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Aug 1, 2020 07:31:33   #
Big Kahuna
 
Smedley_buzkill wrote:
Apparently to the NBA, a few select Black Lives matter, and no one else. I'd like to see them try that crap in China, where they make so much money. Especially when they don't protest in the provinces where Uighurs are being systematically exterminated.
The NBA are a bunch of overpaid prima donna hypocrites who only protest something if it is advantageous to their already bulging portfolios to do so.
The only good thing I can think of to say about the NBA is that the players appear to be somewhat less moronic than the NFL, most of whose members would be pressing license plates if they couldn't play football.
Apparently to the NBA, a few select Black Lives ma... (show quote)


Cut the National Knee grow Asses off at their knees. A few good fans battering a few knees would be a good start. Make sure the bats have "social justice" emblazoned on the bats. No knees will be left to kneel on.

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Aug 1, 2020 07:35:26   #
Big Kahuna
 
ImLogicallyRight wrote:
Count me as one for the college games only. And when they start kneeling, there is always High School. At least they play with heart. Remember, you can go to your kids games, grandkids games. Go watch some little league. The sport is still the same sport and the winner is still in doubt, so go cheer for your favorite team, Contribute to them getting better uniforms and stuff. Help by volunteering to give them rides, or help the coaches.

So far I haven't seen this sickness of overpriced big babies without any intelligence, infecting some other sports. Need to watch the best. Try golf, tennis, I haven't seen it in Hockey yet. How about boxing or untimate fighting. And one of the best sports is Rugby, Good continuous action and no sissy pads or helmets. Or maybe get off your fat ass and try swimming at the local lake or pool, or jogging and biking. They need us. We sure as hell don't need them. We have survived all spring without those dumb ass primadonnas.
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Just a bunch of overpaid, ungrateful KneeGrows!

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Aug 1, 2020 07:45:35   #
lindajoy Loc: right here with you....
 
son of witless wrote:
In the end, the NBA is a business. They are already hurt by the virus and by their dealings in China. We will see how this affects their customers. I for one am done putting up with the horse manure. I was a big fan. Not so much now.


Gone this long without any of it and didn’t miss it... Sure won’t miss it now either..

C’est la vie...

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Aug 1, 2020 08:35:47   #
Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial
 
drlarrygino wrote:
Just a bunch of overpaid, ungrateful KneeGrows!


Your racists views are an embarrassment, you should stop. Think how you would feel if you were treated as subhuman.

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Aug 1, 2020 08:37:56   #
Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial
 
byronglimish wrote:
NBA..? Notorious Black A-holes!


You should have added your picture

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Aug 1, 2020 08:46:48   #
Big Kahuna
 
Tiptop789 wrote:
Your racists views are an embarrassment, you should stop. Think how you would feel if you were treated as subhuman.


Quit calling me a racist you racist fool. Who's treating whom as subhuman? Blacks have every right as Whites and Asians in our country. Only dimwits like you and the leftist black racists can't acknowledge that. Black Lies Matter is a Marxist and racist group. I guess you and the leftist knee grows support that. I don't and won't take a knee for any anti-American cause. You of course will because you are a racist and are power hungry like the NBA and NFL fools.

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Aug 1, 2020 08:49:19   #
Big Kahuna
 
Tiptop789 wrote:
You should have added your picture


I saw yours in Planet of the Apes! Was that black face you were wearing or are you black?

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Aug 1, 2020 08:50:16   #
Big Kahuna
 
Tiptop789 wrote:
You should have added your picture


Good one Byron and so true.

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Aug 1, 2020 10:41:28   #
Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon
 
Tiptop789 wrote:
You should have added your picture


Not mine, but your sweethearts picture will do..



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Aug 1, 2020 10:49:22   #
son of witless
 
byronglimish wrote:
Did he tiptoe away?


Yea I hate when they do that. Kevy does it all of the time.

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Aug 1, 2020 12:29:03   #
Carol Kelly
 
ldsuttonjr wrote:
NBA makes its stand: If you can’t handle player protest, then move on
Dan Wetzel
Shoulder to shoulder. Baseline to baseline. Sea to shining sea.

Inside a mostly empty youth sports facility, inside a bubble designed to keep the coronavirus from getting in, the Utah Jazz and the New Orleans Pelicans made a statement before the NBA’s reopening that they wanted to make sure got out.

Black lives matter, of course. Police brutality needs to end. Equality must be pursued.

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It was more than that, though.

When it comes to speaking out on social justice issues in the United States, there will be no fear of retribution, no holding back to appease some segment of the masses. If the old days need to go, then old fears of what some might think of it do as well.

It is time, most Americans believe, for significant change in the country, and if having players kneel during the pregame national anthem is too much change for you to accept, then move on because this generation is going to move forward without you.

