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Former Chicago Bulls star and the current president of the South Sudan Basketball Federation, Luol Deng, responded to racist and xenophobic comments that retired NBA player Gilbert Arenas recently made about the Northeast African basketball team.
Arenas, 42, made those comments after South Sudan was narrowly defeated by the United States basketball team in an exhibition game over the weekend, Sports Illustrated reported.
“[Joel Embiid] throwing the game for his cousins [South Sudan] and sh*t,” Arenas, who played for the Washington Wizards, said. “They don’t even have shoes. They get their shoes from America. We gotta ship them shoes… They shooting on f*cking peach baskets in dirt with no shoes.”