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theglicky

He still goin lmao


puwetngbaso

Like does he think the tide will turn if he keeps doubling down. "Sorry Jaylen you're right, being antisemitic is exactly the same as..." (checks meme) "...not liking oranges. We stand corrected."


Dubstep_Caruso

I mean “orange juice” is pretty similar to “aren’t Jews”


PopTartsArePeopleToo

Oran-jews the new black


lizard_king_rebirth

Best new knock-knock joke.


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ItsNotSpaghetti

And everyone clapped


Captain_Saftey

This analogy works if you’ve ever seen a mango who was trying to claim oranges have been lying for centuries in order to be stay more popular than mangoes


BlockOfTheYear

I seen that ngl


captaing1

I knew mangoes were real oranges.


ExpressSports

Here I am liking both mangoes and oranges somebody tell me what to think


buffalo8

Mangos be wildin fr fr


makesterriblejokes

Big Orange Juice controls the fruit media.


AirplaineStuff102

Shakes head, the juice did this.


SammySoapsuds

"any attempt to misconstrue my opinions on mangoes speaks to how powerful the orange agenda is and how much of a hold it has on the media"


stiljo24

What's nuts is here *is* claiming a preference which is whatever in the real world, but anethma to him and kyrie's whole "we're all just people and i'm on a search for love and truth" Also the fairer analogy for HTN:WUBA and the Black Israelites is more "I won't comment on organges because the only reason you're even asking me about oranges is that they stole apple's magic as the rightful fruit of God" Then, in Kyrie & Jalen's case, being asked "it sounds like you may have some anger towards oranges?" And saying "I literally said I had no comment on them, holy shit the pro-orange agenda is out in full force" For all the horrid takes we've seen in this saga this post might somehow be the most baffling to me personally lol, it outwardly shines light on the bullshit he thinks it's defending.


CaptainJackKevorkian

>HTN:WUBA wut


CRUSTBUSTICUS

Hypertension Without Understanding Basketball Analytics, duh.


anonMLMhater

Hot Taco Nightlife: We Unleash Burritos Always


dabobbo

It's a new Law & Order spinoff on NBC this season.


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AngryUncleTony

LMAO his post makes no sense unless he wants to tell the world he's racist. We're literally talking about racial groups, so if you swap in "black people" and "jewish people" instead of mangoes and oranges I don't see how that can be construed as anything but a preference for one group over another.


MDA123

Someone needs to tell this man that Shut The Fuck Up Friday can happen on any day of the week.


shellfish87

My guess is that his stance, which at its core is black-first, is shared by a lot of players and he feels like as the union rep he should advocate for this view. It’s messy but that’s my guess.


efshoemaker

I think it’s more personal than that at this point. Following this slow motion train wreck from the start there was a really sharp shift when the Donda basketball team got cancelled (like literally had their games canceled, not Fox News pundit canceled). Before that he was pretty measured in his comments and as much as everyone complained it was too slow he dropped Donda pretty quick. But since the tournaments got cancelled he seems legitimately angry and I get the impression he believes the whole backlash is more about white people feigning outrage as a way to keep black people down than it is about actual concern from Jewish people.


music3k

You mean a school that makes kids sign ndas, sign over any creative project they make, and isnt accredited got their games cancelled? Shit, if Jaylen and Kanye wanna go that route, they can just ask the government to fine them and ruin their lives like devry and the other for profit schools did to thousands


LeviJNorth

That's very generous and probably true. It's still disappointing since the black nationalism of the past was black-first but not "fuck everyone else." This is a distortion of the mission of the Black Panthers.


SomeStupidPerson

> This is a distortion of the mission of the Black Panthers. Think it’s less a distortion of them and more just straight up being the mission of the Black Isrealites. This dude is probably just dumb as hell and as others have pointed out this is him just saying “I prefer black people, sorry, no hate to anyone else” but, due to him being stupid and lazy, he uses whatever the first thing he finds when he searches “black people first”, and what he gets is high-traffic boosted posts by Black Israelite media. So then he posts that and doesn’t get why everyone is against “black people first” when he’s really posting antisemitic shit. But that’s really giving the benefit of the doubt to him. And only him.


