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Heat ban Meyers Leonard 'indefinitely' after anti-Semitic slur: 'We will not tolerate hateful language'

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The Miami Heat announced on Tuesday that Meyers Leonard is banned from the team "indefinitely" after video surfaced of the backup center uttering an anti-Semitic slur on a Twitch stream.

The video surfaced Tuesday afternoon, showing Leonard talking while engaged in first-person shooter "Call of Duty." Leonard said the slur while talking with another player.

Warning: The video below contains graphic language and a racial slur.

Meyers Leonard says racial slurs while playing CoD pic.twitter.com/WHwUnbV0pR

"F***ing cowards," Leonard said.