The really stupid things about the Roy Hibbert comments...

[niko]

Was that he felt the need (or obligation) to call (tweet, whatever) Jason Collins to apologize. OMG, i made a possibly homophobic remark. Let me call the gay guy (who is not on my team, not even on a team, not even responding to the situation in any way nor asking about it) to make sure we are ok.

I really hope Jason Collins response was "dude i forgive you. no homo."

[Purch]

Reminds me of the south park episode, where Randy goes on wheel of fourtune and says the N-word. To make it right he ends up apologizing to Jesse Jackson like he's the king of black people .

[Goldrush25]

Yep. Showing a complete lack of awareness.

"Lemme contact the gay people's liason to smooth things over."

[NumberSix]

Was that he felt the need (or obligation) to call (tweet, whatever) Jason Collins to apologize. OMG, i made a possibly homophobic remark. Let me call the gay guy (who is not on my team, not even on a team, not even responding to the situation in any way nor asking about it) to make sure we are ok.

I really hope Jason Collins response was "dude i forgive you. no homo."

It'd be even finnier if Collins said "no straight".

[westsideozzie]

FUnk of out of here. He used urban colloquialism and the pansy media blew this out of proportion. Thought police can go to hell.

[Brokenbeat]

I cringed at that too.

[niko]

FUnk of out of here. He used urban colloquialism and the pansy media blew this out of proportion. Thought police can go to hell.

He makes $12M a year and one of the few rules is "don't say stupid shit during press conferences". I'm finding it hard to feel upset on his behalf.

[OldSkoolball#52]

He makes $12M a year and one of the few rules is "don't say stupid shit during press conferences". I'm finding it hard to feel upset on his behalf.

It wasnt stupid. It was funny and harmless.

Aint Hibberts fault even straight guys act like they have c0cks up their ass these days.

[Clifton]

Yep. Showing a complete lack of awareness.

"Lemme contact the gay people's liason to smooth things over."

That's how the world is, though.

[edrick]

It wasnt stupid. It was funny and harmless.

Aint Hibberts fault even straight guys act like they have c0cks up their ass these days.

It was funny to whom, exactly? People who have no issues with that kind of talk, because there are many people who don't find what he said acceptable. More about the mother****er comment, than the no homo comment.

[Rose'sACL]

It wasnt stupid. It was funny and harmless.

Aint Hibberts fault even straight guys act like they have c0cks up their ass these days.

Should coaches/media members call players "motherfuckers" publicly when players fail to do their job like hibbert thinks that media wasn't doing their job?
Hibbert hasn't played well for a guy with such physical gifts for majority of his career. Should every media member who has watched him play call him a motherfucker in their article for wasting their time?

[Twiens]

Roy's hilarious, stop being *******

[outbreak]

Do we actually know what he contacted Collins about? All he said was he wanted to discuss something?

[niko]

It wasnt stupid. It was funny and harmless.

Aint Hibberts fault even straight guys act like they have c0cks up their ass these days.

Give back the $12M, work in Burger King and you can say "no homo" all day. Where he works he CANNOT. It's not a judgment call, the NBA very clearly lays out to players what they expect them to do in their media time.

Note: He also called everyone "mother****ers", i don't are how obtuse you intend to be, you can't call people "mother****ers" for no reason.

[niko]

Do we actually know what he contacted Collins about? All he said was he wanted to discuss something?

He made a "gay slur" (for lack of a better term), apologized and while apologizing said he made sure to call Jason Collins. What do you think it was related to?