Much like everybody else was in the country, Udonis Haslem was pissed to see college kids partying in Florida amid the coronavirus crisis.
Haslem, a three-time NBA champion with the Miami Heat and an NBA veteran, thinks this attitude is quite disgraceful and proceeded to call out “Spring Breakers” for being privileged.
“It’s funny — these kids fly down to places like South Beach for a couple days to party, and they think that’s Miami. But they’ve never seen the real Miami. They’ve never been to Liberty City. They’ve never seen the side of this city that’s living check to check. The side of this city that’s surviving meal to meal.
And let me just tell you something, man — there’s a Liberty City in every city. It’s regular people, with regular struggles. And I don’t know how I can get everyone to listen, but I say this from the bottom of my heart: The people growing up in the real Miami? They’re as vulnerable during this crisis as anybody,” Haslem said in a piece for The Players’ Tribune.
Haslam also went after the media for focusing its coverage on the spring breakers.
“And that’s what I need to get off my chest right here,” Haslem wrote. “Because it’s been eating me up — to see all this coverage of our city, from all these people who don’t even know what they’re talking about, that’s just focused on a bunch of kids acting stupid.”
If the 2019-2020 season ends due to the coronavirus, Haslem might be hanging it up for good, ending his career that started back in 2003.
