{"id":306319,"date":"2026-07-27T07:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306319\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:53:14","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-slammed-by-former-nba-champion-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306319\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani slammed by former NBA Champion on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/profile.google.com\/cp\/Cg0vZy8xMWcxajNfc2h3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Follow us on Google Discover <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani found himself on the wrong end of comments from former NBA Champion and current Milwaukee Bucks forward, Kyle Kuzma.<\/p>\n<p>After Mamdani openly called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/2079718073058091261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">war criminal<\/a>\u2018, a lot of supporters of Israel have turned against the mayor.<\/p>\n<p>This includes NBA star Kuzma, who issued a long statement on social media after seeing Mamdani\u2019s comments about Netanyahu. <\/p>\n<p>Kyle Kuzma goes off on Zohran Mamdani<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kylekuzma\/status\/2081410969356419322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kuzma criticized Mamdani<\/a> for being \u2018a mayor playing President,\u2019 referencing the limited powers that the NYC Mayor has while calling other heads of state war criminals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is 2026. People cosplaying as things they don\u2019t have the authority, the talent, or the track record to actually be. Just for content. A mayor playing president. A founder playing operator. A content creator playing one-on-one, thinking he\u2019s a pro. A 25-yr old with a ring light playing economist.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is auditioning. Nobody is building. We\u2019re raising a generation that learns the reward isn\u2019t in doing the thing, it\u2019s in looking like you did the thing. The clip is the career. The pose is the product. The soundbite is a substitute for a life\u2019s work. Don\u2019t fall for distractions\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2273732891-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Kyle Kuzma #18 of the Milwaukee Bucks looks on against the Brooklyn Nets during the third quarter at Fiserv Forum.\" class=\"wp-image-2568783\" \/>Photo by Patrick McDermott\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Kuzma has been using his social media actively this summer, sharing his strong opinions on the current socio-economic state of the country and other topics he finds interesting, such as AI.<\/p>\n<p>Kuzma doesn\u2019t play in New York and isn\u2019t expected to find his way to either NY-based team, so his choosing to weigh in here is notable, since Mamdani\u2019s policies can\u2019t affect him.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mamdani also cannot legally make a run for President of the United States either, so Kuzma could\u2019ve just carried on. But the 31-year-old Michigan native clearly felt a strong need to address Mamdani\u2019s comments on Netanyahu, which have generated 99.1 million views on X in just five days.<\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive exclusive football transfer news and updates twice a week to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani found himself on the wrong end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75837,9,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":["post-306319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-kyle-kuzma","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}