Fuck Kyle Korver.

It's funny because the NBA as a microsociety is one of the few places in the U.S. where the black man is actually on top and the privileged group.

Yeah, especially since they keep trying to turn hip hop into pasteurized "pop" music fit for morning drive on B96, and pass off shitty barbeque as "competition" quality.

Either someone wrote this for him or Korver genuinely thinks that he, making $7.5MM a year, has more in common with his spectators than his colleagues. One is annoying, the other is alarming.

Isn’t he right that he wouldn’t have been hassled late at night in NY like Selfalosha?

I have more in common with the fans in the crowd at your average NBA game than I have with the players on the court.

Yes, but this line in particular:



Do you really, though? This is a weird sort of twist-and-a-half on Joakim Noah saying he plays for the guys in the 300 level, which gave Dan Bernstein a conniption fit because to him this meant Noah wasn't playing on behalf of, like, Rich Melman or something. Kyle Korver seems to think the white bourgeoisie are his people more than his black peers are. NBA tickets aren't cheap, anyone who's at a game is probably doing fine, but there's still a pretty big gap between some Salt Lake City car dealer at a Jazz game and a guy who has made tens of millions of dollars, and not only that, has made those millions in much more proximity to black people and black culture than the aforementioned SLC car dealer.

What?

This is one of the best things I've ever read on race and privilege.

JFC, it was a joke. Do you have to get so triggered in every exchange based on race?

Somehow these people feel impotent without a government guiding them (or forcing them at gunpoint). Jim Carrey, for example, is constantly on about income inequality. But he apparently wants someone else to "DO SOMETHING!" about it. As if he couldn't shed all but, let's say, $500,000 of his vast wealth by sharing the rest with people who have less.

Talk about triggered. I just didn't know what the fuck any of that meant.

I remember seeing an interview with him years ago where when he first started out in the industry and was broke he wrote himself a $20 million check and how proud he was when the day came that he could finally Had enough money to cash it .

I remember seeing an interview with him years ago where when he first started out in the industry and was broke he wrote himself a $20 million check and how proud he was when the day came that he could finally Had enough money to cash it .

Jim Carrey has been irrelevant and unfunny since he hijacked "In Living Color".

Yes, but this line in particular:



Do you really, though? This is a weird sort of twist-and-a-half on Joakim Noah saying he plays for the guys in the 300 level, which gave Dan Bernstein a conniption fit because to him this meant Noah wasn't playing on behalf of, like, Rich Melman or something. Kyle Korver seems to think the white bourgeoisie are his people more than his black peers are. NBA tickets aren't cheap, anyone who's at a game is probably doing fine, but there's still a pretty big gap between some Salt Lake City car dealer at a Jazz game and a guy who has made tens of millions of dollars, and not only that, has made those millions in much more proximity to black people and black culture than the aforementioned SLC car dealer.

I dont know what to say about Korver and this overall.

But I think this is what he meant about having more in common...

In other words, I can say every right thing in the world: I can voice my solidarity with Russ after what happened in Utah. I can evolve my position on what happened to Thabo in New York. I can be that weird dude in Get Out bragging about how he’d have voted for Obama a third term. I can condemn every racist heckler I’ve ever known.

But I can also fade into the crowd, and my face can blend in with the faces of those hecklers, any time I want.