Woman Who Accused JJ Redick Of Calling Her N-Word 20 Years Ago Tries To Explain Her Timing

Earlier this week, a black woman accused Lakers' coach JJ Redick of calling her the N-word 20 years ago while he was in college. 

Meet Halleemah Nash, the founder of the talent solution Rosecrans Ventures.

"I’ve only been called the N word to my face by a white man once in my life and it was on the campus of Duke University while I was doing work with the basketball team. And today he was named the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. What a world."

Redick's camp denied the accusations, if we can call them that, in a statement to TMZ: "No, it never happened."

OutKick questioned the validity of her statement for several reasons. 

Accusing someone of something two decades later of a verbal crime is inherently sketchy. Redick has been a public figure for over two decades, but this woman just now remembered he called her N-word? 

Two, there's no proof of what he said. There never will be. 

Further, the list of false accusations in sports has grown so large that it'd be incredibly irresponsible to take any unsubstantiated claim as a fact. (Anyone ever catch the guy who stormed the team bus of the Chicago Sky while calling them "ghetto bitches"?)

We weren't the only ones with questions. See some of the responses to Nash's post here.

When pressed by a random user, Nash tried to explain why she decided 20 years later to accuse Redick of calling her the N-word.

"For context, this was years ago and Im a believer that we all have space to grow- especially from our college level maturity," she began. "We live in a world where these exchanges happen and the intersection of race and privilege and lack of accountability all collided w/that presser."

OutKick has been unable to reach Nash. She is welcome to respond anytime at robert.burack@outkick.com. OutKick will update this article if she does.

We assume the "race" angle Nash references is in response to Stephen A. Smith's reporting that unarmed black coaches were "upset" the Lakers hired a white coach. Which, on the surface, holds little weight. 

The Lakers had a black coach in Darvin Ham. He failed.

Further, the Lakers didn't hire Redick because of his white privilege. The team hired him because he was the handpicked choice of LeBron James, a black social justice warrior. 

Stephen A's shoddy, racially-charged reporting seems to have radicalized the woman to the point she tried to destroy Redick's reputation as payback for his whiteness.

If Redick did call a black woman the N-word in college, of which there's no proof, he was in the wrong. However, it's been 20 years. He didn't harm anyone.

The bigger story is the people trying to derail Redick's coaching career before it begins by using the race card, the most profound form of privilege in American society today.