Gilbert Arenas went into xenophobic rant after Team USA’s narrow win over South Sudan
NY Post
Former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas is being criticized for a xenophobic rant following Team USA’s near exhibition game loss to South Sudan’s national basketball team over the weekend that took shots at the South Sudan team and Team USA star Joel Embiid.
Arenas took to TikTok to criticize Team USA’s performance in the game, saying in a video posted to the @bestsportsprocution account that the “males almost lost to some Africans and ‘The King’ had to save us.”
The “King” referred to basketball superstar LeBron James, who made a layup with just under 10 seconds in the game to secure a 101-100 win.
The former Wizards star continued to disparage South Sudan by making comments about the quality of life and insisting the United States shouldn’t be losing to “the Cool Runnings team,” referring to the Jamaican bobsled team from the 1988 Winter Olympics and subsequent Disney film.
“This is crazy, man Embiid over there, throwing the game for his cousins and s–t,” Arenas said at one point.
Embiid was born in Cameroon – not South Sudan – and moved to the United States when he was 16, becoming an American citizen in 2022.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.