NBA Bulls fire Ivey after anti-LGBTQ comments
Jaden has been released by the Chicago Bulls after making comments criticising the NBA's support for the LGBTQ community (Evan Bernstein) Chicago Bulls guard Jaden Ivey was sacked by the team on Monday after condemning the NBA's support for the LGBTQ community. A brief statement from the Bulls said the 24-year-old had been waived by the team for "conduct detrimental to the team. " The decision came after Ivey appeared to take aim at the NBA over its support for Pride month throughout the league.
"They proclaim Pride Month in the NBA. They proclaim it. They show it to the world.
They say, 'Come join us for Pride Month,' to celebrate unrighteousness," Ivey said in an Instagram live post. "They proclaim it. They proclaim it on the billboards.
They proclaim it in the streets — unrighteousness. So how is it that one can't speak righteousness? How are they to say that, 'Man, this man is crazy'?
" Ivey, who only joined Chicago two months ago in a trade from the Detroit Pistons, also took aim at Catholicism in an exchange with a commenter. "Catholicism is a false religion. And is not the true Doctrine of Christ.