Former NBA Star suspended for Anti-Semitic Slurs

Remember former NBA All-Star Michael Ray Richardson? Well I don't.

Anyway, in case you do, the former NBA Basketball superstar, now coaching for the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), was suspended after making anti-Semitic slurs in a time when former NBA stars start proclaiming they're either gay or hate gay people.

Michael Ray Richardson, head coach of the Albany Patroons, was suspended by the team for the rest of the CBA Championship series for the anti-Semitic comments he made to the Albany Times Union.

He was talking about the contract general manager Jim Coyne was offering to him for Richardson to coach the GM's team in both the CBA and the USBL when he made the controversial comments.

''I've got big-time lawyers,'' Richardson said, according to the Times Union. ''I've got big-time Jew lawyers.''

The Albany Times Union then told the coach that by him saying that, he might offend some people because it plays the stereotype that Jews are crafty and shrewd. So what did Michael Ray Richardson say?

''Are you kidding me? They are. They've got the best security system in the world. Have you ever been to an airport in Tel Aviv? They're real crafty. Listen, they are hated all over the world, so they've got to be crafty.''

And yeah, Mr. Richardson wasn't done, ''They got a lot of power in this world, you know what I mean? Which I think is great. I don't think there's nothing wrong with it. If you look in most professional sports, they're run by Jewish people. If you look at a lot of most successful corporations and stuff, more businesses, they're run by Jewish. It's not a knock, but they are some crafty people."

Yup, and this was not the only time Michael Ray Richardson made controversial remarks. In one CBA game, Richardson told a fan who heckled him early in the game, ''Shut the [expletive] up.'' And near game's end, he shouted at another heckler, ''Shut the [expletive] up, you [derogatory term for gay men].''

My kind of hero.

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