Grant Hill & Jalen Rose supporting new charter school

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This is a great story especially when you consider just a few months ago it looked like nothing good would come of the Jalen Rose/Grant Hill situation. Now Grant Hill has stepped in to help Jalen Rose with the new charter school he is starting. It's nice to see men work things out like men and give back to the community in the process. George Cook AAreports.com. Author of the Kindle book Let's Talk Honestly: One Black Man's Thoughts $1.50

Former Michigan basketball star Jalen Rose says Grant Hill has agreed to help support the new charter school in Detroit bearing Rose's name.

The Jalen Rose Leadership Academy is expected to open in September. Rose says Hill has promised to lend his support and that things are fine between them after Hill criticized Rose in March for comments he made in an ESPN documentary about Michigan's famous Fab Five.

Hill, a former Duke standout, criticized Rose in the New York Times for saying the Blue Devils "only recruited black players that were 'Uncle Toms.' " Rose says he was only describing how he felt back when he was a teenager -- as opposed to now.

"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," Rose said Saturday. "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."