Without a shirt, very deteriorated and with a quite shocking message: “I fear for my life.” This is how Kyle Singler has reappearedwho was a player for Real Madrid, Lucentum Alicante, Monbus Obradoiro or Iberostar Tenerife, as well as in the NBA with the Detroit Pistons and the Oklahoma City Thunder, through videos published on his Instagram profile that have alarmed the world of basketball. So much so that even the Miami Heat player, Kevin Love, has called for help to the former forward in the ACB after what happened.
“I need to make a statement because I feel like my voice is being silenced. Every day shit is thrown my way. I have been mistreated and abused. My community is screwed. They have turned me into a thought experiment and I fear for my life. Every day I look the other way as someone who could be a problem and make things difficult for people, when I’m just trying to be useful. I feel that there is a purpose for not valuing or respecting me,” explains Singler in one of the two videos that he has shared on his profile on the aforementioned social network.
All of this at the age of 36, five years after his retirement, after In 2019, after his time in Tenerife, he decided to put an end to his time as a player, after eight years in the elite – he won the ACB Cup with Madrid in 2012 -, after having stood out in the NCAA when he was a member of Duke University.
To everyone who has spent time with Kyle Singler and whose lives he has touched – please shower him with the love and support he needs+deserves. I would not be who I am today without him. I am forever indebted and love him. To the NBA family, Duke BB family, & South Medford…
— Kevin Love (@kevinlove) November 12, 2024
Given this, the first to come out to show his love and support for Singler, as well as to make an appeal to the rest of the players and people in the world of basketball, was the Heat veteran, Kevin Love. “To everyone who has spent time with Kyle Singler and whose lives he has touched: please shower him with all the love and support he needs and deserves. I wouldn’t be who I am today without him. I am eternally indebted to him and I love him. To the NBA family, the Duke BB family and the South Medford community: let’s support one of our own,” he published in a post on the social network X.
Likewise, other players have also gone out of their way to respond publicly, such as Philadelphia 76ers center Andre Drummondwith “you’re not alone, brother”, or whoever was an All-Star Isaiah Thomaswho posted: “We are here for you, now and always.”
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