Current Events > NBA scrub Myles Leonard under fire for using a slur on stream

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Shinnokxz
03/09/21 5:07:42 PM
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You know there's some CoD player out there, the one that sniped Leonard, just howling right now
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_Raich_
03/09/21 5:21:20 PM
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he had a full second or more of wind up to swerve the regular gamer moment only to crash into that.

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Shablagoo
03/09/21 5:44:14 PM
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Already lost a sponsorship and the Heat are reviewing the clip. He probably will be let go soon, Pat Riley doesnt mess around.

https://twitter.com/AndySlater/status/1369395930525556738

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VipaGTS
03/09/21 7:46:35 PM
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https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1369447574101442569?s=19

its ok guys, he totally didn't know what it meant...he just said it in a derogatory manner after pausing to think about it.

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Cucumber21
03/09/21 8:04:24 PM
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MARKINGRAM22 posted...
I say he get the same punishment all the black athletes that were agreeing with Hitler got.

What? Who was agreeing with Hitler?
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Dakimakura
03/09/21 8:06:13 PM
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Honestly, considering it is the NBA that was the safest slur he could say.

If he said the N word or a slur against the Asian race (which China owns the NBA) he would be erased by now.
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K181
03/09/21 8:09:28 PM
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He plays in Miami and the league commissioner is Jewish.

He's gonna get it.

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MichaeI_Vick
03/09/21 8:16:13 PM
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When I first saw an article talking about this, I assumed that the Leonard in question was Kawhi. >_> I was like "there's no way him of all people is going to get cancelled for saying any slur. He makes the league way too much money for them to get rid of him"

It's a shame that the best of the best are basically immune when it comes down to things like this. Since Myles Leonard is basically a scrub it's easy to get rid of him....
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BignutzisBack
03/09/21 8:16:22 PM
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K181 posted...
He plays in Miami and the league commissioner is Jewish.

He's gonna get it.

So is the Miami heat owner, deep Jewish roots. He's probably and rightfully feeling very uncomfortable right now lol

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OffTempo
03/09/21 8:27:47 PM
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Never heard that one before

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_Marka_Ragnos_
03/09/21 8:39:36 PM
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One one hand, terrible terrible thing to say. He definitely should be reprimanded harshly for this. On the other hand, does he deserve to lose his career over it?

I don't know. He said in his apology that he didn't know what the word truly meant, and judging by this topic, a lot of other people don't either. Doesn't excuse it, but I don't know if he deserves to lose his whole career out of it.
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UnholyMudcrab
03/09/21 8:42:17 PM
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_Marka_Ragnos_ posted...
One one hand, terrible terrible thing to say. He definitely should be reprimanded harshly for this. On the other hand, does he deserve to lose his career over it?

I don't know. He said in his apology that he didn't know what the word truly meant, and judging by this topic, a lot of other people don't either. Doesn't excuse it, but I don't know if he deserves to lose his whole career out of it.

Bad, bad post
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El Mexicano Texano
03/09/21 9:10:43 PM
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I have never heard of this insult at all. I post on 4chan but it's just the porn and perv parts

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Cucumber21
03/09/21 9:13:55 PM
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El Mexicano Texano posted...
I have never heard of this insult at all. I post on 4chan but it's just the porn and perv parts

Why would mention 4chan when talking about racial slurs?
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Bad_Mojo
03/09/21 9:14:33 PM
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No_U_L7 posted...
that's not just a racial slur...that's one of the worst ones there is

major yikes


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skermac
03/09/21 9:18:44 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
Oof. How is that word even in his lexicon? Anyway, he continued streaming after this until he got a phone call and realized his career is over:

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1369364135666933766

is his career over? This is the first I heard of this incident


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Mizznox
03/09/21 9:20:13 PM
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MichaeI_Vick posted...
Since Myles Leonard is basically a scrub it's easy to get rid of him....

