Former Chicago Bulls combo guard Jaden Ivey doubled down on his Christian worldview in a powerful new video despite it leading to his dismissal from the team and even possibly precluding his ability to sign somewhere else. Ivey was notoriously cut from the Bulls after he questioned their constant celebration of Pride Month and other causes related to the LGBT community.
For context, Ivey was released from the team on the grounds of ‘conduct detrimental to the team’ at the end of March for both questioning the team’s seemingly endless promotion of various pride and transgender awareness days and months while also bringing into focus the biblical worldview that such behaviors could be seen as being “unrighteous.”
“The world can proclaim LGBTQ, right? They proclaim Pride Month and the NBA,” Ivey says in the now-viral recording. “They proclaim it. They show it to the world. They say come join us for for Pride Month. To celebrate unrighteousness. They proclaim it. They proclaim it on the billboards. They proclaim it in the streets. Unrighteousness. So how is it that one can’t speak righteousness? How are they to say that you, you man, this man is crazy.”
After being cut from the team, Ivey has since released at least two more videos. In the latest, he opens up about how faith saved his life and that he refuses to back down from it. “There’s been many times where, where God has been so merciful, bro, like I’ve almost committed suicide multiple times. And I’m not ashamed to say it.”
“I’m not ashamed because God was merciful to keep me here. I almost, I almost committed suicide. I had oxy pills in my hand, and my wife was telling me, Don’t do it. Don’t, don’t, don’t do this. Don’t go down this road. And God was convicting me, and I didn’t know the truth. And so then, then, man, I didn’t, I didn’t do it by God’s grace.
“He kept me here in terms of like, LGBTQ, right? I’m not against the man or the woman. I’m against what is contrary to the Word of God. Man is not supposed to lie with a man and a woman is not supposed to lie with a woman. So for me, as a Christian, as a born again Christian who believes in Jesus Christ, right? I can proclaim the truth what the Word of God says, and I can do that with freedom. I have a mouth to speak. No one can stop me. Who is to stop me? Right? That’s the devil.
“The devil wants me to stop from from speaking the truth. That’s what the devil would do. My conduct was not detrimental to the team. That is a lie. I was a good teammate to those around me. I was a good teammate on the floor. I made the right plays. I did exactly what the coach asked me to do on a daily basis, whatever was needed, whatever was required of me to do. I was willing, right and so my conduct is was not detrimental to the team.
“It’s strictly because I spoke, spoke the truth of the Word of God, and was preaching the gospel. That’s that’s why, that’s why it was, it was detrimental to the team, right? And I’ve witnessed and to many on my team, the truth and those, those things, right? Everyone has their beliefs. Everyone, everyone believes in something. Well, how is your physical health? Are you healing?” “But also, secondly, like, are you ready and able to play professional basketball like, like, tomorrow, if a team called you, like, would you, would you be willing to do that? Yeah, if a team called me tomorrow, I’d be able to play pickup, I’d be able to play five on five, I’d be able to go to the hoop, get buckets, to play basketball. I would if they called me,” he finished.
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