{"id":2284530,"date":"2024-06-27T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T14:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-lakers-coach-jj-redick-targeted-with-n-word-allegation-days-after-being-hired\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T14:42:46","slug":"new-lakers-coach-jj-redick-targeted-with-n-word-allegation-days-after-being-hired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-lakers-coach-jj-redick-targeted-with-n-word-allegation-days-after-being-hired\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lakers Coach JJ Redick Targeted with &#8216;N-Word&#8217; Allegation Days After Being Hired"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fnew-lakers-coach-jj-redick-targeted-with-n-word-allegation-days-after-being-hired%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=2284530&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>J.J. Redick, formerly a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-drops-investigation-into-star-basketball-player-charged-with-rape-citing-lack-of-evidence\/\" title=\"School Ends Inquiry Into Prominent Basketball Player Accused of Rape Due to Insufficient Evidence\">prominent basketball player<\/a> at Duke University \u2063and in the NBA, was recently appointed as the head coach of the\u2063 Los\u2063 Angeles Lakers. Following his appointment, Halleemah Nash, a Duke\u200c alumnus and Lakers fan, accused Redick of using a racial slur against her years \u2062ago \u2064at Duke. Nash shared her experience on social media, \u2064which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dove-partners-with-blm-activist-in-fat-liberation-campaign-activist-wrecked-white-student-with-uncorroborated-accusations\/\" title=\"Dove collaborates with BLM activist for 'Fat Liberation' campaign; activist targets white student with unverified claims.\">gained significant\u200c attention<\/a>, \u2062although she has not provided corroborating evidence for her claims.<\/p>\n<p>Redick and his representatives\u2063 have denied these allegations, categorically stating that the incident never happened. \u2062The commentary suggests skepticism towards Nash&#8217;s accusations, emphasizing Redick&#8217;s long-standing professional career in basketball,\u2064 which has been largely uncontroversial regarding issues of \u2063race. The article raises doubts about the likelihood of Redick behaving in \u200bthe way \u200bdescribed, given his history and standing in \u2063the sports community, and\u200b it calls for more substantial evidence before taking\u2064 further action against him.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>    <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 27, 2024 at 6:20am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>So, let\u2019s get this straight.<\/p>\n<p>J.J. Redick played basketball at Duke University for four years, competing in the NCAA Men\u2019s Division I Basketball Tournament all four years. He was drafted in the first round in 2006 by the Orlando Magic and proceeded to play until 2021 in the NBA, a league where roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1167867\/nba-players-ethnicity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three out of four<\/a> players is black.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, he was hired as the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Then, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/26\/sport\/jj-redick-la-lakers-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> reported Wednesday, a Duke alumni and Lakers fan accused him on social media of using the n-word on her, and saying that he was the only white man who had ever used it on her in her life.<\/p>\n<p>The Reddick camp has already responded, with a flat statement from a Reddick representative to the celebrity website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2024\/06\/25\/los-angeles-lakers-coach-jj-redick-denies-n-word-use-allegation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>It leaves no room for wiggling, nor for rationalization:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Question: Why on earth would we believe it had?<\/p>\n<p>But first, the facts. After Redick\u2019s hiring was announced, Halleemah Nash, founder of a coaching and consulting company called Rosecrans Ventures, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RosecransMADE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">128 followers<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X, claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/uconns-dan-hurley-refuses-coach-lebron-lakers-unbelievable-70m-rejection-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redick<\/a>, who is white, dropped the mother of all slurs on her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve only been called the N word to my face by a white man once in my life and it was on the campus of Duke University while I was doing work with the basketball team,\u201d she wrote Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd today he was named the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. What a world.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019ve only been called the N word to my face by a white man once in my life and it was on the campus of Duke University while I was doing work with the basketball team. And today he was named the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. What a world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Halleemah Nash (@halleemah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/halleemah\/status\/1805634597108998650?\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This has already been viewed 29 million times as of early Thursday morning \u2014 from an account that has just over 5,300 followers.<\/p>\n<p>But Nash wasn\u2019t done: \u201cFor context, this was years ago and Im a believer that we all have space to grow- especially from our college level maturity. We live in a world where these exchanges happen and the intersection of race and privilege and lack of accountability all collided w\/that presser.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For context, this was years ago and Im a believer that we all have space to grow- especially from our college level maturity. We live in a world where these exchanges happen and the intersection of race and privilege and lack of accountability all collided w\/that presser.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Halleemah Nash (@halleemah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/halleemah\/status\/1805698761705869659?\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u201cpresser\u201d she was talking about, assumedly, was the media briefing Redick held Monday after being named the Lakers coach in which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-lakers-coach-already-fire-even-remotely-appropriate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dropped the f-bomb<\/a> ill-advisedly and claimed \u2014 somewhat incredibly \u2014 that he hadn\u2019t talked with Lakers star LeBron James, with whom he hosts a podcast, about taking the job as the team\u2019s coach.<\/p>\n<p>Someone in the room \u201ceven loudly groaned as Redick said it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-my\/sports\/nba\/lakers-jj-redick-press-conference-literally-drew-groans-during-lebron-james-comment\/ar-BB1oRTWP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB Nation<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cLeBron and I didn\u2019t talk about the Lakers job\u201d \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>JJ Redick says LeBron didn\u2019t want to be involved in Lakers HC search <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OW3Lb9pL9y\">pic.twitter.com\/OW3Lb9pL9y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1805348318371045750?\">June 24, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, fine. That\u2019s improbable, but perhaps not impossible.