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RandySF

(71,578 posts) Fri Jun 28, 2024, 10:29 PM Jun 2024

New Lakers Head Coach JJ Redick Is Facing Startling Accusations Of Racism Just Days Into The Job

New Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick has seen a startling accusation levied against him just days into the job.

Redick was officially unveiled as the Lakers’ new coach this Monday. And he comes in on the back of Darvin Ham’s dismissal. The former NBA guard insisted LeBron James, whom he started a podcast with, didn’t have a role in his appointment.

It didn’t take long for some controversy to roll in as, just a day later, a woman accused him of calling her the N-word while she was on the Duke Blue Devils’ staff.

“I’ve only been called the N-word to my face by a white man once in my life and it was on the campus of Duke University while I was doing work with the basketball team. And today he was named the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. What a world,” the woman, Halleemah Nash, shared via X/Twitter.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/new-lakers-head-coach-jj-redick-is-facing-startling-accusations-of-racism-just-days-into-the-job/ar-BB1oW2Bp?item=flightsprg-tipsubsc-v1a?season=2024

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New Lakers Head Coach JJ Redick Is Facing Startling Accusations Of Racism Just Days Into The Job (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2024 OP

Holy sh_t. The last thing the team needs. brush Jun 2024 #1

Other "disturbing moments" Bundbuster Jun 2024 #2

brush

(58,641 posts)

1. Holy sh_t. The last thing the team needs.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Jun 29, 2024, 01:36 AM

Jun 2024

Redick is not off to a good start in his new job. The Black players will be wondering about him already.

Bundbuster

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2. Other "disturbing moments"

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Jun 30, 2024, 01:56 PM

Jun 2024

https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2024/6/25/24186108/jj-redick-denies-n-word-use-slur-allegations-lakers-coach

However, while Redick’s reps denied Nash’s story, other disturbing moments from Redick’s past came to light in the wake of her social media post on Tuesday. They included 2014 allegations that Redick called an ex-girlfriend racial slurs in leaked emails related to an alleged abortion contract with the same woman; Redick denied the woman was ever pregnant in since-deleted tweets from 2013 calling the reports “outrageous, false and malicious.”

Additionally resurfacing on social media was an apology Redick issued in 2018 for appearing to accidentally use a racial slur in a Chinese New Year video from the NBA, as well as a bizarre story in which he claimed on his podcast to have potentially witnessed human trafficking before temporarily deleting his Twitter account.

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