[ESPN] Ramona suggesting racism in NO towards agent & AD

let’s not act like there’s people who don’t feel some type of way because a black agent now has so much power

 

Ramona Shelburn will literally write anything to get her closer to the Lakers and their players and ownership.

I am sure this man:


Was racist against these men:



I'm sure it had absolutely nothing to do with Davis saying he would not request a trade in season, then weeks later having his agent leak that he wanted a trade and wanted to be traded to the Lakers to play with LeBron James....... who share the same agent and also happen to be best friends.

I'm sure that had nothing to do with it at all.

Maybe there is more to the story that I am not aware of but I am skeptical.

 

what an idiot

 

"You're down in the south, man..."

I guess someone could generalize and say that Ramona grew up in a rich, white bubble in Los Angeles where they treat Hispanics like a servant class and call the cops on Blacks driving through their neighborhoods.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lapd-searches-20190605-story.html

Los Angeles police officers search blacks and Latinos far more often than whites during traffic stops, even though whites are more likely to be found with illegal items, a Times analysis has found.

I guess she turns off Randy Newman's "Rednecks" before it gets to the final verse.

 

Ramona Shelbourne is the trash of sports journalists. She's like Stephen A Smith, except fat, ugly, and not entertaining at all... If there was a bar association for journalists, she wouldn't have a job now. What an irresponsible piece of ****, making an ignorant generalization like that with no actual proof.

 

Very discriminating quote from her, judging and shaming an entire region of the US and the millions of folks who live there. Shameful but not surprised. ESPN and their "talent" are pure trash sans JVG.

 

Oops. I ain't touching this one.

 

That's what Ramona said when someone offered her a salad.

 

The vast majority of NBA fans are actually minorities in their respective countries, including the US.

I’m sure there’s at least one person that watches the NBA that’s racist against blacks, but it’s not really a systemic problem in basketball, unlike other sports (cough NFL)

 

That analysis uses completely random stops. It’s more likely an artifact of what neighborhood they are in, and it’s crime rates, than indication of a bias.

That’s why nobody takes the LA times seriously. The proof is already in the data in other places, you don’t need to extrapolate ridiculous conclusions on top of that. It just takes away from the scientific rigor of the analysis.

 

Nobody takes the LA Times seriously except for the LAPD which, in response to the intitial study, is cutting back on the strategy of "pulling over random vehicles."

https://www.latimes.com/california/...-major-changes-to-elite-metropolitan-division

Anyway, my relatively anodyne point was that racism exists in all regions of this country, not just the south as Ramona seems to imply. Do you really want to get into the history of racism in the LAPD and Los Angeles, in general?

 

"Now"? There are black GMs, and almost every superstar is black. Why not agents? Ramona is just showing us today's edition of ESPN-quality sh**posting. "Sports journalism" = forum quality hot takes.

 

There’s like 4 black GMs in the entire NBA: Elton Brand, Scott Perry, Koby Altman, and James Jones. I can only think of 2 black Team Presidents: Steve Mills, and Masai Ujiri.

A black man is now the most powerful agent in the NBA, and some hate it.

 

Okay....... maybe, I guess...... the NBA is by far the most inclusive league and there are black employees all over the place.... seems the NBA would not be the sport for someone that dislikes black people to work in.

Even accepting your premise...... I don't think a black GM was angry that there was a powerful black agent he was dealing with.

It is far more likely he was pissed that there was obvious collusion between said agent and James and Davis.

 

Ramona needs to have her credentials revoked.

There’s no reason for her to be getting opportunities to peddle her bullshit takes and lazy analysis.

I’m sure there are hundreds of sports reporters that would kill to have her platform and would approach the job with creativity and integrity .

Can anyone link an interesting story she’s written ?

 

Sure there are black employees all over the place, but very few of them are decision makers or have any real power. Rich Paul is now the most powerful agent in the sport. He’s running things. He’s only going to keep increasing the number of high profile clients he represents.

I don’t think Demps was angry at Rich Paul because Paul was black, but Demps did answer to people who weren’t black. Don’t get me wrong tho, the way AD and Paul went about that trade demand was the main issue. However, there’s not a doubt in my mind that some have negative feelings about a black agent being this powerful.

 

LAmona. Despicable.

 

Ramona, a literal self righteous Hollywood pig.