Paul Pierce receives super NSFW birthday cake featuring his selfie with a stripper, blames his friends for it: "They play too much!"
Former Boston Celtics star Paul Pierce got an NSFW cake for this birthday. The cake had a snapshot of Pierce's controversial Instagram live video, which went viral in April 2021. The yesteryear All-Star was in a strip club surrounded by exotic dancers when he went live to interact with his followers.
Pierce worked with ESPN as an analyst and got sacked immediately after the video went viral. Pierce's friends showed no mercy by reminding him of this incident on his 45th birthday (October 13th). Here's what the Celtics legend posted on his Twitter regarding this:
My boys got me this cake fa my bday they play to much https://t.co/tHXCGaLPG7
Paul Pierce had been with ESPN since 2017 post-retirement. The broadcasting giants didn't take too long to take a call on Pierce's firing after the incident, sacking him on his day off.
Pierce wasn't affected by the situation as much back then, and it seems that hasn't changed. The 10x NBA All-Star was on Twitter after reports emerged of his firing. He posted a cryptic video of him laughing, captioning the tweet:
"Big Things coming soon stay tuned make sure u smile #Truthshallsetufree"
Big Things coming soon stay tuned make sure u smile #Truthshallsetufree https://t.co/YIaJMcNQoH
Revisited: Paul Pierce says he went out with a bang following ESPN firing
Paul Pierce has always had a very laid-back attitude. "The Truth" didn't seem fazed by his exit from ESPN after they fired him because of the controversial Instagram Live video of him partying at a strip club. Months later, during an interview with the New York Post, Pierce had this to say about his exit:
“I kinda went out with a bang,”
He added:
“That wasn’t really my plan but I wasn’t tripping,” Pierce said. “I was just like, ‘you know what, at the end of the day, I am retired.’ I was tired of them anyway, truthfully.
"I don’t got nothing against them, but I was getting bored there. Stuff was changing all the time and it just wasn’t the same feel like it was when we was doing it,” he said about his former “NBA Countdown” co-hosts, Beadle, Jalen Rose and Chauncey Billups.
A couple of months before the interview, Pierce said he wasn't a great fit with ESPN. He believed his work schedule and topic selection at ESPN were persistent points of contention.
“It wasn’t a great fit," said Pierce. "There’s a lot of stuff over there that you can’t say. And you have to talk about LeBron all the time.”
Since the end of his tenure with ESPN, Paul Pierce has worked with former teammate Kevin Garnett on the latter's podcast channel, "KG Certified." He hasn't landed a major deal with any other broadcasting channel. It doesn't seem like he thinks of himself as a great fit in those surroundings after his experience with ESPN.