[Highlight] Jaden Ivey going on a homophobic rant on Instagram
First guy to get CTE from a knee operation
Bro kept stuttering and repeating himself
I mean, that’s just you proclaiming it.
You can’t just proclaim pride month
I PROCLAIM PRIDE MONTH!!!!
He was proclaiming so much I thought he was going to start singing about how far he would walk just to fall down at your door…
He sounds incomprehensibly stupid
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For what it’s worth, there have been former NBA players who have since been diagnosed with severe mental illnesses, like Delonte West and Ben Gordon, and fans didn’t really know about it while they were playing because their teams at the time were helping to manage them while they were playing
Oh shit! What happened to Ben Gordon? Never heard that. Knew about Delonte.
Where Is My Mind? by Ben Gordon | The Players’ Tribune https://share.google/eNC4YaDoS2SptNLkS
Thanks man. That is a crazy sad read.
I always hear the words “Where is my mind” in the tune of the song.
Thanks for the link. Great read.
He beat his kid.
Lmaooo
Brandon Aiyuk?
charles barkley’s statement on not making any player your idol gets better and better every day
Ain’t nobody making Jaden Ivey their idol.
Visit the Pistons sub, people still post about him daily as if we gave up prime Jordan for nothing.
He’s just unfortunately not a great NBA player. Is what it is at this point
He did have decent potential and was a solid player until he broke his fibula. Pistons sub really thought he was some all-nba type of player which I always argued against, but yeah, at this point, he might be out of the league within a few years.
I mean I’ll argue to the death that he was mostly the product of the “well somebodies gotta score” rule. His best showings were when we were ass and Cade was injured. The year he got injured there were major questions about fit and the team immediately started winning after he went down they started 13-17 and were 31-21 post Ivey injury.
Also didn’t help that Daniss is putting up similar numbers albeit in a ridiculously small sample size to peak Ivey post Cade injury (which sort of goes with my someone has to score as the lead guard theory).
He was playing really well before Cole Anthony decided to break his fibula. His burst doesn’t seem to be there anymore
I really wonder if the stress from the trade/relocation triggered some kind of mental event.
NBA players are under insane amounts of pressure as it is
Never heard of this dude in my life until a couple days ago, and it was for going on insane rants on social media
He was the Pistons second option for a fair while until his injury.
A bright future taken away by COLE ANTHONY. Dudes been spiraling ever since.
Can’t blame his homophobia on Cole my brother
He was gay, Cole Anthony?
Big basketball fan, huh?
He was pretty hyped in the 2022 draft, I remember every kings fan was pissed we passed on him
Charles ball knowledge can be horrendous sometimes, but he’s a good dude. He seems like a genuinely nice and caring guy.
It’s funny that the only thing I don’t trust his opinion on is basketball.
What about his advice on talking to strangers in the sauna
well that’s just good wholesome interaction and if you get a friendship bracelet then all the better
When a guy is banging you
And you can feel their body
Or about his advice on San Antonio women
Scale don’t lie
-Sheed
He also made that huge pro lgbt statement a few years ago as well, seems like a really cool guy
He’s also friends with people from all races and religions. Pretty nice
That one story about his friendship with a Chinese chemist from Iowa and later showing up to give his eulogy is a tear-jerker.
https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/12/14/lin-wang-charles-barkley
Damn, what a good story.
That was a great read.
I am required to read this everytime I see it posted. Such an amazing story
Damn, it’s indeed a tear-jerker
…showing up to give his eulogy is a tear-jerker
God dang you weren’t kidding. Thanks for sharing that’s a great story.
Just when you think Chuck couldn’t be a better dude.
Unless they’re from San Antonio
He has forgiven them after he tried a churro
Victoria’s definitely a secret down there
He’s the godfather of drag queen and RuPaul’a drag race Season 17 contestant Sam Starr.
He’s gone to her drag shows and supported her publicly. Him and Sam’s mom are childhood friends from Alabama. It’s honestly so cute.
