Paul Pierce doesn’t thoughts giving his opinion and he has a platform the place he does that always.
However his take about why Black NBA gamers date white ladies sparked controversy this week. Pierce shared his ideas in a Feb. 24 episode on the podcast he co-hosts known as, The Fact After Darkish With Paul & Azar.
His co-host, Azar Farideh, introduced up the dialog whereas they performed a sport. The foundations had been that they may ask one another any query, however whoever chooses to not reply should take a shot.
She requested the previous Boston Celtics participant, “Why do you’re feeling like males, particularly NBA gamers get with white ladies? Is it as a result of they’re ‘simple’?”
“I truthfully assume,” he stated, “they admire perhaps extra. They usually apologize extra.” The reply gained laughs within the room from Farideh and their visitor, rapper Guapdad4000. Pierce claimed that white ladies don’t thoughts being held accountable.
Earlier than confirming her ethnic background of her mother being Persian and her father being Black, Farideh defended Pierce saying he couldn’t be certain if his idea is right “as a result of he dates Black ladies, interval. So don’t come for him, interval.”
She made some extent to say this identical assertion earlier than within the episode a number of instances. Guapdad4000 confirms that he solely dates Black ladies. Earlier within the sport, he shared that he has his eyes set on singers SZA and Tems. In reference to Pierce, Farideh stated, “That’s all he dates too. He’s by no means dated a non-Black lady and also you’ve by no means dated a non-Black lady. I feel that’s so highly effective.”
It was right here that Pierce lower in and stated, “I feel dated that’s true. However that might be like altering, perhaps, I don’t know.”
Farideh revealed that she bought backlash earlier than when she requested this query to Stomp the Yard actor Columbus Brief. On The Unqualified As Fu*ok Podcast in July 2025, he responded.
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“There’s no respect of the person, the Black man, by a Black lady,” he stated on the time. Evaluating Black ladies to ladies of different ethnicities he added, “That Mexican facet, that Asian—Korean, Japanese—that different facet… Culturally, these ladies had been taught to carry down. It’s greater than subservient. Don’t get it twisted; they’ll cuss a person out totally, however you’re nonetheless making dinner, you’re nonetheless washing his garments, you’re nonetheless cleansing the home.”
He tried to wash it up by emphasizing that he was not referring to all Black ladies.
As for Pierce, it’s not clear why his response to the query is simply now going viral, nevertheless, it bought quite a lot of responses on totally different platforms.
Religious World reposted the clip on Instagram.
One lady within the feedback wrote, “No matter coloration, cease evaluating the angle of a girl that you just’re treating good to a girl that you just handled poorly.”
“Y’all simply desire a doormat NEXT,” stated one other.
“In addition they sue you for $50M when issues don’t go their method…however go off tho,” stated a commenter, referring to former NFL participant Shannon Sharpe. Final month, a white lady in her early 20s who had sexual relations with him for years, accused him of rape. She’s suing him for $50 million. The 56-year-old is moreover going through accusations from his ex Michele Bundy Evans, 53, who claims they dated for round a decade. Evans filed a lawsuit for defamation in 2023.
Pierce has been married twice. He married Dana Davis in 2000 and divorced her in 2004. They’d their daughter Janaiya Pierce in 2003. He went on to marry Julie Landrum in 2010, and the couple welcomed three youngsters, their daughter Prianna who was born in 2008, and Adrian, whom they welcomed in 2011. Their son Prince was born in 2013. The pair is now not collectively, as he revealed his single standing in a tweet in 2023.
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