7:28pm: A league source confirms to Tom Orsborn of The San Antonio Express-News that Primo has multiple allegations of exposing himself (Twitter link).
7:01pm: Primo allegedly exposed himself to a former Spurs female employee, tweets Shams Charania of The Athletic. She has hired attorney Tony Buzbee, who represented the women involved in the sexual misconduct lawsuits against NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson.
6:10pm: The Spurs‘ release of 2021 lottery pick Joshua Primo was related to multiple allegations that he exposed himself to women, according to Ramona Shelburne and Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
Those accusations help to explain the team’s unexpected decision to part with a player it valued so highly. San Antonio selected Primo with the 12th pick last year and recently exercised its $4.3MM option for the 2023/24 season, even though the deadline for such a move isn’t until Monday.
In a statement to Wojnarowski after the release was announced Friday, Primo cited “previous trauma” that he suffered. He also promised to focus on his mental health treatment so he would eventually be able to discuss the issues that are affecting him and “help others who have suffered in a similar way.”
Numerous teams are investigating Primo’s situation and have expressed interest in submitting a waiver claim for him, sources tell the authors. To claim him off waivers, a team would need enough cap space or a traded player exception large enough to cover his $4.1MM salary. If a team does claim him, it would also be obligated to pay the $4.3MM option for 2023/24 that the Spurs picked up.
Primo, 19, was the youngest player drafted in 2021, but he played 50 games as a rookie and made 16 starts. He was used off the bench in four games this season, averaging 7.0 points, 3.3 rebounds and 4.5 assists in 23.3 minutes per night.
Yes I guess I would count that as “needing mental treatment”.., hope he overcomes this and comes out the the other side a total success.
Oh, the irony. He’s requesting privacy after getting busted exposing his private parts to others and invading their privacy.
NBA = No Brains Allowed
I mean, all people accused of crimes would love privacy I imagine.
So now the question everybody is asking would be, what’s the treatment, how long, and when will he be ready to handle the rigors of an NBA job again?
Love the Spurs here. Even though it cost them a very good player, they reduce the amount of player reputation damage and circus and all the rest of it by just releasing him quickly so he can seek help on his own.
Really what this does is takes the Juggernaut NBA media spotlight off the kid and the situation as he seeks help anonymously so to speak. Class organization in every sense.
In the good ‘ole days, they’d hook your Johnson up to some electrodes…show you a racy picture…then ZAP!
Cleveland Browns bout to offer him a 5 year, $230 million fully guaranteed contract.
I need more context. Did he expose himself to 1 women at one time or many at once or was he just running around the streets of san antonio with a trench coat exposing himself to randoms.
He’s in a fully committed relationship too, this story gets stranger by the minute
Why do you need more context that’s weird
Sophia is UPSET.
Da
Waiting on the tweets from Bron and Chris Paul condemning these actions…
You’ll be waiting a very long time.
Waiting on all white people to tweet condemning slavery…
Who doesn’t condemn slavery lol
Have you been on Twitter at all? They do that every day
Ok so why aren’t you doing it? If you need NBA players to condemn one of their own for doing a bad thing, you should condemn every bad thing that people with your identity ever have done too.
He shared his innermost thoughts with multiple women?
I expose myself to women all the time by sharing my poems
Young and dumb. I hope he has a a family to support him. Be a shame to throw a big time NBA career away…….
AL – I don’t know his background, but, if the kid’s explanation is on the level, he’s lived a traumatic life and has been damaged by it. If he has a family, they’re late. Or complicit.
Yeah I get you. He needs real love and support then. Mentors, friends or just reach out to mental professionals. NBA should step in. Maybe he has nobody
I know his mother passed away when he was a child. I assumed that was the trauma he was referring to, but perhaps he endured some sexual trauma as well.
That he was referring to having experienced sexual trauma in his statement actually seems likely.
I don’t doubt he experienced it, but using it as an excuse for what’s kind of predatory behavior is a joke.
