The Miami Heat is distancing itself from problematic player Meyers Leonard. In a statement on Tuesday, the NBA team said the 29-year-old will be “away from the team indefinitely” after he used an anti-Semitic slur during a video game livestream.
The statement read: The decision came days after Leonard got heat for using the offensive term during a stream on Twitch in footage published by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
In the now-viral footage, Leonard encounters another player in his game of Call of Duty and uses a series of expletives, including an offensive term about Jewish people. Related: Obama BROKE His Classmate’s Nose For Calling Him A Racial Slur! The Virginia native shared an apology on his Instagram on Tuesday, claiming that he
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