NBA suspends employee who made crude remarks following Charlie Kirk assassination
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The NBA has suspended an employee without pay for two weeks after he appeared to celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
In an email to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the association confirmed that the employee “violated multiple NBA policies.”
According to OutKick, which first reported the incident, the former employee called Kirk a “terrible person” and a “s—hole” in an Instagram story.
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Charlie Kirk speaks on-stage during the Turning Point USA Young Women’s Leadership Summit at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center on June 14, 2025, in Grapevine, Texas. (Sam Hodde for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
In a post the employee shared that asked what Kirk’s “legacy” was, the employee wrote that he did not have one.
“Did absolutely nothing healthy for the world except spew dangerous rhetoric… There is no legacy,” the post read.
“Oh I also forgot to include ‘thoughts and prayers.’ LMAO,” another post read.
The NBA told OutKick on Oct. 6 that it was “looking into” the matter but did not provide another update until announcing the suspension Wednesday, after multiple requests for comment from Fox News Digital and OutKick.
Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA speaks during the Turning Point Action conference, July 15, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Lynne Sladky/AP Photo)
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It is unclear when the suspension was handed down or what policies were broken. The NBA has not responded to an email from Fox News Digital about those details.
Kirk, who would have turned 32 on Tuesday, was assassinated at Utah Valley University while debating college students. He was shot while being asked about gun violence.
President Donald Trump awarded Kirk with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom Tuesday in a ceremony that Kirk’s widow, Erika, attended.
U.S. President Donald Trump posthumously awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to late conservative activist Charlie Kirk as he presents the Medal to his wife Erika Kirk (L) during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House on Oct. 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Kirk’s “Turning Point USA” announced earlier this month that it would host its own halftime show for the Super Bowl in San Francisco, shortly after the NFL announced that Bad Bunny would perform at Levi’s Stadium.
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