Case in point: almost 70 posts in and it hasn't even been pointed out that his name isn't Myles, lol.
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Mizznox
03/09/21 9:26:03 PM
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skermac posted...
is his career over? This is the first I heard of this incident

He was already just a role player, is currently recovering from season-ending shoulder surgery, and his team was already probably going to benefit from declining his team option for next season. I don't think this is something that's exactly going to blacklist him from future opportunities, but his time left in the league was probably dwindling anyways. Being a 7-footer who can shoot and do other NBA center things at least somewhat passably isn't rare anymore.
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DamionDL
03/09/21 9:28:43 PM
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Jesus, dude is from my hometown and I went to the same school. Doesn't surprise me, unfortunately. Also bs on him not knowing what it meant.

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hockeybub89
03/09/21 9:32:12 PM
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"I don't know what the words that come out of my mouth mean" will never not be a dumbass excuse.

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Choco
03/09/21 9:32:16 PM
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Delirious_Beard
03/09/21 9:40:25 PM
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Cucumber21 posted...
Why would mention 4chan when talking about racial slurs?

because calling people slurs is ingrained in chan culture

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LightningAce11
03/09/21 9:42:13 PM
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If he was sorry, he never would have said it.

But this is just PR after he got caught out.
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Cucumber21
03/09/21 9:43:04 PM
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Choco posted...
Antifar posted...
https://twitter.com/MasonGinsberg/status/1369386329264582659
jesus fucking christ

That was bad, but it could be a product of ignorance (and poor PR oversight) rather than a malicious act. There are plenty of people (some in this topic) that had never heard the word nor realize it is a slur. That said, someone is losing a job over this.
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zado19
03/09/21 10:16:29 PM
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BignutzisBack posted...
https://twitter.com/MainTeamSports/status/1369353805138178049?s=09

I've never even heard that slur before, I had to Google that shit lol
Who is this and what did he even say...? Kite bitch? what the hell does that mean???
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Talk2DaHand
03/09/21 10:32:05 PM
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https://twitter.com/Aestro/status/1369369127413026824?s=19

Damn

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lemondrop7
03/09/21 10:41:39 PM
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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...
Yall never watch South Park or what

yes and the payoff of "the real person" behind the mask of slurs are moments like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxoKjwudruw

how many times do trey and matt have to say that cartman is supposed to be a revolting bigoted piece of s*** before people realize that he isn't supposed to be normalized. south park is USING freedom of speech (in that case) to show what a little nazi s*** cartman is not advocating everyone just start using slurs because "muh freedom of speech". south park even did an EXACT episode on this where all the girls begin emulating paris hilton because the adults can't separate right from wrong anymore. people like paris (and cartman) are supposed to be mocked and disliked BECAUSE of their attributes, not become symbols for freedom of expression. that's what is so ass backwards, the country seemed smarter just 10 years ago and now everyone has collectively lost their mind about what it means to be free. personally i kind of think thats why cartman is more just purely evil / chud acting in the later seasons where he was more neutral in the earlier seasons...trey and matt were probably seeing too much normalization of a hateful spiteful character so they just decided to make him pretty much pure evil/annoying (to the detriment of the series but oh well).

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cjsdowg
03/09/21 11:21:38 PM
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I love how black people are getting drug into this for no reason. I mean dammit a white guy says a Jewish slur and people keep bringing up black people. Can we ever catch a got dang break.

MichaeI_Vick posted...
When I first saw an article talking about this, I assumed that the Leonard in question was Kawhi. >_> I was like "there's no way him of all people is going to get cancelled for saying any slur. He makes the league way too much money for them to get rid of him"

It's a shame that the best of the best are basically immune when it comes down to things like this. Since Myles Leonard is basically a scrub it's easy to get rid of him....

There is a lot of assuming in this post.

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Kastrada
03/09/21 11:23:26 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
I love how black people are getting drug into this for no reason. I mean dammit a white guy says a Jewish slur and people keep bringing up black people. Can we ever catch a got dang break.

