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One Reason To Root for Jordan Farmar (Or Maybe Not…).

Over at FreeDarko - a blog that needs to be on your regular rotation - Jordan Farmar has created quite the stir. Well, Farmar hasn’t really done anything. It’s more that the Lakers guard is both a practicing Jew and a damn good basketball player. Though the writers of Airplane! would have a field day with that, it doesn’t seem like there’s an inherent problem with being both Jewish and good at basketball. So what’s the issue?

It’s that he doesn’t look particularly Jewish, and furthermore, he doesn’t play like the fellas at FreeDarko would imagine a Jew to play. (Interestingly, they identify a cross between Rudy Fernandez, Shane Battier, and a young Joe Johnson as a player who would have a “Jewish” style. They also include Stephen Jackson in the conversation about someone who “strikes [them] as really Jewish.”) Ultimately, they leave their post open-ended in the search for someone who represents the Chosen People.

crazyeights wrote:I'm still trying to figure out what was "wierd" about it....

Well, Farmar hasn’t really done anything. It’s more that the Lakers guard is both a practicing Jew and a damn good basketball player. Though the writers of Airplane! would have a field day with that, it doesn’t seem like there’s an inherent problem with being both Jewish and good at basketball. So what’s the issue?

It’s that he doesn’t look particularly Jewish, and furthermore, he doesn’t play like the fellas at FreeDarko would imagine a Jew to play. (Interestingly, they identify a cross between Rudy Fernandez, Shane Battier, and a young Joe Johnson as a player who would have a “Jewish” style.

TonyMontana wrote:

crazyeights wrote:I'm still trying to figure out what was "wierd" about it....

Why would someone write an article about a player being Jewish or Muslim or Christian, and address that player as a Jew.

Well, Farmar hasn’t really done anything. It’s more that the Lakers guard is both a practicing Jew and a damn good basketball player. Though the writers of Airplane! would have a field day with that, it doesn’t seem like there’s an inherent problem with being both Jewish and good at basketball. So what’s the issue?

It’s that he doesn’t look particularly Jewish, and furthermore, he doesn’t play like the fellas at FreeDarko would imagine a Jew to play. (Interestingly, they identify a cross between Rudy Fernandez, Shane Battier, and a young Joe Johnson as a player who would have a “Jewish” style.

I dont know but dont you find it a bit odd and wierd since this has absoultely nothing to do with the game or what religion the player practices, and for the writer to keep saying Jew or Jewish and he is a writer for Dime Mag?

Gutter92 wrote:Jew is not a derogatory word, but the way they are saying "his playing style would be like _____ and ___, that would be a jewish style", etc. is pretty damn stereotypical IMO. Basing what a person does based on his religion is stereotyping.

skEwb wrote:haha everyone missed the whole point of the article, that's great, props dime

skEwb wrote:haha everyone missed the whole point of the article, that's great, props dime

garcia3 wrote:SLAM MAGAZINE is really good, they tend to overhype players sometimes, but it is a really good mag