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A black NBA player appeared to make a racial remark to a white NBA
player after a heated confrontation during a game on Friday night while
the players were wearing jerseys that had special social justice
phrases printed on the back.
�LA Clippers forward Montrezl Harrell and Dallas Mavericks Slovenian
star Luka Doncic got into a scuffle last night that ended with Harrell
calling Doncic a �b***h a*s white boy,'� Outkick columnist Gary
Sheffield Jr. wrote. �The solution here is simple, even if many won�t
like it: the NBA has to suspend Montrezl Harrell and send a message
that race-based derogatory comments like his on the basketball court
won�t be tolerated. The NBA has already set this precedent with gay
slurs on the court, why not with racial-based insults as well?�
�Montrezl Harrell�s comments have already spawned a million �If the
races were reversed� conversations on social media and there is no
doubt that if Luka had referred to Montrezl Harrell as a �b**** a**
black boy,� that the social media condemnation would have rained down
from the heavens on Luka,� Sheffield added. �In fact, Luka would
probably be suspended for the remainder of the season. He would be
crushed, a social pariah in all of sports.�
WATCH:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1296990679000928257
Former NBA player and current ESPN host Jay Williams slammed Harrell
for the alleged comment, noting that if Doncic said something like
that, it would be a big deal.
In a video posted to Twitter, Williams said:
I am no lip reader, but damn, Trez, damn, Montrez. I can only
imagine if Luka Doncic had something like that to you, and it
got caught on tape. I can only imagine during Black Lives
Matter how much of a big deal that would have been, considering
today�s climate and state. It would have been a massive story.
Luka would have lost all credibility in this space; everybody
would have been commenting on it. People would have asked
LeBron about it, people would have asked [another player] about
it. Everybody would have had some kind of statement about it,
but it�s not that big of a story because Trez said it to a
Caucasian person.
It should be a big story because it�s not acceptable, man. And
look, I�m a hooper, I talk trash, I�ve cursed people out. We
can get into the nuances of whether that�s right or wrong too,
but what you said, when you�re involving race in it�and I�ve
heard people say this back in the day during basketball
scenarios and playing hoops in inner cities, I still didn�t
find it acceptable then. I don�t find it acceptable now.
Especially when cameras are on you 24/7. Get lost in your
battle, man, but don�t get lost and say things like that. You
don�t need to say things like that, Trez. Make your performance
speak for itself; you can talk trash in different ways. You
don�t need to say stuff like that. Now, I�m no lip reader, but
I know what I saw come out of your mouth, man. We don�t need
that in today�s game, especially with everything that we�re
fighting for as it relates to equality. Even if you do get
lost in your emotion, not acceptable. Not acceptable.
WATCH:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1297266119032676354
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