Grant Hill vs. Jalen Rose
Not being a basketball aficionado, I hadn’t the slightest idea of who Grant Hill and Jalen Rose were and why the two were embroiled such a commotion in basketball circles.
I still don’t really know much about them but I do think I have a grip on the commotion. Hill doesn’t fit the profile of some NBA-ers and he particularly bothers the retired Jalen Rose. Rose thinks Hill is an “Uncle Tom” who went off the plantation, sucking up to the White Man.
Hill, who currently plays for the Phoenix Suns, was an all-around college athlete on the Duke Blue Devils, Team USA member, and noted for his 1992 exploit in the NCAA regional championship game against Kentucky. All that went for nought with Jalen Rose who recently ripped into the former Duke star.
Hill’s crime against his race consisted of being a proud black man whose principal crime was that he posessed a sense of personal integrity.
The controversy centered on a Jalen Rose-produced ESPN documentary, “The Fab Five,” about the Michigan basketball careers of Rose, Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson from 1991 to 1993. They are said to have revolutionized the game of basketball with their baggy shorts, black socks, tattoos, and bald heads–and attitude.
Called by some candid, insightful, and chock full of integrity, Jalen Rose may have been candid but didn’t demonstrate much in the way of insight or integrity in his comments in the ESPN film. They could better be classified as bitter, envious, and resentful, according to Rose himself. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3905)
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