*Jemele Hill slammed Barstool Sports Founder Dave Portnoy after he called LSU player Angel Reese a “classless piece of sh*t.”
As we reported previously, LSU’s Reese is catching head for her on-court antics during her team’s title game win Sunday over Iowa.
Reese, a Black woman, is being attacked online for taunting Iowa star Caitlin Clark. Clark is known for using WWE wrestler John Cena’s signature hand gesture “you can’t see me” to her opponents.
When Reese served up the same move to Iowa guard Clark — and also pointed at her ring finger to signify a championship — the anti-Black crowd rushed to Twitter to express their fury.
Many Twitters users noted that when Clark uses the move, she is labeled “competitive” but a Black player doing it gets called “ghetto.”
Classless piece of shit https://t.co/e2qo7g5iXi
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 2, 2023
Portnoy called the Black basketball player a “classless piece of sh*t” for using the “you can’t see me” hand gesture at Clark during Sunday’s game.
When Hill caught wind of Portnoy’s comments, she tweeted “So I’m going to pick this fight. F**k you.”
Shaquille O’Neal also called out Portnoy, “and so is your mother,” he tweeted, as reported by the NY Post.
One Twitter user said in response to Portnoy’s post, “Grown yt man with several r@pe allegations calls Black college girl a “classless piece of sh*t” after she wins a National Championship,” the person wrote, adding “Lmao, you can’t make this up.”
So I’m going to pick this fight. Fuck you. https://t.co/GAMrXgcJ0o
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) April 3, 2023
Stephen A. Smith also noted that the hate Reese is receiving is due to race.
Meanwhile, Reese remains unapologetic for using the hand gesture.
“I’m too hood, I’m too ghetto. Y’all told me that all year,” she said during a recent press conference. “But when other people do it, y’all don’t say nothing. So this is for the girls that look like me.”
Grown yt man with several r@pe allegations calls Black college girl a “classless piece of shit” after she wins a National Championship.
Lmao, you can’t make this up.
— Anna Horford (@AnnaHorford) April 3, 2023
