The NBA caves...
Not far enough for me.
Posted on 10/06/2020 5:44:21 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Adam Silver sat down for an interview with Rachel Nichols on NBA Countdown earlier this week, and indicated that the social justice messaging that you see on the courts and the backs of players’ jerseys will be “left off the floor” next season.
Rachel Nichols: The NBA has certainly been the most visible billion-dollar organization championing social justice and civil rights. As you noted in your press conference the other day, though, that has not been universally popular. How committed are you to being that going forward?
Adam Silver: We’re completely committed to standing for social justice and racial equality and that’s been the case going back decades. It’s part of the DNA of this league. How it gets manifested is something we’re gonna have to sit down with the players and discuss for next season. I would say, in terms of the messages you see on the court and our jerseys, this was an extraordinary moment in time when we began these discussions with the players and what we all lived through this summer. My sense is there’ll be somewhat a return to normalcy, that those messages will largely be left to be delivered off the floor. And I understand those people who are saying ‘I’m on your side, but I want to watch a basketball game.’
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Sorry, professional sports - I am not in a forgiving or forgetting mood . . . EVAH!
To late! I will NEVER watch another NBA game!
Kiss my arse NBA!
*To = too
When every player that has desecrated our national anthem by kneeling issues a public apology or is banned from the game for life, I might consider watching an NBA again.
Gutless idiots. If it is the right thing to do, they should keep doing it. Hope fans stay away. Stupid is as stupid does.
Hahahaha— never watching again.
WHAT? I love being lectured to by cry baby millionaires about how I’m personally responsible for their miserable lives! NOT!!
I suppose they didn’t build it.
They sure burnt it down.
He’ll have his time. Sadly, however, all of us will. Either Way...the NBA beat us all to cadaver stage. Unwatchable contests.
In other words, we will continue to give huge amounts of money to the Democrats, but we'll dial back the propaganda during the games in the hope that our audience comes back.
Nothing can rescue this leftist zombie institution from the dead....
Too late.
Since they seem to have lost their fans here, maybe they should move to China where they will be appreciated.
Keep your left wing liberal/BLM politics out of my family room and off my tv.
I will not pay good money to be insulted and called a racist by BLM millionaires.
They pretend to cave and some morons will fall for it. Sports is dead to me. I lived most of my life as having sports always the entity that I revolved around and supported. No more.
The NBA caves...
Not far enough for me.
Somebody needs to take a huge pay cut.
There is no road back. They might as well just stick with their BLM direction - why make a political decision to favor 20% of your fans over 80% and then waffle and anger the 20%, also?
Of course crashing ratings go hand in hand with the loss of revenue. That loss in viewership, I certain is driving advertisers to stop pouring so much money into a loosing proposition.
These things take time to reach their fruition. It is indeed a sad fact the NFL still hasn’t really figured this out.
Some may still watch, but in my little world professional sports means exactly nothing. I spent years and a lot of money indulging my joy of watching and becoming a fan. I haven’t watched a game in over 4 years and find I am not missing them one bit.
The owners must figure it out. You can’t have the employees making most if any of the decisions that effect the bottom line.
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