Posted on 09/25/2017 10:55:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump set the sports world on fire over the weekend, referring to NFL players who kneel in protest of racial inequality during the national anthem as “sons of bitches” who deserve to be fired, rescinding a White House invitation to the NBA champion Golden State Warriors and — as hundreds of mostly athletes publicly protested the president’s comments — praising both the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins and NASCAR owners for respectively accepting his White House invitation and threatening to fire drivers who dared kneel for “The Star-Spangled Banner.” I’ll let you do the math on that equation.
For their part, NBA superstars from LeBron James to Kevin Durant, Chris Paul and Kobe Bryant came to the defense of Stephen Curry, whose “hesitation” Trump decried in his decision to disinvite the Warriors. (For the record, Curry had already made clear his plan to oppose a White House visit after the team scheduled a vote weighing the president’s divisive policies with their respect for the office.)
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and National Basketball Players Association Executive Director Michele Roberts, with varying degrees of admonishment, also took Trump to task for his incendiary remarks. Now, NBA team owners and executives are lining up in support of the athletes who Trump condemned over the weekend.....
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Oh yeah, The NBA I forgot they were a thing.
More money than brains. They are forgetting the customer who pays the bills.
Butt hurt over Obama no longer Prez...
President Trump continues to have all the right enemies.
Air Jordan needs to be shot down. Are there enough patriotic basketball fans to make the NBA take notice?
Air Jordan needs to be shot down. Are there enough patriotic basketball fans to make the NBA take notice?
Yet it’s quite ok to call Trump every name in the book. Make fun of and threaten his family. Organize boycotts of his businesses, pull of of events based on fake narratives . . .
And yet, to call Communists, racists and unpatriotic spoiled millionaires SOBs is somehow wrong?
What a joke you are, Jordan. Shut up and go cheat on this wife
Who cares about-either the NBA or NFL
Get out and go to high school games there way more fun..
Never paid attention to basketball so I can’t boycott.
They are gonna so regret this.
Tribe first; America far down the list.
Michael Jordan was just looking for an excuse to unload on the handiest Republican target, which right now is President Trump. This was just a focus, nothing to do with the rightness or wrongness of the cause.
Air Jordans have contributed to more black deaths and crimes than police brutality.
What’s Michaels opinion of that?
A sport invented to keep football players in shape in the off season, IIRC.
Yawn, more RAM’s — Racists Against America.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. joined in with Jordan. Another one bites the dust.
If there is any unequal treatment of minorities, they have earned it.
Thank you greatly for your service.
Except for some school yard dummies, nobody gives a crap what a dumbs#!7 basketball player has to say.
Sure you can. Just find out who the sponsors are and boycott them. This is getting very entertaining; we can all join in on the fun.
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