That story from a few years ago about him striking up a friendship with a random middle class dad he met a hotel bar was so wholesome. The dude’s family thought he was exaggerating until Chuck showed up to his funeral.
have met him before. incredibly nice, spent like 5-10 minutes just shooting the shit, but he just doesn’t put on his tv personality
Main thing he’s got going for him is he’s self aware. He’s good at reading the room and knowing when he’s the asshole and can take an L better than most. People love clowns, especially ones that play into the bit.
I met him in the airport and asked for a pic and he said ‘don’t make it obvious’ it was 630a and you’re Charles my man like everyone sees you. But he was cool about it and laughed.
If you make anyone your idol any human ever you’re an idiot, it’s not just players
And that’s why my idol is Spiderman
Spiderkash*
Very damning too. I mean we saw players going for Jeremy Lin after talking about Kobe’s leadership and how it rubbed him the wrong way. They all acted like he slandered him or tried to drag his name through the mud and it’s all because this guy was good at basketball
The obsession with celebrities in the United States is out of control to be honest. People look at sport stars, actors, reality tv cast members as god like figures. It’s a really fucked up mindset to have and it permeates through our society. There’s a quote by American writer Robert Heinlein that makes this point way better than I could put into words —
”[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and sub-literate every time he opens his mouth.”
It’s not US centric, see Asia, Europe, etc. it’s a shared worldview epidemic
Yet again I find myself baffled that people attribute worldwide issues as unique to the United States. Ever heard of Kpop idols? I could list many, many more but I shouldn’t have to.
Gotta love people who stream themselves while they drive.
Doubling down on being an idiot
Don’t worry, he won’t triple down. In less than 48 hours we’ll see:
“I’d like to apologize for the recent comments I made. I do not come from a place of hate and, upon reflection, I now realize I was ignorant about this topic. I welcome NBA fans of all types and will be doing the work to further educate myself about this issue. I will sit down with community leaders to learn more about homosexuality in the coming weeks. I’ll come back stronger and I hope that the fans of Chicago can accept me. Bulls Nation Forever. With love for all, Jaden Ivey.”
If you’ve been paying attention at all it’s much more likely he goes live saying some even wilder shit
Most likely both, the first one because his agent and the Bulls say he has to do it, and the second one, because his agent can’t watch him 24 hours a day.
He’s looking for an express ticket out of the league. This BS is step 1. Teams won’t keep you if you alienate their fans.
This is going to be a rough hit for the Bulls, without Ivey they will be down to a measly 9 Guards.
as there’s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, it will be a home run, and so that’ll make it a 4–0 ballgame
At least his career is already cooked due to an injury. Ja’s downfall can be attributed to his off court antics to a decent extent.
His career isn’t cooked yet, he can make hundreds of millions and has a good skill set still because he can shoot
Doing this right before you extension is 10⁄10
Nah he’s completely cooked after that injury.
He’s lost his burst and athleticism. He went from being an efficient second option on the Pistons to getting DNP’s on the Bulls. The Pistons literally salary dumped him for Kevin Huerter this year.
We’ve seen people take time to go back to what they were athletically, I think unfortunately his mental health is what might be cooked more then his body
ppl underrate how mentally draining injury rehab can be, ppl only think about the physical side of it but getting ur head back is just as hard
an article came out a couple years ago about how spo visited winslow after he had suffered a couple injury filled seasons and he was just a completely different person and suffering from hard depression
Have you seen Ivey play recently? Doubt he’ll ever get another big contract in the league unless he can somehow get some of his athleticism back. Definitely sad to see the falloff, Ivey was the one Bulls deadline acquisition I was excited for but it’s just completely over for him.
Love it when clowns put on a pastor voice and cadence to seem official and still sound like a fucking idiot who can’t put a coherent sentence together
They proclaim it!
Something.. ughh.. righteousness.. proclaim
Bill boreds
It is abundantly clear that “proclaim” isn’t his word. He is regurgitating a sermon/video where someone used those words in a way that made sense to him and appealed to his already-held beliefs. He doesn’t have the ability to “proclaim” and put forth a coherent thought. He is struggling to say the easiest sentence ever, what should come easy to him. Idiot.
Proclaim!
So true.
But like, do you think HE proclaimed it?
He’s looking for “promote,” but his vocabulary sucks because he has star athlete education.
I proclaim bankruptcy!
How is it that one can’t speak righteousness?
