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General Category => Fighting Illini Basketball Forum => Topic started by: frankiew on March 09, 2021, 03:15:49 PM
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https://www.si.com/nba/2021/03/09/meyers-leonard-twitch-anti-semitic-slur
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Not sure what’s more embarrassing, using the word kike or a grown man playing video games while doing it
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Go figure. From central Illinois and racist to non-Christian whites.
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Not sure what’s more embarrassing, using the word kike or a grown man playing video games while doing it
That's pretty funny.
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Not sure what’s more embarrassing, using the word kike or a grown man playing video games while doing it
Or the platinum do.
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I use to game alot when I was younger but I'm lucky if I put in 5 hours worth a week nowadays
The thought of buying a ps5 is just laughable
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man if you pussies had any idea of the shit we used to talk during games back in the day.... hahaha
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if only he would have said "White privilege"
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Yeah! That would have been hilarious.
Actually, wait. What the fuck are you talking about?
Meth again, jasn?
He's not Jasn88Hitler
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I didn't think anyone even said the word kike anymore.
The 50's called, they want their slurs back.
Then again, Meyers is sort of a post up center in an era of the positionless player, so it's on form
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I didn't think anyone even said the word kike anymore.
First thing I thought too. I’m don’t think I’ve ever even heard someone use the word in my lifetime. I read it a very long time ago in books and magazines and had to look up what it meant. It’s absolutely bizarre that Meyers would be saying on a video game stream in 2021. I would almost guarantee he has no idea what the historical meaning of the word is.
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Haha, right!
I remember standing on the lane while someone was shooting free throws. I would look at the shooter and say hey, buddy! He would look at me, and I would look directly into his eyes and say SHAVED PUSSY!!!
More likely than not, he would miss that free throw.
Never called someone a kike tho.
This makes me so happy you’re back
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Is he though?
I never thought of Meyers as a post up center. Although, I haven't seen him play lately.
To be honest I was guessing because he's 7'2. I have no interest in the NBA so who knows, I read that analysis on the NBA in a story about Kofi so I tried to look smarter than I am. Poor form.
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His game is shooting threes and letting guys blow by him for dunks
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It really sucks that the later Weber years produced so little in NBA talent and the main guy who stuck in the league is a douche. Fuckin yikes.
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First thing I thought too. I’m don’t think I’ve ever even heard someone use the word in my lifetime. I read it a very long time ago in books and magazines and had to look up what it meant. It’s absolutely bizarre that Meyers would be saying on a video game stream in 2021. I would almost guarantee he has no idea what the historical meaning of the word is.
I grew up in central IL, and I’ve heard it plenty. Not for several years, but plenty when I was younger. Although I know two people with SS tattoos, so maybe my experience is different from others.
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I don’t know where in Central IL you grew up but I remember you saying at one time you have farm family in Sheldon area. There aren’t many Jews in Iroquois county. Probably even fewer in Robinson, IL. Being Jewish is like an abstract idea if you grew up on farm country before the internet. Idk it might be an age difference thing too but before the internet the word “Jew” to me meant someone who was tight with their money first and someone the Nazi’s killed second. I suppose in more populated areas of central IL there were enough neo nazis that people might know the word. There’s a ton of fuckin weirdos in the Peoria/Spfld/Decatur corridor to go around.
But anyways maybe he knew what it meant. If he did, I bet he picked it up sometime after leaving Robinson IL.
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The only time I've heard that term used was in the Porky's movie.
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To be honest I was guessing because he's 7'2. I have no interest in the NBA so who knows, I read that analysis on the NBA in a story about Kofi so I tried to look smarter than I am. Poor form.
I hear he shoots lots of threes
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He can shoot a little bit, but not a lot else. Does little work inside. Really odd lack of ever developing much of a game even after being in league for 9 years and having plus athletic skills.
I think he even worked with Drew Hanlen for awhile to try and develop more game.
He is screwed now. A 30 year old journeyman coming off an injury season and now has a racist rep in a socially conscious league that is at forefront of combating racism.
