Jalen Rose - Arrested for DUI

Basketball stud Jalen Rose -- a member of the legendary "Fab Five" squad -- was arrested for driving under the influence in Michigan earlier this month ... TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell us ... the 38-year-old former NBA star was driving along an icy roadway on March 11 when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed.

Cops were called to the scene and Rose agreed to undergo several voluntary roadside sobriety tests. He was later transported to a nearby facility for chemical testing ... those results have not yet been returned. Rose was eventually arrested for driving under the influence.

We're told Rose was in his hometown of Detroit in preparation for the opening of the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy ... a charter school designed to provide under-privileged youth with college prep experience.

TMZ spoke with Rose's L.A.-based attorney, Keith Davidson, who told us, "We look forward to working with the authorities in Michigan and addressing these matters in court, not in the press. We have no comment at this time."

Jalen Rose - I Regret Getting Behind the Wheel



NBA analyst Jalen Rose was surprised he was arrested for DUI earlier this month -- telling TMZ he didn't think he was going to blow over the limit on his blood alcohol test.

Jalen admits when he wrecked his car on March 11 ... he "voluntarily submitted to blood alcohol screening because I was confident it was safe for me to drive."

TMZ broke the story -- the ESPN hoops analyst and former NBA star crashed while driving on an icy road in Michigan. After completing several field sobriety tests he was arrested for DUI.

Jalen says he regrets the decision to drive home -- and is "sorry for disappointing those who trust me to serve as a role model."

 

Damn, at least he is safe.

 

Yeah and that no one else was hurt....

 

Hopefully he doesn't lose his job over this.

 

Yes glad everyone is ok. He has had his name in the news a bit lately. First the flap with Grant Hill and this.

 

Yeah, and not good news on either end....

He used to be my favorite player along with AI...

Funny how things turn out...

 

I enjoyed hearing him in the ESPN Fab 5 documentary. I don't think Grant Hill did but :smt102 .

 

LOL!

 

Hill, Michael Wilbon, and Chris Broussard completely got it wrong.

In his discussion of the Duke program, Rose was explaining his feelings of the team at the time, not 2011. At the time, Duke was America's sweetheart basketball team (yuck) and the Fab Five were the anti-Duke because they were black as fuck and decidedly urban. There was racism though in how some teams who played Duke with black starters were branded thugs. UNLV were called thugs after spanking the shit out of Duke, despite Greg Anthony being the president of campus Republican club. You just can't win with some people.

The documentary:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GTE3QVNF

 

That is what I enjoy about the 30 for 30 series. They have the participants go back in their mind and remember/talk about how things actually were. I love this ESPN series.

 

Exactly....

A lot of people misconstrued what he said..."AT THE TIME" are definitely the key words. Of course people take what they want out of something and run with it. SMH

 

the u doc was good as well.

 

but grant hill being their poster boy really riled me up, writing that unnecessary op-ed.

 

Well, in his defense, he wrote a response.

 

The media seems to create villains as they deem necessary. It's more ironic in the case of the Fab Five as some of them came from middle class families like Duke's players, another attended one of the best private prep schools in the country. The Fab Five played with swagger and wore long baggy shorts, distinct from others in the college ranks. So, of course this made them thugs. Go figure...

 

:smt045

Chris Webber did...

Don't forget the infamous black socks...lol

It's funny how people deem any style that mirrors Hip Hop or in this case, street ball, as thuggery.

 

You do know your players, lol. I just didn't want to drop names. I actually lived in Michigan during the time they were in high school and then at U. of M. I saw it all first hand. It was a lot of fun in those days, U of M and the Bad Boys of Motown, the Pistons...They got bad rep as well, some deserved so, but they were still no worse than many of the teams at the time. Another victim of the media.

 

They were my favorite college team

It's cool if you mentioned names....

Sounds like some good times were had.

They all had heart and they were exciting to watch. Heart can't be manufactured, you're born with it.

I agree with your last line....

 

but to me i felt it was unnecessary, he could have had a private conversation with jalen, but writing that, he gives credence to those who want to attack jalen. it turns it into grant vs jalen instead of a conversation about duke, which is needed considering their recent history.

 

I think all this "Jalen was right, no Grant was right" stuff is neither here nor there. The real issue for me is the question of black identity. Jalen Rose may not have articulated himself properly in the documentary, but what he was trying to say - that Duke only recruit certain kids of black players who don't fit the "thug" image, with like a trillion tattoos for example - is spot on. Look, Duke are a great basketball program but the simple truth is that many (black) Americans view them with so much disdain because of their elitism and their largely unearned status as "America's Team". Think of Duke as the modern version of the 1980s Boston Celtics. Keep in mind that back in the 1980s, virtually all of the East Coast media routinely favored the Boston Celtics, especially when they met the mostly black Los Angeles Lakers. Many blacks view these so called "elite" teams with suspicion, so for them, the sight of a black person trying to curry favor, or become a part of them is tantamount to heresy. Make of that what you will, but I'm simply stating the facts neutrally.

Obviously, Jalen Rose now admits that his feelings of antipathy towards Grant Hill were mostly inspired by envy and jealousy, given that Grant had everything Rose could only dream of - a stable, comfortable home with two Ivy-League educated parents - so he went to painful lengths to make clear that was his feeling AT THE TIME. Now he's alot more worldly, experienced and frankly, more intellectual, he has realized the intellectually shallow premise of such ideas.

However, I really dislike the way the media made Jalen Rose to be a villain, especially with them implying he called Grant Hill an Uncle Tom. No. What he said was that he viewed players like Grant Hill who went to play for Duke as Uncle Toms. The historical accuracy of that slur aside, Rose does have a point. I love and respect Grant Hill as a player and a man; inspite of all he went through with injuries and what have you, he never had a chip on his shoulder, is a graceful human being and does so many good things you don't hear on ESPN. But there is no question he has profited from being deconstructed as the binary opposite of the Allen Iversons of the world. In other words, he has played the Martin Luther King to Allen Iverson's Malcolm X; he has largely gotten by most of his career by being the good folly; the "good Negro", if you will. In all fairness, most of it probably through no conscious choice of his, but it feeds the perception really.

I think this entire debate misses the entire point about black identity and what it means to "be black"