NBA veteran Jalen Rose's daughter, Mariah Rose, is sticking up for Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter's fiancée this week amid criticism following the Heisman Trophy presentation. In videos of the ceremony, fans called out Hunter's fiancée for not standing up fast enough to celebrate his win. Additionally, fans also alleged that she sat down too fast.
Mariah defended Hunter's fiancée in a video. In it, she addressed both the Heisman Trophy presentation and another clip of the couple after a game:
"You want him to break up with her and now that he's Travis Hunter, go into the dating world and find somebody new? Y'all want him to follow the athlete blueprint of being with a 50-year-old lady with a BBL. And until he does, you're gonna bully the shit out of the woman he loves for every little thing she does."
"The weirdest thing I think the Internet does is when a man has a huge accomplishment, they watch his girlfriend to see how she reacts so they can criticize it," Mariah added.
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The defense from Mariah comes on the heels of Hunter defending his fiancée during a recent livestream, where he called for online critics to back off.
"If she's hurting, I'm hurting": Hunter urges online critics to stop criticizing fiancée
After the couple's relationship was put under the microscope by social media users twice over the past few weeks, Hunter took to a Twitch livestream on Sunday. During the broadcast, he said that his fiancée drank herself to sleep, upset about the online criticisms.
He then told those who were hyper-analyzing the relationship to stop focusing on him and his fiancée and instead find a relationship of their own. Additionally, he urged the click-bait pages that foster engagement on social media to stop using clips of him and his fiancée.
"Go find a girl. Go find a life. Stop worrying about what I got going on. I know what I got. Clickbait pages stop, y'all better stop I'm telling y'all. Something bad is gonna happen to y'all [if you] keep doing that. Y'all better stop that. I ain't playing," Hunter said.
"Y'all hate on me then you go hate on my girl. I feel the same thing that she feels. We're inseparable. We're with each other. If she's hurting, I'm hurting," Hunter declared.
In the wake of his comments, it looks like the couple have found an ardent supporter in Jalen Rose's daughter.