She called them Monkeys? Shocking Details Revealed About Liz Cambage’s Outburst Against Nigeria

She called them Monkeys? Shocking Details Revealed About Liz Cambage's Outburst Against Nigeria
She called them Monkeys? Shocking Details Revealed About Liz Cambage's Outburst Against Nigeria (Image: Screenshot/Instagram)

Liz Cambage referred to Nigerian players as “monkeys” during a violent five-minute total collapse in Las Vegas, which resulted in the basketball superstar leaving her Australian Opals team members prior to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

An investigation by the Sunday Telegraph has uncovered video evidence of Cambage elbowing her Nigerian opponent’s head during a closed-door practice game in Las Vegas, triggering a disturbing chain of events.

In the chaos that ensued, Cambage slaps another Nigerian player across the face and calls the the whole African team “monkeys” and tells them to “go back to your third world country.”

Officials of the Australian team were forced to cancel the practice game before the end of the second quarter due to embarrassment.

The Nigerian players that spoke to this special investigation under the condition that their names would not be disclosed alleged Cambage told them to “return to your third-world country” and called them “monkeys.”

“That’s what I recall, the term monkeys, yes. And go back to where you came from,” one Nigerian player said. “She definitely did use monkeys or monkey.”

Cambage told Nigerian players prior to the practice match that she genuinely wish she was playing for Nigeria seeing as her Australian teammates are racist, according to an investigation conducted by the Sunday Telegraph.

A member of the Opals who did attend the camp in Las Vegas stated that Cambage’s uproar pushed the team to its breaking point and was the straw that broke the camels.

Cambage, whose father is Nigerian, apologized to the African team a day later, but not all of the players accepted it well.

“I think it was bulls***. I don’t think it was a sincere apology,” said one Nigerian player. A second player believes Cambage exhibited no remorse.

“Although she’s Australian we knew she was half Nigerian so before then it was like she was one of us,” she said.

Cambage, who currently plays for the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA, stated during a preseason media event that she now feels “protected on a level that the Opals or the Australian team never gave to me” and that she never felt the Opals wanted her “to be the best I can be.”

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