The Miami Heat player is truly a class act. When it was reported that Ferry made some rather racist comments about him, saying that Deng has some “African in him”, he took the high road! During media day, Deng addressed the comments. Hit the jump for details.

Via CBS Sports:

After talking with Ferry, he doesn’t believe the Hawks’ general manager who took a leave of absence is racist and Deng would love to make this a positive learning experience for everybody to benefit from.

“I really think one of the hardest things to do as a human being – and something we should do more often – is to forgive,” Deng said at the Heat’s media day. “I do forgive Danny. It’s not something that I want to hold onto for the rest of my career and the rest of my life. I had the chance to speak to Danny and I really believe he’s sorry for what he said.

And whether it came from him or wherever it came from, the main focus really should be how we move on forward. What are we going to do about it? Instead of just pointing fingers and trying to go after each other and be mad at each other, I think everything happens for a reason and we could turn this situation of something so negative and something bad that words that were used to describe me and describe where I came from and really turn it into something positive.”

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