New York Knicks Knicks Announcer Disciplined For Questionable Jeremy Lin Phrase
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Spero Dedes, the New York Knicks radio announcer, has been disciplined by Madison Square Garden for using the phrase “chink in the armor” in reference to Jeremy Lin. Dedes used the expression after the Knicks lost to the New Orleans Hornets on Friday night. MSG did not say what the discipline entails.
“No one at ESPN-1050 (the Knicks radio home) has been told Spero will be missing any games,” a source told the New York Daily News. “If he does, it will be surprising.”
“We took appropriate disciplinary action dealing with this matter, but will keep the details internal to the organization,” MSG said in its statement.
Dedes is at least the third media person to use the phrase while covering Lin, but his punishment is apparently not nearly as severe as his two predecessors.
ESPN editor Anthony Federico was fired for using the headline, “Chink in the Armor,” after Friday’s night’s Hornets-Knicks game, and ESPNews anchor Max Bretos was suspended for a month for saying the phrase while interviewing Knicks TV analyst Walt Frazier about Lin last week. Both Federico and Bretos have since apologized.
Dedes did as well, saying in MSG’s statement, “I am deeply sorry that my unfortunate choice of words offended anyone, it was completely inadvertent. I have apologized to Jeremy (Lin) and I apologize to the Asian community if others were offended. I will be much more sensitive to my choice of words moving forward.”
