Former Adelaide 36ers coach Joey Wright has been called out for alleged comments said to be racist, abusive as well as physically challenging players in Tweets made by 36ers player Kevin White.
The Adelaide 36ers have recently released a media statement regarding the tweets which may have severe repercussions.
The Adelaide 36ers are investigating comments made in tweets from co-captain Kevin White. The club takes the allegations seriously and will investigate further as part on an ongoing review. No further comments will be made until the conclusion of the review.
This Wednesday it was made public that the 36ers had ‘mutually agreed’ to part ways with Wright, with the head coach then speaking to multiple media outlets about the decision.
It was believed Wright was headed to a coaching opportunity at his alma mater, Texas University while the 36ers looked to move in a different direction.
Since then a scathing tweet which seemingly indicated Wright had not been happy with the play of Jerome Randle, Eric Griffin, Ramone Moore and Harry Froling and wasn’t happy with the group after exiting the club.
WOULD YOU PLAY FOR THIS GUY???
— kevin white (@kevoooo22) February 27, 2020
Would you let your kids play for this guy?
For the sake of mine and my team mates mental health this needs to be exposed because it is not and should not be acceptable!
White, 32, noted he decided to speak out about the behaviour of Joey Wright for the “sake of mine and my teammates’ mental health”.
This seemingly provides some context on the reasons why Joey Wright was absent from both the NBL awards dinner and the 36ers end of season awards this month.
Last week Wright had called out certain players in an article in The Advertiser which challenged the level of commitment shown by key members of the playing group.
“The ones who it wasn’t good with, it wasn’t good. I’m not a halfway person, I can’t be lukewarm, you’re either with me or against me and there were four who weren’t really committed and by then the three imports and Harry didn’t give us what we needed. That was the reality of it,” Wright said.
“I would have loved for those guys to be a little bit more driven but we weren’t on the same page, and that’s not the club’s fault, that’s my fault and I tried everything I could to get them on the same page as everybody else.”