Sounded like he just learned the word “proclaim” and wanted to use it as much as possible.
Like he has a word a day calendar made for second graders?
Idk to me he sounded fucking scared as hell spewing out such dumb bullshit
Fear is a conductor in organized religion. Certainly the case w/ whatever church planted this nonsense into that cooked brain of his.
It’s just about the biggest part of religion. They literally tell you if you don’t believe it you get to suffer forever in the worst imaginable way.
That’s literally the reason my gf is religious, she is so scared about it being real she doesn’t wanna take any chances and stray from it
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate. If Yoda is to be believed.
He literally did not complete a single thought. What a fucking moron
All I hear from this is “my name is Jaden Ivey and I struggle with gay thoughts “
He didn’t get anything across in the 10 mins i watched of his previous video posted here either. Just vague gestures to god and the lord and various other religious themed words.
He’s having a psychotic break.
Spewing hate.
Why do these evangelical born again types have such a superiority complex?
They use this scripture talk to try and fluff up their ego and act like they are above everyone while casting judgement.
In this case it’s because he’s seemingly having a mental breakdown and might have some other undiagnosed mental illness.
Earlier in the week it was negative shit about Catholics. Then someone replied to him with a benign “Detroit is praying for you!” and he responded with something like “Sinners don’t pray”.
I’m not a religious person at all but adlibbing religious preaching is so unbelievably easy. You can literally spew nonsense but as long as you do it with confidence it sounds real.
The Huerter trade is looking much better in retrospect.
It already was. The more minutes Huerter has played, the better he’s looked.
He’s legitimately proving to be a good player for us (maybe making a case to be in the postseason rotation) vs Ivey who was stinking up the joint.
Hahahahahahahahaaaaa… fuck
I mean we just traded expiring contracts, it’s not so bad. You shouldn’t be surprised Huerter looks better on our squad.
If they decide to re-sign Ivey after all this…Sorry.
Huerter played great for the Bulls. I was bummed to see him go, he’s great a cutting and plays better defense than people give him credit for. I was actually hoping Chicago would re-sign him and bring him back on a longer contract. I’ve already stopped paying attention to Bulls games this season. If they re-sign this bigoted bum in Ivey then I’m going to have to consider looking for a new team.
btw, I’m legit jealous of the ride Pistons fans are getting to enjoy right now. They’ve grown the team as organically as possible in the modern NBA and there’s no better experience as a fan than seeing players your team drafted get better and the team take off and start winning. I even made a post about it on the Pistons subreddit a few years back. It’s sucks to know that in the three years since I made that post that the Bulls have gone in the complete opposite direction.
It’s funny that he’s been great at everything except the 3 ball, which is the exact opposite of what we expected from him. But now the 3 is beginning to fall too, I just hope he can deliver in playoffs bc we’re absolutely gonna need more shooting
All my homies love Red Velvet
On the bright side some lucky Bulls G-Leaguer has earned a full time contract
Mac McClung, your time is now
He’s gonna sign a 2 year minimum contract just to get waived 2 weeks later
Dude is awkwardly in that spot where he’s clearly too good to be in the G-League and equally clearly not good enough for the NBA.
He could really make some solid money playing in europe or asia. He clearly isnt cut for the nba.
Or maybe he is but he needs to prove he can play legit team basketball.
He can’t play defense is his main issue. Can’t be dogshit on defense and a small guy in the NBA unless you’re other worldly at something like passing or shooting that makes it worth it for you to be ball dominate on offense. Like Trae Young.
He really should go play in Europe or something. Could probably get a bag out there
Yukimania is running wild.
Mac McClung, this is your welcome to the NBA moment
This guy is going through religious psychosis. Hopefully someone close to him can get him the help that he needs cause things can get out of hand very fast
This all to me more seems more like an unchecked manic phase of bipolar disorder. I wouldn’t call this psychosis.
Right, probably mania but unchecked it can turn into psychosis. Happened to a loved one with bipolar, they nearly always get more religious.
its very hard to reach someone in a manic state too. They just wanna wreck everything.
kinda sounds like a kanye rant tbh
Yeah I’m pretty sure this is it, based on my experience with a bipolar person who had severe manic episodes. The repetiiton, rambling, and religious nonsense he’s spouting are eerily similar to what I observed.
