The Josh Innes Show - Jaden Ivey Found God Part 1

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

Jaden Ivey, now the former Chicago Bull, has been dumped by the team after he expressed his issues with Pride month. Apparently he has found God. Why is it when people find God, they have to do a complete turnaround. Is there middle ground in finding God? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, let's see here. So this Jaden Ivy character, he has been waived by the Bulls because he's found God. And in finding God, he has decided that Pride Knights and Gay Things are no good for anybody. And they're like, listen, we're tired of your shit. You're not good enough to be religious wacko guy. You can be anything as long as you're good at something. Like Kanye was, as long as Kanye was making great shit, Kanye could be wacko guy. Now Kanye doesn't make great shit anymore.

So now he's like, he's fucked up. But as long as you're doing good shit, you can be bat shit crazy, right? That's how this works. But let's play some of this Jaden Ivy audio and get into this. Again, he's been waived by the Bulls. They waved as he walked out. I guess that's what waived means. I don't know.

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All right. So let's see. This is some of this audio. I think this might be audio of him explaining how he's like religious now. And here's what's weird to me. Why is it when people find religion? It can't just be like, hey, I found religion and, you know, I'm just trying to get, you know, closer to God or whatever. And that's that.

Like, why is it when people really hardcore find religion? Like, everybody else that's not on board with the way they do things becomes a giant sinner and a piece of shit. Like, why is that the case with religious people? And we discussed many times, I'm not a religious person. You guys know I'm not a religious person. We talk about this pretty frequently. I don't care about religion stuff. I didn't grow up with religious stuff.

Like Friday is good Friday. All my buddies that I grew up with would go to catechism on like Tuesdays or Wednesday nights or whatever so they can become Catholic. None of this shit impacted my life. No offense. If you're religious, hey, rock on. I don't believe that most religious people are shitty people, okay? I think most people are just, you know, looking for comfort, searching for a higher power. You know, some people just the comfort that comes from, hey, I feel like maybe I've been.

and saved and maybe I'll go to heaven if there is a heaven. And I'm never going to fault anybody for that. Like, I'm not going to shit on people for that. That's left for like hardcore leftists that like to shit on religious people for believing an imaginary shit. Like, look, do I believe in a heaven or a hell? Not really. But would it be cool if it is there? Yes. And am I going to shit on you if that's something that you believe or choose to believe because it makes you feel better about your situation? No. As long as you're not hurt anybody. You're a religious wacko that's hurting people over religion, then you're a fuck up and we don't like you. But if you're someone who's just a good person, goes to church, believes in God, and you

think maybe down the road it's going to get you into heaven, hey, you know, more power to you. But why is it when people like find God, they have to just down, like, just eliminate everything they'd ever done and then explain that everything that is opposite of them is evil? But anyway, let's play some of this Jade Nivey audio. Apparently he's been going at this for a while. yesterday was kind of the last straw, I guess. Wrong button. I had the wrong thing potted up.

My bad friends. All right, here we go. The world can proclaim LGBTQ. Right? They have, they have, they proclaim Pride Month and the NBA. They proclaim it. They show it to the world. They say come, come, come, uh, come, um, come, um, come, um, come, um, come, um, um,

join us for pride. They do. They do. Hey, pride mom. A pride month, they come a lot. Come, come, come, come, come. Come, come, come. They say come, come, come, come, come. They say come, come, come, come join us for pride, for pride month to celebrate unrighteousness. See, and that's the thing, though, like, and I don't care if that's what you believe, right? If you're someone who believes that, you know, gay people are going to hell and it's not

right, it's like, hey, more empowered to you. Again, uh, If as long as you're not oppressing people or keeping them from shit. And I don't know what this guy does or doesn't do. But if, you know, dudes want to fuck dudes, ladies want to fuck ladies, I don't give a shit. It doesn't impact my life and more power to you. Now, I agree that the idea of like Pride Month or the NBA having a Pride Month or the end zones in the NFL saying end racism, all of that is just pandering to people. And it's a waste and it doesn't matter.

And I do think it's kind of odd that the things we celebrate are, hey, this is who you choose to fuck. So, hey, there's a whole month dedicated to you. I think it's absurd. The problem is you can't undo those things because you've done them for so long that if you take a step back or walk it back and say, hey, we're no longer going to celebrate Pride Month in the NBA, well, then

it's a whole issue. Kind of like yesterday when we talked about Harry Callis, like, there's no real issue with there not being a Harry Callis bar and grill or whatever at a baseball stadium. But once you've had that, and then you take it away and then you replace it with an

advertisement for an energy drink, the backlash isn't worth the positive you're going to get. So, of course, the NBA is never going to say, hey, we're going to do away with Pride Month or Black History Month or whatever. You have to do these things. The problem is, since you've created this world where you pander to all these groups of people, you have to continue to do it. And what purpose does it serve? Like, is there some gay guy that was like, I wasn't going to watch basketball, but now I do because the NBA appreciates me. I feel like the NBA is a safe space. Also, I'd like to see, if we could just shoot up a lot of these people with a truth serum, a lot of the players that play sports, I'd like to know how many of them are all down

with the idea of the whole gay thing anyway. Because I bet you there are a lot of Jade Niveys out there in the world. And I know that we'd like to spend our time talking about how the white guy is the worst human on the planet and white men are the devil and cis white men or this. Bro, get around black dudes in a locker room and there's a lot of folks. If we could they're and tell you how horrible white people are all the time. There's a lot of black folks that ain't down with the gay causes, which again, your move, you do whatever you want. But like, we have to spend all of our time telling you that, like, the only shitty group

of people on the planet are white people and mostly white dudes. Trust me, there are a lot of dudes in locker rooms, basketball players, football players, that ain't down with the idea of the gay stuff. And that's never going to change. I think it's a cultural thing. Now, that's not to say that all black people hate gay people, just like all white people don't hate black people, whatever. But the reality is there is a culture around this kind of stuff that people have grown up in. Now, maybe 25, 30 years from now, the culture will change.

