Grant Hill Takes Issue With Fab Five Comments - Jalen Rose Responds on First Take

Former Duke basketball star Grant Hill called critical comments by former Michigan guard and current ESPN analyst Jalen Rose "sad and somewhat pathetic" in an open letter published Wednesday by the New York Times.

Rose, as part of an ESPN Films documentary "The Fab Five" that aired on Sunday (Rose was an executive producer), said Hill and other black Blue Devils basketball players recruited in the early 1990s were "Uncle Toms."

"I hated Duke and I hated everything Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms," Rose said in the documentary.

Hill, in the letter published on the Times website and signed "Grant Henry Hill, Duke '94," wrote that "In his garbled but sweeping comment that Duke recruits only 'black players that were 'Uncle Toms,' Jalen seems to change the usual meaning of those very vitriolic words into his own meaning, i.e., blacks from two-parent, middle-class families. He leaves us all guessing exactly what he believes today. I am beyond fortunate to have two parents who are still working well into their 60s. They received great educations and use them every day. My parents taught me a personal ethic I try to live by and pass on to my children."

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[sTalnaker13]

How is the guy a prick? He just said how he felt as a freshman/sophmore when they had to play against them. He means no disrespect now but in a sense he is right.

[mandolinoh]

Why are you on this video? You racist piece of Garbage. Eat a DICK sideways, and share it with your sheet wearing inbred family. Oh and keep an eye on your sister, she might be cheating on you.

[gta41978]

i miss u dana, so beautiful

[furioustek]

Rose is real! People hate real. Speak your mind and speak it well Rose!

[Jonathan Batts]

must not have been all that "Fab" then lol

[Jonathan Merkley]

I don't believe they did, they made it to the finals twice and lost both times, I think.

[joejacky33]

People like you make you laugh. News flash: The word "nigger" does not offend people nearly as much as it used to, especially coming from anonymous clowns on youtube. Join the 21st century with the rest of us.

[Lou Pee]

I'm just curious...did the Fab 5 WIN a Championship?

[Lou Pee]

I had a buddy back in the day with a Virginia License Plate that read F-Dook, hahahaa

[Jonathan Batts]

Rose is a punk

[bill bo]

Jalen rose was caught in a crack house during college and kept his scholarship. At Duke he would have been gone but Duke weeds out players like him black or white

[Nyfancam01]

Fuck Duke!!!!!