Well, we know right there that we're in the land of hagiography. Spike used one NBA game as his focus. Never covered any part of Bryant's personal life ... including "that incident" in Colorado.
Given that neither he nor Jemele Hill, also said to be involved, have ever said anything about Chinese human rights, Uyghurs, etc. and American Black athletes who refuse to comment on these issues, as half-right, but Palestinian-dissing Enes Kanter Freedom has noted in calling out LeBron James and others, don't expect anything but hagiography here either.
(Bob Costas, who in 2019 saluted Kaep and called out NFL hypocrisy, much more recently turned the tables and called out Kaep. Costas, a straight shooter who called out gun violence on halftime of a Monday Night Football game, knows his stuff. As for the provenance of that second link? Even though the Costas interview was on CNN, Google didn't show me any non-wingnut media embedding the video and doing a text extraction — and that includes CNN!)
As for Kaep's expressed desire to still play in the NFL? A semi-lie at best, per Stephen A. Smith calling out his fake tryout a year ago. He'd rather keep laughing all the way to the Nike bank and ignoring Uyghurs.
And, didn't Red Satan shove Jemele Hill out the door not too long ago, or at a minimum, didn't she sign off on leaving when ESPN put her in a narrow corridor facing an exit? I guess capitalism trumps wokeness. Actually, regular readers here will know that capitalism often CO-OPTS wokeness, and that wokeness is usually a willing, even eager participant in being co-opted.
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