I don't know. But, like, this is not going to be unique to Jade Nivey. My problem with J.Nivey is that he falls into that category of people who, I guess, found religion. and now because their religion says this is bad, now they think these people are terrible. And I don't believe that gay people are terrible. They proclaim it. And we're talking about Pride Month in the NBA now.

They proclaim it on the billboards. They proclaim it in the streets. Unrighteousness. See, he and I agree with the concept that it's absurd to celebrate Pride Month, just like it's absurd to celebrate any other group month. His reason, though, is because it's not righteous. His issue is he doesn't like the dudes bang dudes.

He doesn't like the ladies bang ladies. I don't give a shit. My issue is I don't believe in placating and pandering to people. But now that you do it, you can't undo it. And that's why we will continue to have all of these different heritage weeks and heritage games and heritage months and gay months and everything else. Which, again, I just don't, like, I don't think it really accomplishes anything other than. than pandering to people who I don't even know want to be pandered to. Like, are gay people sitting around like, boy, the NBA better, better show us some love or else?

Are there Hispanic people that are like Major League Baseball Bay? The Cardinals better have Hispanic Heritage Night or else. Like, do they really give a shit? That's the biggest question. So how is it that one can't speak righteousness? How is it one that, how are they to say that, you, you, you, Man, this man is crazy. I'm not.

Well, I mean, to be fair, I think what happens is when you get super religious on shit and you throw away your NBA career over religion, like, no offense, you're probably kind of fucking nuts. I'm not the J.I. used to be. But the old J.S. Oh, this is good. So now we get to learn the old Jaden Ivy versus the new Jaden Ivy. So obviously the old Jaden Ivy must have been a real show. shithead. But now the new Jaden ivy has found God. And now the new Jaden Ivey isn't even better human

because he hates gay people. He's dead. I'm loving Christ. No matter what the basketball setting is, you know, I'm born again, the Holy Spirit. And I've been saved by Jesus Christ. No matter what, how many DMPs I don't I don't get to play, or no matter how many points I score, those things are a temporary thing. You say that now until you ain't hooping anymore and you don't have any cash. So everybody says that until it's like, oh shit, now what? Let's see what else we got from Jade Naivier here. The NBA was everything to me.

I didn't know God. I didn't know Jesus when I came to the NBA. I was a fornicator. I was a pornography addict. And I also like when people get religious, they start using words like fornicator. You ever notice that? When dudes get religious, they can't just say, I used to be, I used to have sex all the time. It's, no, I used to be a fornicator and a pornographer.

I was a fornicator. I was a pornography addict. Like, so, I don't like, like, like, like, now you're, you. found God, and by finding God, it means you're no longer a fornicator, and I'm no longer into porn, and I use terms like pornography. I don't call it porn, I call it pornography. And I'm, I'm not having sex. I'm fornicating. And I used to get drunk. Well, Jade Nivey used to be Josh Ennis. That's all I knew. And after a win, I felt good. After all those points, I felt good. I felt good.

I felt like I had everything set out for me. Right? But as soon as that shut down for me, as soon as I didn't start, that's when God was humbling me. And he said he sat me down for a reason. So once I stopped starting, that's when God was like, listen, if you want to start again, perhaps it's time to stop jerking off to all that porn

and stop doing fornicating. Maybe that's what God told him. God said, you know what? Stop fornicating. So, yeah, it's weird to me, man. Religion is something I'll never get. And maybe as I get older and you kind of want to believe there's a heaven and there's a hell. Maybe as you get older, you start to embrace it a little bit more.

But I'll never understand the idea that, like, one day you're just this dude and you're out of here hooping and apparently you're really into porn and you're really into booze and you're really into fornication. and all that shit. And then, like, one day you find God and you're like, I'm into none of these things. And, oh, by the way, fuck them gays. Like, how does, I don't understand. I'll, I'll never get that. The NBA was, was everything to me.

I didn't know God. I didn't know Jesus when I came to the NBA. I was a fornicator. I was a pornography addict. And, and I used to get drawn. I think these, this might be a drop that I just need to have. because, I mean, I'm not going to lie. It sounds like my man lived the coolest life.

Like, I feel like Homeboy here crushed it. I was a fornicator. I was a pornography addict. And I used to get drawn. I mean, you know what that's called Tuesday is what that's called kids. I was a fornicator. I was a pornography addict. And I used to get drawn.

I think that that's the thing. People don't really give a shit if you're religious, right? Like most people aren't going to judge you for being religious. Most people aren't going to be like, oh, you go to church. What a fucking idiot. Some will. They're called liberals. But for the most part, people aren't just going to shit on you for going to church.

It's when you start using the idea of going to church and being religious as a way to judge me. Or let me feel that I'm lesser than or you shit on me for what I'm into. Like, I think it should be possible to go to heaven, even if you, you. I was a fornicator. Even if you're a fornicator. Should you still go to heaven? Yes. I was a pornography addict.

If you're addicted to porn, as long as it's not weird porn or child pornography or whatever. It's not real sister porn. It's step sister porn, pal. And I used to get drawn.