Leonard said the two-word phrase “kike bitch” with a conviction like he’d used the term before while playing Call of Duty. It’s not clear that he used the words to describe a Jewish person playing alongside him, but it’s evident someone got in his ear quickly to let Leonard know how badly he messed up with saying two words, as he doesn’t get a word in on the phone call that starts seconds after he said the disgusting phrase.
Leonard spoke on the incident publicly last year with the Chabad house at Illinois, his alma mater, reportedly attended a dinner with Holocaust survivors, had conversations with Jewish leaders, and participated in a program to distribute meals to Jewish families in Miami. Per the Chicago Tribune, Leonard visited a Holocaust museum and put on basketball camps for Jewish children. In terms of correcting a massive mistake, those are all good-faith gestures. Without messing up again, and possibly making some sort of donation to a Milwaukee-area Jewish foundation, Leonard should be welcomed back to the NBA.
Jesus christ, why bother getting fame at all. You cant even insult friends while playing video games with 79 on patrol.
The last line is fun. "Yeah, he's done a bunch of stuff to show that he realizes he was an asshole and is trying not to be again, but he probably needs to give the Jews some money too."
So they fired Bud because he choked too many times (despite winning a championship) so they hired the most famous choker who ever choked as their new coach? Solid plan.
These buttnuts did this little dance (during intros maybe) in the first game after getting Griffin fired. Classy, guys.
Barkley on TNT last night was pretty peeved about it, calling it classless. He asked if they do it every game or if it was just this one....Ernie pulled an ESPN and steered the conversation away from that, and asked Charles if he could do that dance, and that he'd like to see it in the TNT postgame.