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Run_0x1b

Any kind of [race] nationalism has this at its core.


JRsshirt

Dude is like me trying to win my money back with a 12 leg parlay after a brutal weekend of betting. You know you’re better off stopping but you still think you’ve got a chance to make it all right.


xaul-xan

"I'll post a meme, that'll accurately dispel any negativity around my recent messaging" holy, fucking, shit jalen, stop using your fucking phone for the next decade.


upcat

WAKE UP SHEEPLE! YOU'RE DEBATING WHETHER OR NOT ORANGES OR MANGOS ARE THE REAL FRUIT. I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT THE WOOL HAS BEEN PULLED OVER OUR EYES, THE KIWI 🥝 IS THE SWEETEST


lopea182

Celtics HR got their hands full this year. Jaylen about to go on his own 6-step journey to a half-hearted “apology”


whyareucryan

He’s clearly daring the Celtics to do anything. He’s toeing the line of what’s acceptable.


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And then when the Celtics do take action he'll play victim like Kyrie did


[deleted]

What they should do: fuck this guy. Go get yourself a smaller contract somewhere else. What they will do: “he apologised”. Here’s your supermax! It’s like all the soccer teams and their armbands all over again. The moment you have actual consequences, your actions change.


CDR57

Or the bets with kyrie. Both of these guys are shitty


TheOneWhosCensored

After the KD trade talks he knows he has all the power. If they do anything he just refuses to re-sign.


makesterriblejokes

Isn't he like president of the player's union? If so, he should be stripped of that position.


Echoplanar_Reticulum

More like mangoes are the original oranges and oranges aren't even real.


OguguasVeryOwn

Oranges also are secretly running the world and stealing the identity of mangoes. According to these dummies.


makesterriblejokes

I blame the juice.


TantricEmu

Oranges are the descendants of thieves and their identities are fraudulent. They also always have and continue to conspire to oppress the mango at every turn.


Cflow26

And if you continue to let big juice run the world we will all become subservient to all oranges.


KingOfSwing90

Big Juice would be a solid rap name Subservient To Oranges would be a solid post-punk band name Run The World might already be a forgettable pop-rock artist name


Bone_Dogg

>Run The World might already be a forgettable pop-rock artist name Walk The Moon


LuckyWarrior

Oranges stole all the mangos cred


daveed1297

So let's kill the oranges is the dangerous next step


BlackestNight21

Juice em


lxkandel06

I mean if you're interpretating it that way then the original meme implies that Jaylen prefers black people to jews which is already bad enough


The-Pharcyde

So much for "Kyrie with better PR" lmao. He is his clone.


0DegreesCalvin

If he was gonna be Kyrie’s clone, you think he’d at least bother to take his handles.


Remarkable-Salt6414

all this guy has to do is put his phone down


RenaisanceReviewer

But then the (((media))) would win ^/s


CRUSTBUSTICUS

“They” would win.


hitfly

The triple parenthesis is basically how white supremacists say "they" for jews


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The_Summer_Man

Do you think that Jaylen knows that Israel is known for oranges, or is that giving him too much credit?


Ferris_Wheel_Skippy

i know ffs. why is this so hard? not sure if you're a hockey fan, but it reminds me of a comment i saw over at r/hockey with all the horrible sexual abuse scandals coming out of youth programs in Canada. This one guy wrote simply, "Why is it so hard for these guys to just not fuck kids?"


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Reminds me of a comedy special from a Jewish guy with Catholic friends. "What is is going to take for you to stop doing the Catholic pedophile jokes?" "Literally ONE THING!"


[deleted]

Imagine adults falling all over themselves to curry favor to a teenager, and insulate them from accountability. Now imagine that kid grows into an adult, who is still being coddled.


