This was in today’s New York Times, Grant Hill’s response to Jalen Rose’s comments about the Duke team he played against. I was always a Duke fan but I loved watching the Fab 5 play because I was raised in an urban area. But I think Grant has the last words:
I am a fan, friend and longtime competitor of the Fab Five. I have competed against Jalen Rose and Chris Webber since the age of 13. At Michigan, the Fab Five represented a cultural phenomenon that impacted the country in a permanent and positive way. The very idea of the Fab Five elicited pride and promise in much the same way the Georgetown teams did in the mid-1980s when I was in high school and idolized them. Their journey from youthful icons to successful men today is a road map for so many young, black men (and women) who saw their journey through the powerful documentary, “The Fab Five.”