He showed flashes of brilliance in his young tenure
LMAO flashes is kinda crazy
Hate the weaponization of mental illness, like no, “trauma” doesn’t make whip your junk out in front of any person you feel like, but being a pampered, babied student athlete in a toxic school that used to give him a free pass for doing stuff like that probably had way more to do with it.
He’s 19. He was at Alabama for 1 season, 8 months basically. There’s a lot of assumptions in your comment.
A LOT can happen in those 8 months, but also I never once said “Alabama” I said “school” which meant his entire educational life, where he has also been coddled.
You are weird as hell for wanting to defend a disgraceful corrupt college, like, why? Did you go there or something? Brainwashed much?
You’re nuts dude. Relax. And yes, you assume a lot, especially about commenters here.
Don’t mind him he’s a nutjob who hates the US and thinks we’re responsible for all the bad in the world
You lost me when you started going after Bama, but before that I agree.
Why? Alabama 100% doesnt deserve your “defense” here.
I also never mentioned “Alabama” I said “school” meaning, all schooling – the pampering starts in High School.
Alabama absolutely is also bad, but you are apparently homering here, so whatever, your mind is brainwashed and will never be convinced otherwise.
Lmao you are making wild assumptions and going off the deep end. I am definitely no fan of Bama, in fact I kinda hate them. Calm down kid.
You said “a toxic school” so I looked up his school, which was Bama. And I didn’t think that had anything to do with Primo, so like I said, that’s where you lost me. But if you wanna call everyone “brainwashed” for thinking you were referring to his alma mater, whatever. I’m here agreeing with you but you wanna have an internet fit.
@ A’sfan
Actually, if you knew anything about how people that have been traumatized sexually are sometimes unable to control their impulses you wouldn’t post this ignorant attack.
He’s young enough to recover and comeback. Hope he gets the help he needs. Flash Primo will return.
Just read the spurs waived him and came here to say goddamn what did this guy do for a team to waive a top 12 pick a year later. Then i got my answer, like in what world is pulling you hammer out in front of a coworker a good idea. Even on the basis he thought she was down wouldnt u do that in a bedroom or whatever?? Im so confused WTF was going through this guys mind, especially with whats been going on in sports latly. In the past 2 years we have had baseball players and executives have sexual allegations,nfl, this guy, celts coach has his extra marital this he went down for. The kid may be young but he is dumb, anybody who couldnt see this was an issue is some kinda special
Primo clearly has the mind of a sex pest and theres no coming back from that. He might also have the emotional intelligence of a 5 year old, which is also common these days.
“Trauma” is BS, being a by-the-book sex pest is real, and what Primo is. He’s never coming back to the NBA. L
Well that explains why the Spurs let him go… But doesn’t explain the trauma that led to this kid thinking this was alright…
The jock culture has reared it’s ugly head a lot in the NBA this year…
Sports businesses have to tackle the ugliness of jock culture before they pour millions into the kids… Get in at the high school level and teach the Kareem way of acceptance and generally being a good person…
you’ll always have the kareems just like there will always be the wilts and magics. goes way back.
Starts in USA’s corrupt college education system.
Australia has a different thing, they have the AIS, which is where all potential prospect athletes go to learn to be…professional athletes. All the skills needed to be one, they get there – interviews, money handling, how to handle agents, etc. Australian colleges are not really for sports, more education.
What happens in US colleges? They are forced to get a fake humanities degree that the teachers all give him corrupt high grades for even when they dont even do any work, then they instantly get millions when drafted even though they have zero clue how to handle it. The USA college sports system has to be destroyed, its only been bad for society.
For someone who try’s to talk about the US a lot in his posts you really have no idea what you’re talking about. Maybe stick to the UK but you’re probably clueless about there too
Joshua Primemeat amirite?
Dunno, didn’t see it.
Hopefully the NBA takes a better stance then the NFL did for Watson. Sure Watson was worse but still if any of us do this we most likely end up on the sex offenders list. Treat him like a normal person!!!
Primo is absolutely a sex offender