JasonB wrote:Pretty sure it was a reference to some of the Ticket bits about descriptions of white players.
Probably so but you know those terms that the media uses about white players being smart, gym rats, hard working etc while they never hardly use those terms refer to black players. I think there is a least one black player that is smart, a gym rat, hard worker etc.
That is exactly the point of the Ticket bit he was talking about.
I'm not normally PC, but such descriptions are racist. For instance the implication of "gym rat" is that white players have to work harder because they have less talent.
ponyboy wrote:I'm not normally PC, but such descriptions are racist. For instance the implication of "gym rat" is that white players have to work harder because they have less talent.
I think the implication of white players being smart and hard working imply that most black players are not smart and don't work hard which is prejudice. Jim Nantz was the worst at saying that stuff.
"We will play man to man and we will pick you up at the airport." - Larry Brown
Clearly is racist because calling him a gym "rat" rather tham "person of gym dedication" refers to his Scottish heritage, a people disparagingly called "rats" and "rat faced" for their weird facial features.
couch 'em wrote:Clearly is racist because calling him a gym "rat" rather tham "person of gym dedication" refers to his Scottish heritage, a people disparagingly called "rats" and "rat faced" for their weird facial features.
"We will play man to man and we will pick you up at the airport." - Larry Brown
Who was the white kid from West Virginia who could jump out of the gym? Joe Morgan or something. He complained once that the always compared him to other white players when he had a 40" vertical
I’m blown away by him," one Western Conference executive said. "He’s a freakish talent. And it’s scary how good he could be, because he’s just now starting to figure it all out. He isn’t driven, he’s obsessed. I think he’s the next Tom Chambers."
Alexander sighs. "How come," he asks, "they only compare me to the white guys?"
