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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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