No, Kanye West didn't score 106 points against wheelchair basketball team
Some strange things appear on the internet, but this might just be the weirdest.
A bizarre rumour has resurfaced online that rapper Kanye West played basketball with a wheelchair team and beat them by 106 points.
Screenshots of the strange article have gone viral on Twitter, but it’s all fake news. Let’s debunk this bogus story once and for all…
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Internet rumour says Kanye played wheelchair basketball team
This week, a strange story has surfaced on Twitter that says Kanye West played a basketball game against a wheelchair team.
The bizarre screenshot has a photo of the rapper playing the sport alongside the caption: “Kanye West scored 106 points against a wheelchair basketball team.”
“A charity basketball game didn’t go exactly as planned yesterday when Kanye West scored 106 points against a team of handicapped children in wheelchairs,” the article says.
It continues: “The game was a PR move intended to smooth over the controversy that erupted this week between Kanye and the disabled community.”
This isn’t the first time the strange story has gone viral online. In fact, it’s been circling the internet since 2014 – but there’s no truth to it.
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It’s all fake news
The article comes from a fake news hoax that emerged almost a decade ago in 2014.
According to Snopes, who have debunked the odd claim, it comes from an article that was posted by a fake site called Daily Currant on September 17th 2014.
The site posted a weird story claiming that the rapper had scored 106 points in a charity basketball game against a group of wheelchair users, but it was all a hoax.
Kanye West never played a group of wheelchair users in a basketball match, but the rumour continues to go viral and fool internet users eight years later.
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He didn’t ask a wheelchair user to stand
The same bogus article also claimed that Kanye asked a wheelchair user to stand up at one of his concerts, but this isn’t true either.
“At one of his concerts recently West repeatedly asked wheelchaired fans to stand, and refused to apologize for his mistake afterwards,” it said.
“The Basketball Wheelchair Charity for Cancer event pitted disabled middle school children against Kanye and his entourage. Kanye’s team seemed hesitant to play as hard since they were not also in wheelchairs as originally planned,” the fake article continued.
Screenshots of the spoof article continue to circulate social media, and it doesn’t look like it’s disappearing any time soon. Sorry Kanye!
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