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Jason Whitlock blames “single mama, baby mama culture” for Jaden Ivey’s downward spiral in the NBA. Ivey was waived by the Chicago Bulls on Monday after he criticized the NBA’s Pride Month celebrations.

The devout Christian referred to the NBA’s Pride celebrations as “unrighteousness.”

Fans expressed concern for Ivey’s mental health after he began proselytizing in multiple videos.

Sports journalist Sage Steele wondered why the NBA didn’t provide mental health resources for the 24-year-old player.

Now Jason Whitlock is weighing in with his unique perspective. Whitlock claims Ivey was “poisoned” by the “single mama, baby mama culture that’s pervasive throughout Black culture.”

Ivey’s mom is Niele Ivey, the head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish women’s basketball team. She also played basketball for Notre Dame and she played for the Indiana Fever, Phoenix Mercury and Detroit Shock in the WNBA.

Whitlock blames Niele Ivey for exposing her son to the WNBA lifestyle, which he calls “degenerate” and “perverse”.

He said “Jaden Ivey is calling out for help. You wonder why young men have no sexual discipline? They were molested at 11, 12, and 13 years old by grown women who convinced themselves they don’t need a man…”

“Jaden Ivey’s background poisoned him,” Whitlock continued. “And we know about the sexual history and the sexual culture of the WNBA. It’s degenerate, it’s perverse, it’s gay.”

Whitlock criticized ESPN for ignoring Jaden Ivey’s story this week. He said Ivey’s story “is poison for ESPN.”

“This young man has been poisoned, and this story is poison for ESPN,” Whitlock explained. “It’s too much. It’s too deep. It touches on too many different third rails. It goes at topics that ESPN thinks, ‘Hey, there’s no consequences to this single mama culture. There’s no consequences to the LGBTQIA+ alphabet mafia movement.'”

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