Didn't somebody get in trouble for saying pretty much the same thing about Iverson back in the day?
Billy Packer. Got some heat initially but it was similar to this situation.
I remember watching this live, I was in junior high at the time, still very naive to the ways of the world, and since it was 20 years ago some details might be a little off, fuzzy, or just plain wrong.
I remember Billy Packer saying it, then a few minutes later he was apologizing profusely on air. I was watching the game with my dad and didn't understand what the problem was, I didn't hear him say anything bad about Iverson, everything he said about Iverson was really positive, you could tell he really liked him. I'm pretty sure he said it after Iverson made a great play, drove to the hoop, and scored. Packer definitely said it in a way similar to Adams, as kind of compliment. It would have been as if Packer had called Jerome Williams or Othella Harrington or Jahidi White (Iverson's Georgetown teammates) tough as an ox, or real work horse, or something similar. My dad explained it to me, but I still didn't really get it at the time, Packer didn't say it as an insult. Of course, now I could see if he called Jahidi White a tough gorilla how that could be offensive too, but back then I didn't understand.
Even years after this incident, I still didn't quite get the offensiveness of monkey, and didn't realize porch monkey was a similar term. Just thought it meant people hanging out on their front porch, of which I saw plenty of plenty of white and black and Hispanic people doing around where I lived. Definitely said it a few times thinking it innocently meant just hanging out on your porch. Glad I figured out it's not cool before I offended anybody. Oh my ignorance.
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