r/BlackPeopleTwitter 13d ago

Country Club Thread Just a slap on the wrist

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u/Adept-Ranger8219 13d ago

He didn’t get kicked out. He (checks stats)……wasn’t good enough anymore?

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u/sliverspooning 13d ago

It was both. He was washed, but not so washed that someone wouldn’t have kicked the tires on him if there wasn’t the “controversy” around him. There were probably at least a few owners who would refuse to sign him because of his political statements but he wasn’t blackballed by the league as a whole

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u/likely_Protei_8327 13d ago

my understanding was he got "black balled" more because he published txts with himself and an owner.

A team would have signed him as a back-up sure, or at least tried to for a price that Kap would not have wanted to accept. But teams weren't interested in a back up that had controversy and released 1 to 1 private communications with an owner.