Elijah Millsap: Lindsey in exit interview: “if u say one more word, I’ll cut your Black *** and send you back to Louisiana”.

[TheStormofWar]

I'm beginning to think Elijah is blowing smoke here. If so, **** him.

 

[NUMBERICA]

I'm beginning to think Elijah is blowing smoke here. If so, **** him.

There is a third path; he misheard DL and it was six years ago. I don't know. That's what I'm hoping.

 

[infection]

Personally I hate it when the victim of this type of slander wether it happened or not comes forward 6 ****ing years later. Maybe this is insensitive of me, but I don’t understand why you wait 6 ****ing years and it just happens to be when the jazz are having easily the greatest season in jazz history to this point, smells of having an ax to grind regardless of if true or not. If true have the courage to say something in the same calendar year. If someone had done this to me and I didn’t feel the need to say something at the time, this is going to my grave. If not true you’re just being a bitch and looking to ruin someone. Even if true and you wait 6 years to the point it’s the jazz best season ever you’re just looking to screw someone.

Without saying this is necessarily my opinion, motivation for anything is a venn diagram that we always like to distill down to one reason. So there's a myriad of reasons why someone may come forward later. One could be that they chose to let it go and be the bigger person, but as people continue to have more and more prominence, it may fester and build more resentment, especially if someone is watching someone get what may be unfair adulation that perhaps wouldn't be warranted if people knew 'what they were really like.' So late allegations don't necessarily mean one particular thing.

But, bottom line, we too often rely on presumed motive or perceived reputation as lenses to help us decipher truth, when neither are all that reliable, but they do afford us the false sense of security in thinking we've got the best information we can possess to justify our opinions.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

Without saying this is necessarily my opinion, motivation for anything is a venn diagram that we always like to distill down to one reason. So there's a myriad of reasons why someone may come forward later. One could be that they chose to let it go and be the bigger person, but as people continue to have more and more prominence, it may fester and build more resentment, especially if someone is watching someone get what may be unfair adulation that perhaps wouldn't be warranted if people knew 'what they were really like.' So late allegations don't necessarily mean one particular thing.

But, bottom line, we too often rely on presumed motive or perceived reputation as lenses to help us decipher truth, when neither are all that reliable, but they do afford us the false sense of security in thinking we've got the best information we can possess to justify our opinions.

But 6 years??

 

[Gameface]

I'm obviously not going to be judge and juror in this situation, but being a successful well mannered white guy really doesn't make me assume that DL is in the clear here lol. 6 years ago, hardly anyone would have cared. Hell, I've heard stuff like this said much more recently than that. Whoever said it probably didn't even realize that it was offensive...especially given the power dynamic. This type of racism was far too common and I'm glad that we're at a point where everyone knows that it's not ok.

As for your anti cancel culture warriors...yall overreact and whine as much as anyone. I have a good theory on why that is, but it's probably better to keep that to myself. If DL did say this, he should have apologized and the Jazz should implement things to further dialogue and prevent these things from happening again. He would not have lost his job over this, his life wouldn't have been ruined. Morgan Scalley is just fine, so is Danny Ferry, and so are most of the people who have been "cancelled".

DL obviously denied this and because Quin didn't speak up there's not going to be any proof here. Still, the Jazz should do their best to make sure something like this doesn't happen. And they should make it known that this type of behavior is not OK. Really, the most important thing here is to make it abundantly clear that the Jazz work culture does not allow that so it never happens.

Post of the thread.

 

[TheTrippleThreat]

This is some ********. I'd DL was racist do you think Rudy, Donovan, Conley, Oneal, Clarckson would stick about? These are men with integrity and wouldnt stand for this type of bs. Never cry wolf even if your pro ball campaign didnt work out.

 

[Tom Pitt]

The mention of his race on top of the I will send you back to Louisiana is really rough. But even without the reference there is a tone to that you are property and I am power.

Guess we will see how woke Ryan really is.

Why are you just automatically assuming DL said exactly that? What happened to innocent until proven guilty? This is the first time we’ve heard DL saying anything like this...

Again, I find it strange you are talking like it’s 100% true


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[Tom Pitt]

Sunk cost effect. The possibility of it being true could have caused so much damage to this Jazz teams championship quest that it is best for us to cut our loss and fire the man who has been fairly mediocre at his job anyways.

Fairly mediocre doesn’t result in the best start in franchise history through 32 games and 4 games up in the loss column ahead of the 2nd place team in the league (who you happen to own the tie breaker against so 5 games up wow.


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[Engorged On Unborn Gore]

This seems way out of character for DL. A complete 180 from his public persona.

if Millsap is telling the truth, then DL is an absolute charlatan as far as working in this industry and relating authentically with POC.

 

[FalseFlagg K]

Aight Bogut. You got your Fred Perry on?

fred who ?

 

[Rubashov]

Does anybody that 5 years ago DL spoke to a player like a slave owner? Anybody?

 

[str8line]

It's basically your words versus his. Then up to the players and media to pick their side. AND WE DON'T WANT TO GO INTO THAT. Next thing you know it goes into players mind that your team president could be a racist then they lost all of their energy and motivation on the court.

Any other year maybe we can afford to do a bit of investigation and find out what happened. Not now. Not the year of 2021.

Let's see if anyone comes out to verify Millsap's story. he had to have told someone at the time if true. But I agree this could feasibly wreck our season.