Dave Zirin at The Nation places Joachim Noah’s words in context — linking them to other recent NBA/LGBT collisions, some good and some bad — and reminds us the Noah is one of the NBA’s more progressive players.
That Noah “got caught up” and shouted an anti-gay slur in the heat of the moment only shows how endemic the problem is in the league. Homophobia is the norm, not the exception.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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