NBA stars are coming to the defense of Maori Davenport, a high school basketball star from Alabama, who was suspended from her high school team after receiving a check from USA Basketball.
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Makes no sense. What a bunch of ?ick heads!
As a high school basketball player & now a high school Senior girls basketball coach, I cannot even believe this ruling. Just thinking about her loss in scholarships & her development & experience as an athlete at such a crucial time is heartbreaking & wrong. We support you from Canada!
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If she were white no one would care.
If she would have committed to the University of Alabama or Auburn University the outcome might have been different.
Its disgusting how racial these comments are , sucks for the girl but rules are rules.
So the state of Alabama knew their top star was going to play for a national team whose policy is to send stipend checks and DID NOT NOTIFY this girl that if she took the money she would be DQed from playing the next year. This sounds like a potential lawsuit.
Some persons achieve superiority in a field through hard work. Other people achieve superiority (or a feeling of it) through searching out information regarding minor alleged infractions and using it as a club to destroy the former.
MOVE OUT OF ALABAMA !
Fuck I'm glad I don't live in AMERICA what a fuck up.
Someone gives u a check ???
U SPEND IT!!!!! (Its not her fault)
#ONLY AMERICANS DO STUPID SHIT LIKE THAT
Alambama=Racism. Simple as that. that's why they are sticking by it; because they are a bunch of filthy bigots!
They drilled that into us. You can't accept money for playing a sport in high school. TV shows like All American have episodes dedicated to the act and they knew this but now play ignorant. They even said they asked if she could accept the check. That right there tells all.
Let her go to a out of state high school or start college early
She won’t learn anything she needs for her college career anyway
Bet if she was white it would be a different story!!!!!
Geez 857 bucks….damn and they returned it…then move on…..leave her alone then…that’s just unfair…period
this show has too many blacks . how or why does america even care what blacks have to say
blacks are only 13 percent of america and like this show tooo many blacks are gaining for no reason . except they are black . i say shut them alll down
I wonder if she had blonde hair and blue eyes if this would be happening. And if they are punishing her then the people who sent her a check should be punished also.
That was no mistake! It was a set-up to discourage her!
Set up I say!!!
Alabama huh!….this is some b's….planned out no doubt
She should have kept that damn check if they was even going to budge on letting her continuing playing 😒
This shit sounds suspect as hell, like someone on the association has an ax to grind
This was done on purpose! There are some people walking this earth is truly the seed of satan. They know what she is capable of in life and attempting to prevent greatness. Hopefully her parents will take it to court immediately to get this reverse.
She cashed the check: Violation of the rules. Had she not cashed the check, there would have been no violation of the rules. Very sad.
What’s the “Pandora’s box†that can’t be opened? Rightfully correcting a mistake made by the US and adults that have nothing to do with the kid?…😳
I like the fact that her parents aren't the ones to blame. They were giving packets of information about all the rules and who to call if something that don't understand occurs. Typical shirking of one's responsibility is why she should remain punished.