NBA and Nets have botched the rponse to Kev Durant’s gay ments - Outsports

Contents:

• NBA, NETS, ACH AND PLAYERS HAVE ALL BOTCHED THE RPONSE TO KEV DURANT’S ANTI-GAY MENTS
• WAS KEV DURANT GROPG TRAE YOUNG? DETAILS BEHD THE KEV DURANT GAY CONSPIRACY THEORY
• IS KEV DURAND GAY?
• IS KEV DURANT GAY? WHAT YOU MT KNOW ABOUT HIM IS PRENTED BELOW!
• KEV DURANT SAYS ‘PAUSE’ AFTER POTENTIALLY GAY COMMENT DURG POSTGAME INTERVIEW AFTER NETS THIRD STRAIGHT LOSS

NBA, NETS, ACH AND PLAYERS HAVE ALL BOTCHED THE RPONSE TO KEV DURANT’S ANTI-GAY MENTS

Rapaport released imag of the private msag Tuday on his Twter acunt, and they clud homophobic and misogynistic language om the Brooklyn Nets star. Prevly, the league has punished anti-gay rhetoric om s players: the late Kobe Bryant and LA Clippers guard Rajon Rondo were both fed for g homophobic slurs. The NBA, s teams and players have pursued many iativ to support the LGBTQ muny and gay athlet the last few years.

Collectively they have all also dropped the ball rpondg to graphic homophobic ments by Brooklyn Nets superstar Kev Durant. Many people across the NBA want homophobia and homophobic language sports to go away.

So how did almost every sgle one of them rpond to Kev Durant — one of the league’s biggt stars and a future Hall of Famer — g lerally the most graphic homophobic language I’ve ever seen om a profsnal athlete?

WAS KEV DURANT GROPG TRAE YOUNG? DETAILS BEHD THE KEV DURANT GAY CONSPIRACY THEORY

While wearg shirts lobbyg for social jtice and g their platforms to ph for equaly and acceptance, when me to one of their own last week — aga, g the most graphic homophobic language I’ve ever heard om any profsnal athlete ever — NBA players closed ranks and stayed quiet.

One player even fend Durant and his e of graphic anti-gay language, sayg, “He didn’t do nothg wrong. Durant’s anti-gay actns were multiple, repeated, and n’t be said enough: signed by Durant to be graphic and to elic a negative rponse. Whether the cricket-rponse is the league downplayg homophobia or givg a future Hall of Famer a pass, we should get answers.

IS KEV DURAND GAY?

In 2015, missner Adam Silver’s rponse after fg and spendg Rajon Rondo 2015 for g a gay slur towards an official explaed the power of losg playg time. “In a time where social jtice is at the foreont, pecially the NBA, here you have a suatn where one of the bt players the history of the NBA is g very clear homophobic language to try to hurt somebody.

Nimo went further and explaed why this episo — a private nversatn laced wh homophobia — is exactly the opportuny for more nversatn, not somethg to try to ignore:. Yet when he wanted to sult someone text msag, Durant went directly to homophobic language.

A gay slur would have been better than what he said. He graphilly scribed sex between two men and repeatedly ed homophobia as a bludgeon to beat down his alleged enemy, actor Michael Rapaport. There is zero doubt my md that the NBA would support an out gay player the league.

IS KEV DURANT GAY? WHAT YOU MT KNOW ABOUT HIM IS PRENTED BELOW!

The league sentially nceled Tim Hardaway when he proclaimed to Dan Lebatard, “I hate gay people. I also have zero doubt that Durant would support a gay teammate.

But this isn’t about a gay player g out the NBA. This is about the fear that ris those players, llege players, and for the thoands of gay high school and youth basketball players who jt watched an NBA star e some of the most homophobic language I’ve ever seen om an athlete, and then watched the league look the other way. To their cred, the Nets have prevly hosted Pri gam and signed Jason Colls after he me out publicly as gay.

KEV DURANT SAYS ‘PAUSE’ AFTER POTENTIALLY GAY COMMENT DURG POSTGAME INTERVIEW AFTER NETS THIRD STRAIGHT LOSS

I’m sorry people saw my homophobic language? But gosh, what a missed opportuny to send a msage to players and fans about the importance of stoppg homophobic language and the impact has on people. Charl Barkley and Kev Durant have been two of NBA history’s most outspoken supporters of gay athlet and the LGBTQ muny.

In a society that unfairly puts a stigma on gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and other such dividuals, their support has been happily embraced. The actor posted on Twter several anti-gay slurs om the former MVP.