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Around NBA, teams already discussing need for social change
Breitbart/AP ^ | 9/23/2016 | staff

Posted on 09/23/2016 5:08:20 PM PDT by bkopto

As NBA teams began gathering Friday to start training camps — three teams hold their first practices Saturday, while 27 others get going in the coming days — an issue each is addressing is how players and coaches can help create substantive change in cities across the country. The NBA and the players’ union urged teams this week to develop ideas in a memo this week.

“No one can be happy with what’s going on right now,” Van Gundy said Friday. “I like what (Golden State coach) Steve Kerr said. Wherever you are on the political spectrum, I don’t think a thinking person can say, ‘This isn’t a problem.’ I mean, we’re shooting unarmed people — and you’ve got to think largely, they are seen as threats largely because of their race. I mean, it’s hard to fathom.”

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Finding that solution won’t be easy.

“I don’t have an answer. Nobody has an answer,” Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook said. “If that was the case, we would have fixed it.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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To: bkopto
Gee, black lies matter to these ignoramuses. Why bother to get at the truth in an age of media allowing one to do so?
21 posted on 09/23/2016 5:17:14 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: JBW1949

“I think it’s time for professional sports to honor the black’s requests for quotas in the workplace....”

Nah! Too much fairness and common sense.


22 posted on 09/23/2016 5:17:21 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: bkopto

The social change will be Trumpism. No more gov’t coddling the PC commie SJW a**holes.


23 posted on 09/23/2016 5:17:38 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: Tax-chick

Actually I am for that.


24 posted on 09/23/2016 5:19:42 PM PDT by funfan
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To: bkopto

Eliminating the NBA would be a good start.


25 posted on 09/23/2016 5:19:47 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: bkopto

NBA fan breakdown : 12% Hispanic 45% black 49% white
NFL fan breakdown : 8% Hispanic 15% black 77% white
MLB fan breakdown : 9% Hispanic 9% black 83% white
NHL fan breakdown : 2% Hispanic 2% Black 92% white

http://opendorse.com/blog/2013-sports-fan-demographics/

I thought it was interesting as to who watches the various pro sports. They also have the ages of the fans by %. NBA has a very young demo as compared to the others, especially MLB. They might not care too much.

Freegards


26 posted on 09/23/2016 5:19:52 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: bkopto

People, despite their race, do not get shot if they comply with police orders. When they resist they become a threat and the officer views it as “it’s my life or theirs.”


27 posted on 09/23/2016 5:20:14 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: bkopto

Nearly every person killed by the police has a firearm. Van Gundy is ignorant of the truth


28 posted on 09/23/2016 5:20:20 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: relictele
Dear NBA: you’ll excuse me if I dismiss lessons on social justice and morality from individuals who father multiple children by multiple women all out of wedlock.

And they look hideous with all that aboriginy ink. They look like hell.

29 posted on 09/23/2016 5:20:46 PM PDT by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: Ransomed

Wow I somehow messed that up good, NBA has 45% black fans and 40% white fans.

Duh.

Freegards


30 posted on 09/23/2016 5:21:38 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: bkopto

I’m all for social change and redistribution of wealth

I think that NBA players should all vow to adhere to the social justice recommended CEO salary cap of 250,000 dollars per year and donate the rest of their salaries to all the disadvantaged black kids in the ghetto

My message to highly paid sports activists.

Don’t just demonstrate your commitment to social justice dissing the national anthem

Be sincere and demonstrate your sincerity by writing a big check to those who have lucky enough to have won in the lottery of life you have been lucky


31 posted on 09/23/2016 5:22:02 PM PDT by rdcbn ("There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alt)
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To: bkopto

Basketball fans (or fans of any sport) don’t buy tickets or turn on the TV to learn the political views of a bunch of athletes. Shut up and play ball.


32 posted on 09/23/2016 5:22:52 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Vision

...Just bounce the round ball and put it in the round hoop....

Lots of games in Chicago?


33 posted on 09/23/2016 5:24:57 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: bkopto

We need social change alright. Just the opposite of what these Dindo’s are thinking though.


34 posted on 09/23/2016 5:25:27 PM PDT by stillfree? (My My My)
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To: funfan

Me, too, but we can’t have it without more government power than I think is right. It’s like saying we shouldn’t have people making a living giving concerts or putting on plays.


35 posted on 09/23/2016 5:27:00 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
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To: bkopto

White guilt. What a way to make money. Pathetic.


36 posted on 09/23/2016 5:28:20 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: bkopto

I don’t watch the NBA.

I’m warming to the idea of excluding the NFL.
There’s gotta be something better on Sunday afternoons.


37 posted on 09/23/2016 5:29:03 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: relictele
Dear NBA: you’ll excuse me if I dismiss lessons on social justice and morality from individuals who father multiple children by multiple women all out of wedlock.

Actually, the NBA players cannot see what the problem is, because that very thing is the problem.

That is the cause of black poverty, and that is the cause of black criminality. Until they see that fatherless young men are usually dangerous young men, they aren't going to be in the least bit helpful.

38 posted on 09/23/2016 5:30:41 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: bkopto

Too many Blacks in basketball. Fire enough of them until they are 12% of the league. Social Justice Warriors Unite!


39 posted on 09/23/2016 5:31:41 PM PDT by EEGator
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40 posted on 09/23/2016 5:33:46 PM PDT by EEGator
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