Last time, I watched 1st Take in its entirety was when Skip Bayless essentially banned Jalen Rose from the show for exposing him for lying about his high school basketball prowess.
Rose simply was fighting fire with fire. Skip had come at him and others for years, but the day someone went back at him hard, he did what a lot of bullies do, took his ball and went home.
I am not one to tell people what they should watch, but I am not the person to publicly bashed something while contributing to it. I have no issues with 1st Take and how they go about doing things, I understand how media works, but after that day, I made a personal decision not to watch.
Jalen Rose spoke to SI about the incident and said he regretted how it went down.
“KRS-One, one of my favorite rappers, he always said that he kept a diss record for everybody in the top ten in case somebody wanted to come at him,” he said. “In the debate world, what you’re trying to come up with is facts, stats, and figures that may be body blows, may be head shots, if you need them. Yes, that debate did become personal, and I regret that it became personal. In our banter, I did bring up some intel that I had done. I got some of it off Black Sports Online. I vetted it, and so when I was on the show and the debate became personal, I exposed the information that I had about his high school career. As I look back at it, I should have handled it different.”
In general, I am not a fan of taking personal shots at people, but in this case I think it was different, because Skip was using his high school basketball career in the debate.
Skip was being petty and should have just brushed it aside, but instead he tried to railroad Jalen Rose’s career and that wasn’t cool.
Rose has bounced back and is doing very well for himself, so there is a happy ending for him. Skip also has toned down the personal attacks, he has left that to Stephen A.
H/T Complex
