*Steve Harvey came under fire Wednesday after he twice referred to Golden State Warriors players as “gorillas” in a conversation with an ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith after Game 3.
Harvey made the comments when Smith asked him what his hometown team, Cleveland Cavaliers, could do to come back against the Warriors in the NBA Finals, Deadline reports.
“You can’t stop them,” he said. “You gotta outscore them. You can’t stop all them boys. They’ve got too many gorillas on the team. They coming to play, man. They got 800-pound gorillas on their team.”
Watch the moment go down via the clip below.
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Sports commentator Clay Travis, who hosts Outkick the Coverage, was quick to point out that tennis broadcaster Doug Adler was fired for using the term “guerilla” to describe superstar Serena Williams.
“So how is it that Harvey can come on ESPN and compare an entire team of majority black athletes to gorillas and no one else in the mainstream sports media even takes note other than me?” Travis wrote in a column. “That’s especially the case when you consider the recent contretemps involving Roseanne being fired from Disney/ABC, the very network that will air Family Feud starring Steve Harvey, for comparing a black person to an ape on Twitter.”
Harvey previously drew criticism earlier this year for racially charged remarks during a New Year’s Eve broadcast when he said: “three little black dudes singing the song better than all the white people I know.”
Last night Steve Harvey went on @espn & called the Golden State Warriors players gorillas. Yet @espn fired @dougadlertennis for using the word guerrilla during a Venus Williams match. On Disney double standards: https://t.co/STJWPWU0FP
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 7, 2018
Warriors win NBA title as Durant takes over, Steve Harvey calls Warriors gorillas, media is silent, Caps win for DC? https://t.co/2hbXFa38eZ
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 7, 2018
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