Kanye West's Donda Academy basketball team dropped from Scholastic Play By Play Classics

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The Scholastic Play By Play Classics will no longer be hosting the basketball team from Kanye West's Donda Academy, in the wake of the rapper's anti-Semitism scandal.

In a statement announcing their decision to remove the team from this season's schedule on Tuesday, the Play By Play Classics said Kanye's recent controversial statements and actions violated the values held by their organization.However, they did have compassion for the team players, calling them 'hardworking student-athletes' who are now having to suffer the consequences of Kanye's actions. 'Kanye's words and actions violate our values': The Scholastic Play By Play Classics will no longer be hosting the basketball team from Kanye West's Donda Academy in the wake of the rapper's anti-Semitic controversy'In light of recent anti-Semitic statements by Kanye West, we will no longer be hosting Donda Academy at this year's Play-By-Play Classics events, including the Kentucky Play-By-Play Classic scheduled for December 11, 2022 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, KY.'Kanye's words and actions violate our values as a company and a country, and what we seek to ensure at all of our events - a spirit of diversity, sportsmanship, inclusion, equity, and mutual respect. 'While we are firm in our reasoning for this decision, it does not diminish our heartache and regret for Donda's hardworking student-athletes who will lose out the most as a result of Kanye's actions.

By all accounts, they are exemplary group of young men. Unfortunately, we cannot in good conscience host an organization founded and directed by Mr.

West at our events.'The organization also provided an updated schedule for the Kentucky Play-By-Play Classic on December 11, with the Donda Academy noticeably.