After the anti-Semitic arc, NBA player Meyers Leonard was suspended from the team and dropped by sponsors

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After the anti-Semitic arc, NBA player Meyers Leonard was suspended from the team and dropped by sponsors

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In the wake of dropping a clear anti-Semitic mockery during a game of call of DutyNBA player Meyers Leonard has been suspended from his team, the Miami Heat, and dropped by a number of his sponsors.

Leonard – who was last year too The only player to stand on his feet before a game while his teammates kneeled to support the Black Lives Matter movement– later apologized for using the term “Kike bitch”and claim to have somehow not known what it is meant:

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Nevertheless, Leonard has since been dropped by two of his sponsors, the PC company Origin:

And Controller does SCUF (both companies belong to Corsair):

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Leonard will also be “away from the team indefinitely” while the Heat –owned by Israeli-American businessman Micky Arison– and the NBA is conducting an “investigation”.

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The gaming clan FaZe also noted that while Leonard wasn’t a member, he still broke ties with him:

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