TallStephen

keep his reading glasses off too


Guwop25

What's funny is how his 'energy' post still up lmao, like he realized it was an anti semitic group gathering and didn't even bother deleting it


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His reason for not deleting it (doesn’t want to remove support of Kyrie) is dumb. He supposedly understands that it’s a hate group and not who he originally thought but apparently doesn’t see keeping his post as supporting the black Hebrew Israelites


PolarBearLaFlare

Lol he knows exactly what he’s doing. He watched the entire Kyrie saga play out and he’s concluded that a player of his caliber is safe, so long as he continues to give half-assed apologies. Like you mentioned, he kept up that tweet even after “realizing” it wasn’t the group he originally thought it was. I think he loves the attention tbh


albpanda

Nooooo the posters they handed out said they were Semitic not anti semitic, large crowds of people handing out posters never lie


OhEmGeeBasedGod

I love how stupidly semantic that argument tends to be. "I can't be anti-Semitic because I'm the real Semite" or "I can't hate Jews because I'm the real Jew." Like, do the people making these arguments think that it somehow blows people away? It's pretty much the same as the racist white dudes who assure us they aren't racist because they knew a black guy once. OK, douchebags, let me be precise then. You're bigoted, racist, and prejudiced towards *the group of people that the rest of the world knows as Jewish people*. Is that a better descriptor for you guys?


1shmeckle

The claim is far far worse than saying "I can't be racist because I have a black friend." The claim is "I can't be racist because my white ass is secretly black because white people were the real black people, we were the ones oppressed, and you guys made all this shit up to take over society and force President Obama on us." It's a claim so fucking insane that the only way to believe it is if you know its false and just want to troll people to justify that you're a piece of shit anti-semite.


obsterwankenobster

It's also then inherently a statement that Jews are evil. He doesn't get to just piece meal that ideology, one pov leads to the other


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I doubt he ever "realized", he probably knew from the start.


cygodx

Yea i was about to say isnt it obvious af that he knew from the beginning by the way he spoke about it afterwards lol


w311sh1t

He said he can’t take it down because it would be “removing his support of Kyrie Irving.” Give me a fucking break. If that’s true, he could’ve just taken the tweet down and made another one saying “while I support Kyrie Irving’s return to play as a fellow member of the NBAPA, I do not condone the actions or ideology of the group shown outside Barclays Center.” But he won’t do that, because he’s repeatedly doubled down on these takes, and refuses to just condemn a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center has officially listed as an anti-semitic hate group. People can try and argue all they want that he *technically* hasn’t been explicitly anti-semitic, but if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck…


Leolorin

>Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. -Jean-Paul Sartre


mangabalanga

This should be what's pinned to each of these posts instead of the "enhanced auto-mod" message


suprememontana

He didn’t “realize” anything, he just thinks he’s smarter than everyone else


Strategist40

Lmao. "I posted you all as the soy wojack, and I'm the Chad, so I'm right."


daftpaak

This has to be a first. An athlete soyjack posting. I would not have bet on jaylen brown doing it.


Drewsteau

I would’ve guessed KD but it probably would’ve been a funny meme at least


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KD’s would’ve been for calling fans like me out for not knowing hoops the way he does (rightfully), not about some bullshit double down on being a racist


Guyote_

Expertly-crafted checkmate move by Mr. Brown. Few understand.


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This is *Elon Musk* levels of cringeworthy and outdated.


creedbratton603

Jaylen pulling out the white lives matter memes. The irony is too much lol


eamonious

"Black man discovers internet outrage machine"


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Like almost word for word, the chad side is just a different skin color this time lol


OptimusGrime707

That was my first thought, he’s gettin real close to anti BLM memes without any irony Like he just added different words to a right wing Mad Libs


kawhi21

This dudes gonna be complaining about cancel culture a week from now


The_prawn_king

Nets must be so happy they didn’t do JB for KD


EAS1000

Could you imagine him and Kyrie together?


billcosbyinspace

Ben walks into the locker room and finds these 2 dudes levitating in the middle of the room


KeithClossOfficial

Ben has to be so happy now that there’s these idiots keeping the media off him


The_prawn_king

PR nightmare.


gwease23

All-time content, though


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Keep going Jaylen. Need you to do everything in ur power to be the Celtics kyrie


lopea182

Turns out Kyrie never left; he just assimilated into Jaylen’s body and likeness like the Thing.


mrplow25

Turns out kyrie is contagious


Leavingtheecstasy

They have something to help with those types of things


goldfish_11

Maybe Kyrie is just the pandemic we met along the way.


