George Karl rips Carmelo Anthony, Kenyon Martin in upcoming book- calls them fatherless crybabies

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I'd really suggest anyone who is interested in truly understanding the layers involved in this discussion to pick up this book(truly my favorite):

The Condemnation Of Blackness - by Harvard Professor and former Director of the Harlem Schomburg Center, Khalil Gibran Muhammad.

Matter fact,
the first two people who reply to this, I'll even cop it for you. We'll discuss in PMs where I could deliver it to.

Quick synopsis of book:

:ohhh: The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Book by Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Paperback) | chapters.indigo.ca
 

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Kenyon wrote a response article for Players Tribune

My Side of the Tracks | The Players' Tribune


I wasn’t the nicest player during my whole career, and I didn’t make all the right decisions. I admit that. I bought a lot of jewelry at like age 23 that I probably didn’t need. I talked back more than I should’ve. I probably went out too much. I got a lot of technicals. I once punched Karl Malone in a game for no real reason. I’m not sorry for most of my fights, because I believe in standing up when I’m tested. But I feel bad about that one.

:heh:
 

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Exactly and karl is a bytch, snake and a good old boy.

These young boys on here don't know back in the 90s karl made a slick comment saying to the fact all the black coaches getting jobs in the league was because of affirmative action and not because they could coach.

So fukk karl.....I been saying fukk that hoe since the 90s.


i never knew about that.

no wonder they always rip George karl on PTI whenever his name comes up.

karl was always one of my favorite coaches cuz he coached the sonics & nuggets, played uptempo and had that smug look to go with it. nevermind now. f*ck it.
 

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Breh!!!

Any time I mentor new law grads going into Criminal Law... I tell them the trifecta on Race, Society and Criminal Justice are Condemnation of Blackness, Slavery By Another Name, and The New Jim Crow. Low key, The New Jim Crow is the weakest out of all of them, and that's not a shot at the book. it just means all of them are brilliant.

Good shyt, Rebel. :salute:

I just purchased all three of these books. Thanks for recommendation.
 

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Like what?
For starters his comments on LeBron James and his "posse"...

"The players have been dressing in prison garb the last five or six years. All the stuff that goes on, it's like gangster, thuggery stuff. It's time. It's been time to do that. But one must remember where one came from. I was wearing bib overalls when I was a player one time. But I wasn't going to the games or events in them."
-Phil Jackson on NBA dress code

"Throughout the years the black players on the Knicks have possessed much better physical ability than the white players, being generally faster and better jumpers. I also think that they have always had superior one-on-one talent."

"White players are more often willing to run patterns and to work collectively."

"Because of the predominance of blacks in pro basketball, the sport is rapidly disintegrating into a one-on-one sport. There are only five or six NBA teams who play with more than a superficial degree of team unity."

On the Knicks: "The starting front court played white basketball while guards played black basketball."

"Black kids growing up want to be the superstar of their neighborhood. They want to be the toughest kids on the block, the richest or, once they get to the playground, the best one-on-one basketball players. White kids, on the other hand, usually are raised in a more homogeneous environment which provides other outlets for personal expression. They're also constantly being taught the principle of subordinating their own personal glory for the good of the group."

"The average player's career is a very short period of his life, and the minute he's through nobody knows who is. Twenty-five years from now the only people who will remember me will be a few trivia experts, and that's exactly how it should be. A lot of black players look at their careers differently. Many blacks have let themselves believe that being in the NBA is one of the greatest things a person can accomplish. I believe this type of feeling is ultimately very destructive, because the only way you can live with it is to get into a heavy fantasy trip. I've seen the process develop many times, and very few players ever find happiness that way."
-Phil Jackson on black vs. white players in NBA
 
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