DickGrayson wrote:KnicksGadfly wrote:3toheadmelo wrote:Poor guy was forced to play in the playoffs cause Shumpert and baron davis got injured. And then “85% healed” Jeremy Lin didn’t wanna ruin his payday.
Like Melo didn’t want to ruin his payday when he forced a trade and got the Knicks to give up a shytton of assets? Or how “social justice warrior” Melo somehow felt comfortable calling out the only Asian American player in the NBA for a ridiculous contract? Of course he didn’t do it to anyone else, of course. Or how the Knicks ended up trading for Felton to appease him?
Or you feel it’s okay for a minimum player who was about to cut from the league, sleeping on a friend’s coach, to risk his career for a jealous 100 million+ player who didn’t like him and went out of his way to alienate and remove him from the team anyway? The one who got ridden by Mike D’Antoni like Secretariat to help the Knicks get many crucial wins when they were screwed? Especially in a league where Isaiah Thomas gets traded by the Celtics after what he did for them?
Yah, eff Melo. I saw who he was as a person after that. And yah, I can’t ever prove that what he did was 100% racist but the Asian American side of me has his suspicions.
Edit: oh and a lot of Melo’s racist fans on realGM were even worse. Course it was more okay to hate Asians back then, so it kinda explains why Melo said what he said and what his fans said.
I truly find your take on this disgusting.
Melo/Lin thing didn't work.
That doesn't mean Melo is racist because Turnover Lin couldn't be anything more in the NBA than a 3rd string PG, which isn't bad at all.
Now it's in your signature? You literally carry the the victim badge and make some **** up like Melo is racist?
So now apparently any black guy who doesn't worship Lin has some type of racism against Asians? wtf
I've been reading on a RealGM for almost two decades and this is by far the worst take I've read on the forums, and trust me you can go to page 1 on the GB and find hot takes on 98% of the post. But this right here is the worst. I'm actually shocked you still get to post on the forums spreading propaganda in your sig and making false claims that Melo is racist when he's been one of the most selfless guys in the league in the past couple of seasons. Where as Lin is too busy crying victim and crying to the world why he doesn't have a job in the NBA and has to play back up in the CBA because he's not even in the best guard in that league.
Lin was just turnover prone and streaky. No way Knicks needed to keep him when he was never a top 25 guard in the league.
Folks like you is what's toxic to basketball. Because instead of loving the sport and the NBA, you become obsessed and have to assume everyone has to worship Lin because he shares your race. Grow up. Your take is hot caca and you represent fake-victim culture looking for sympathy and trying to stain other men's name in the crusade for you to spread nonsense about racism that never happen.
Lin leaving NY was one of the best things for NY and he didn't amount to anything except failing at every role he was given with every team. There was no "fit" for Lin because theres better players who do what he does at a higher level. That has nothing to do with racism. You're soft.
Let me try to reason. First, I think the reverse of what you said is true. Just like one can be an Asian American social justice warrior and be racist towards blacks (or at least do racist things), one can be a Black American social justice warrior and still do racist things against Asians. As for black and Asian issues, you know those dynamics exist. The point I made is what you’re making. You can do a lot of stuff for social justice, but that don’t mean everything is good or right.
I can tell you that Asian Americans have often been other’ed in America as foreigners who don’t belong. They’re also seen as robots and threatening and immigrants that come to take from others. I don’t know if you believe in that or not, but I hope you can see from recent events that this is true.
As for the rest of the post about any black guy who doesn’t worship Lin is racist, you’re reaching. Never said that. So not gonna address it. There are ways to criticize him without going there.
Second, Lin wasn’t that great. Linsanity was probably the highlight. But from where he came from, he had a great career, and honestly, the impact of his career probably is going to be bigger than his on-court results because of his ethnicity. In New York, that was part of his appeal. New York is also about immigration and Ellis Island and hope, and that’s what Lin represented. That’s why this average PG is loved. Some people couldn’t understand that too. So yea, I’m not disputing your characterization of his talent, only how much he was loved and meant to the NBA fans.
Third, I agree Melo should have never felt threatened by Lin, but apparently he did. There are interviews that prove this, and Amare Stoudemire and Mike D’Antoni have referenced that. ESPN magazine did some excellent features. He certainly had the talent not to be threatened. But this wasn’t about the truth, but Melo’s feelings, and for some reason, he felt threatened. Like I said earlier, I think Melo other’ed Lin. Since that moment, he has never spoken about any other player’s contract, never treated anyone else like he ever did Lin. KP came along and he mentored him. Did a lot of good things, but that don’t erase this thing.
Lastly, like I said, Lin owed nothing to Melo. He was almost cut from the league. Melo didn’t really treat him well. And like you all said, he wasn’t that good anyway. So maybe we can be a bit more understanding about why he might not have been ready to risk everything during those playoffs. I’m only bringing this up because this is how that whole discussion started.
