Media Racist With Hansbrough Lovefest?

The one in my mailbox today had Mario Chalmers (actually Mario Chalmers' back) on the cover ...

 

Bull. Bilas knew it was DLB's show. LeBatard tried to steer Bilas back into his wheelhouse and Bilas did all he was going to be able to do considering whose name is attached to the show.

If Bilas had just politely laughed his way through it, you would have attempted him to skewer him on this board, Starman. So tell us how you would have handled it so much better.

 

Come up with something better than, "Harrumph, harrumph, you can ask me about anything else you like, but I am simply not going to talk about it."

Being an overhyped media-darling gritty-gutty white-boy during his own playing career, it's not too surprising Bilas doesn't want to talk about it.

 

It's a loaded topic. Bilas would have lost by taking any other approach, especially by taking sides.

Bilas was trying to be nice. When LeBatard attempted to steer him back to his little fiefdom, Bilas washed his hands of it and was blunt yet not absolutely nasty.

If Bilas had been play-laughing with LeBatard about some other topic two minutes after that dust-up, you and goodness knows how many others on this board would have labeled him compromised. Probably much worse.

(And if you're going to talk about his career, Bilas was simply a 6-foot-8 center that had to do yeoman's work to make up for Duke's lack of size. He was neither overhyped, nor a media darling. Of that starting five off the '86 team that put the Devils back on the basketball map, Bilas was the least known. Mark Alarie was also 6-8, but a shooter. David Henderson was a driver-slasher, Tommy Amaker was the point and Johnny Dawkins didn't need much explanation.)