Chicago Bulls Waive Jaden Ivey After He Criticized Pride Night
The Chicago Bulls waived star guard Jaden Ivey, who caused a stir among fans for doing something that doesn’t happen that often in the NBA: speaking out against Pride Night.
Ivey, 24, posted a series of videos criticizing his former team, the Detroit Pistons, for holding a Pride Night, calling it an “injustice.” Iver further stated that the Detroit Pistons “won’t matter on judgment day.”
“They’re proclaiming Pride Month in the NBA,” Ivey said in another video. “They proclaim it. They show it to the world. They say, ‘Come join us for Pride Month,’ to celebrate injustice. They proclaim it. They proclaim it on the billboards. They proclaim it in the streets: injustice. So how come we can’t talk about justice? [Who] Should they say, “Man, this man is crazy”?
Although Ivey was often injured and the Bulls could have easily claimed to have released him due to his physical struggles, they instead released an ad on X claiming that their decision to part ways with Ivey was due to “conduct detrimental to the team.”
“The Bulls acquired Ivey in a trade with the Detroit Pistons last month. He appeared in four games for the Bulls before being shut down for the remainder of the season with a left knee injury,” reports ESPN.
“Ivey was drafted with the No. 5 pick in the 2022 draft and played early for a rebuilding Pistons team before knee issues limited him to just 30 games in 2024-25 and kept him out for several games this season.”