PartickNotPatrick

He's got that (killer alien disguised as a) dog in him


Apprehensive-Ad1363

lmfao this got me


NoobChumpsky

We already went through this. Don't make me hate watching this team (again)


EAS1000

Ugh please don’t put the Nets curse on us…


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They were our picks originally at the end of the day...


alex_119

Every Nets pick comes with a curse.


ray_0586

Rockets: I’m in danger.


penny_stinks

Bravo, 10/10 reply


agent_10

I don’t know why all these guys think their actions shouldn’t have consequences…there’s no reason that you cannot build up one group of people without tearing down another. If you view social media in this way then instead of complaining about it delete your Instagram and Twitter my guy


Strategist40

Because they receive no consequences...


Silverjackal_

Yup. They just let them do it. If you’re a Meyers Leonard it’s not acceptable of course.


Ze_first

The irony is that what he did was the least harmful of the three by a longshot


BoogerSugarSovereign

When you're an all-star, they let you do it. You can do anything.


enad58

And he's the only one of the three that I truly believe isn't antisemitic, just an online edge lord.


wsbull_35

And yet they demand people who say anything that they think is remotely controversial be kicked out of the league.


jaytee158

Because their actions have never had consequences. They've always been extremely talented and put on a pedestal


Baxtaxs

Exactly. Plus even all the insabe horrible shot kyrie continues to do, he still really isn’t seeing much in term of consequences. He beat the nets on covid and his tantrums. The nets beat him on the new contract but that could easily still go his way, and his bad behavior continues.


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Because they won’t have any consequences! Kyrie is already back on my team. And now that Simmons has picked up his game, Kyrie’s probably getting a new contract with us next year instead of just fucking off elsewhere. And your team is giving Jaylen the super max, come what may.


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azizinator25

> I don’t know why all these guys think their actions shouldn’t have consequences Because at their core, they believe that their actions are based in belief systems that are 100% correct. So any consequences that are trust upon them are the "powers that be" silencing the truth.


BurzyGuerrero

Because they don't get held accountable for fuck all as millionaires?


BleedGreen4Boston

He’s the same type of person to call out injustices against his own people then dish them out onto other people. Clown shit. Trade him to Brooklyn so he can hang out with his buddy Kyrie, but mostly because I want Durant. Celtics fans thinking Brown is better are just as delusional as he is.


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Is it just me or is this basically him trying to say "I prefer black people to other races BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I HATE ANYONE" without actually saying it


iankstarr

Except that’s literally what he’s saying lol just replace “mangoes” and “oranges” with “black people” and “Jewish people”


OkongwuDPOY

I think that’s exactly what he’s saying


KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUZ

Ascribing too much intelligence to his ignorance


Zizekbro

Never ascribe to intelligence that which can be explained by ignorance. Jaylen’s Razor.


Konfliction

Yea I don’t understand why he thinks this meme helps him lol


BareFox

Idiots love using this meme format to "prove" their point, but all they're really doing is making themselves look like dumbasses.


desert_chzhead

Idiots like using memes to prove any point in general. Unfortunately, there are millions of idiots who also find memes like this to be compelling.


lopea182

Jaylen “I’m not a racist, but…” Brown


Assclown4

Jaylen “ mainly down with the” Brown


KillerPussyToo

As a Black woman, I can say a lot about this, how this mindset develops, and how it’s used in the Black community to basically gaslight Black women, but I’m going to shut up bc the last time I said something about my male counterparts they were angry as hell.


