Former NBA champion Andrew Bogut has revealed there were players outside of the Cairns Taipans team who also disagreed with the NBL’s pride round jersey.
Several Taipans players were allegedly considering not wearing the pride jersey, which led to the club ultimately pulling out of the plan entirely due to harmful commentary directed toward their players.
“It is sold as ‘everyone must do it’ and this is what happens when you have two or three people that don’t, it just causes absolute shockwaves and the media jumps all over it, they love the division and the talking point of this,” Mr Bogut told Sky News host Paul Murray. “I’m for freedom of choice on it, so if someone wants to support it then by all means, but this whole thing that it was just two or three players – I know for a fact there were more than that in the league that were kind of like ‘oh, that is kind of against my beliefs’.
“They were too scared to not go ahead with it, but that is not just the Cairns Taipans, I know that for a fact.”
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