{"id":27286,"date":"2013-01-04T04:09:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T04:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27286"},"modified":"2013-01-04T04:09:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T04:09:01","slug":"a-rising-hockey-star-with-n-b-a-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27286","title":{"rendered":"A Rising Hockey Star With N.B.A. DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Rising Hockey Star With N.B.A. DNA<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2012-12-20<\/p>\n

Jeff Z. Klein<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seth Jones<\/a> probably should have wound up a basketball player. He is tall, with a great vertical leap, and his father is Popeye Jones<\/a>, who played 11 years in the N.B.A.<\/a> and is now an assistant coach with the Nets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But instead, Seth Jones, 18, is projected to be a top pick in the N.H.L.<\/a> draft and may be on his way to becoming hockey\u2019s first African-American star.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d be shocked myself if I heard a story like that,\u201d Jones said, when asked if people are surprised by the combination of a basketball father and a hockey son. \u201cMe and my two brothers all play hockey, so it was weird, I guess, that none of us played basketball.\u201d…<\/p>\n

…Now in his first year with the Portland Winter Hawks<\/a> of the Western Hockey League<\/a>, Jones has 28 points in 31 games, third among rookies, and a plus-27 mark, fourth among all players. On the ice he is a commanding presence, a hard hitter. But more often he is the rare defenseman who can control a game\u2019s tempo with his stickhandling and passing \u2014 a \u201cfull-package defenseman,\u201d in the words of Phil Housley<\/a>, the United States coach.<\/p>\n

Probably not what anyone expected from a son of Popeye Jones…<\/p>\n

…The N.H.L., mired in a lockout and struggling to renew fan interest, would probably welcome the marketing potential of a young African-American star, especially if Jones were to play, say, in Brooklyn<\/a> when the Islanders<\/a> move there in 2015.<\/p>\n

Seth, whose mother, Amy, is white, said he would prefer that race not be part of the conversation when it comes to his hockey career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to be looked at as an African-American, you know?\u201d he said. \u201cI want to be looked at as someone who has good character, and people know me for the person I am, not my color.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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