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NBA Fine Amar’e Stoudemire $50K For Gay Slur
The NBA fined Amar’e Stoudemire $50,000 for a gay slur he sent to a fan on twitter.
The NBA fined Amare Stoudemire $50,000 for a gay slur he sent to a fan on twitter.
The Knick’s player sent the remark on Saturday in a direct message response to Brian Ferrelli’s tweet that he’d “better come back a lot stronger and quicker to make up for this past season.”
Ferrelli — known on Twitter as Knicks superfan “B ForReal!” — didn’t keep their exchange to himself
He reteweeted the saved screen conversation between him and Stoudemire and the comment quickly became a trending topic on twitter.
“I apologize for what I said earlier. I just got off a plane and had time to think about it. Sorry bro!! No Excuses. Won’t happen again,” Stoudemire wrote in another direct message, which Ferrelli posted for all to see on Twitter.
Amar’e Stoudemire isn’t the only NBA player to be fined for the word.
In 2011, NBA Commissioner David Stern fined Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant $100,000 for using the same homophobic word against a referee during a game. Bryant apologized but said the comment should not have been “taken literally.” Stern called his remark “offensive and inexcusable.”
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