{"id":204477,"date":"2021-03-11T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T07:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=204477"},"modified":"2021-03-11T08:31:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T07:31:14","slug":"erik-spoelstra-says-meyers-leonards-antisemitic-slur-was-distasteful-and-hurtful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/erik-spoelstra-says-meyers-leonards-antisemitic-slur-was-distasteful-and-hurtful\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Spoelstra says Meyers Leonard&#8217;s antisemitic slur was &#8220;distasteful and hurtful&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra said that Meyers Leonard\u2019s antisemitic slur were distasteful and hurtful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/31042072\/miami-heat-coach-erik-spoelstra-says-meyers-leonard-use-anti-semitic-slur-distasteful-hurtful\">Per ESPN<\/a>, \u201cHe said something that was extremely distasteful and hurtful,\u201d Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re left with the aftermath of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"dHEqYVcxsm\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/miami-heats-meyers-leonard-out-indefinitely-for-anti-semitic-slur\/\">Miami Heat&#8217;s Meyers Leonard out indefinitely for anti-Semitic slur<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Miami Heat&#8217;s Meyers Leonard out indefinitely for anti-Semitic slur&#8221; &#8212; Sportando\" src=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/miami-heats-meyers-leonard-out-indefinitely-for-anti-semitic-slur\/embed\/#?secret=L8z5ws8pTM#?secret=dHEqYVcxsm\" data-secret=\"dHEqYVcxsm\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Leonard\u2019s season was already over because of a shoulder injury.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are consequences to words,\u201d Spoelstra said. \u201cAnd those were extremely hurtful words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t tolerate that here,\u201d Heat captain and 18-year veteran [Udonis Haslem] said of the usage of the slur. \u201cRight is right, and wrong is wrong. And since I\u2019ve been here in this organization, to the day I leave this organization and beyond, we\u2019re going to try to be on the right side of everything \u2014 especially issues like this.\u201d<br \/>\nHaslem was asked if Leonard ever used language around him that was offensive.<br \/>\n\u201cNo, sir,\u201d Haslem said. \u201cI\u2019ve never heard him use any language that made me uncomfortable at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are consequences to words,\u201d Spoelstra said. \u201cAnd those were extremely hurtful words.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":204476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-204477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/b76a13a9-untitled-design-2021-03-10t093516.324.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204477"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=204477"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=204477"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=204477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}