SYDNEY: Australian basketball’s longest-running feud flared again on Wednesday when former NBA star Andrew Bogut took aim at women’s Olympic stalwart Liz Cambage over her accusations team photos had been ‘whitewashed’.

Cambage threatened to boycott the Tokyo Games over the lack of racial diversity in two photoshoots before backtracking and declaring she would represent Australia in Japan.

Bogut, an NBA championship-winning centre with the Golden State Warriors in 2015, labelled Cambage’s criticism as ‘absolutely ridiculous’.

He said the two-time Olympian, who has a Nigerian father and Australian mother and is preparing for the new WNBA season with the Las Vegas Aces, was basing her argument on ‘counting the amount of different skin colours in a photo’.

The Australian Olympic Committee conceded after Cambage’s aired her initial concerns that she had a point and future photoshoots would reflect its diversity of athletes.

Published in Dawn, May 13th, 2021