Knicks Star Amare Stoudemire Sends ‘Homophobic Slur’ To Fan On Twitter

Knicks Star Amare Stoudemire Sends ‘Homophobic Slur’ To Fan On Twitter
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Knicks Star Amare Stoudemire Sends ‘Homophobic Slur’ To Fan On Twitter

A top NBA basketball player has apologised after sending a homophobic slur to one of his team’s superfans. Amar’e Stoudemire’s caused a storm when he abused New York Knicks supporter Brian Ferrelli on Twitter.

Ferrelli had sent a tweet to the star saying he’d ‘better come back a lot stronger and quicker to make up for this past season’, the New York Daily News reported.

In response, Stoudemire, who is currently suffering from a hand injury, fired off a private message saying: ’F*** you. I don’t have to do anything f**.’


NBA officials then launched an investigation after Ferrelli posted a screen grab of the message on the social networking site that started trending.

Ferrelli also forwarded it to Deadspin.com which later reported Stoudemire had apologised to him in a direct message.

It claimed he said: ‘I apologise for what I said earlier. I just got off the plane and had time to think about it.

‘Sorry bro!! No excuses. Won’t happen again.’

Ferrelli - known on Twitter as Knicks superfan ‘B ForReal!’ - said he didn’t want to exacerbate the row by commenting further.

‘I don’t want to make this situation any bigger than it already is. He apologised and I accepted it,’ he told the New York Daily News on Twitter.

Earlier he had tweeted: ‘Amar’e did his part out of anger then apologized and I did my part out of anger and I’m still a huge fan of him. Everyone can shut up now.’

In 2011, NBA Commissioner David Stern fined Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant $100,000 for using the same homophobic word against a referee during a game.


Bryant apologized but said the comment should not have been ‘taken literally’. Stern called his remark ‘offensive and inexcusable’.

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