The Heat have publicly distanced and the NBA is investigating. No way he stays with them in a community and state with significant Jewish population.
Actually I bet he is done.
Maybe Europe if he cares about BB, but I think he is likely set for life if he wasn't stupid with his money.
Nobody in the gaming industry will want to touch him either.
Not sure what he will do.
Life is deservedly hard when you are outed as publicly acting in racist manner for anyone in most fields, except for public office where it is apparently condoned now.
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Poor guy. Must be rough.
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I think they wanted to be sort of personality couple business franchise.
It's funny he got a call from his wife to STFU and shut it down the day in question.
They are fcked now.
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yeah lets just cancel him because he said a stupid word once during a video game stream
not like he's done a ton of good work for charities or other causes in the other 29 years of his life or anything ::)
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You're only as good as your last racial slur.
Or something like that...
And for the record, I tend to agree with you.
I really wish more people just didn't use social media at all, its literally cancer
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I think they wanted to be sort of personality couple business franchise.
It's funny he got a call from his wife to STFU and shut it down the day in question.
They are fcked now.
What, are the red states running out of sinners to pilfer? I mean evangelize?
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yeah lets just cancel him because he said a stupid word once during a video game stream
not like he's done a ton of good work for charities or other causes in the other 29 years of his life or anything ::)
His biggest charitable donation was signing a LOI with Bruce Weber
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Meyers Leonard is a dipshit. Shocking.
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yeah lets just cancel him because he said a stupid word once during a video game stream
not like he's done a ton of good work for charities or other causes in the other 29 years of his life or anything ::)
He is as big of a dumbass as we've had attend here to play basketball. The difference between he and Jereme is negligible in the grand scheme.
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I don’t know where in Central IL you grew up but I remember you saying at one time you have farm family in Sheldon area. There aren’t many Jews in Iroquois county. Probably even fewer in Robinson, IL. Being Jewish is like an abstract idea if you grew up on farm country before the internet. Idk it might be an age difference thing too but before the internet the word “Jew” to me meant someone who was tight with their money first and someone the Nazi’s killed second. I suppose in more populated areas of central IL there were enough neo nazis that people might know the word. There’s a ton of fuckin weirdos in the Peoria/Spfld/Decatur corridor to go around.
But anyways maybe he knew what it meant. If he did, I bet he picked it up sometime after leaving Robinson IL.
Can confirm. I don't believe he didn't know what it meant, but it's very possible he's lived his entire life with no meaningful interaction with Judaism or how sharp the slurs hit.
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The difference between he
You're better than this.
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You're better than this.
Objection, facts not in evidence.
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He is as big of a dumbass as we've had attend here to play basketball. The difference between he and Jereme is negligible in the grand scheme.
yeah saying kike is just as bad as threatening someone with a loaded gun
fuck outta here with that nonsense
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yeah saying kike is just as bad as threatening someone with a loaded gun
fuck outta here with that nonsense
Well, technically he was some sort of paid gaming spokesperson and he does this as part of promoting them. He is also a pro athlete with a code of public conduct policy with his team paying him probably $1 million or more a year to represent them.
Try this: When you go to work today start screaming and call the receptionist a fcking kike bitch.
But do it on a zoom call with your whole company online, and record it and send it to all of the clients of all of the employees of your company. And then send it to Fox News to be broadcast at 700 pm time slot.
Let us know how that goes.
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https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31038867/new-england-patriots-julian-edelman-writes-open-letter-meyers-leonard-miami-heat-center-anti-semitic-slur
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Well, technically he was some sort of paid gaming spokesperson and he does this as part of promoting them. He is also a pro athlete with a code of public conduct policy with his team paying him probably $1 million or more a year to represent them.
Try this: When you go to work today start screaming and call the receptionist a fcking kike bitch.
But do it on a zoom call with your whole company online, and record it and send it to all of the clients of all of the employees of your company. And then send it to Fox News to be broadcast at 700 pm time slot.
