Howard Stern wants ‘black players’ on Knicks ‘to talk to him’ when he’s courtside at MSG
Stern said when he’s seated next to Tracy Morgan, the players “give him that bro shake and stuff.” He added, “And I’m like — these guys should hug me too.”
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Radio shock jock Howard Stern said that “black players won’t come over and say hello to me” when he’s sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden for Knicks games.
Stern said that the players prefer to “go over to Spike Lee” and other black celebrities that he sits next to, including Chris Rock and Tracy Morgan.
“When I, you know, I have courtside, they put me courtside and the black players won’t come over and say hello to me, but they go over to Spike Lee,” the shock jock said.
Robin Quivers, Stern’s sidekick, asked: “They don’t acknowledge you at all?”
“No. I’ll be sitting next to Tracy Morgan or Chris Rock,” Stern recalled. “You know, they seat you where they seat you.”
“They like give him that bro shake and stuff,” Stern added. “And I’m like — these guys should hug me too.”
Stern said: “I mean, what am I? I grew up in a black neighborhood [in the Long Island town of Roosevelt], you know what I mean?”
“I mean they should know that. But I get ignored.”
Stern told Quivers that he thought he was being shunned because he’s a “white guy.”
“You think it’s a racial thing? I’m sure they talk to some white people,” Quivers said.
“Yeah, maybe they don’t like me. I don’t know,” Stern said.
“I’d like to think it’s a white thing, not my personality.”
“I hope it’s racial. That’s all.”
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