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Related: About this forumSam Dekker Correctly Notes People Always Compare White Players To Other White Players
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/23/sam-dekker-white-players_n_7648774.htmlSam Dekker, former Wisconsin Badger and soon-to-be NBA player, spoke a deep, deep truth on Tuesday....
What players do you look to? What are the guys that you say, Id like to pattern my game after him or these people together? HuffPost Live host Marc Lamont Hill asked Dekker on Tuesday afternoon.
Well, theres a few, Dekker said, obviously knowing what he was about to say, but questioning how exactly to say it. Um, you know, theres always, theres always, me, um, the way I play, being a white guy, a lot of times you get compared to other white guys....
Which isn't fair because your game isnt necessarily like a particular white guy, Hill correctly noted.
What players do you look to? What are the guys that you say, Id like to pattern my game after him or these people together? HuffPost Live host Marc Lamont Hill asked Dekker on Tuesday afternoon.
Well, theres a few, Dekker said, obviously knowing what he was about to say, but questioning how exactly to say it. Um, you know, theres always, theres always, me, um, the way I play, being a white guy, a lot of times you get compared to other white guys....
Which isn't fair because your game isnt necessarily like a particular white guy, Hill correctly noted.
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Sam Dekker Correctly Notes People Always Compare White Players To Other White Players (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jun 2015
OP
This Wisconsin player was one of the Badgers that took DOWN undefeated KENTUCKY
a kennedy
Jun 2015
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a kennedy
(29,646 posts)1. This Wisconsin player was one of the Badgers that took DOWN undefeated KENTUCKY
He's White, and a great basketball player, a team player and knows exactly what to say..... LOVE HIM!!!!!! Watch where he goes in the NBA draft along with his teammate, fellow WHITE player., FRANK KAMINSKI!!!!! Just saying...... Does this topic go along on the side of the Black Guy, you know, the POTUS saying the nigger word????? 😇.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. And thereby paved the way for Puke to steal the title
a kennedy
(29,646 posts)3. Ok, ok, ok, I agree