1) Throughout his career, Hibbert has been extremely soft spoken. Over the past two weeks something has changed, and it seems he has a whole lot of pent-up aggression. But this happens to coincide with a stretch of his best play as a professional. I imagine the two are connected. There is a very thin line between being extremely competitive and being mentally unstable. I'm afraid Hibbert may have crossed over that line.
2) I really don't know what he's upset about. Until the past month or two, the refs crapped on Hibbert continuously. He couldn't stay in a game very long without fouling out. But now, he's getting those calls. I don't see where he has any complaints about the refs -- and it isn't even clear that's what he's mad about. He seems a bit irrational to me.
3) An apology includes the words "I was wrong", "I have learned an important lesson.", and "I ask the fans to give me a chance to prove it."
A non-apology almost always includes the word "regret", usually couplet "if my words have been misunderstood" or some crap like that.
It seems to me that Hibbert was somewhere in that area between apology and non-apology.
4) He's probably right that the press are, by and large, MFers. But it is not very smart to say so because those MFers get the last work every time.
5) If the league were actually interested in decency and fair play, rather than catering to the most base instincts of their patrons, they would suspend Hibbert for game 7, and that would ensure a Miami victory. But this league is so rigged in so many ways that I don't think they should do that in this one particular instance. What they will probably do instead is let it be known that Mr. Hibbert is to get a foul called whenever he is within a zip code of any Miami player. That's how the NBA takes care of bitness.
6) I don't even know what he meant by "no homo". I assume that he means that Lebron James was coming at him hard, and not passively on the play in question. It is a ridiculous expression, even without the recent news about Jason Collins.
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