DEADSPIN: How Marshall Henderson gets away with being Marshall Henderson

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How Marshall Henderson gets away with being Marshall Henderson

By Greg Howard

On Sunday night, we said goodbye to Ole Miss guard Marshall Henderson, college basketball's most exciting troll, a sort of human "u mad bro?" who did everything to antagonize his opponents short of popping motorcycle wheelies at halfcourt with their girlfriends riding pillion. He and the 12th-seeded Rebels lost a heartbreaker to 13th-seeded La Salle, 76-74, and when the buzzer sounded, Henderson stalked off the court with two middle fingers raised.

Later, radio host Danny Parkins asked him for an explanation. Henderson told him, "Someone yelled that my sister is a whore and said something about cocaine."

The incident occasioned some tsk-tsking here and there, but by that point it'd been well established that Henderson was a temperamental figure—"outspoken," as CBS put it—and the two middle fingers seemed perfectly in character. The lines had been drawn on Henderson. You either love him or you hate him. We'd already reached the "Marshall being Marshall" stage of raffish sports anti-heroism, improbably.

But then, everything about Marshall Henderson is improbable. He messes with any racially essentialist expectations of what a white basketball player is supposed to be. He's an incessant s***-talker who tosses up 30-footers, rarely passes, and has a conspicuous lack of "hustle" stats. He tokes an invisible joint after made three-pointers. He drinks a lot, even during the NCAA tournament. He tweets photos of himself blacked out or with groupies, and calls them hoes. He has a rap sheet. He's a coach's kid with a known history of clashing with coaches. Marshall Henderson by all rights shouldn't exist. And if he were a black athlete, he wouldn't—not as far as big-time basketball is concerned.

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This guy takes a shot at Thayer Evans and Pete Thamel in the article. The gif on the page is of Henderson popping his jersey at the Auburn fans.

[AU64 10,122]

JMO of course but should this jerk should be under Auburn Basketball ?. We have enough problems...

[penguin149 391]

I can't disagree with alot of what Greg Howard says. But if he's really curious about why Andy Kennedy would boot a couple of players for drugs and then add Henderson to the team...Kennedy & Henderson are both turds and turds of feather flock together. Henderson is a thug and one day karma will catch up with him. The world has a way of evening things out over time.