Posted on 02/14/2012 1:48:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Not every athlete is caught up in the Linsanity.
Unbeaten boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. has posted a swipe at the New York Knicks' point guard sensation on Twitter.
Mayweather posted on Monday: "Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he's Asian. Black players do what he does every night and don't get the same praise."
Lin has led the Knicks to five straight victories, including a 38-point game against the Lakers.
Later, Mayweather took to Twitter to defend his comment.
"Its OK for ESPN to give their opinion but I say something and everyone questions Floyd Mayweather," the boxer tweeted. "I'm speaking my mind on behalf of other NBA players. They are programmed to be politically correct and will be penalized if they speak up."
He later tweeted: "Other countries get to support/cheer their athletes and everything is fine. As soon as I support Black American athletes, I get criticized."
Lin, whose parents emigrated from Taiwan in the 70s, is the first American-born NBA player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent.
Mayweather rarely hesitates to air racially charged opinions, either in person or in social media.
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I forgot but what’s the name of the Asian that Mayweather is afraid of?
Well, what to say?
Mayweather has repeatedly insulted his boxing rival, Manny Pacquiao, including an online video in 2010 in which he used racial and homophobic slurs against the Filipino boxing champ.
Yet, he still refuses to fight Pacquaio and the chance is dimming as he’s scheduled to go to jail sometime June this year for a domestic violence case.
Blacks hate Asians. Always have, always will, they hate them even more than whites. Just look at the derision they showed towards the Korean store owners during the LA riots.
Mary Weather is a racist ass.........
RE: what’s the name of the Asian that Mayweather is afraid of?
MANNY PACQUAIO, The Filipino champ who is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles in different weight classes.
I would admit that part of the novelty and surprise of the media story around Lin is that he’s of Taiwanese extraction, but that’s probably not as important as the fact that his good play has happened for a team located in the heart of New York City. If he were playing well for the Rockets no one would have heard of him yet.
Not what I really believe in, but why not treat the people who advocate it, to succumb to it?
Is this sort of like what Rush Limbaugh said about Donovan McNabb?
They’ll call him a bruised banana.
A top end basketball player of East Asian origin is probably always going to be notable.
I wondered if he’d served that sentence yet. Of course with the quality of lawyers he can afford, that could go on forever. OJ didn’t get nailed until he ran out of money.
What do you expect from some bone-head who chose as his profession beating on somebody? A miracle that starting off as early in life as he did beating he didn’t end up blind....
RE: If he were playing well for the Rockets no one would have heard of him yet.
But everyone from here to Asia has heard of the recently retired YAO MING... who played for the Rockets, right?
Actually, they don't. Lin graduated from Harvard, black players graduated from.....uh
What Mayweather is conveniently ignoring is the fact that Lin is doing the job that two black players, paid millions, were incapable of doing.
NBC debunks Mayweather’s contention here:
EXCERPT:
Mayweather’s wrong on several points, most notably that no one of any skin color in the history of basketball has done in their first four starts what Lin pulled off for the Knicks last week. He’d also be wise to recall the way Tiger Woods, the Williams sisters and others have been received upon their smashing debuts on the scene.
The key here isn’t just what Lin has done on the court but the way that he has confounded expectations while doing it. Part of that is because he’s Asian-American, but most of it is because of the fact that he came from essentially nowhere to do it.
And those who say that this is just a case of New York dominating the media as well, should remember that there have been others who have burst out of obscurity to capture the hearts and minds of the masses. And, as you’ll see in the list that follows, most of those that have done it haven’t quite done it at the same level that Lin achieved in his first week.
Tim Tebow: Another popular one over the last week, including on these pages, but it simply doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Tebow won a Heisman Trophy and two National Championships at Florida, and he didn’t play anywhere near Lin’s level outside of some fine fourth quarter comebacks.
Victor Cruz: Cruz was also undrafted and also achieved at a level far beyond what anyone expected of him this season, but there’s a pretty big difference. Lin is a point guard charged with running the entire offense while Cruz’s skills would mean very little without Eli Manning delivering him passes.
Kurt Warner: Tebow has been talked about a lot, but Warner’s story is actually a lot closer to Lin’s. Forced into action by injury, Warner, undrafted and a veteran of minor leagues like Lin, had to play well or a talented Rams team would have been a bitter disappointment in 1999.
He played well enough to wind up as the league’s MVP and the Rams won the Super Bowl. That’s getting way ahead of ourselves, but Warner comes closer to mirroring the role Lin is playing for the Knicks this season than Tebow did for the Broncos.
None feels like an exact fit, mostly because Lin has done something no one else has ever done before in his first four starts, but the idea that this hype is being conjured up out of thin air and not performance is pretty demonstrably false given how much ink was spilled on all the other guys who share his ability to make an auspicious debut.
My bro’s in-laws are Filipinos and they couldn’t stand gayweather. This racist clown had the audacity to personally call Manny pacquiao to confirm the fight before gayweather is scheduled for jail...then trashes him in the media when he didn’t get the fight.
Sports Illustrated may love its readers enough to give them sexy swimsuit models every year, but it sure hates Knicks fans. Because the cover of this week's regular issue features point guard Jeremy Lin. STOP THE LINSANITY!!!!!
As everyone knows, there's a Sports Illustrated cover curse—a curse so renowned that even SI had to acknowledge it—wherein landing on the cover means the athlete will likely be jinxed. For instance, look at these recent cover victims, via Wikipedia:
- January 8, 2012: The Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers appears on the cover as the 2012 NFL playoffs begin. The Packers lose to the New York Giants at home, 37-20, and Rodgers has a quarterback rating of 78.5. - January 22, 2012 - The San Francisco 49ers were featured on the cover of SI for January 23rd, They subsequently lost in overtime to the New York Giants 20-17. - January 30, 2012 & February 6, 2012 (cover date) - The New England Patriots's quarterback Tom Brady and Owner Robert Kraft were featured on the cover in consecutive weeks leading up to the Super Bowl. On February 5, 2012, the Patriots went on to lose a second consecutive Super Bowl appearance against the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI, 17-21.
Terry McDonnell told the Daily News, "Jeremy Lin has done more in these past five games to captivate a fan base than any player in NBA history - and not just with his historic statistics. Look at what’s going on in this city."
But one Knicks fan from Westchester said, "It’s never a good omen. You don’t want that hanging over you. If he tears his ACL, they’ll say, ‘There goes the cover curse.’" But Lin himself would say, "There goes God"—the devout Christian told the media today, "Anytime something like this happens, a lot of stuff has to be put into place, and a lot of it is out of my control. If you look back at my story, doesn't matter where you look, but God's fingerprints are all over the place where there have been a lot of things that had to happen that I couldn't control."
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