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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