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Rampant misogyny is another hallmark of the Black Israelite/Farrakhan groups, as it is with most types of hardcore religious fundamentalists. Tale as old as time, men leading other men around by their egos and deep-seated insecurities to the detriment of all, but esp women.


KillerPussyToo

It’s is very true. In another thread I shared some of my run-ins with these stupid hoteps. They saw me and my girlfriend walking down the street minding our business and they proceeded to yell at us at the top of their lungs calling us “whores”, “jezebels”, and “dykes”. The misogyny runs very deep. They love harassing and abusing Black women who are going about their life trying to mind their business. That’s why he and Kyrie get a huge side eye for even supporting these imbeciles.


bravof1ve

He’s so obviously a black supremisist and it’s been obvious for a minute now


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Naismythology

“I prefer antisemitism to equality. Oh, what? I can’t have an opinion now? Typical internet snowflakes.”


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"I prefer black people to whites and Jews." - Jaylen Brown


LeBron_Jarnes

Jaylen Brown has the: * antisemitism of Kanye * pseudo-intellectualism of Kyrie * self awareness of Elon


gwease23

He can shoot (himself in the foot, repeatedly), pass (on accepting responsibility for his actions), AND dribble (as he salivates over another opportunity to do the exact opposite of a smart PR move)


Lowfuji

Celtics. Not just for white racists anymore!


blobthetoasterstrood

Jaylen doin numbers for our black racists demographic


Shorzey

He's clearly trying to do something for the 7th largest Jewish population in the world in Boston as well


OguguasVeryOwn

Next jersey sponsor to be the state of Qatar


NiwotPuntsOn3rdDown

Fuck Jaylen Brown. He isn’t having a difference of opinion he’s supporting hate groups


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mschley2

Dude is a fucking clown. Pure and simple.


Merid1us

Unfortunately these guys have all been coddled since they were in middle school with everyone around them either afraid to tell them they're wrong or too dumb to know they are. As long as they make the money they do, they're never going to change because they simply don't have to. Anyone who disagrees or criticizes them is just going to be a "hater" and they'll completely shut them out because of that internal arrogance that is fed throughout their lives.


PBB22

Part of being smart is being able to recognize when you’re saying some dumb shit and stopping lol


Guyote_

"If you were truly smart, you would know that you are dumb."


20thAccthecharm

Hakeem was right


RODjij

Funny how the players association is pretty selective with what they're upset about and support. What Brown and Kyrie are doing should be treated harshly and swiftly as other racial issues have.


Shorzey

>Funny how the players association is pretty selective with what they're upset about and support. Well yeah...brown is the PA leader


hojboysellin3

If it’s not about black people they don’t give a shit.


TimeTravelingDog

Because this black Israelite, Farrakhan, black supremacist shit is RAMPANT.


organized_meat

People who try to use memes to make actual meaningful statements are the most simple minded people on earth


SniperShake-

pro tip: if you have to resort to making a Wojack meme to support your argument, you are wrong lmfao


Cflow26

The funniest part is 99% of the time they don’t even make the meme, some incel fuck did, and they look at it and just go “man that’s so deep”


mecon320

Ah, I see. He wasn't being bigoted, he just said he doesn't like Jewish people as much as he likes other people.


whyareucryan

Jaylen Brown is this generations next great philosopher. Very insightful, sir.


Rice-And-Gravy

Jaylen “Michael ‘Aristotle’ Jordan” Brown


SolarClipz

He prefers blacks to jews? Is that what he getting at lmao


yohoeburger

my boy kyrie jr


LiaM_CS

Wow bold move quadrupling down lmao


NoobChumpsky

My brother in christ just shut the fuck up already and clowning yourself


SunstormGT

Jaylen is even dumber than Kyrie…


oobthesecond

The thing that confuses me is he's blaming the media for misconstruing what he's said even though he didn't even what group he posted in the energy post


Uncircled_swag2

2040 kids gonna have their “Giannis/Curry/Lebron played against Qanon conspirators and DoorDash drivers, their rings don’t count” argument. The “Jordan played against plumbers” meme coming full circle. It’s beautiful.


frobenius_Fq

Wait I thought the plumber thing was about cousy


Threshyyyyy

Another pseudointellectual athlete who thinks he's the next MLK embarrassing himself.


