[Wojnarowski] ESPN Sources: Free agent F/C Meyers Leonard — out of the NBA since March 2021 after uttering an antisemitic slur on a video game livestream and rehabbing post-surgical nerve damage on his right leg — is signing a 10-day contract with the Milwaukee Bucks.
ESPN Sources: Free agent F/C Meyers Leonard — out of the NBA since March 2021 after uttering an antisemitic slur on a video game livestream and rehabbing post-surgical nerve damage on his right leg — is signing a 10-day contract with the Milwaukee Bucks. pic.twitter.com/sDxBJm9CPG
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 20, 2023
by DRAZZILB1424
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That’s cool. Good for him
Ain’t have to do him like that 😭
Woj made sure to be super specific with that headline huh lol
What a tweet. Damn
I don’t hate it. He apologized, he deserve a second chance. I just hope no one becomes a “fan” of our squad in bad faith.
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Good for him. I still think he’s not a NBA quality player but given that he paid his dues he deserves another chance, especially when Kyrie keeps playing and people like Stephen Jackson get to support questionable beliefs while nobody bats an eye.
Title is seething
So much fake outrage in this thread. Dude has apologized for his racist act and did outreach + community service. The righteous police on these forums should be open-minded enough to give people a second chance.
Would Woj make a title like that for Kyrie??
The Return
“I’m back”
Good for him for at least trying to make it right. Can’t say the same about some players in this league
Lets blast myles leonard while we celebrate karl malone all weekend. Makes sense
Fuck you woj
This thread is exactly what I thought it would be 😂
dude did 10x more than what kyrie did and genuinely. prob out of the league mostly for bball reasons, but still deserves a second chance after how hard he worked to educate himself
Lets goo Meyers! He paid his dues, came to speak at my synagogue. Glad he’s back in the league!
if you don’t believe this guy deserves a second chance then no one does
Bro tweeted his whole life story
I mean Kyrie still in the league so do we really care
He’s done a ton of work with the community to show his remorse. Time for all of us to move on.
Dude really did like 100x more to apologize and take action against antisemitism than Kyrie did but got 100x the punishment
If anything this shows that the league doesn’t care what you say or think as long as you can ball
I mean seriously what this guy did compared to his punishment is a little ridiculous
He did everything possible to right his wrong by educating himself on Jewish culture. Gamers have said worse than him and did nothing but apologize. At least this guy did more than just saying sorry.
Still think what Myers did is not even half as bad as what Kyrie did. One said a slur on camera one time and immediately apologized and asked for forgiveness. The other is proselytizing the idea that Jews have perpetuated some kind of historical race fraud against black people who are the real Chosen Ones and then bragged that the apology he made reluctantly and under duress was totally insincere.
Not necessarily a fan of what went down, but Leonard has put in serious work to fix his image and apologize to people.
This is a dick move, Woj. Not cool.
Initially thinking what the heck are they doing.
Then I read the article and it looks like he didn’t know what he said and went on an extensive discussion mission to figure out what he actually said and what it means to the people affected.
Dude seems like he made a mistake and owned up to it and tried to make himself better. Seems like a lot of people in the league could use some of that mentality.
Done way more to rehabilitate his image than Kyrie that’s for sure.
Meyers got his career ruined for having 12 year old Squeaker brain and yet Kyrie got rewarded with a trade for holding actually violently antisemitic views. Make it make sense NBA.
If we punish bad behaviour, we should reinforce good behaviour. Nothing wrong here
We’ll have to see how this one gets handled. I’m fairly convinced Meyers made a mistake and actually owned up to it and improved himself, but with how much Louis Farrakhan went around since then, the NBA and various talking heads have absolutely zero room to talk.