<\/p>\n<p>You know what else is improbable? The idea that J.J. Redick has played basketball at the highest levels possible since his Amateur Athletic Union days and is somehow a secret racist.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Do you believe J.J. Redick should be fired?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During his time at Duke, he was arguably the biggest star on the team. He played for 15 seasons in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/2024-nba-finals-ratings-slump-hard-fans-need-true-villain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA<\/a> \u2014 perhaps not as the biggest star, but certainly <em>a<\/em> star, and someone who was instantly recognizable to those who followed the game. He was a solid role player and was good for 10 points a game, if not more, most seasons.<\/p>\n<p>After playing basketball, he transitioned into <em>covering<\/em> basketball, in which he did work for The Ringer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-former-espn-columnist-says-caitlin-clark-needs-black-coach-wants-white-christie-sides-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN<\/a> and, of course, his podcast with James. This put him into contact with basketball talent on a day-in, day-out basis for the majority of his adult life.<\/p>\n<p>We are now talking about one woman who claims that Redick called her the n-word to her face at some unspecified time at an unspecified place \u2014 presumably at Duke University, where he was not an <em>extremely<\/em> young man \u2014 with no corroboration for her own story and no similar stories having emerged.<\/p>\n<p>We are expected to take this seriously, because #BelieveAllOppressed, or whatever. However, everyone knows better than to believe white people can just casually drop the n-word, especially to a black person and especially just once, on a really bad day.<\/p>\n<p>That word is so odious and hateful and rebarbative and execrable on so many levels that, once it has been uttered, it normally comes not at the beginning but at the end of a long pattern of disturbed, reprehensible behavior that is observable and can almost always be corroborated with other alarming racial behavior \u2014 that may not have involved that word, but which is certainly observable.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the black community can reclaim it among themselves if they so choose \u2014 God knows it\u2019s a prevalent enough word among rappers, for instance. But almost all whites will upbraid and ostracize one of their own for using it so quickly, especially in the face of a black person, that the speaker\u2019s life will be turned upside-down.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the fact that Redick\u2019s life already has been significantly jostled and this is one dubious claim that dates from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-slams-media-criticism-of-him-calls-general-coverage-frightening\/\" title=\"Judge Slams Media Criticism Of Him, Calls General Coverage \u2018Frightening\u2019\">roughly 20 years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But also consider this: We\u2019ve now had over 24 hours for the J.J. Redick stories to start pouring out \u2014 tales of his racial prejudice that almost certainly exist <em>if<\/em> he\u2019s willing to call a black woman the n-word to her face while he was a student at Duke University. Those tales could come from his school days, or from the six teams he\u2019s played for, or from the networks he\u2019s worked for, or <em>anybody<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What do we have? For one, an old story where Redick got \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/j-j-redick-issues-statement-viral-video-catches-seemingly-using-slur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tongue-tied<\/a>\u201d during a Chinese New Year greeting in 2018 for the league\u2019s Chinese broadcaster and accidentally said what sounded like an offensive slur.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nba\/2024\/6\/25\/24186108\/jj-redick-denies-n-word-use-slur-allegations-lakers-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB Nation<\/a> dug deeper and found dubious stories about \u201cleaked emails\u201d to a girlfriend he allegedly pressured to have an abortion and which appeared on sub-Perez Hilton gossip websites that make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-kanye-schools-tmz-founder-asking-take-off-maga-hat-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ<\/a> look like National Review. Those emails have since been deleted from those sites, but may have contained racial slurs, we\u2019re told (the woman in the case is black).<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also an odd story about Redick apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxygen.com\/very-real\/nba-player-jj-redick-claims-to-have-seen-caged-person-in-trunk-during-car-service-ride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">witnessing<\/a> a possible human trafficking incident in 2018 and briefly deleting his Twitter account afterward. Because, OK?<\/p>\n<p>This, in other words, is the \u201cpattern of behavior\u201d we\u2019re supposed to believe included J.J. Redick calling a black woman the n-word to her face. None of it has corroboration. All of it mostly exists in seamy corners of the internet where CNN or even TMZ don\u2019t dare to tread.<\/p>\n<p>There have been no new live allegations. Nobody backing Nash up. Nobody chiming in with similar stories. Nothing like that. Of the thousands of people Redick has professionally interacted with in a field that\u2019s overwhelmingly black, this is all we have.<\/p>\n<p>If real evidence is forthcoming and Redick is lying, then, by all means: Fire him. Without question. However, the militant atheist Christopher Hitchens had a famous quip about the supernatural which, while I find it lacking as an argument against the Deity, works well here:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Very shaky evidence, very shaky assertion.<\/p>\n<p>If Nash or the establishment media cannot find further evidence for this claim about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/charles-barkley-eviscerates-espn-host-anti-white-nba-claims-asinine-silly-stupid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redick<\/a> \u2014 and believe you me, certain elements in the latter entity are certainly trying \u2014 it\u2019s already time to move on.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We who work here at The Western Journal have fought for years against Big Tech and the elites who want to shut us down and then shut America down. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Make no mistake \u2014 nothing will be the same after November 2024. 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Please don\u2019t let the America-hating left win. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Stand with us today<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44670\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44670\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44670\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44670\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44670\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties). <\/p>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Morristown, New Jersey <\/p>\n<p>  Education <\/p>\n<p>  Catholic University of America <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English, Spanish <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  American Politics, World Politics, Culture <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by C. Douglas Golden, June 27, 2024. J.J. Redick, a Duke University alum, played in the NCAA Men\u2019s Division I Basketball Tournament for four consecutive years. 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