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The San Antonio Spurs picked University of Miami product Lonnie Walker IV with the 18th pick of this year’s NBA Draft. Before the 19-year-old has played one professional regular season game, he has one controversy to his name.
Yesterday, as Americans were getting loaded on domestic beers and chomping down hot dogs in celebration of all that is American, Walker took to Twitter to offer a contrarian point of view. He tweeted, and then deleted, the below:
“Will never celebrate 4th of July. Know your history!! and stay woke.”
As you may have guessed, hundreds of people who saw the tweet dropped their cole slaw and took offense to the McDonald’s All-American’s tweet. Check out some of the backlash below:
You met David Robinson not too long ago… do you think he's "woke"? pic.twitter.com/7x7SRzwC5A
— Arnold G (@arnoldog21) July 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/1014873088155095041
https://twitter.com/notRonaIdo/status/1014749040033128448
https://twitter.com/Jimmy_castor/status/1014739994089574400
You were just drafted in the first round of the NBA draft and given guaranteed millions by the country you won’t celebrate. Please, then, convince us of the sincerity of your wokeness and forego all those American riches. https://t.co/wm5wss1rgm
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) July 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/aStarr_W_2Rs/status/1014719775812083712
https://twitter.com/suuhdudee/status/1014721425645563904
https://twitter.com/PhromTheBench/status/1014821835853230080
Walker could have just tweeted this to be an irritator. Back in May during the NBA combine in Chicago, Walker dropped a truth bomb about the nature of the earth:
“The earth is not flat, in my opinion, but the earth, on my conspiracy, the earth is definitely an illusion.”
Truth, man. Truth.
[h/t Total Pro Sports]