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Fox News’ Correspondent Tears Into Jalen Rose For Making Basketball ‘Un-American’

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Jalen Rose participates in the "Get Up" panel during the ESPN Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, in Pasadena,Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Here we go again.

Former NBA All-Star Jalen Rose got some folks upset last week when he told the sporting world should they retire the usage of “Mount Rushmore” to define greatness because it can be very offensive to Native Americans. Fox News eventually decided to make Jalen’s statement a lot bigger than it actually was, and of course they held a segment on it  with Todd Piro leading the way.

Piro went on a rant about how Jalen Rose is to blame for the way basketball has changed since the days of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, calling today’s style “un-American.”

“Calling Jalen Rose “part of the left that likes to tear things down,” Fox News host Todd Piro partially blames Rose for changing the way basketball was played in the 80s — when it was “good” — to the “European” and “un-American” style of the NBA now.”

Watch below:

“He’s part of this left that likes to tear things down that are good and in his sport of basketball, it was good in the 80s when you had Magic, Jordan, Bird. And that was American, people were throwing elbows, boxing out, actually playing defense. Now what they have is this European style Jalen Rose supports. It’s all European, people just shoot threes. It’s not basketball. It’s un-American.”

I think it might be the first time someone has blamed Jalen Rose for the 3-point shooting craziness in the NBA instead of Steph Curry.

Every generation believes their brand of basketball is the best.

Some people are just stuck in the 80’s.

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