Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick is flat-out denying he called a woman the N-word while a member of the Duke men's basketball team … saying the interaction simply never happened.
Halleemah Nash — an author, speaker, and Duke alum — dropped the bombshell allegation on social media on Tuesday … claiming, "I've only been called the N word to my face by a white man once in my life and it was on the campus of Duke University while I was doing work with the basketball team .And today he was named the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. What a world."
Redick — a former college basketball superstar at Duke and 15-year NBA veteran — was introduced as the 29th head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday.
The allegation was posted on Nash's account at 9:10 AM on Tuesday … and, as of the time of this post, was viewed 10 million times.
We reached out to Redick's camp for a response to the claim … and they completely shut it down.
"No, it never happened," a spokesperson tells TMZ Sports.
Source: https://www.tmz.com/2024/06/25/los-angeles-lakers-coach-jj-redick-denies-n-word-use-allegation/
by bambam-in-vietnam
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What are they gonna say? “Oh yeah that definitely happened. Sorry JJ isn’t the angel y’all think he is”
Like no shit
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lol they *actually* reached out to him.
what did they think he was gonna say????
just to put this article out
So is this just in limbo right now given it’s now publicly a He said-She said?
>your honor she asked me who was in Paris
Never heard this one before. Was there any record of this being brought up in the past?
Even if it happened what’s the NBA/Lakers gonna do, there are coaches in the league with domestic violence cases
Did they ask him about Reddick’s thoughts on dinosaurs?
Pretty sure nothing will ever come of this, she can’t possibly proves he said it, he can’t possibly prove he didn’t. Nothing else to say really.
Why didn’t she bring this up when he was playing…?
Redick becomes head coach of the Lakers and all of a sudden she needs to get this off her chest? Right.
Who knows one way or another it was so long ago.
Just don’t ask him to do a video for Chinese fans and there shouldn’t be any trouble.
Jj said he didn’t give a fuck
Im calling bullshit.
She had all the time in the world while he was at duke, while he was drafted, his entire career, his VERY public stint on ESPN as a commentator, and its only now that hes the Laker head coach that she remembers being called that?
bruh.
And Im actually a black man who is very hypersensitive to this kind of bullshit. There are a lot of trash people out there that like saying this kind of shit out of pocket and I hope they get the justice coming for them, but Im not too sure that I believe this one. He played in a league that is predominantly black and no one even got a whiff of him being racist? Trust me, even though I know some white people try to hide it, after 15 years he would slip in some way
Getting ready for the Clipped prequel
[Then explain this JJ](https://streamable.com/0gsy9r)
JJ: “Fiiiine I said it”
Jj should have said that he that she was Steve Kerr’s son
So this is just a he said/she said.
That’s Redickulous!
“no it never happened” bro just used two n words in one sentence
And she waited to just now to announce this?
“Hey did you do this?
“Nah bro”
“K”
Girl got her 15 seconds of fame
Who tf cares. It’s been 20 years.
I bet some other white dude said it and she thought it was JJ Redick
If TMZ is posting this instead of paying someone to get a vid or something more substantial, at best its a he said she said without anything meaningful. If more people come out to corrobarate the story, that can add credibility but like, its very hard to ever prove something like this happened. Its also not fair to judge someone as doing something just based off one accusation without anything to support the claims.
Of course you hold on to this accusation until he becomes head coach of the lakers. Not a daily talking head on network television.
What was the supposed context? He just randomly yelled the slur at her as she walked to her class?
It’s funny how she didn’t care until he became a head coach lol.
Send da video
No offense but if the likes of Kidd (wife beater and asshole), Billups (rapist), Udoka (sexual predator), Mazzulla (girlfriend choker and public urine merchant), and Spo (groomer) are still coaching in the league, then Redick will be fine.
Tbf tho, you learn a lot after a long time and I hope that JJ is constantly improving as a human, while the woman can find peace.
She waited until now…..lol.
Source: Darvin Ham
So 20 years after this happened, she took the opportunity to bring up the most unverifiable situation.
Whatever lady. True or not, your timing is sus.
Why is this only coming out now? Dude has been a decently known NBA player for over a decade and was on TV basically everyday on ESPN the past couple years.
The person who tweeted this also tweeted that they miss everything about Kobe today.
They couldn’t pick a player they miss who doesn’t have very public rape allegations?
Doesn’t exactly make the accusation easier to believe.
He was just answering the trivia question “people who annoy you.”
should have said i dont give a fuck lol
This guy had been a public figure for years now and this is the time to bring it out. I am a little skeptical just being 100
Guy had a long nba career, was on tv for the year, has a successful podcast, but now you decide to say something?
My thing is,whether true or not,why wait till now to bring this out when there’s been many opportunities to bring this to light.
I expect this to be a calm and reasonable thread with no controversy at all and measured takes.