They love this game but they don’t love those gays.
After one of the NBA’s front and center stars, Kobe Bryant, pelted ref Bennie Adams with a gay slur during a late season game the league did a full court press on the gay community.
Bryant was punished with a stiff fine and prodded into making a video about sensitivity. The NBA also did a slew of PR work attempting to bridge the gap with the gay community.
But whatever progress the NBA had made into the good graces of the gay community may have been negated last night after the Bulls’ Joakim Noah “pulled a Kobe” and shouted “fuck you faggot” at a heckling fan.
BTW this is now known as “pulling a Kobe” as the old “pulling a Kobe” is now known as “visiting Big Ben.”
Noah apologized following the game but not before footage of the incident took over the internet quicker than Dan Savage’s definition for “santorum.” TMZ started the fun at 7:41 p.m. and it now stands to reason that TMZ is staring a hole through the TV during these games with one hand on the DVR remote and another on the keyboard. They’re like the FCC during a Super Bowl halftime show or ‘South Park.’
Now the NBA has to go back to square one in convincing twinks and bears to watch Heat and Bulls.
Only days after Rick Welts, the Phoenix Suns president who outed himself last week, said he found the NBA to be more tolerant than he thought there is now this issue to address, which will take time away from overanalyzing Russell Westbrook and pondering the contents of Kevin Durant’s backpack.
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