Thursday’s saga comes roughly two months after Griffin and his former ESPN colleague, Ryan Clark, publicly feuded over Reese and Clark after the two got chippy during a Fever-Sky game. Clark was called for a flagrant foul on Reese at the time.

King’s daughter, Bernice King, responded to a post by Griffin that said, “We need more people ready to build bridges between us and not walls to divide us.

Robert Griffin III defends Angel Reese after racist post surfaces following her NBA 2K26 cover reveal with the Chicago Sky.