With tensions and emotions running high across the country in light of George Floyd’s death and the resulting protests, this is a good time for every athlete to think very hard about what they want to say on social media before actually posting anything.
The 2019 first rounder tweeted his thoughts about the protests, saying that people who were destroying property “in response to a sad and senseless death” had “made themselves no better than the cops they claim to hate.”
McGary got a lot of blowback from fans who didn’t like that he was equating the destruction of property with the taking of a human life.