{"id":695574,"date":"2026-04-03T07:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695574\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:58:48","slug":"chicago-bulls-dump-player-for-critique-of-pride-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695574\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls Dump Player for Critique of Pride Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bulls waived guard Jaden Ivey after he called out the NBA for its celebration of Pride Month.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls announced Ivey\u2019s departure on Monday \u201cdue to conduct detrimental to the team.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This came after Ivey posted a video criticizing the NBA\u2019s promotion of Pride Month, which is in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world can proclaim LGBTQ, right?\u201d Ivey said in the video post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey proclaim Pride Month and the NBA. They proclaim it. They show it to the world. They say, \u2018Come join us for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness.\u2019 They proclaim it,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey proclaim it on the billboards. They proclaim in the streets. Unrighteousness. So, how is it that one can\u2019t speak righteousness? Who are they to say that this man is crazy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to his release, Ivey posted another video saying the Bulls should be honest rather than saying he was detrimental to the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t they just say \u2018we don\u2019t agree with his stance on LGBTQ\u2019?\u201d Ivey said. \u201cHow is my conduct detrimental to the team? What did I do to the team? What did I do to the players?\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Jaden Ivey calls out the NBA for misrepresenting the reason behind his release, saying they labeled him as \u201cdetrimental to the team\u201d instead of admitting they disagreed with his stance on LGBTQ issues.<\/p>\n<p>He claims he was waived by the Bulls after speaking out against the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZZfZc2a2w5\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ZZfZc2a2w5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I Meme Therefore I Am ?? (@ImMeme0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImMeme0\/status\/2038818680910282881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ivey only played four games with the Chicago Bulls, averaging 11.5 points and 4.8 rebounds per game before his release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/bulls-waive-jaden-ivey-after-he-called-nbas-pride-month-celebration-unrighteousness\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Fox News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The Chicago Bulls are waiving Jaden Ivey after he spoke out against the NBA for promoting &#8216;Pride Month&#8217; and unrighteousness, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Ivey recently announced that he was alive in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They proclaim Pride Month in the NBA. They show it to the world. They\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1kxiL36ygn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1kxiL36ygn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/2038738011270316391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ivey was traded to the Bulls in February as part of a three-team deal involving the Bulls, the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the Detroit Pistons, Ivey\u2019s former team.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate video, Ivey called Catholicism a \u201cfalse religion,\u201d which did not prompt any action by the Bulls or the NBA. His mother, Niele Ivey, is the head women\u2019s basketball coach at Notre Dame, a Catholic university.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bulls waived guard Jaden Ivey after he called out the NBA for its celebration of Pride&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,17679,6,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-695574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-chicagobulls","13":"tag-lgbtq","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116339719697427600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}