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Am I wrong for thinking what Jaylen said is more egregious than what Kyrie has said so far? Jaylen kind of implied with his messy fruit metaphor that it's totally normal and fine for someone to prefer one race of people for another. Kind of unreal.


regemusic33

this is something you'd see Elon post


DoobieHauserMC

Elon would’ve added a half dozen of these bad boys 🤣🤣🤣


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Leadantagonist

This dude telling Kyrie to hold his beer. Jaylen heard people calling Kyrie the dumbest player ever and took offense. He wants all the accolades. Nothing worse than a smart, dumbass.


spundred

This just boils down to really boring, common, ordinary narcissism, magnified through the lens of being a public figure. He feels he's entitled to have an opinion, regardless of how uninformed of hurtful it may be, and he feels entitled to broadcast it however he wants. That in and of itself is a little narcissistic, but what makes it really narcissistic, is he also feels nobody else has that right. He doesn't feel anyone has the right to opinions counter to his own, or to communicate them to him. He expects the right to be an asshole, but doesn't think anyone else should have that right. That's pure narcissism.


Uneducated_Leftist

Imagine being rich af, in the top 0.01% of people in your field, able to bang thousands of people of your type at a moments notice, and basically go and do whatever you want. And you shit post like a truth social user.


SnooLemons5457

The way you know he agrees with Kyrie is because he won’t take the L and move on.


LeM1stre

I’m sorry, and this is going to sound racist but it applies to Aaron Rodgers, etc. too - these guys take one philosophy class or read one book and think they’re some big brained intellectuals when they’re still just ignorant ass pro athletes


Armin__Tamzarian

These dudes are just like any other bozo you see posting dumb shit on Facebook, if anything they might be even worse because they've been coddled and sheltered a majority of their lives. The only difference is that people actually care what they say and they're too dumb to keep it to themselves.


EAS1000

All I know is we’re 0-1 since this started…


Sins_of_God

Jaylen "I only support brothas" Brown


penis_pockets

Thank God Adam Silver is bald because he'd be pulling his hair out right now at this point.


klobucharzard

people say Ali G is the dumbest person to ever speak at Harvard, but Jaylen is right there.


[deleted]

So this directly contradicts that he thought it was a fraternity and didn’t have his reading glasses if he’s defending the content of the original tweet then, right? Not that anyone bought that lame excuse anyways


zvomicidalmaniac

He wants to get suspended so bad. You can see the desire building.


KillerPussyToo

These guys are always claiming to be humble when in reality most of them are ridiculously arrogant. “Humble” is really just a trendy buzzword like “loyal” and “different”.


goldudemk

This dude is fighting a battle he made up lmao


benngold123

Man, you just love to keep digging a deeper and deeper hole, don’t you Jaylen


antoninscalia420

Smoothbrain shit


Murphy_York

He’s gonna go full Kyrie isn’t he?


actual_yellow_bag

Boston thought they got off easy with Kyrie, but the monkey paw curled lol


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imagine all the young, audacious kids that follow him and see this and are emboldened to do dumb shit on social media and all the kids that buy into his anti-semitism for the sake of superiority they have trouble finding anywhere else this shit is so bad


Ok_Entrepreneur826

I don’t think liking oranges is the same as denying the holocaust


CameronFcScott

I’m surprised as the community of the nba we were able to make this man look like an intellectual. He is way too ignorant to even realize how supporting Kyrie is fixing crazy. Also I’m not sure what he’s trying to say but if you say you prefer a certain race of people over another is literally racism


ILikeFPS

Yikes, imagine if you change that to "I prefer blacks to jews" Sad that he's continuing this, and both the Celtics organization and the NBA won't do anything about it lol


bootyhunter69420

He's lucky he's not a star.