Hawks will discipline GM Danny Ferry for repeating offensive comment

[Steezy]

I wouldn't qualify the jokes we (me included) make about the Hawks as "hate", no one thinks about the Hawks unless something like this happens or some fans start running their mouths like y'all about to take over the East...Lakers, cHeat, Celtics, Clips, indeed Knicks, those teams are hated for various reasons...it's just like no one "hates" the Mavs or the Warriors nothing to do with the actual quality of basketball being played...

 

[Roadie pipeher]

EVERYBODY clowns...im not saying its right...but you really think folks dont crack jokes because they are in management?

This shyt goes on in every company...no matter the race of the ownership/managers.
Only difference is this one got out.

Then fukk you defending this chump for? He knows luol I suspect more than any other gm, two he could have skipped that line unless he is a moron he brought this on himself...

I dunno what management you last worked in, why do you think the insistence on regular harassment classes came to be?

 

[Da King]

These nikkas destroyed Spurs East before it even got going good

I was looking forward to that Spurs vs. Spurs East finals

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Can we get official "c00n" badges to place under people's username kinda like the "Poster of the Year" and "WOAT" joints...time for jilla to be branded

 

[Walt]

This is bad. The Levenson self-snitching is starting to make a little more sense.

 

[I Got Werk]

Interview with Steve Koonin, Hawks CEO from today

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/09...le-are-wounded-we-have-to-earn-peoples-trust/

 

[WOAHMYGOODNESS]

I was looking forward to that Spurs vs. Spurs East finals

nikka that shyt wouldn't even happen in 2k lol yall joke too much

 

[USSInsiders]

Steven A is that you?

 

[Taadow]

You know whats the worst thing...no way in hell this chump doesn't know luol at least from his duke ties.

This is the VERY FIRST THING I thought of when I got wind of this story.

Real talk - I don't even know how to feel about the quote itself.
I laughed, because I didn't know why it was even brought up in this arena...
like, I didn't even know what they were trying to imply by it...but why would he need
a scouting report on Luol Deng?

He knows him from the alumni meetings and they're both members of the
"Duke forwards who should be in the paint but would rather shoot Js" Club...

 

[Rickdogg44]

@Born2BKing @AVXL @#1 pick @FreshFromATL @The_Sheff @Rekkapryde @Bruh Man 5th Fl @Rickdogg44 @I Got Werk @daemonova
You guys got links to what some of the ATL personalities said about this Hawks situation?

http://v103.cbslocal.com/2014/09/09...n-peoples-trust-back-and-thats-a-step-at-a-t/

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

I hope ferry stays. What he read was ignorant but I've heard worst in a workplace

 

[Black Hans]

So basically Danny Ferry called Luol Deng (and Africans) a deceitful scumbag

 

[Sly Cookin]

I dont want based ferry to be fired. Im just thinking of the shytty gm replacements we might get stuck with.

 

[Professor K.]

So basically Danny Ferry called Luol Deng (and Africans) a deceitful scumbag

Which is fukked up.... but is a legit stereotype.

Now before y'all flame me....

I know this Black and White situation, but if he was reading a Jordan Farmar report that said "He's got some Jew in him, he may get you a deal but keep 95% of the profits" or a Jeremy Lin report that said "He's got some Asian in him, he could do your math homework and then eat your dog" we would all be in here like

This shyt is stupid and Ferry should be disciplined/fired/forced to watch Roots, but this isn't the worst shyt he could've said.



























No c00n-o.

 

[the artist known az]

Here is Luol's comments

"I'm proud to say I actually have a lot of African in me, not just 'a little,' " Deng said in a statement Tuesday. "For my entire life, my identity has been a source of pride and strength."

"Concerning my free agency, the focus should purely have been on my professionalism and my ability as an athlete," he said. "Every person should have the right to be treated with respect and evaluated as an individual, rather than be reduced to a stereotype. I am saddened and disappointed that this way of thinking still exists today. I am even more disturbed that it was shared so freely in a business setting."

"However, there is comfort in knowing that there are people who aren't comfortable with it and have the courage to speak up. In the same way a generalization should not define a group of people, the attitude of a few should not define a whole organization or league."
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/1...uol-deng-saddened-comments-atlanta-hawks-call