Stan Van Gundy calls "racist" Donald Trump "brazen misogynist leader"

DETROIT, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Detroit Pistons head coach Stan Van Gundy admits that he doesn't know Donald Trump's "politics," but he didn't hold back from offering his opinion on the president elect.

After noticing that his players were quiet and dejected about Trump's victory Tuesday, Van Gundy spoke up before the team's game against the Phoenix Suns.

"I don't think anybody can deny this guy is openly and brazenly racist and misogynistic," Van Gundy said, according to Detroit Free Press' Vince Ellis. "We have just thrown a good part of our population under the bus, and I have problems with thinking this is where we are as a country."

"Martin Luther King said, 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but bends toward justice.' I would have believed in that for a long time, but not today...What we have done to minorities ... in this election is despicable. I'm having a hard time dealing with it. This isn't your normal candidate. I don't know even know if I have political differences with him. I don't even know what are his politics. I don't know, other than to build a wall and 'I hate people of color, and women are to be treated as sex objects and as servants to men.' I don't know how you get past that. I don't know how you walk into the booth and vote for that."

"I understand problems with the economy. I understand all the problems with Hillary Clinton, I do. But certain things in our country should disqualify you. And the fact that millions and millions of Americans don't think that racism and sexism disqualifies you to be our leader, in our country...We presume to tell other countries about human-rights abuses and everything else. We better never do that again, when our leaders talk to China or anybody else about human-rights abuses."

"We just elected an openly, brazen misogynist leader and we should keep our mouths shut and realize that we need to be learning maybe from the rest of the world, because we don't got anything to teach anybody," Van Gundy told MLive's Aaron McMann.

But Van Gundy wasn't the only NBA personality to refuse to believe that Trump won the election. Multiple players were live-tweeting during election as the results came in.

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr told ESPN's Ethan Strauss that it "took a lot of guts" for Van Gundy to speak on the issue. Kerr likened the election process to the "Jerry Springer Show."

"I thought it took a lot of guts for Stan to say what he did," ESPN's Ethan Strauss reported. "You know, I think a lot of us feel similarly. For me, probably the biggest disappointment with this whole election was the level of discourse."

"There should have been some level of decorum, respect and dignity that goes with the election of the presidency."

While Hillary Clinton easily won the 55 electoral votes in Kerr's California , Trump won the 16 electoral votes in Van Gundy's Michigan. The Warriors face the Denver Nuggets at 9 p.m. Thursday at the Pepsi Center. The Pistons face the San Antonio Spurs at 8:30 p.m. Friday at the AT&T Center.