Rapper E-40 was ejected from the playoff game between the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings on Saturday night. Jalen Rose, a former NBA star and current basketball analyst for ESPN, came to the defense of rapper E-40 on Sunday after the Golden State Warriors fan was ejected from the team’s playoff game against the Sacramento Kings.
E-40 alleged there was "racial bias" in the decision for security to eject him, but a source familiar with the situation said the rapper was refusing to comply with requests to sit down during the game.
Rose said in a nearly four-minute video he was "disappointed" E-40 was ejected from the Golden 1 Center on Saturday night. The former Chicago Bulls forward said a lady behind the rapper was heckling him the entire game and when he turned around to respond security came over to E-40. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM ESPN analyst Jalen Rose speaks before Game 7 of the 2022 NBA Playoffs Eastern Conference Finals on May 29, 2022 at FTX Arena in Miami. (Jesse D.
Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images) Rose showed a video from a different angle of the incident on his Twitter account. "He don’t even move like that," Rose said of E-40. "He moves with integrity." Rose noted how Andre Iguodala and Gary Payton II walked with E-40 back to the locker room because he is so well respected within the organization. "And then the Kings, who I’m not claiming are a racist organization.