Why is it that Grant Hill was just on CNN’s Late Edition being interviewed by John King? At first I thought maybe King had just realized that post-election politics is boring and he wanted to focus more on the NBA. And if so, fair enough. How does Hill feel about the Shaq trade? Doesn’t he think it would have made more sense to just tell Shawn Marion and Amare Stoudemire that they had to suck it up and learn to play alongside each other? With the Wizards off to an 0-5 start, wasn’t Matt Yglesias really smart to decline to renew his half-season Wizards ticket package? Yes we can.
But instead he was fielding questions about politics along with a BET reporter and a former member of the US Commission on Civil Rights. Did CNN not know how to find any African-American journalists or public officials? Feel that the black experience is most authentically lived by multi-millionaire professional athletes? I only caught the tail end of the segment so maybe it made more sense than what I saw. Anyone else out there catch it.
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