"Well if this guy is cancelled, what about RAP MUSIC!?"

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Legato-and-Vash
03/10/21 9:28:03 AM
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I have never heard of that slur before.
AmericaTheBrave posted...
Wow can't believe we still have some people so innocent they never heard the slur for Jews before. Don't you guys post on 4chan?
I've never posted on 4chan before. Or even visited it.

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ModLogic
03/10/21 9:40:07 AM
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oh so thats why they censor michael jacksons they dont really care about us

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gatorsPENSbucs
03/10/21 9:42:28 AM
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cjsdowg posted...


There is a lot of assuming in this post.
Kobe used a very bad slur during a game towards a person, paid his fine and nothing ever came of it. Dont remember if he was suspended or left the team or anything like that. Think people pretty much stopped caring after a day or two.

Colin Kaepernick used a very bad slur in a game towards a person. Maybe paid a fine but didnt leave the team or get suspended or anything like that.

I think the poster youre getting mad at is actually onto something.

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cjsdowg
03/10/21 10:01:00 AM
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...
Colin Kaepernick used a very bad slur in a game towards a person. Maybe paid a fine but didnt leave the team or get suspended or anything like that.

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/10/15/6985459/colin-kaepernick-fined-racial-slur-nfl-nflpa-49ers

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zado19
03/10/21 11:30:22 AM
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AmericaTheBrave posted...
Wow can't believe we still have some people so innocent they never heard the slur for Jews before. Don't you guys post on 4chan?
Ill be honest.... I thought jew WAS the offensive term...

reading the posts and seeing the the word being discussed, I literally have never heard that word before in my life (as you see from my post last night, I didnt even hear it correctly)
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02fran
03/10/21 2:44:41 PM
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Gamers are truly the worst nerd community.
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Shablagoo
03/11/21 2:34:39 PM
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fined $50K and suspended for a week

https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1370046423329341441

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Mizznox
03/11/21 2:39:43 PM
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The suspension is pretty pointless. Apparently injured players don't get docked "game checks" when serving suspensions the way guys who would have otherwise been playing do. If he was healthy, the week-long suspension would have amounted to like $320k in lost salary. Because he's rehabbing, he doesn't lose any of that. So it's basically nothing but "you can't hang out with the team for a week".
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Shablagoo
03/11/21 2:43:28 PM
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Mizznox posted...
The suspension is pretty pointless. Apparently injured players don't get docked "game checks" when serving suspensions the way guys who would have otherwise been playing do. If he was healthy, the week-long suspension would have amounted to like $320k in lost salary. Because he's rehabbing, he doesn't lose any of that. So it's basically nothing but "you can't hang out with the team for a week".

Yeah, its fucked up. I know he apologized but I have a hard time believing he knew the word without knowing its meaning somehow.


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jimbiz
03/11/21 9:29:55 PM
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...
Kobe used a very bad slur during a game towards a person, paid his fine and nothing ever came of it. Dont remember if he was suspended or left the team or anything like that. Think people pretty much stopped caring after a day or two.

Colin Kaepernick used a very bad slur in a game towards a person. Maybe paid a fine but didnt leave the team or get suspended or anything like that.

I think the poster youre getting mad at is actually onto something.

Kobe was fined 100k and was forced to apologize for his action

Meyers is only fined for 50K and he wasnt playing in the first place because he's injured


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02fran
03/13/21 2:38:12 AM
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Mizznox posted...
The suspension is pretty pointless. Apparently injured players don't get docked "game checks" when serving suspensions the way guys who would have otherwise been playing do. If he was healthy, the week-long suspension would have amounted to like $320k in lost salary. Because he's rehabbing, he doesn't lose any of that. So it's basically nothing but "you can't hang out with the team for a week".

Woah, I didn't know he made that much. He must be making bank with both this and twitch.
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