Michael Wilbon is a sports journalism legend and trailblazer whose body of work deserves respect. That needs to be said because, for far too long, these conversations have devolved into irreverent screaming matches between sides that simply cannot agree.
But Wilbon’s column Tuesday at The Undefeated about, in the words of the subhead, “Why the blacks are not feeling the sports metrics movement,” fails to take its subject matter as seriously as it should have. This is an important topic that holds major consequences around sports — as well as business at large. It's about race, and it's about culture, and it's about age, and it's about the changing world.