Fab 5

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http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/grant-hills-response-to-jalen-rose/?scp=2&sq=grant%20hill&st=cse

That is a FANTASTIC response from Grant Hill.

Please read the above link.

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I caution my fabulous five friends to avoid stereotyping me and others they do not know in much the same way so many people stereotyped them back then for their appearance and swagger. I wish for you the restoration of the bond that made you friends, brothers and icons.

I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.

You go Grant.

[mr beauxjangles]

It was very good. IMO the Reggie Miller piece was the best so far, followed by The Two Escobars. This was a close third.

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I liked the Escobar one a lot.

[Johnny Rockets]

You go Grant.

I am not a Grant Hill or a Duke fan but that last paragraph put a smile on my face.

[Kitten Diver]

I am not a Grant Hill or a Duke fan but that last paragraph put a smile on my face.

This. Grant Hill was and probably will always be my favorite of the dookies. He was always an upstanding guy and to be called an uncle tom and a b*tch says a lot about Jalen Rose..

[mr beauxjangles]

i'm gonna apologize in advance because i'm probably going to piss a lot of people off here, but jalen rose said what i imagine many black kids from inner cities felt about black players at duke twenty years ago. he said he thought they were uncle toms. he didn't say "duke recruits uncle toms" or "i still believe they recruit uncle toms" - he said that at the time he thought that duke recruited uncle toms and didn;t recruit "players like him." he admitted that he was jealous of what kids like grant hill were afforded in their upbrining. he was honest about how he felt as a teenager. that's it.

and as far as him calling them "bitches" - aside from duke fans, who hasn't called a duke basketball player a bitch at some point.

grant hill is one of the only duke players i really like. but this was a pretty stupid move. a documentary film maker asked jalen rose what he thought about duke and its players when he was a teenager and jalen gave an honest response. grant hill wrote some butthurt editorial in the ny times making a big deal out of something that IMHO was not a big deal at all.

[Kitten Diver]

true. I'm guessing the current "uncle tom" types play lacrosse at Duke and the Ivy's. Back then I could see that being the case at Duke. When K recruited Brand and Maggette's class the stereotype probably ended.

[bigcatdaddy]

i'm gonna apologize in advance because i'm probably going to piss a lot of people off here, but jalen rose said what i imagine many black kids from inner cities felt about black players at duke twenty years ago. he said he thought they were uncle toms. he didn't say "duke recruits uncle toms" or "i still believe they recruit uncle toms" - he said that at the time he thought that duke recruited uncle toms and didn;t recruit "players like him." he admitted that he was jealous of what kids like grant hill were afforded in their upbrining. he was honest about how he felt as a teenager. that's it.

and as far as him calling them "bitches" - aside from duke fans, who hasn't called a duke basketball player a bitch at some point.

grant hill is one of the only duke players i really like. but this was a pretty stupid move. a documentary film maker asked jalen rose what he thought about duke and its players when he was a teenager and jalen gave an honest response. grant hill wrote some butthurt editorial in the ny times making a big deal out of something that IMHO was not a big deal at all.

Actually he said he still feels that way, he just understands now that is how the program runs. He has never backed down from his statements and I applaud G Hill for the way he handled it, it was very well written and got his point across. It made me proud to be a Duke fan.

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/26302/video-roseking-defend-duke-comments