Sportswriter Peter Vecsey sparks outrage after using racial slur to describe LeBron-Kanter scuffle

LeBron James and Enes Kanter were hit with technical fouls and needed to be separated during a heated scuffle from the first quarter of Monday's Cavaliers-Knicks game.

As Knicks fans applauded Kanter for standing up to LeBron, one New York sportswriter's joke on Twitter crossed a line. Longtime writer Peter Vecsey reacted to the scuffle by quoting a Notorious B.I.G. lyric with a racial slur. Though Vecsey edited the N-word, the use of the slur (in any form) in reference to LeBron James did not sit well with NBA fans.

The backlash from Vecsey's tweet poured in immediately.

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