(JTA) — Nearly two years after NBA player Meyers Leonard was caught using an antisemitic slur on a video game platform, the former first-round pick opened up about the incident and his subsequent ...

Meyers Leonard was suspended in March 2021 after he was heard using a racial slur during a live broadcast of Call of Duty on the streaming platform Twitch Charmaine Patterson is an Associate Editor at ...

Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving was recently suspended for posting an Anti-semitic film on his social media. His suspension is set to be at least five games, and Irving will have to complete a ...

Meyers Leonard said he was sorry countless times to a very engaged audience that had gathered recently at the Jewish Community Center at his request. He apologized several times in the 15-minute news ...

Nearly two years after uttering an anti-Semitic slur, Meyers Leonard is back in the NBA. The 30-year-old free-agent big man signed a 10-day contract with the Bucks, according to ESPN. The Bucks had ...

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MIAMI — The Miami Heat said Tuesday night that Meyers Leonard will be away from the team indefinitely, sharply criticizing his use of an anti-Semitic slur while playing a video game that was being ...

Free-agent NBA forward Meyers Leonard spoke to children at a Florida synagogue last weekend, addressing his use of an antisemitic slur that led to him being fined $50,000 and suspended one week by the ...

Ten months have lapsed since former Illinois and Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard’s life — and his NBA career — grinded to a halt. While livestreaming “Call of Duty” on Twitch last March, Leonard used ...

Miami center Meyers Leonard has been feeling the heat all day. Earlier on Tuesday, video surfaced of the nine-year veteran using some aggressive hate speech during a Twitch live stream. While playing ...