During the last interview, Jimmy Kimmel dared to ask Khloe Kardashian: "Do not you think the time has come for you to no longer hook up with basketball players?
Though the question is a bit rude, Kimmel was based on the stories of the past. In 2015, Khloe split from NBA star James Harden. Her marriage to Lamar Odom ended in divorce in 2016, two years after the divorce. Lastly, she ended the relationship with Cleveland Cavalier's Tristan Thompson, who betrayed him in April 2018 to end the relationship after the scandal with Kylie's close friend Jordyn Woods.
It should be said that on the internet, after the event was made public, there were no feedbacks of the kind: "I'm sorry for Khloe, but what did she expect? He is an NBA sportsman? " (NBA - The National Basketball Association, a professional men's basketball league in North America).
People refer to all the scandals of the NBA stars: Paul George, Raymond Felton, Dwyane Wade, Lamar Odom, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Tony Parker, Daniel Gibson, Shaquiell O'Neal, Steve Nash, Matt Barnes, Michael Jordan , Charles Barkley, Stephen Marbury, Wendrei Kirilenko, Tristan Thompson and others.
So, the idea is generally that if you marry a basketball player, in this case with an NBA player, it's impossible not to be betrayed because the fact that he will not be faithful is something to expect.
For the athlete, a stereotype of disloyal persons has been created. Details like the formed body, media attention, money, and not only push sportsmen to want the presence of many women in their lives. So, they can have each piece of cake.
The whole reaction prompted Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, author of the New York Times best-selling book "Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court" to write an essay on Cosmopolitan showing that unfair stereotypes against athletes (and especially basketball players) in general.
"Imagine if all of us had said, 'It was expected that he would betray him, that he was colored', people would have been happier. But athletes tend to accept these offensive stereotypes, shut their mouths and continue playing, "states Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Among other things, he stops at a study by the US Institute of Family Studies, which states that married women aged 18-29 are more likely to betray their partners. So does this give us the right to characterize women of this age as fraudulent and traitorous? No.
"It is understandable that Kardashian family fans are angry with Tristan. But it would be more appropriate to 'condemn' them as a man, not as a representative of a sports community. If they feel the need to condemn it, let them do it based on his behavior, not his profession or gender. "
