froginmn
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He's been dead for 35 years, so no disagreement.As you pointed out, the answer is the former, it's silly already. So their stunt of potentially inviting DM to bring eyes to the tourney is reasonable, even understandable. Many teams turn down the CBI in general, so I don't think anyone was worried about cheapening it. I think they were worried about Pistol Pete. And I assure you, he probably doesn't care. There's nothing wrong with that sentiment. I just think it's weird to act on it.
I don't care either way truly. Just pointing out that it's strange to try to c block a kid that nobody is claiming is as good as Maravich. And the seniors on that team who aren't near a record, I feel bad for them if they wanted to play one more time together.
My feeling is that if you're going to invite a team for no reason other than to spoon feed a kid a historic scoring record that he couldn't break in his first 144 games, that's [ deposit from a bull that looks like Art Briles ].
And keep in mind that to invite Mercy, they need to leave a more deserving team out. I assume you'd feel bad for the kids on that team, who also want to play one more game together and actually earned the right by winning some games.