NBA fines Meyers Leonard $50,000 for using anti-Semitic slur

• Author: Gabe Friedman/JTA
• Date: 11 March 2021
• Published date: 11 March 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who is Jewish, said Leonard spoke Wednesday with Anti-Defamation League officials, the Associated Press reported, "to better understand the impact of his words."

"We accept that he is genuinely remorseful," Silver added on Thursday.

After the video clip circulated widely on social media, Leonard apologized to the Jewish community and specifically to the Heat's Jewish owner Micky Arison. He said that he was ignorant of what the word meant.

Leonard is already missing the rest of this season with a shoulder injury but has also been placed on an indefinite leave of absence.

"We have further communicated to Meyers that derogatory...