Published:
16 Nov 2024 15:48 GMT
“I fear for my life every day,” said Kyle Singler in one of his disturbing recordings published this week. The National Basketball Players Association has contacted the family.
A series of videos published in recent days by the former NBA player Kyle Singler on social networks has raised concern in the basketball community in the United States, which fears for the life of the 36-year-old athlete.
In a post on Tuesday on his Instagram profile*, Duke, very physically impaired, claims to have been mistreated, abused and neglected. “I fear for my life every day […] I feel like I have a certain way of seeing myself, a certain strength and a certain purpose that is not valued or treated properly,” Kyle says, showing his bare torso and speaking slowly.
This video was followed by four more similar ones, also of short duration and recorded from an unfurnished house in which He seems to be alone and seems anxious. In the immediately subsequent recording it sounded more stable, although it repeated the same complaints from the first. In the next one he spoke of a recognition of the “true” ones who sacrifice themselves for others, details the Fox 8 channel.
In his most recent material, uploaded to the social network this Friday, he refers to a “religious war throughout the world.” “It’s time to bet, make a decision […] People don’t want to feel the light, put their lives in the light and expand what they already know. […] The world has been ruined by our leaders, leadership and direction. My heart goes out to those who have been left behind“, he states later as part of a disjointed speech, reports The New York Post.
Several NBA players and concerned fans responded to Kyle’s first video expressing their support in hopes of Get his attention and try to help him. The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) announced on Wednesday, in an email to the AP agency, that it had in contact with family of the basketball player. “Like all current and former members of the NBPA, we offer every support to players, whether in their greatest successes or in moments of challenge,” NBPA spokesperson Sarah Houseknecht said in the note. So far there are no specific details about what is behind the worrying scenes.
Singler was a star at Duke University with his team, the Duke Blue Devils, with whom he won the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) national championship in 2010 and was named Best Player of the Tournament. He began playing abroad before entering the NBA, where he was part of the Detroit Pistons. He signed in 2012 with that team and in 2015 he moved to the Oklahoma City Thunder. According to Fox, he last played in the NBA during the 2017-18 season and spent two seasons overseas before announcing his retirement due to “personal circumstances.”
*Platform belonging to META, classified in Russia as an extremist organization, whose social networks are prohibited in its territory.
