ESPN radio host Dan Le Batard apologized after posting a poll that made fun of Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac shortly after he got injured.
Le Batard, the host of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, expressed remorse on Monday for creating a social media poll to ask fans if Isaac’s injury was “funny,” given that he was one of a few players who remained standing during the national anthem amid the league’s restart in Orlando, Florida.
“Is it funny the guy who refused to kneel immediately blew out his knee?” Le Batard asked, before deleting shortly thereafter.
Le Batard, also the host of Highly Questionable, a show on the network, later shared on social media, “We apologize for this poll question. I said on the front and back end of the on-air conversation that I didn’t think it was funny. Regardless of the context, we missed the mark. We took the tweet down when we realized our mistake in how we posed the question to the audience.”
Isaac, who attended Florida State University, tore his ACL during Sunday’s game against the Sacramento Kings.
The Magic player chose to wear his Magic jersey instead of a Black Lives Matter T-shirt that his teammates sported during warmups of the team’s game two days earlier. He said his belief in the Gospel of Jesus Christ outweighed participating in the display of unity.
“For myself, my life has been supported through the Gospel,” he said. “Everyone is made in the image of God, and that we all fall short of God’s glory, and that each and every one of us, each and every day, do things that we shouldn’t do, we say things we shouldn’t say, we hate and dislike whatever we shouldn’t hate and dislike, and sometimes, it gets to point where we point fingers about who’s evil is worse. And sometimes, it comes down simply to whose evil is most visible.”
