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Grant Hill fires back at Jalen Rose, Michigan's Fab Five for calling Duke players 'Uncle Toms'
BY Andy Clayton
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Wednesday, March 16th 2011, 3:50 PM
Duke and Michigan have had some epic battles on the hardwood.
But the rivalry may have reached its boiling point Wednesday when former Duke star Grant Hill called comments made by Jalen Rose and other members of Michigan's Fab Five freshmen in a recent ESPN film "sad" and "pathetic" in an exclusive letter published by the New York Times.
ESPN's "The Fab Five" debuted on Sunday night and chronicled the Michigan careers of Rose, Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson. The five high school stars joined forces in 1991 and led the Wolverines to back-to-back Final Four appearances, losing in the national le game both times.
The outspoken Rose - who was an executive producer on the film and is currently an NBA analyst for the network - talked about his hatred of Duke in the two-hour do entary and his comments included the fact that he felt Duke only recruited black players he considered to be "Uncle Toms."
Hill, who was one of the stars of the Duke team that beat the Fab Five 71-51 in the '92 NCAA le game, didn't hold back in his stinging response:
I am a fan, friend and longtime compe or of the Fab Five. I have competed against Jalen Rose and Chris Webber since the age of 13. At Michigan, the Fab Five represented a cultural phenomenon that impacted the country in a permanent and positive way. The very idea of the Fab Five elicited pride and promise in much the same way the Georgetown teams did in the mid-1980s when I was in high school and idolized them. Their journey from youthful icons to successful men today is a road map for so many young, black men (and women) who saw their journey through the powerful do entary, "The Fab Five."
It was a sad and somewhat pathetic turn of events, therefore, to see friends narrating this interesting do entary about their moment in time and calling me a and worse, calling all black players at Duke "Uncle Toms" and, to some degree, disparaging my parents for their education, work ethic and commitment to each other and to me.
Hill isn't the only member of that Duke team to fire back at the Fab Five. Point guard Bobby Hurley told Dan Patrick on his radio show Monday that Rose wouldn't have been a star - much less a starter - at Duke.
"He might have had a hard time hitting the floor," Hurley, now an assistant coach at Wagner College, said, "because he wouldn't have taken my spot."
Hill, a seven-time NBA All-Star who currently plays for the Phoenix Suns, ended his letter with one last tweak.
"I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five."
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my butt hurts
OMG so funny!CROFL Fab Five
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VQ's understudy?OMG so funny!
Do entary on these losers???
ESPN proving they are
Hill = class
If anyone who thought lefty's one liners suck was VQ's understudy then Venti would be mentoring this whole site.
It wasnt supposed to be funnyOMG so funny!
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It wasnt supposed to be funny
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Hill is butthurt and took Rose's comments out of context. But Hill's white media masters will love this.
Rofl this is another tactic lefty loves to employ
lefty: really ty one liner of some sort
anyone else: "That's not funny at all, lol lefty's one liners"
lefty "
TrueRofl this is another tactic lefty loves to employ
lefty: really ty one liner of some sort
anyone else: "That's not funny at all, lol lefty's one liners"
lefty "
Greeks are better, imho
That chick in your avy is ugly TBH
Nope, and what's better is I'm actually ing the girl in my avatar, while you're merely masturbating to your avy.
I won't knock you for that though lefty...at least it's sex with someone you love.
Now don't disappoint with another patented one-liner, followed by a deluge of deleted posts
Nice pull, son.
Much ado about nothing.
In the doc Jalen and his crew never (Cweb refused to take part) said that they FEEL that way RIGHT now. what they said was back then, they hated duke and they thought they were a bunch of spoiled soft ass players. Jalen also admitted he was jealous of Grant and that he had "daddy issues" because Calvin was there for Grant as the son of a pro ...but Jalen did not know his pops ...
BTW this type of stuff STILL exists. At lunch today me and some buds of mine who coach AAU here in Plano/Frisco/Prosper (I don't actively coach right now) were discussing AAU ball in DFW ...and one of the main things we tell the Frisco Plano kids is that the kids from Desoto/Oakcliff/Skyline will NOT have any respect and will think they are pussies because their daddies ...have luxury cars. Kids from the suburbs ALWAYS have to prove their toughness to the innercity teams. I dont see the big deal ...Duke proved who was better when it mattered.
I have heard Webb and rose both give hill props ...sure they respect him now ...before this. LOL
You are ing that ?
Probably better than what you pick up at the Laugh Factory.
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