Former NFL quarterback and ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky was criticized heavily on Thursday after he delivered a response to Damian Lillard, who told Yahoo! Sports he wouldn’t play for the Portland Trail Blazers if they were playing “meaningless” regular season games when the NBA returns.
In a segment on Get Up!, Orlovsky asked, “How can you sit there and go, ‘nope, I’m not going to play,’ but understand that there’s people out there that don’t have that choice? They have to go to work, and they have to go earn their money. I struggle with sitting here and going, you don’t come off — in some way — a spoiled and entitled brat by saying ‘I’m not gonna play.’”
Lillard responded on Twitter:
Orlovsky did apologize for using “entitled and spoiled.”
Orlovsky backpedaled. And that led everyone on Twitter to make the same joke about the time he ran out of his own end zone for a safety in 2008.
