The Fab Five Got It Wrong: They Needed to Look in the Mirror

Posted By: Stacie Coulter on March 15, 2011

By: Kendrick Marshall

Duane Burleson/Getty Images As teenagers, Jalen Rose and his Fab Five teammates believed that African-American basketball players who played for Mike Krzyzewski at Duke were Uncle Toms.
That sentiment was expressed during The Fab Five, ESPN's "30 for 30'' documentary film about the University of Michigan basketball team of the early 1990s.

�For me, Duke was personal,� Rose said. �I hated Duke and I hated everything Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn�t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms. �

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