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Miami Heat’s Meyers Leonard fined $50,000, suspended for week for using anti-Semitic slur – ESPN Australia
The NBA fined Heat center Meyers Leonard $50,000 and suspended him from the team facility and all its activities for one week on Thursday after he used an anti-Semitic…
Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard has been fined $50,000, suspended from the team’s facilities and banned from team activities for a week for the anti-Semitic slur he made while playing video games Monday.
Leonard will also be required to participate in a cultural diversity program.
“Meyers Leonard’s comment was inexcusable and hurtful and such an offensive term has no place in the NBA or in our society,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement.
In a video that began circulating on social…
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