{"id":1639719,"date":"2022-09-12T20:22:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T00:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639719"},"modified":"2022-09-12T20:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T00:22:52","slug":"timberwolves-star-anthony-edwards-apologizes-for-calling-men-hugging-each-other-queer-a-ns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/timberwolves-star-anthony-edwards-apologizes-for-calling-men-hugging-each-other-queer-a-ns\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves Star Anthony Edwards Apologizes For Calling Men Hugging Each Other \u2018Queer A** N****s\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftimberwolves-star-anthony-edwards-apologizes-for-calling-men-hugging-each-other-queer-a-ns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639719&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Minnesota Timberwolves\u2019 star player Anthony Edwards, drafted no. 1 overall in the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nba\">NBA<\/a> draft, apologized this week after he faced some backlash over the weekend for calling a group of men being affectionate with each other \u201cqueer a** n****s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edwards made the remarks in a video that was posted to his Instagram account in which he says: \u201cLook at these queer a** n****s, man. Look at the world I came to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A caption on the video added, \u201cDese n****s different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anthony Edwards is wild for this man \ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ccSkkDfe1E\">pic.twitter.com\/ccSkkDfe1E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HaterMuse (@HaterMuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HaterMuse\/status\/1569016871160094723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement attributed to team president Tim Connelly, the team said on Monday that they were \u201cdisappointed\u201d by the remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are disappointed in the language and actions Anthony Edwards displayed on social media,\u201d Connelly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/fannation\/bringmethesports\/timberwolves\/timberwolves-respond-to-ants-offensive-social-media-post\">said<\/a>. \u201cThe Timberwolves are committed to being an inclusive and welcoming organization for all and apologize for the offense this has caused to so many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edwards issued an apology on Twitter on Sunday afternoon, saying that he was \u201craised better\u201d than what he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I said was immature, hurtful, and disrespectful, and I\u2019m incredibly sorry,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable for me or anyone to use that language in such a hurtful way, there\u2019s no excuse for it, at all. I was raised better than that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What I said was immature, hurtful, and disrespectful, and I\u2019m incredibly sorry. It\u2019s unacceptable for me or anyone to use that language in such a hurtful way, there\u2019s no excuse for it, at all. I was raised better than that!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony Edwards (@theantedwards_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theantedwards_\/status\/1569043807085236224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ESPN reported that a spokesperson for the NBA confirmed that the league is investigating the incident which could potentially result in fines.<\/p>\n<p>Past examples of NBA players who were fined for using anti-gay slurs have included the Brooklyn Nets\u2019 Kevin Durant, $50,000 in 2021, and the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 Kobe Bryant, $100,000 in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Timberwolves\u2019 star player Anthony Edwards, drafted no. 1 overall in the 2020 NBA draft, apologized this week after he faced some backlash over the weekend for calling a group of men being affectionate with each other \u201cqueer a** n****s.\u201d Edwards made the remarks in a video that was posted to his Instagram account in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1639721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1639721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}