The Sacramento Kings canceled a T-shirt giveaway Monday night after some in the organization, including star DeMarcus Cousins, found the shirts to be racially insensitive.
The Kings had placed black shirts adorned with a purple monkey as part of their Lunar New Year celebration on seats at Monday night's game against the Milwaukee Bucks. The Chinese Year of the Monkey begins Feb. 8.
However, Monday also marked the first day of Black History Month, and players and coaches were wearing shirts in honor of the annual commemoration.
DeMarcus Cousins, as well as others in the organization, took umbrage with the Kings' planned T-shirt giveaway, according to reports.
Cousins criticized the giveaway of Year of the Monkey T-shirts. Bucks TV analyst and former player Marques Johnson described the situation on Facebook.
"I walk into the building and DeMarcus Cousins calls me over to an animated discussion he's having with Kings operations people," he wrote. "He ask me, 'Olskool, what you think about this T Shirt? Told him a little insensitive on 1st day of Black History Month'. They pulled the shirts..."
Staff gathered all the shirts before fans arrived at Sleep Train Arena.
"We all need a lesson in sensitivity," Kings president Chris Granger said, according to the Sacramento Bee. "In an effort to celebrate Chinese New Year, we had some concerns about the T-shirt giveaway, so we pulled them all before the doors opened. Certainly we don't want to offend anybody, and we acted as soon as we heard the concern."
Johnson took to Twitter to applaud Cousins for speaking out.
There is a league wide initiative this season for teams to commemorate the Chinese New Year, and the rest of the Kings' Lunar New Year celebration continued as scheduled, the Bee reported.
Cousins, who recently was named to his second All-Star Game, was out Monday night with a sprained left ankle.
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Myrtle MonoHunting of the Oak Valley Bee along with Jin Sue Ming of the Bejing Party People offered these photos in suggesting the T-Shirt giveaway should go on.
Muh month
Black people taking things personally per par like they're the center of the universe.
Guess what, gots? There are other cultures out there. Monkeys aren't exclusive to meaning you.
That's actually a well designed shirt.
Nigs are so insecure.
seriously whats with the hype of the chinese new year, do westerners know there are other countries who also celebrate that calendar year?
lol kowtowing to the chinese gooks thinking it will generate more income to the league....how much have they made from the 1.4billion chinese gooks? if the ratio is not x>1:1 then go eat a
this thread will deliver. I'm sure of it. Already off to a fine racist start.
So will they donate these to the kids in Africa, or is that racist and they'll have to thrown them away?
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What's funny is they call each other monkey more than whites call them that.. them.. they. Those people.
Damn sad that he thought that way. It's a sad sad world we live in when people live and think like this
Shut up fat ass.
This is the kind of that happens when you let race hustlers indoctrinate so many uneducated athletes.
Thats a pretty cool design, It also explains itself. It reads "Happy Lunar New Year , 2016 Year of The Monkey"
Read a in book! Shouldntve pulled the shirts, educate the idiot!
Agree. First thing I thought was I'll take one if they're going to give them away.
That's Pinoy pride in' with ya. Avante is probably your uncle.
Chingchang and his racist ass probably ordered a couple of the shirts
No he's forever associated with that monkey. lol
lol this is Murica! yeah!Thats a pretty cool design, It also explains itself. It reads "Happy Lunar New Year , 2016 Year of The Monkey"
Read a in book! Shouldntve pulled the shirts, educate the idiot!
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