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85742, More insight on why Jalen hated Duke.
Posted by EDouble, Wed Mar-09-11 03:05 PM
This article gives a little bit more of the story. It sounds to me that jealousy was played a major part in the personal hate, on top of the ususal Duke is Duke hate.


“For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke and I hated everything I felt Duke stood for,” Rose says in the film. “Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms.”

“The faces of Duke, I didn’t like them,” Jimmy King said.

“I hated Duke. I hated Duke,” Ray Jackson said.

“Coach K, you have Christian Laettner, Bobby Hurley, Grant Hill, yeah, they winning and keep in mind they won a championship the year before," Juwan Howard said. "I respect that but we are talented, too.”

“I was jealous of Grant Hill. He came from a great black family, congratulations,” Rose said. “Your mom went to college and was roommates with Hillary Clinton. Your dad played in the NFL, is a very well-spoken and successful man. I was upset and bitter that my mom had to bust her hump for 20-plus years. I was bitter that I had a professional athlete that was my father that I didn’t know.”

http://www.annarbor.com/sports/um-basketball/jalen-rose-thought-duke-basketball-was-full-of-uncle-toms-plus-more-on-his-fab-five-documentary/