Jameis Winston standing there by himself trying to look hard after none of his teammates made the slightest effort to hold him back—when it was damn clear to everyone that’s what he wanted—is a goddamned Christmas miracle.

Sigh.

They can’t win, can they? Advocate for change, and you’ll attack them for not SUPPORTING THE TROOPS!!!

Lame slide. This is how you avoid the tag at second:

I saw the shirt but still thought he was complaining about celebrating China instead of day 1 of 29 until I got to the comment section. Guess I’m less racist than cousins and all the people that saw a monkey and thought “ok, what’s this story got to do with blacks?” Cousins walked in the arena and instead of thinking,…

I hope they use them on another night. They’re really cool shirts, and there’s nothing inherently offensive about them. Skipping tonight is one thing, but outright forbidding innocuous items because you can find parallels with something unfortunate if you try really hard would be sad.

I understand what he was thinking and how ppl could take it the wrong way. But I don’t think they should have taken away the shirts. Like it or not, it sends the message that black history/culture is more important than asian history/culture. I don’t blame Cousins for this I blame the idiot that decided to do this NBA…

Racism, it’s everywhere. Everywhere. All you need is some thin-skin and a microscope and you’ll find it.

marques johnson and boogie cousins are idiots. they’re the ones being racist and perpetuating stereotypes.

It’s common knowledge that whitey invented the Chinese zodiac to troll Black History Month via t-shirt giveaways at tertiary market sporting events.

The only racist who ruined this giveaway was DeMarcus Cousins. There is no possible way anyone half way intelligent could have perceived this as racism so...oh, wait, these were going to Kings fans. Good move.

I’m black, and think this is about the dumbest thing ever. A bunch of overly sensitive garbage.

This generation is all about being offended by everything

So because DeMarcus Cousins has literally no idea about any culture but his own (and I doubt he has much idea about American culture in general) the Kings bent to his will?

Yea, this is idiotic. The shirts say Happy Lunar New Year, pretty unambiguous. Hey can you remove the monkeys from the zoo just during February, don’t want it to be misinterpreted.

“Good move Kings. Year of Monkey Tees on 1 st day of Black History Month not a good look. Thanks DeMarcus...”

This is moronic. There is such a clear reason as to why this promotion existed, and it had NOTHING to do with anything related to racist ideals, let alone the very specific North American Black history Month…