If the sight of players demonstrating so turns you off that you turn the channel, then the NBA is just going to shrug press on without you.

This was a moment for reflection, a moment for contemplation, a moment to consider what the players were trying to say. It was a time to listen to them, not to shout them down.

The players would dribble soon enough. Before the game, they certainly weren’t, without a word, going to shut up.

As an instrumental version of the Star-Spangled Banner by New Orleans native Jon Batiste was played, both teams silently took a knee. They linked arms or rested them on each other’s shoulders. Some held up fists. Coaches participated. So did game officials. White people. Black people. Americans. International players.

Members of the New Orleans Pelicans and Utah Jazz kneel together around the Black Lives Matter logo on the court during the national anthem before the start of an NBA basketball game Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool)
The New Orleans Pelicans and Utah Jazz kneel together around the Black Lives Matter logo on the court during the national anthem before Thursday's NBA restart. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool)
What so proudly they hailed.

“Black Lives Matter” was painted in front of them on the court. Social justice messages were stitched into their uniforms on their backs.

It was respectful. It was peaceful. It was unified. It was appropriate.

It was patriotic.

And it was a reversal for a league that remained standing post-Kaepernick. It wasn’t that players or coaches weren’t outspoken when it came to politics. They were. And then some.

Business was considered business though, and league rules prohibiting anthem protests were followed. Not now though. Not in 2020. Not after George Floyd.

“I respect our teams’ unified act of peaceful protest for social justice and under these unique circumstances will not enforce our long-standing rule requiring standing during the playing of our national anthem,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement.

America is changing and changing fast. That can scare the hell out of some.

Back in 2016, when Colin Kaepernick first sat, then knelt during the anthem before NFL games, the backlash was significant. Now, a CBS News poll says that 58 percent of Americans view it as an “acceptable” form of protest. For younger Americans, the number is far higher.

And so here came the NBA, lining up with the future. As part of the deal to get players to leave their communities and sequester in a Disney World bubble for the 2020 playoffs, the league accepted that they would find a way to get their message out.

There was no way the players were going to ignore the opportunity. Just hours before, civil rights icon and United States Rep. John Lewis was laid to rest in Atlanta. As a young man Lewis risked beatings and imprisonment to desegregate lunch counters and bus stations, to push for voting rights and equal justice.

He often called his tactics “good trouble.”

In this case, there wasn’t even trouble.

There will be critics, of course. The anthem means different things to different people. There will be fans who swear the league off. There will be howls from some media and plenty of politicians. There will be cries of “What about China?” and there is no question the NBAs muted criticism of that country is wrong and problematic.

That said, the shrill of “China, China, China” is dubious. How many of those screaming actually care about China, or just want to drown out the players? How many hold other multinational businesses, or the federal government itself, to the same standards?

It’s an old, tired playbook in this old, tired fight. That’s how America is, was and always will be. Any action forward will be met by resistance. So too will this.

Yet eventually what seemed threatening to some will sound unbelievable to their children and grandchildren. There were actually people so opposed to desegregated restaurants or African American voting?

Yes, there actually were.

There are people actually outraged that Zion Williamson took a knee?

Yes, there actually are.

It’s the right of the players to make their statement. The NBA no longer opposes it.

And it’s the right of the fans who can’t accept it to go watch something else.

That’s America. Old and new. The NBA is clear on where it wants things to head and what audiences it wants to serve — it is showing it, without apology, stretched out for all to see, from one end of the court to the other.
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I pray not MOST AMERICANS. I’d like to see us just go back one decade and know what we know now.

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Aug 1, 2020 12:35:30   #
F.D.R.
 
son of witless wrote:
In the end, the NBA is a business. They are already hurt by the virus and by their dealings in China. We will see how this affects their customers. I for one am done putting up with the horse manure. I was a big fan. Not so much now.


I have given up on all sporting events, I will never pay outrageous prices to watch or attend a game played by multi-millionaires with a college degree most of whom can't put together a coherent sentence. Nor will I pay to sit in a movie theater to see the latest Hollywood production or attend a concert that I can see for free on YouTube after the fact. I didn't see you complaint about those who scream to boycott business' that disagree with their particular stance, how is that fair?

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Aug 1, 2020 13:07:04   #
Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia
 
Tiptop789 wrote:
A big fan, I bet you've never watched a single game. Do you even know what NBA means?


Why would you draw those conclusions?
Any basis other than being rude?
Even I know that it means
Not
Being
American!

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Aug 1, 2020 13:16:57   #
America 1 Loc: South Miami
 
byronglimish wrote:
My sentiments exactly.


Ditto.
All spoiled pampered crybabies.

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Aug 1, 2020 13:44:06   #
Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon
 
America 1 wrote:
Ditto.
All spoiled pampered crybabies.


Yes, they are. I know the thread is NBA, but this is relevant.



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