Turning Point USA calls for NBA employee to be fired for crude remarks about Charlie Kirk's assassination

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Turning Point USA is calling for the NBA to fire an employee who posted crude remarks about Charlie Kirk's assassination on social media. 

Kirk founded TPUSA, a nonprofit organization that focuses on conservative values in high schools and colleges, in 2012. He was shot and killed at Utah Valley University while debating at a campus event on Sept. 10.

An NBA employee was suspended two weeks without pay for "violating multiple NBA policies" following crude posts about Kirk's assassination, but TPUSA wants more.

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(Left) Seats with signs are prepared ahead of the memorial service for political activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium on Sept. 21, 2025, in Glendale, Arizona. (Right) A general view of the NBA logo on a vehicle outside the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on June 15, 2025. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images;Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"The opinion of this team, and that of any decent American, is that if someone is morally depraved enough to celebrate the coldblooded assassination of an innocent husband and father, let alone an American hero like Charlie, then they deserve to be immediately fired," a TPUSA spokesperson said to OutKick, which first reported on the employee's social media posts. 

"It’s an instant black eye to any employer who refuses to take action. This shouldn’t be newsworthy or exceptional. We hope the NBA doesn’t stop at suspension but goes the full distance and fires this individual, as they well deserve."

The employee called Kirk a "terrible person" and a "s---hole" in an Instagram story.

In a post the employee shared that asked