My brother is manic BPD. I’m no psychologist, but it definitely seems pretty familiar…
Yeah but it might just be he’s an asshole.
That would be the easy way to think of people but most of them usually think they’re justified for some reason as opposed to just being an asshole for no reason.
Here it seems obvious he’s neck-deep in religious crap and is now wrestling with contradictions he sees. His mind is getting lost and dude likely would benefit from getting help
Going back over a full year now he’s been in so deep.
Dude couldn’t even answer questions from reporters he’d just go on a religious mouth vomit spree.
He wouldn’t wear the black history month shirts either, wouldn’t wear the MLK day shirts. literally only person on the team. he’d sit on the bench looking miserable all the time for his teammates despite being on the #1 team in the East this whole year. He’s a total headcase.
He proclaimed it!
Bro just learned what proclaimed meant
Wasn’t word of the day toilet paper for sure. He doesn’t wipe his ass, that’s gay
He learned the word but clearly not what it means lol
Proclaim that for data!
There’s no hate like Christian love
As a gay nba fanatic, this shit is exhausting. Like can’t I fucking exist without people attacking me? Anthony Edwards, Jaden, damn.
It’s also crazy how they have so much energy for a couple debatable passages, but don’t bring that same energy for things more clearly called out. Apologies in advance if he has similar rants about eating shellfish, shaving your beard, mixing two types of fabric, or tattoos.
How about just general premarital sex? That’s one that even a lot of the hypocritical Christians harp on, but I guarantee 99% of the homophobic pro athletes would have nothing to say about that
Hmm I wonder if there’s any evidence that Edwards has had premarital sex
Ivey needs to watch that clip of its always sunny when Mac tries to use the bible against Carmen and her husband, and the husband grabs the bible and shows him a verse about it being okay to beat your slaves as long as they dont die
Minorities who are Christians that have never confronted their history with the religion are all just sad to me
If you can square that kind of racial trauma you do you but like to not even investigate and explore that for yourself is so sad
In all senses of “put down,” too.
He might actually be insane though
Probably all of the above. Bro sounds like he just learned what the word proclaimed means
He learned the word but not what it means, cuz I don’t think he used it right once in this clip
Yeah this is starting to scream mental health crisis. Usually pops up in your early to mid twenties which is right where Ivey is
From his instagram comments and rants it’s getting pretty likely he’s done in the NBA like AJ Griffin
Also his stats this season doesn’t help
“They proclaim Pride Month in the NBA and say “Come celebrate unrighteousness”
Oh fuck right off.
Michael, you can’t just proclaim bankruptcy
I PROCLAIM BANKRUPTCY!!!
What does he know about PRIDE month in the NBA? He’s never made the playoffs
Playoffs!?? Playoffs? You gotta make the Finals to celebrate PRIDE month in the NBA lol
I can see why his mom loves coaching Hannah Hidalgo
Yeah, he’s cooked
Bro’s pulling a Kyrie without half of the talent that Kyrie has.
As a Kyrie hater he never went nearly this crazy. He was at least sort of sheepish about his terrible world views.
Dude is in the midst of getting raptured like AJ Griffin.
It’s so weird tho.. why would anyone be so obsessed with the gay community unless…
THE GAY COMMUNITY??!
Chill out AJ
Poor guy needs to be traded to the western conference.
Imagine being suppressed and having to be in the same conference as Donovan Mitchell and Kelly Oubre.
Thats the most laziest and intellectually dishonest response to homophobia to ever reach Reddit. If a mob severely beats a gay couple is everyone in the mob gay?
Said proclaim more in 30 seconds than he’s made jumpers this season
What a fuckin loser
Apparently, he was SA’d at a young age. Saw a clip of him describing it. So, that could really mentally fck someone even later in their adult life.
Looks like he needs more counseling.
This could be late onset bipolar disorder
Bud’s 3 brain cells are working overtime trying to string these thoughts together
Silver about to fine his brain for tanking.
So glad we dumped this weirdo. Also tired of the pity party many are throwing. Dude is rich, grew up privileged, and is a fundie Christian zealot. Boo hoo he’s not as good at basketball as he thought.
