JJ Redick has been accused of calling a Black woman the n-word while a student at Duke University.
On Tuesday (June 25), a woman named Halleemah Nash took to X/Twitter revealing her claims that Redick was racist towards her. Nash, who stated that she worked for the school’s basketball team, claims that the then Duke men’s basketball star player called her the n-word to her face.
“I’ve 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,” Nash typed on the social media platform. “And today he was named the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. What a world.”
“For context, this was years ago, and I’m 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,” she added.
JJ Redick was an iconic player in Duke University lore, playing for the school from 2002 to 2006. Halleemah Nash’s time with the team overlaps with JJ’s, as she worked and studied at the university from 2002-2005.
Fans in the comment section of Nash’s post recalled the moment when JJ Redick used a racial slur when talking about Chinese NBA fans. The 2018 incident found the former Philadelphia 76ers player making an NBA promo video for the fans overseas, but the moment was quickly tarnished as many thought Redick called them “ch*nks.”
“[I wanna] wish all the NBA ch*nk fans of China a very happy Chinese New Year,” the NBA star could be heard saying in the clip.
The move led to backlash from media outlets, with JJ issuing an apology and claiming that the racial slur “is not in my vocabulary.”
“It came out the wrong way,” he typed on X/Twitter regarding the Chinese slur, according to 6ABC. “At the time we recorded it, no one in the room…heard the word that I purported to say. Had I known it sounded anything like that, I would have been mortified and recorded the greeting over again.”
“We might consider terminating his contract if found guilty of any act of violating the law of NBA using the ‘N word at a lady,told the media correspondent of ESPN yesterday.
