Myers Leonard seeks NBA comeback after anti-Semitic slander

For­mer NBA Draft No. 1 pick Myers Leonard, who has­n’t played in the league since 2021 after mak­ing anti-Semit­ic slurs dur­ing a video game livestream, told ESPN he has “no excus­es” for what he did. said he would like to play in the NBA again.

“I feel like I’m liv­ing in a bad dream,” Leonard told Out­side the Lines’ Jere­my Schaap in an inter­view that aired Tues­day. “… I don’t have hate cells in my body, and I know I made a big, big mistake.

Leonard last played in the NBA in Jan­u­ary 2021. In March 2021, he was sus­pend­ed for mak­ing anti-Semit­ic slurs dur­ing game­play dur­ing a live stream. He said he under­went surgery on his ankle in April 2021 and suf­fered a nerve injury as a result.

Over the past two sea­sons, he’s been in rehab for shoul­der and ankle surg­eries and has been out of pro­fes­sion­al basketball.

Leonard is aver­ag­ing 5.6 points and 3.9 rebounds in 447 NBA games. Also famous­ly, dur­ing the COVID-19-delayed 2019–20 sea­son, dur­ing the Orlan­do Bub­ble nation­al anthem, his team­mates knelt and stood to draw atten­tion to the issue of police brutality.

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