It was certainly noteworthy enough when the notorious, undefeated University of Kentucky basketball team lost to Wisconsin in the NCAA semifinals. The post-game press conference, however, turned tawdry in its newsworthiness. UK guard Andrew Harrison muttered a nasty slur into a microphone about Wisconsin’s AP “Player of the Year” Frank Kaminsky.
He called him a f-bomb-adjective/ n-word. Incongruously enough, Harrison is black, Kaminsky is white. Regardless, it was blatantly offensive to anyone within earshot.
Later Harrison tweeted that it was a “poor choice of words” and called Kaminsky to apologize. “Nothing needs to be made out of it,” responded Kaminsky.
It’s likely that’s the last we’ll hear of that beyond-bizarre utterance. But imagine the high-decibel clamor we’d still be in the midst of if Kaminsky had said it.