Let us know how that goes.
yeah lets live in this crazy world of what ifs to make it the same... shut the fuck up already you whiny little bitch
Edelman is correct he didn't say it out of hate he said it out of ignorance, but yeah lets make up some more crazy what ifs to make this the same as threatening someone with a gun lol
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Well, technically he was some sort of paid gaming spokesperson and he does this as part of promoting them. He is also a pro athlete with a code of public conduct policy with his team paying him probably $1 million or more a year to represent them.
Try this: When you go to work today start screaming and call the receptionist a fcking kike bitch.
But do it on a zoom call with your whole company online, and record it and send it to all of the clients of all of the employees of your company. And then send it to Fox News to be broadcast at 700 pm time slot.
Let us know how that goes.
Might actually be the least objectionable stuff QAnon97 says today....I kid, I kid.
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I wish I had installed an insult meter before Jobu showed back up. I bet the analytics would be startling.
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What I haven't seen yet, is the guy who Meyers called the racial slur Jewish? If so he knew exactly what he was doing. If not then yeah it's a major fuck up but not surprising given his upbringing.
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Fined $50k. Suspended for a week.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31044935/miami-heat-meyers-leonard-fined-50000-suspended-week-using-anti-semitic-slur
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Innocent question: is it a racial, ethnic, or religious slur?
I haven't heard the term used for decades. I recall asking someone what it meant; had it it confused with dyke.
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Innocent question: is it a racial, ethnic, or religious slur?
I haven't heard the term used for decades. I recall asking someone what it meant; had it it confused with dyke.
Ethnic slur for a Jew
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yeah lets live in this crazy world of what ifs to make it the same... shut the fuck up already you whiny little bitch
Edelman is correct he didn't say it out of hate he said it out of ignorance, but yeah lets make up some more crazy what ifs to make this the same as threatening someone with a gun lol
Sorry if the scenario was too complicated for you to comprehend. I should have known it would cause a psychological melt down for you.
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Sorry if the scenario was too complicated for you to comprehend. I should have known it would cause a psychological melt down for you.
yeah its reeeeal complicated... you pissing and moaning and overreacting to something someone said
go get your T levels checked soy boy
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yeah its reeeeal complicated... you pissing and moaning and overreacting to something someone said
go get your T levels checked soy boy
You are quite the fragile little drama bitch here. It's actually laughable for such a tough guy wannabe.
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You are quite the fragile little drama bitch here. It's actually laughable for such a tough guy wannabe.
says the perpetual victim...
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says the perpetual victim...
You are confusing Lkdog.for Judge Judy
C'mon. Judge Judy is the professional victim here.
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Lotta hot balls here today.
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I play golf with two retired Jews from Brooklyn on Sunday mornings. I will bring it up Sunday maybe it’ll give them something to bitch about besides their tenants still using COVID as an excuse not to pay their rent and the state not allowing evictions !
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Are you saying my mere presence has caused people to be more profane and insulting?
If so, that’s great.
Precisely
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https://youtu.be/bPH5SQvzELQ
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Fined $50k. Suspended for a week.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31044935/miami-heat-meyers-leonard-fined-50000-suspended-week-using-anti-semitic-slur
The suspension and fine is insane considering Lebron once said he was getting paid Jew money or something to that nature and got nothing for saying it. Plenty of other NBA and NFL players doing and saying antisemitic shit and not getting fined or anything for it.
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https://youtu.be/ULKWvgL1wtY
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I act like a perfect fuckin gentleman when I get killed in Warzone.
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I'm not giving Shapiro any clicks but is the double standard he mentions...
1) White vs Black
2) Scrub vs Top 3 player all time
3) White vs black but he says it's Scrub vs Top 3
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Did anyone ever figure out if the guy on the receiving end is Jewish or not?
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Did anyone ever figure out if the guy on the receiving end is Jewish or not?
Nice sig!
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I'm not giving Shapiro any clicks but is the double standard he mentions...
1) White vs Black
2) Scrub vs Top 3 player all time
3) White vs black but he says it's Scrub vs Top 3
He gives the Meyers is just stupid and ignorant defense.
