Jaden Ivey was released by the Chicago Bulls earlier this week, for conduct detrimental to the team.
Ivey, a first round pick out of Purdue, made anti-LGBTQ and Pride Month comments, while also asking reporters disturbing questions about their relationship history.
“Just inside the Bulls, we have people from all different kinds of backgrounds,” head coach Billy Donovan told reporters. “And whether it’s coaches, from the top, it’s always been we’re all going to work well together, we’re going to accept each other. We’re going to be hard working, we’re going to be respectful and we’re going to be professional.
“… There’s certain standards I think we want to have as an organization and live up to those each and every day.”
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Ivey, meanwhile, accused the Bulls of lying.
“They’re liars, bro,” Ivey said on IG Live, according to The Athletic’s Joel Lorenzi. “This is lying. They’re lying saying my conduct is detrimental to the team. That’s a lie. Ask any one of them coaches in there, ‘Was I a good teammate?’”
"All I’m preaching about is Jesus Christ and they waived me. But they say I’m crazy, right? I’m psycho.”
Ivey's wife accused him of lying about their relationship
Ivey's wife called out a lie about their relationship, saying that they are still in contact every day.
"We were communicating all morning of that day," she wrote on Instagram, disputing comments from her husband. "People say things for attention, do not be deceived."
Ivey and his wife share three children.
"If you know me you know I have never once abandoned that man through all the trials, and I still haven't now," she wrote.
"There is obviously a lot more going on, so leave your conspiracies and guesses to yourselves."
Ivey had yet to publicly respond to his wife.
