Looks like something good came of that silly "Uncle Tom" spat between Grant Hill and Jalen Rose after all. According to Rose, the former Duke Blue Devils star will support the Jalen Rose Learning Academy, set to open in Detroit in September. On the ESPN controversy that brewed up after he described the way he grew up thinking of Duke players, Rose said:
Any time, for example, you have a critically acclaimed piece like the Fab Five documentary has been, you're going to have 99 percent of the people that love it, but when you have the brutal honesty, you're going to have that 1 percent on the other side of the coin, so to speak. I definitely talked to Grant and reached out to Coach K, and again clarified that that was how I felt as a high school recruit.
Oh yeah, Coach K was pretty offended by the whole thing at the time too.