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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 09:37 AM
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Wow. That's all I got for this one.
Wow damn wow.

MJ sells out players with hard-line stance
Jason Whitlock

(snip)

Now that NBA superstars have decided to fully engage in the lockout negotiations and threaten union decertification, David Stern and ownership have decided to unleash their token minority owner from the house to play hardball. According to The New York Times, Michael Jeffrey Jordan, the greatest player of all time, is the owner most determined to bury the union financially. Jordan allegedly wants current players to take a 10- to 20-point basketball-related-income pay cut.

Sellout.

This is the ultimate betrayal. A league filled mostly with African-American young men who grew up wanting to be like Mike is finally getting to see just who Michael Jordan is. He’s a cheap, stingy, mean-spirited, cut-throat, greedy, uncaring, disloyal slave to his own bottom line.

Nike’s “Air Jordan” marketing strategy was based on getting black inner-city kids to worship Jordan and his shoes. Allen Iverson, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Paul Pierce, the Fab Five, etc., made Michael Jordan a billionaire. The NBA Players Association fought like crazy so the Bulls could make $30 million balloon payments to Jordan in each of his final two seasons in Chicago.

And now Jordan, as the owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, wants to be the face of ownership greed and vindictiveness.

Sellout.

The rest: http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/Michael-Jordan-siding-with-David-Stern-in-NBA-lockout-a-selfish-betrayal-110411

(Emphasis added by me)

Damn. The lockout may prove to be more entertaining than a full NBA season, if this little verbal hand grenade is any indication.

Calling out Jordan?

Sellout?

Slave?

Thems fightin' words.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 09:45 AM
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1. yeah---it's also Jason Whitlock...
The Ann Coulter of sports writing.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 10:00 AM
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2. Is that a fact?
I don't usually peruse Fox Sports pages. He has a reputation for bombast?

Even so...this is the equivalent of a NewsMax "writer" denouncing Ronald Reagan as a homosexual communist Grateful Dead fan.

You'll sooner see a "Christians Against Christ" movement before you see NBA basketball shitmouth Michael Jordan.

Just my take. I find it astonishing, even for a histironically-inclined Fox writer.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-11 10:24 AM
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3. Hugely notorious for these types of articles.
Edited on Mon Nov-07-11 10:24 AM by trumad
He's just like Coulter---slivers into the woodwork and when he wants to come out will make a "our Blacks are better than their Black's" type of statement.

He slid out of the woodwork with this article.
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