Utah Jazz legend John Stockton has gone completely off the deep end with COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies, and he also saw his Gonzaga season tickets suspended for failing to comply with the school's mask mandate.
In response, former NBA star Detlef Schrempf took to Twitter to express his dismay over Stockton's stances:
Bat shit crazy. I am so disappointed we have so many role models not up to the task. This is not helping! https://t.co/E6FJdqArFk
— Detlef Schrempf (@Dschrempf) January 24, 2022
Schrempf is very familiar with Stockton from back during their playing days, primarily in the 1980s and '90s. Schrempf's Seattle SuperSonics beat Stockton's Jazz in seven games in the 1996 Western Conference Finals, only to lose to Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls in the NBA Finals. Stockton, of course, would lose to the Bulls in the 1997 and '98 Finals.
Schrempf is clearly disappointed with the craziness coming out of Stockton's mouth during this pandemic. In these latest quotes after getting his Gonzaga season tickets suspended, the Jazz great spewed some real wild stuff, per Theo Lawson of The Spokesman-Review.
For example:
“I think it’s highly recorded now, there’s 150 I believe now, it’s over 100 professional athletes dead – professional athletes – the prime of their life, dropping dead that are vaccinated, right on the pitch, right on the field, right on the court,” Stockton said in the interview.
This is obviously bonkers and easily debunked, as noted in the article. It's a shame that Stockton has embraced these wild COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and Schrempf would like to see “role models” with such a large platform use that platform in a more responsible fashion.
However, there's just so much misinformation and so many conspiracy theories out there, which is helping this pandemic rage on.
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