Chicago Bulls Release Player Over Anti-Pride Month Comments | Mundo Clip 3-31-26

You had this story yesterday, pop last night, that really was this perfect storm of sports,

politics, religion, faith, and in many ways, yes, the culture.

So Jaden Ivy is a 24 year old NBA player who was a member of the Chicago Bulls until

they decided to cut him yesterday.

Why?

What happened?

Well, Jaden Ivy went on his Instagram account and spoke out against the NBA's plans

for Pride night, and here's what he had to say.

The world can proclaim LGBTQ, right, they have, they have, they proclaim Pride Month and

the NBA, they proclaim it, they show it to the world, they say come, come, come join

us for Pride, for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness, they proclaim it.

So that's just 30 seconds of a near hour long video that Jaden Ivy put on his Instagram

page the other day that went viral.

So the first thing that happened here is that the Chicago Bulls put out a statement yesterday

at about five o'clock in the afternoon saying, quote, the Chicago Bulls announced today

that the team has waived Guard, Jaden, Ivy due to conduct detrimental to the team.

So that comes down at about five o'clock yesterday.

So you can do a lot of things in the NBA and get away with it and keep your job.

Calling Pride Month unrighteous and you know what, they will drop the hammer on you.

It is a parody of a professional sports league is what the NBA is.

It's why it's dying on the vine.

I mean, you've seen it now fall behind football, which it's been behind for a long time.

And now I believe it's, it's trailing Major League Baseball by a, by a mile as well.

I mean, Major League Baseball, we talked about it yesterday out of the K Major League Baseball

is now found itself back into the number two slot in American sports.

It used to be number three, I would say, and baseball was struggling up until a few

years ago.

There made some rules changes and things got better for the sport.

They've leaned into specific popular players.

They've largely stayed out of the political arena.

The NBA has done the opposite of that and they've fallen by the wayside.

So this guy gets the boot from the Chicago Bulls.

Now a couple of things, do I agree with getting rid of this guy, Jaden, Ivy because of what

he said?

I don't, I don't believe that they should have fired this guy for comments that he made

on his personal Instagram.

Hey, if he took the microphone, like during warm ups or during introductions and started

doing that to the crowd, okay, you got a problem on your hands here, all right?

But a guy doing it on his personal Instagram account and holding views that are shared

by, you know, give or take 50% of America, especially given the NBA's track record is

not a good look for a sport that already is struggling with getting tens of millions

of Americans to reengage with their league right now.

I feel like this has to be more behind the scenes because he'd only played with the Bulls

for like five games.

I knew him as a Detroit piston for the last few years.

Now, there is a little nuance to this, Mark.

I agree with you here, okay?

This guy came to Chicago a few weeks ago and he was hurt.

He hasn't really been playing and he's done after this season.

His contract expires at the end of this year.

So there really was not a lot that was lost here by the Chicago Bulls.

It was an easy way for them to just get rid of the guy.

If he was Steph Curry, if he was LeBron James and he said these things, he would still

have a job.

Athlete privilege is real.

There's no doubt about it.

If you are excellence at your craft, you can get away with saying more things than if

you're not.

If you're a part time role player who's always getting hurt, you're going to get the boot.

And that's the point you're making there, Mark.

There is a little nuance to this.

The problem for the NBA is that for people that already don't watch the sport because

they think that the sport is too woke.

They've given them another reason to be like your sport is too woke and we don't want

to watch it.

March madness is doing record numbers this month.

I almost said last month, but tomorrow is April 1st, not today.

March madness is doing record numbers.

What does that mean?

People do genuinely love the sport of basketball in this country.

They want to watch it.

They want to consume it.

But they're not watching the NBA.

The NBA's ratings continue to go down.

The NBA has not been able to top viewership going back to the 1998 NBA finals when Michael

Jordan was winning his second three.

They have not topped those ratings in 28 years now, despite the fact that the country has

grown by tens of millions of people.

So that's the problem for the NBA.

There is more nuance than maybe social media wants to let you believe.

But still the problem for them is that it gave people that like to beat up the NBA reason

to do it.

Mike's in a lay thought on KCMO.

Good morning, Mike.

Yeah, they are so oblivious to the truth and to other things.

When I heard this guy, I saw the post and I thought to myself, but I was actually going

to call yesterday, but you were at the K all day because of the week and because of

the no king staying, I think of AC green with the Lakers back in the 80s and 90s.

He was his belief system and his love for Christ on his sleeve and he had no problem.

Everybody loved AC.

He was a big player and all that.

But he was not like Michael Jordan, but he was a factor.

But our culture has fallen so far and you obviously know the ownership of the bulls,

what their belief system is because it's obviously not in Christ.

Then I thought of the no kings rally this weekend and I was thinking to myself, how ironic

and how perfect as we go into this week where we celebrate the one and only king of the

universe that they've got a no king's rally because they don't believe in the real king

either.

But there's one king and it's this week and all this stuff just leads to the fact that

we have sort of become a split society where either love God or you don't and it's sort

of it revealed in your behavior.

But in this case, man, what a hell I run at all these silly, silly things coming down

when we're basically celebrating the savior of the world.

The one true king is out there and we celebrate him coming up this week.

Yeah, right right on the heels of the big no kings rally.

And last I checked there were no kings on Friday.

There were no kings on Saturday and there were no kings on Sunday in this country because

your point Mike, yes, there is one true king and it is not Donald Trump.

I promise you that much.

Amen, brother.

Oh, thank you very much there, Mike.

Well said, my man.

Well said on the text line, Pete, something tells me that if this NBA player, Jaden

Ivy had ranted about Trump for an hour, nothing would have happened.

Of course, not of course, not of course.

It would have been just another day that ends and why that's all it would have been.

No one would have even seen it or cared about it because it was on his personal Instagram.

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