TDotAllStar wrote:agkagk wrote:Doug smith should have been blacklisted from the industry for what he pulled with vince carter all those years.
All of them from back then. For 25 years or so, i will not give any of these rat “journalists” my attention.
Feschuk is the top of my nope list.
I been a raps fan since i was 10 (2006), can you explain what Doug Smith did w VC
Not an exaggeration:
A grown man started a personal feud w/ a 23 yr old because the 23 year said no when the grown man insisted that the 23 year old had to let him fly to north carolina, go to vinces childhood home, have thanksgiving diner with his family AND SLEEP IN HIS HOUSE!
Dude wanted to tape it for tv, and I paste a photo of it on the front of the papers.
He thought he could literally bully vc into letting him pretend to be his daddy at their biggest annual family tradition/get together.
After this, 2 years of weekly hit pieces.
But its the press scrums that did the most damage.
Smith would demonstratively badger vince. It was childish snd toxic.
Example:
Vc once scored 40+ three games in a row. Media narrative was could he tie jordans record of 4 in a row.
He didnt.
Every press scum for WEEKS afterwards; smith would grit his teeth, leer in vinces face, like he was squaring up, and would ask the same toxic question REPEATEDLY; “jordan once scored 40 4x’s in a row. Dont you feel like you let the fans and city down.
Vc would compose himself and give generic answers:
“Its a team game”
“Its all about winning”
Smith repeats same question but grits his teeth slightly more aggressively.
Vince: “were on a six game winning street, what do you want man?”
Smith gets “clever”: “why did mopete make the winning shot? Dont you feel like its your responsibility to take that shot? Dont you feel like you owe the city and fans more?”
vince: “team game, proud of my boy making the shot”.
Smith: “michael jordan once scored 40 4x’s in a row, dont you feel you let the city and fans down?”
The very next scrum smith would ask those exact SAME questions over and over until vince matched the aggressive tone.
He got baited.
The result was vince looking smith in the eyes and saying “what would you write about if i stop dunking”?
He was calling out smith’s passive aggressive jordan comparison verbal attacks.
Next days headine: “vince refuses to ever dunk again. Turns his back on fans”.
Now, during these daily scrums, vc is sitting st his locker with 10+ white guys hovering over him, the camera is insulating smith, the editors are cropping the convo to insulate smith. The security, travel agents, media heads, the gm, the president, the coach; everyone passively left vc out to dry.
Vc probably had that exact same convo for two weeks straight.
The nbapa lowkey blacklisted us for over a decade because of this.
The vets taught the rookies that we were just another wasp trap and couldnt be trusted.
They thought we were alabama north.
Eff doug smith, he railroaded vince because vince wouldnt let smith pretend to be his daddy in his moms house on national television.
Hard to believe the rest of the players took issue with this.
