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Will the Cavs get caught in the Ferry undertow?

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Tornicade said:
yes your the only one who doesnt see a problem with this e mail. disregarding the other 5 posters who said they saw no problem with this email that is/ not to mention the various skeptical twitters springing up all over the place.

and of course being the only one who doesnt have a problem with the email give you the perfect opportunity to lecture people about the Michael brown tragedy. .

Michael brown was killed by a police officer under questionable circumstances.
people protested.
A police action took place
this is certainly comparable to a majority owner agreeing to sell his NBA team due to the content of an email.
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I'm a little dazed right now. Sorry..
 
Danny Ferry apparently had some controversial words about Luol Deng and race that started this whole thing.

What an odd story.

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An internal and unexpected chain of events stemming from a June free-agent meeting led to Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson putting controlling interest in the team up for sale Sunday, multiple officials told ESPN.com.

A racially insensitive email written by Levenson more than two years ago came to light only after one of his co-owners called for an investigation because of something that was included in a potential free-agent target's background report that was read aloud by team general manager Danny Ferry, who did not fully edit the remark as he read it off the report, according to multiple sources.


Hawks CEO Steve Koonin, who will oversee the day-to-day operations of the team, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Sunday that Ferry will also be disciplined for his role in the situation. The nature of the discipline was not disclosed by the team. According to multiple sources, Ferry will remain as the team's general manager.

Koonin told the Journal Constitution that the Hawks held a meeting in early June to discuss potential free-agent targets. According to Koonin, Ferry cited a background report that included an "offensive and racist" remark about a player.

"Instead of editing it, he said the comment," Koonin said.

Sources told ESPN.com's Marc Stein and Ramona Shelburne on Monday that the player involved was Miami Heat swingman Luol Deng, who held free-agent discussions with the Hawks in July before signing with the Heat in the wake of LeBron James' return to Cleveland.

The specific nature of Ferry's comments regarding Deng were not immediately known, but Koonin told the newspaper that the comment troubled others in the meeting, saying: "This is wrong. This should not be said. It's not appropriate in any world but not a post-Sterling world."

The meeting took place less than two months after NBA commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers' former owner, for life and started proceedings to force him to sell the team when racist comments he made became public. Levenson himself had been one of the most outspoken owners against Sterling's actions.

Following the meeting, one of the Hawks' stakeholders called for an internal investigation based on the remark being in the team's research of a player.
 
Tornicade said:
its a theory and he spent two and half paragraphs stating why the theory wasnt backed with facts.
so they promoted the safety and made changes to make the venue appealing to a broader demographic.
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Come on man. That shit is funny. That's all I was pointing out.
 
I want to thank the reporter and the Hawks source who spared us from this horrible comment that Ferry had made about Deng that it was so necessary to not state it. I am thankful they are thinking enough to protect the virgin ears of the public from his biting, vitriolic racist scouting report. It must be awful to not actually tell us what was so bad about it.

Oh by the way shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
 
this is is getting weirder

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/source...-initiated-hawks-investigation-162901096.html

The trigger of events that led to the toppling of Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson began with general manager Danny Ferry referring to free agent Luol Deng as still having "some African in him" on an organizational conference call, league sources with direct knowledge of the probe told Yahoo Sports.

"He's still a young guy overall," Ferry said, league sources with direct knowledge of the probe told Yahoo. “He's a good guy overall. But he's not perfect. He's got some African in him. And I don't say that in a bad way."
 
Am I supposed to know what that means? It sounds bad, but I'm not sure why.
 
Ferry was repeating what some scout said. I have no idea what that means but I agree it sounds bad and is probable worse than what the owner put in his email. Officers at a major corporation should not be using such language and just as I believe that Goodel should lose his job for the Ray Rice fiasco so should Ferry lose his job for this.
 
On the plus side, the Atlanta Hawks are probably the one team in the league that could be bought by the Seattle group and relocated without anyone noticing.
 
Jack Brickman said:
Am I supposed to know what that means? It sounds bad, but I'm not sure why.
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I think the only appropriate way to find out is for every poster to speculate on what was meant and to post that idea here.

Here, I will kick it off: when Ferry quoted the scout as saying Deng was 'African in a good way' he meant that he is a generous and community-oriented person.
 
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im just curious if it had read he has some british in him.. would that have been interpreted differently.. i dont know what the statement means. either
 
So it appears Ferry landed in some hot water too for making a comment about Deng still having some African in him, whatever that means, and one of the owners called for the investigation.

Seems it was right that one of the other owners wanted this to happen
 
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