J.J. Redick didn’t mean it, but he’s sorry just the same.
The 76ers shooting guard released an apology Sunday night for a video that has circulated in which it appears he calls Chinese people a racial slur. He says he stumbled over his words, and the NBA’s most high-profile Chinese-American, Jeremy Lin, forgives him.
“I was intending to say ‘NBA Chinese fans’ but it sounded weird in my mind so I changed it mid-sentence to ‘NBA fans in China’. It came out the wrong way,” Redick said in a Twitter post after he had come under fire that morning, when he was featured using a slur in a version of a compilation of NBA athletes and coaches wishing Chinese people a happy new year.