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My golf buddies didn’t even know who Leonard was just more bitching about not getting rent paid “due to covid” for a year and not being able to evict. Who could have thunk that fleecing every server bartender struggling actor and writer for 75% of their net income for a shitass apt might backfire someday ? Least Cuomo protected those folks better than the folks in the nursing homes up there. And they wonder why people are making like trees and leaving !
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Traded to Oklahoma City. He'll fit right in there.
His hot piece of ass wife is probably not thrilled, tho.
It might be a trade and they cut him deal. Hard to see paying $10MM to a fringe role guy who has never gotten beyond that. Wished he could have done better. He was quite a talent.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31081495/sources-oklahoma-city-thunder-agree-trade-trevor-ariza-miami-heat-meyers-leonard (https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31081495/sources-oklahoma-city-thunder-agree-trade-trevor-ariza-miami-heat-meyers-leonard)
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It would suck going to Oklahoma City from Miami but Mrs. Leonard (née Bielfeldt) doesn’t have much to worry about in life.
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It would suck going to Oklahoma City from Miami but Mrs. Leonard (née Bielfeldt) doesn’t have much to worry about in life.
Yeah she’s pretty set in life. Regardless if she sticks with him or not through all of this. Her family is LOADED!!!
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Yeah she’s pretty set in life. Regardless if she sticks with him or not through all of this. Her family is LOADED!!!
They got Jew money!
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Ancient history ....
https://theundefeated.com/features/the-education-of-heat-meyers-leonard/
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Was it Groce or Weber that had no interest in Max Bielfeldt, out of Peoria Notre Dame? Turned out he went to Michigan and did well.
And we have a fucking building on campus donated by that family for fucks sake.
Weber's unerring eye for talent
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Weber's unerring eye for talent
I mean, we did get Bill Cole.
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Yeah she’s pretty set in life. Regardless if she sticks with him or not through all of this. Her family is LOADED!!!
This has Talladega Nights written all over it. She gone. Probably ends up with Nunn.
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This has Talladega Nights written all over it. She gone. Probably ends up with Nunn.
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😂 give me my money, bitch!
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Ricky Bobby Leonard.
Will be a big hit in OKC.
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https://twitter.com/novacancy111/status/1445581561940746241?s=21
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Just what Meyers needs. Punches to the head.
Well played 👏🏼
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Is this a joke ?
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It might be a trade and they cut him deal. Hard to see paying $10MM to a fringe role guy who has never gotten beyond that. Wished he could have done better. He was quite a talent.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31081495/sources-oklahoma-city-thunder-agree-trade-trevor-ariza-miami-heat-meyers-leonard (https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31081495/sources-oklahoma-city-thunder-agree-trade-trevor-ariza-miami-heat-meyers-leonard)
One more chance, maybe...
Free-agent center Meyers Leonard will work out for the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday, league sources told The Athletic on Thursday. Here’s what you need to know:
Leonard last played in January 2021, at which point he had season-ending shoulder and ankle surgeries. He has been sidelined for almost two years and recently was fully cleared to work out for NBA teams.
Leonard was suspended for one week and fined $50,000 in March 2021 after using an anti-Semitic slur on a live stream. He later apologized and has spent time with Jewish leaders and immersed himself in the Jewish community over the last couple of years, which the league has been aware of.
At 7-foot-1, Leonard has shot 42.9 percent from 3-point range over his four last seasons, and has averaged 5.6 points and 3.9 rebounds a game over seven seasons.
The Lakers have searched for potential shooting and size, with Leonard and DeMarcus Cousins set for free-agent workouts Friday.
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Hope it works out.
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Meyers Leonard has made 60-70 million in his career. Lol
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Trevor Ariza is/was still around? DeMarcus Cousins is/was still around?
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Also, was someone on here seriously surprised LeBron said something dumb and didn't suffer any consequences?
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Also, was someone on here seriously surprised LeBron said something dumb and didn't suffer any consequences?
Lemme guess…what he said about Kevin Warren? You are so RIGHT!