{"id":575197,"date":"2026-03-31T00:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575197\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:11:08","slug":"bulls-waive-guard-jaden-ivey-after-anti-gay-comments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575197\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls waive guard Jaden Ivey after anti-gay comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e588ccf1-ba03-ea43-c34c-9a9c8d1895ca\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> have waived guard <a data-player-guid=\"38031c4c-26bc-3695-bb1c-e61da33b57df\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433218\/jaden-ivey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden Ivey<\/a> due to conduct detrimental to the team, they announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after Ivey posted a series of videos ranting about religion and other topics on social media in recent weeks, with one on Monday morning calling out the NBA for celebrating Pride Month, saying it&#8217;s celebrating &#8220;unrighteousness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ivey, 24, has spoken in the past of dealing with depression.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls acquired Ivey in a trade with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4e096981-dc02-51d0-3dcd-2468fcc1e22d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> last month. He appeared in four games for the Bulls before being shut down for the rest of the season due to a left knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Ivey was drafted with the No. 5 pick in 2022 and featured early for a rebuilding Pistons team before knee issues limited him to just 30 games in 2024-25 and kept him out for several games this season.<\/p>\n<p>He did not come to an agreement on a contract extension with Detroit last summer, making him a free agent heading into this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bulls have waived guard Jaden Ivey due to conduct detrimental to the team, they announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-575197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}