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http://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2016/09/27/college-basketball-preseason-player-year-grayson-allen/ ↗

More on Duke, but read thru

http://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2016/10/19/college-hoops-contender-series-is-duke-really-the-favorite-to-win-the-national-title/ ↗

@Crimsonorblue22

Caucasian American athlete AG appears to be getting a similar, apparently undeservedly sympathetic spin from MSM on inappropriate behavior that a number of other Caucasian American and African American athletes appear to get. Not surprisingly, it appears African Americans get more of this sort of spin, since more play college basketball right now.

But IMHO, the key question is: why does MSM give BOTH Caucasian American and African American athletes this apparently underserved positive spin on inappropriate behavior, apparently usually after some cooling off interval?

Could it be that these players sell more soap and encourage more betting, when their tarnished images are burnished with spin awhile after the storm of criticism?

Or is it reporters/editors doing favors to agents in a quid pro quo for access?

Or is it just MSM being nice and giving young men a chance at redemption?

I lack sufficient knowledge to decide on this yet, but I'm glad you posted it..

@Crimsonorblue22

No doubt he is a great player...but he still is a punk.

@JayHawkFanToo

Allen Iverson was reputedly another punk that some suspect got away with murder. I still wonder what the dynamic is that drives this positive spin from MSM of such players? What do you think it is?

I dont think MSM necessarily gives a rat's behind about the fate of these players. MSM realizes that drama sells, and more particularly in this case that redemption stories sell. And that the ideal condition that they can create in their audience is a state of churn, uncertainty, and disagreement with one another. They want polarity. Anything to avoid indifference.

So bless the media's heart and Grayson who now?

@approxinfinity

Thx. That's an explanation I can live with, tho I wish it weren't so.

@jaybate-1.0

I don't know. Ask Hillary how she gets all that good press when in all fairness, and if her last name was not Clinton, she would be in jail. LOL.

P. S. Sorry about the political joke, seemed appropriate though...

@JayHawkFanToo probably not