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Sources: Adam Silver sent NBA-wide email to re-emphasize values
ESPN ^ | November 11, 2016 | Ohm Youngmisuk

Posted on 11/12/2016 9:47:29 AM PST by C19fan

NBA commissioner Adam Silver sent an email to NBA corporate offices worldwide shortly after the presidential election results to reiterate to NBA employees that the league's core values and commitment to equality and diversity haven't changed, sources told ESPN. Sources said that Silver's email was not in any way making a statement about the election results. In the email, Silver assured NBA employees that the league and its players will continue to work in communities to try to find a way to improve lives with the understanding that the nation had just emerged divided from a contentious election, according to sources.

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: adamsilver; athletes; espn; left; liberal; liberalmedia; nba
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Silver has repeatedly stressed that he is highly in favor of his players talking openly about and taking Leftiststands on social issues

Fixed it.

1 posted on 11/12/2016 9:47:29 AM PST by C19fan
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This may be the last time Silver can do this. Once Trump is officially President, Silver might be a be more suspect trying to promote this.


2 posted on 11/12/2016 9:50:46 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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What’s the NBA? Haven’t watched a game since the ‘80s.


3 posted on 11/12/2016 9:52:19 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Our country has never been more divided
How did he get to where he is without knowing about the civil war? Or does he think what the current protesters are doing is worse than war?

commitment to equality and diversity
I assume he means "leftist diversity" which excludes conservatives and Christians and other groups they don't like.
4 posted on 11/12/2016 9:56:01 AM PST by LostPassword
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...with the understanding that the nation had just emerged divided from a contentious election...

I've never heard of this bozo but it's obvious to me that the boy hasn't been paying much attention to the real world for the past 8 years. America has been divided since the Obama regime came to power.

5 posted on 11/12/2016 9:56:22 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (A proud and defiant irredeemable deplorable!)
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Every patriotic American should boycott all major-league sports until this leftist, racist, PC crap ends. See how well they do handling losing 50% or more of their fans.


6 posted on 11/12/2016 9:56:55 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: oh8eleven

I don’t know one single person who watches the NBA.


7 posted on 11/12/2016 9:57:32 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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March Madness, now THAT’s a different story!


8 posted on 11/12/2016 9:58:36 AM PST by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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No audience.....No TV contracts.....no league/team money.....
No exorbitant salaries.....no NBA


9 posted on 11/12/2016 10:06:23 AM PST by wardamneagle (C)
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What? Do they illegal aliens playing in the NBA?


10 posted on 11/12/2016 10:07:31 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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The NBA is a model of diversity. PC acceptable diversity.


11 posted on 11/12/2016 10:08:18 AM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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Every patriotic American should boycott all major-league sports ...
Starting already with the NFL ... TV ratings down about 15%-20%.
Colin Kaepernick essentially poured gas on the boycott fire by announcing he didn't bother to vote last Tuesday.
12 posted on 11/12/2016 10:11:47 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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These sports leagues need to be anti-gun, because it seems the only thing they can do with a gun is shoot themselves in the foot.


13 posted on 11/12/2016 10:15:01 AM PST by Zack Attack
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commitment to equality and diversity

There are no more hollow, meaningless words than these yet a huge swath of people seem to think they are profound, even magical.

An individual or group committed to equality...in a competitive sport? What does this mean? All games should end in ties? The average height of teams' players must match? Nobody can practice 5 mins more than the next?

'Diversity' was always vacuous since it's a fancy name for random persons, places, things, or events. Choosing one of each color crayon or one of each flavor of ice cream is not diversity, it's simply a conscious choice of superficially different or contrasting items.

14 posted on 11/12/2016 10:17:42 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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The NBA needs diversity. They need short white women on those teams!


15 posted on 11/12/2016 10:30:30 AM PST by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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Two coaches
Popovich and Gundy have already come out and denounced Trump

I hope the whole league folds


16 posted on 11/12/2016 10:35:09 AM PST by uncbob
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I’m with you. . .NBA, NFL, etc. Definitely not icons of American values. I just can’t see plopping down any money to watch these games or buy their paraphernalia.


17 posted on 11/12/2016 10:38:21 AM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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Really? That’s what you want, or think will happen? President Trump squashing free speech? Nonsense. Won’t happen and shouldn’t. .


18 posted on 11/12/2016 10:55:24 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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Hi-Yo Silver was quick to condemn the values of Christians in North Carolina who believe in keeping men out of women’s bathrooms.


19 posted on 11/12/2016 11:44:42 AM PST by heye2monn
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[[commitment to equality and diversity]]

Diversity and equality are opposite


20 posted on 11/12/2016 11:46:18 AM PST by heye2monn
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