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Mallory Edens blasts reporter over boorish NBA Draft article

By Jonathan Bass

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Mallory Edens, daughter of Milwaukee Bucks owner Stan Edens, rips reporter Chris Sheridan over his sexist article referring to her as a trophy daughter.

One year ago, Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Stan Edens sent his daughter Mallory to represent the team during the NBA Draft Lottery. As soon as she was shown on camera social media exploded all over itself at the intersection of horny male and male sports fan. Edens trended on Twitter, gained a bajillion followers on there and Instagram, and even had a punkish type song dedicated to her. It was, how would you say, a spunk-fueled testosterone fest.

Fast forward one year and Edens is back in the headlines (at least on this site), thanks to an article from veteran sportswriter Chris Sheridan. In his piece “Inside the ping-pong ball room at NBA draft lottery” Sheridan framed Tuesday’s event around the NBA’s newly adopted policy of disallowing family members to represent teams on the podium. And while he did mention Cleveland Cavaliers good luck charm Nick Gilbert, most of article’s framing was based on “trophy daughter” Edens and “trophy wife” Becky Taylor (wife to Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor).

The lede is as follows:

"One year after Mallory Edens captivated us all at the NBA draft lottery, a new NBA rule deprived us of a close-up look at the trophy wife of Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor.Her name is Becky, she is fantastic looking, and she was supposed to have been onstage instead of the 74-year-old Mr. Taylor as the T-Wolves won the top pick in the 2015 NBA draft.Unfortunately, the puritans at the NBA instituted a new “no family” rule for this year’s lottery, which also means we’ve seen the last of Nick Gilbert and his bow tie."

Odd comparisons were peppered throughout Sheridan’s piece – Ricky Rubio “is the Mallory Edens of young men,” and Sixers president Sam Hinkie is a genius who will end up “looking a lot better than young Ms. Edens or the older Mrs. Taylor” – and they obscured any salient points he attempted to make about drafting strategies or personnel moves. Perhaps the biggest self-sabotage (definitively turning the piece from basketball article to a cluster of sexualized juxtapositions) was when Sheridan once again referred to Taylor as a trophy wife and  predicted Edens future as a trophy girlfriend.

"Taylor has his trophy wife. Edens will one day be somebody’s trophy GF."

Since the article’s posting (and subsequent backlash) Sheridan has apologized for his “irreverence” via Twitter.

However it wasn’t before the 19-year-old Princeton student Edens took exception for being marginalized as little more than a possession.

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