The Toronto Raptors honored Nelson Mandela on Friday at a event called "The Giant of Africa" it was the first anniversary of his death and the south African president was celebrated throughout their game against the Cavaliers. With the teams wearing special warm up gear to videos playing throughout the game, perhaps Jonathan Bernier saw some of the videos on the jumbotron and than thought that Nelson Mandela was not a star athlete. Bernier was at the event supporting Nelson Mandela who he thought was a all-star athlete. Reporter:1 asked Bernier a question "alright Jonathan, how important is, uh, the legacy of Nelson Mandela to you?".
and Jonathan replied with
"Well obviously he`s been, uh, a tremendous, uh, athlete and you know obviously what, uh, he means to all the sports you know the worl- the world can uh be changed by the sports its pretty amazing. and I think he`s definitely uh got a lot of respect in every sports and uh he`s definitely one of the athletes I watched growing up as well.
Reporter:2 asked him " why is it important for you to come show support tonight"
Jonathan replied with "well I think any good cause is uh, it`s always, uh, you know I love supporting, uh, any kind of cause obviously its`s for the Afri-, in Africa it`s obviously it`s, uh, a great cause, and enjoying, I guess, the basketball game".
Jonathan could have had a brain fart and thought that the question was about some of the All-Star athletes that were at the event like Magic Johnson. But in Bernier`s defense Nelson was an athlete a amateur boxer who ran two hours a day. And he did believe that the world could change by sports. But Jonathan probably didn't grow up watching Nelson play because Nelson was 70 years old when Jonathan was born. but Jagr is still playing so anything can happen. But can we blame athletes for making a mistake because we are not perfect and we make mistakes so is it ok to judge when no one is perfect.
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