‘Woke’ Basketball Star Accused Of ‘Third World’ Mocking Of Nigerian Rivals

Controversial basketball player Liz Cambage has been accused of verbally abusing members of the Nigerian national team by her former Australia captain.

Jenna O’Hea captained Australia’s team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, during the build-up to which Cambage complained there were too many white players in the Australian Olympic team photo and threatened to boycott the athletics show.

However, appearing on ABC Sport Down Under as the WNBA season began in the US last weekend, O’Hea was asked if it was true that Cambage had started a fight by telling his rivals “Go back to your Third World country” in a warm-up match for Tokyo 2020 in Las Vegas.

“That’s all 100% Right,” O’Hea confirmed, with Cambage, who ultimately pulled out of the Olympics citing mental health issues and now plays for the Los Angeles Sparks, indirectly responding to the allegations.

«The truth will always come to light, and it is not yet dawn» tweeted cambage

But some figures like Andrew Bogut, who has a long-running social media feud with Cambage, said the star “sled” – as verbal sports provocation is known in Australia – was even worse than has been reported.

“You just got the PG version, there was so much more to it than that, I’m glad someone came out and said so.” 2015 NBA champion Bogut told Sydney radio station 2GB on Monday.

Andrew Gaze, a former player and coach who is also not a fan of Cambage, claimed that Cambage’s criticism of Basketball Australia was “unfair.”

“Beyond that [the Nigeria comments]what really bothers me is when she makes the comments to say that she feels supported in Los Angeles to a level that she wasn’t there with the Australian team and the suggestion that she was never supported by Australia, the Opals, or Basketball Australia… that is very offensive”, Mirada told SEN radio.

“I have been in a privileged position to be on the board of directors of Basketball Australia for much of her time and I had a long conversation with her directly and unfortunately I was not able to have that conversation just one on one, her agent had to be there. », The look continued.

“She was supported, not just by me, but by others along the way… to say she wasn’t supported is unfair.” term.

Cambage called to withdraw from the Australian team on the eve of the Olympics “literally one of the hardest decisions of my life” and it has exploded «lies» y “fake news” surrounding development.

“Yes, things got heated in the Nigerian game, there was a physical altercation and there was an exchange of words.” he said around the time of the fight in July of last year. “But I hear things that are not true at all. Everything that happened and everything I said is recorded.”

Despite remaining eligible for this year’s World Cup in Sydney, Cambage has already suggested he will never play for the Australian national team again.

“I am living my best life. I’m supported, I’m protected on a level that the Opals or the Australian team never gave me.” she claimed to ABC, prompting comments from Gaze.

“My heart goes out to those who want to protect me and those who want me to be the best I can be, and I never felt that in the Opals. So yeah, I’m fine.” Cambage finished.

Joining criticism elsewhere, a political reporter for the Daily Telegraph in Australia wrote that the comments of «invented athlete» cambage eran “Hypocrisy beyond belief.”

“It all sounds a bit like those stories from the US about anti-gay southern preachers getting busted conducting a ‘men’s ministry’ in a cheap motel.” wrote James Morrow, highlighting Cambage’s alleged double standards in complaining about the lack of diversity in the Australia Olympics team photo, but allegedly abusing Nigerians in such a way while also having a Nigerian father.

“Australians are getting tired of being told how racist we are, especially by a fake athlete who, it seems, might need to mirror herself in this regard.” he continued.

“‘Go back to your third world country’ is an embarrassing thing for a group of African women, and we all know what the response from the outrage squad would be if the comment were made by a player with a lighter skin tone. Hypocrisy is beyond belief.” it concluded.