MIAMI (AP) – Udonis Haslem was leading some banter with Miami Heat teammates after practice Monday, the jokes and laughter helping everyone wind down after practice.
That’s how he defines locker room talk.
Donald Trump’s characterization of his caught-on-tape crude and sexually charged comments about women as “locker room talk” has raised the ire of plenty of athletes, the overwhelming majority saying that what goes on even in private doesn’t match up to what the Republican presidential nominee said on the now-infamous leaked tape.
“I don’t know what locker room he’s been in,” Haslem said. “No, I didn’t appreciate it, to be completely honest. That’s not our locker room talk. I don’t know Trump very well at all, but I don’t know who he’s played for the last couple years to even say he’s been in anybody’s locker room and had those kind of conversations.”
On the tape, recorded in 2005, Trump brags about kissing, grabbing women’s genitals and trying to have sex with women other than his wife. “When you’re a star, they let you do it,” he bragged. “You can do anything.”