I understand this sentiment.
I’m more sad for him than anything. By all accounts (teammates and coaches and front office) he was a dedicated athlete who worked hard and treated everyone with respect. He was always religious but we never saw any of this bullshit. His career was on a really good trajectory until his broken leg. You could see his confidence growing and his comfort in his role alongside Cade growing by the day.
To me it feels like a young man going through a really rough time. Religion has likely helped guide him through other experiences, so as he felt his life’s trajectory changing he dove deeper into religion for help…and we now all see the results of that decision.
I am not religious, but I often think of a nugget of wisdom shared with me by a friend as I was scoffing at a prayer at some public event. He said “it really does help some people”. I think that’s true, but JI is showing where zealotry and dogma start to hurt people. I’m sad for him and hope he can see his rhetoric hurts others and doesn’t help himself and begin to change.
Also, it should be noted that until very recent history he wouldn’t have a platform for the world to see him spiral. Social media really is cancerous to mental health and society.
His mom Niele is the head coach of Notre Dame, who immediately after they beat Vanderbilt in the ncaaw tournament said “first I wanna give all glory to God, without him I would be nothing and we wouldn’t be here today”.
Her star player Hannah Hidalgo (great baller btw), who Niele is really close to, you can tell they have a close player/coach relationship. Is also extremely religious, and also has been accused of being homophobic. This doesn’t surprise me from Jaden, I don’t think he’s mentally well. But it also wouldn’t surprise me if him and his family are just those type of religious people
All just speculation but there’s been rumors in the Pistons community for awhile now that he and his mother may be estranged. Again, all speculation, but she’s active on social media and never posts anything about Jaden or her grandkids. He also went on a small tirade against catholocism, which is interesting considering where his mom coaches.
Actually posted a comment earlier about this guy on another sub reddit about him needing some serious counseling after an ig post he made about catholicism not being the “way to salvation to jesus christ.”
Wrote that he needs to be further educate on christianity (catholicism or otherwise) being bad overall for non white people historically and in modern times.
As for this topic here, the NBA doesn’t anything for pride month.
The WNBA does. Which that is a great thing. Especially during these times politically.
There are a few NBA teams that are usually in bigger markets that may host a LGBTQIA+ game night at most for one game out of their 82 games schedules.
Many of the smaller market teams don’t do anything for their LGBTQIA+ fans during the season.
Like at all.
Unrighteousness?
Like your teammates who cheat on their wives?
Or spend irresponsibly/gamble all their money away to eventually have to file for bankruptcy after their careers are over?
Anything he needs to say about any of that?
Is this guy serious or just trolling?
Dude needs to chill out and refocused on getting career back on track respectfully.
He need professional help lol. This isn’t a chill and get it together moment he needs a medical intervention and its kinda sad to watch
religious psychosis is scary i’m glad my parents aren’t overly religious this shit can take over your life
Oof sorry about your career
I’m not
Saying a whole bunch of nothing too, I just don’t get some people man. Just let others live and go about your business.
Religion is entirely predicated on guilt and limiting self expression so people don’t think hard enough to realize what they’re being force fed is bullshit.
He also went on an Anti Catholic rant which im sure his mom, who is the coach of Notre Dame woman’s team was happy about. Dude needs to get some help. All us pistons fan were a little confused when we gave up on him. Now it seems to make more sense.
It’s quite easy for people to just keep their mouths shut and not spread hate.
He didn’t spread hate, he proclaimed it
This might be the stupidest one I’ve seen yet. Like not only are you embarassing yourself by being pointlessly homophobic, but you are embarassing yourself for being an absolute dumbass.
Bro heard the word “proclaim” once and decided to run with it to try to sound like less of a dumbass
Sorry but this comment + flair combo is hilarious
Calling lgbt people unrighteous
Leave it to a Utah fan.
Of course it comes from the mormon state fan
goin through religious psychosis. he needs some help
This is so fucking toxic. Imagine being like this
Didn’t know Jaden Ivey could get more awesome
He be going through it thats for sure
Athletes are so fucking stupid it’s incredible
As if the rest of the NBA is so “righteous.” Come on bruh…..bad bad take.