JJ Redick has been the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers for less than a week, and he’s already involved in his first controversy.
Yesterday, as his introductory press conference in Los Angeles was going down, a woman by the name of Halleemah Nash took to X, formerly Twitter, to reveal that Redick once called her the N-word while they were at Duke, and despite his alleged racist ways, he’s still seen a ton of success.
“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,” she tweeted. “And today he was named the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. What a world.”
She didn’t mention him by name, but Redick was a scoring legend when he played at the North Carolina school from 2002-2006, and he was officially named …