Way to Call it Like it is

I thought this was interesting, not so much for the college basketball discussion but more for the honesty in analysis:

The three-minutes-and-change discussion never got off the ground because Le Batard seems to believe that NBA teams might shy away from North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough because the United States hasn’t produced a great white player since Chris Mullin. (Though we’re not basketball experts, didn’t John Stockton soar a little higher, and play a little more recently? And he was whiter than Edgar Winter.)

The flaw in Le Batard’s logic is that other countries have produced plenty of quality white players lately, such as Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki, and Peja Stoya . . . Stoja . . . oh, hell this isn’t an NBA site, so I ain’t looking it up. Le Batard then tried to clumsily distinguish between American players (ignoring multiple-time MVP winner Nash, who’s North American) and Europeans.

That’s when Bilas pounced. “Now you’re saying that the NBA people don’t have any trepidation with regard to white Europeans? . . . . Hey Dan, no offense, but this is stupid.”

Said Le Batard in response, “You can’t start a sentence with ‘No offense’ and say ‘this is stupid.’”

Bilas didn’t miss a beat: “Then take offense. It’s stupid, and I don’t wanna talk about it anymore.”

Good for Jay Bilas. I wish more people would call it like it is unapologetically.