news, such as women astronauts. It's no longer news because there are almost always women on board space shuttle flights.
The two achivements in the OP are news. It's yet to be seen whether they'll be anomalies or signs of things to come. Firsts matter, but they matter far more when they're part of trend, and not a temporary blip.
Gilda