I love this exchange from the article:
Not anymore. The summer’s travails, the way the city divided on him, that howling crowd at First Niagara Center all served to lend Kane a bit of clarity. “It just seems like it’s kind of 50-50—and it always has been—whether people like me in Buffalo or they hate me,” he said to his dad last month.
“That’s what they said about Gretzky in his hometown,” Tiki said in response. The message: Greatness spawns resentment.
What?!? Am I the last to know that 50% of Brantford, Ontario hates Wayne Gretzky?!? I've never really heard of anybody hating him, much less in his own hometown.
Tiki - maybe being a dbag spawns resentment - not greatness.
You might be able to compare Kane and Gretzky on the ice, but off the ice, there is no comparison.
The same could be said of Tiki Kane and Walter Gretzky.