Tradition, Twitter, Roger Goodell and Josh Gordon – WFNY Podcast – 2014-09-12
September 12, 2014Saints’ poor tackling gives Browns’ offense plenty of opportunity
September 13, 2014Former Cleveland Cavaliers general manager Danny Ferry is in the midst of a scandal involving former Cleveland Cavaliers veteran small forward Luol Deng and a scouting report which contained racial slurs. Ferry’s story is that, when he told team owners that Deng had “some African in him,” he was relaying information off a free agent scouting report. That report has now come to light, thanks to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB Channel 2, and it appears that there are ties to the Cavs front office.
The Luol Deng “African” comment appears to have come from a Cavaliers executive. http://t.co/5gxX1MWFq4 pic.twitter.com/5FqQOZVmPZ
— SB Nation NBA (@SBNationNBA) September 12, 2014
The line in question revolves around “when we got him, Chicago had run him into the ground.” The passage that has gotten the most attention?
He’s a good guy on the cover, but he’s an African. He has a little two step in him = says what you like to hear, ubt behind closed doors he could be killing you. Con isn’t bad, but it’s there. African-like, store front looks great but there’s a black market section in the back.
Later in the report, the front-office member in question stated that Deng “kind of treated Cleveland like a pit stop after the trade” and “said some things privately to media, but denied them publicly.” Last February, Deng, while in New York, reportedly referred to Cleveland’s situation as “a mess” and disclosed that then teammate Dion Waiters was kicked out of a practice, only to deny the quotes in question. The report concluded that the issue was “not terrible, but you’ve got to know that stuff is there with him.”
The Hawks have publicly said they will not fire Ferry, who is in the crosshairs due to audio which has surfaced with the GM reading the above thoughts, though they have punished him internally. NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who recently dealt with racial issues involving former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, stood by Ferry, saying he saw no reason for the Hawks to take any further action.
Deng commented on the situation Tuesday, saying he was “saddened and disappointed” by Ferry’s remarks. All eyes now turn to Cleveland to see how the team and the NBA will handle this information becoming public. Following the release of the Sterling audio, Cavs majority owner Dan Gilbert released a statement saying “it is shocking that anyone could hold the kind of offensive and feeble minded views … The diverse staff members of the Cleveland Cavaliers franchise are unified in encouraging Commissioner Silver and the NBA to respond with swift and appropriate action consistent with a strong zero tolerance approach to this type of reprehensible behavior.”
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This is why we can’t have nice things.
Ferry not done screwing the Cavaliers yet!
i hear Delonte West is available.
Gloria has a little Delonte in her.
So Ferry isn’t taking responsibility and trying to blame Cleveland. What a shock.
deng is from south sudan.
his ‘being african’ refers to his continental culture not his race.
not all observations on race are racist (see the atlanta hawks owner fuss).
and this isnt even an observation on race but on african stores and on deng’s personality.
there are no racial slurs here unless you consider being called african (when you’re african) a slur.
the blinding stupidity of the outrage fest by the younger people in this country is embarrassing.
Thank you. Using a cultural stereotype to point out a character flaw is not necessarily being racist (is calling a cheap jew cheap racist or more so just accurate). It may seem crude but the intentions were not to demean his race but rather call to attention the fact that deng has shown a propensity to be two-faced
What exactly is “continental culture”? Africa as a continent is as large as the N American land mass from the Artic to Panama PLUS th top 3rd of South America. Are you saying that an Aleutian Eskimos, a white New Englanders, and a Portuguese/German Brazilian share some sort of shared “Continental Cultural experience”? I don’t think you have a clue as to what you are talking about.
No, not all observations on race are racist but saying “he’s got a little African in him”, and then equating that to being shorthand for being duplicitous, two faced, and amoral in business dealings (the black market remark) is absolutely racist. The person writing this report and apparently you agree that it is fair to categorize every single citizen of the continent of Africa as having the above traits.
The blinding stupidity of people who cant understand why people get offended when their entire race, gender, culture gets smeared by someone pointing out flaws in an individual member is pathetic
if the intention is to call Deng twofaced then call Deng two faced, don’t call Deng claim that Dengs twofacedness is do to his heritage. how hard is it to insult someone without dragging all sorts of other people into it?
Calling a jewish person cheap is not in and of itself offensive. Claiming his cheapness is caused by his Jewishness is. You cant possibly be too dense to understand this difference
Once upon a time sports allowed me to escape this kind of crap I mean stuff. Unfortunately these days sports is on par with politics which for me is not good.
You’re right in the fact that his phrasing construes that he believes this about all Africans (which I don’t believe is the case, more just using a stereotype, but if true would be racism). My issue (and why I agree with mike B) is that we are entirely to sensitive and eager to forge witch hunts for people who made candid closed door statements. We are at the beginning of a far greater “Leaked” trend and lets be honest, not all of our phrasing our entire life has been completely PC or even in line with the intention of our statements or beliefs
Finally! A reason to be mad at Danny Ferry!
What about the Gypsies then. They lie and steal and it’s part of their culture. If you take an arabs first offer he would be insulted. That also cultural. Ferry did nothing wrong. When is a stereotype not a stereotype?
Give me a break, white boy Ferry smacks some jack in his yak, ya put him in a sack cause he ain’t black, rest your neck, bonics is a language not an exclusive, the hypocrites need to get educated and chilled.
Yes you are right every single Gypsy in the entire world lies and steals, even if there are a few – or a few million – who don’t there are enough that do that it is entirely appropriate to lump the non lying non stealilng ones in with the others. You nailed that one, I have been defeated and will withdraw to winter quarters.
There are people that cant wait to be outraged at offenses given against other people and you’re right its eyerollingly silly and tiresome. That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be outraged over offenses given against themselves or in the case of pro sports offenses given against a group they belong to that is financially crucial to that sport.
Here’s a good rule. Make fun of anyone you want but leave every group he/she might belong to out of it. If a guys a jerk call him one, just don’t say he’s a jerk because of his race etc.
Accurate. Jews are a skurge on the planet. We are all taught to be nice to the poor jews. Awww the poor jewish people, the poor israeli people who kill and commit genocidal attacks and control 2/3 of the worlds wealth. Yeah they really have it rough lmao pull your had outta your ass douche
Thats as far from truth as you can get. Ferry never said any of this, its speculation by inferior media trying to create stories and interest in low level publications and sites like this one.
Its okay wfny. My lawyer got u on copyright infringement. Its on now huh
Follow @Waitin4NextYear . The real one w/ the copyright to prove it. This site is just rumors and fabrications. U want scoops follow me. Call me raisin bran cuz i got two scoops compared to 0 here.