Posted on 02/10/2017 10:27:51 AM PST by conservative98
Under Armour could have lost one of its most popular clients hours after CEO Kevin Plank sang Donald Trump’s praises.
Stephen Curry, who has built a strong partnership with the sports-retail brand over the years since he ditched Nike in 2013, heard Plank call Trump an “asset” for supporting American businesses in an interview with CNBC Tuesday. So Curry trimmed a few letters to fit his beliefs.
“I agree with that description,” Curry told Mercury News, “if you remove the ‘-et’ from asset.”
Curry, who quietly supported Hillary Clinton in the election, opened up on Wednesday about the frantic aftermath of Plank’s controversial comments.
“I spent all day yesterday on the phone with countless people at Under Armour, countless people in Kevin Plank’s camp, my team, trying to understand what was going on and where everybody stood on the issue,” the Warriors star guard said. “Based off the release that KP sent out this morning, and what he told me last night, that’s the Under Armour that I know. That’s the brand I know he’s built and one that, as of Wednesday afternoon, is something that I’m standing on.”
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“If there is a situation where I can look at myself in the mirror and say they don’t have my best intentions, they don’t have the right attitude about taking care of people,” Curry said. “If I can say the leadership is not in line with my core values, then there is no amount of money, there is no platform I wouldn’t jump off if it wasn’t in line with who I am. So that’s a decision I will make every single day when I wake up. If something is not in line with what I’m about, then, yeah, I definitely need to take a stance in that respect.”
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Thanks. I guess I’m not a basketball fan. Never heard of him.
Then hand back the money you earned from UA, asshole AND QUIT being a drama queen
Drama queen is a much nicer name than I would call him.
Sorry, but unless you’re actually playing it, Basketballs is possibly the most boring damn sport on the planet.
No, that would be soccer...
(donning flamesuit)
In other news, MLB 2017 spring training begins in about a fortnight.
My only concern with the NBA is that Papa Johns pizzas are 50% off when the local team wins, which is not that often. Otherwise, I have no idea who plays where, and where the teams are in the standings. I have not watched one minute of NBA basketball this season, nor do I intend to.
” Plank’s controversial comments.”
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So now it is “controversial” to thank the President of the United States for supporting American businesses?
What planet do these people live on????
I have been seeing that double parabola symbol on clothing (baseball caps cocked sideways) for years and never understood what it represented. From now on my memory trigger to remember it will be "under arm odor."
I hate watching soccer only slightly less than watching basketball
We can play that game, too.
“Curry is a terrific PR asset,” says Matt Powell, NPD Group Sports Industry Analyst.
http://www.si.com/nba/2015/12/30/warriors-stephen-curry-under-armour-brand-marketing-superstar
Sure, if you remove the -et from asset.
The pro sports oligarchies known as the NFL, NBA and MLB need to be broken up or else regulated like any other monopolistic industry, e.g. the utilities, to better serve the public.
I love how players and their agents talk about the free market when justifying their huge salaries. There`s nothing free or fair about those industries in the capitalisic sense. Individual team owners, who are, for all intents and purposes, simply share holders in the company (i.e. the league), are forced to bid against each other to sign players. New teams that would like to participate in the annual tournaments that are held by the NFL, NBA, MLB, are shut out by the existing `share holders` from doing so.
Perhaps major league sports are a natural monopoly like, say the utilities. If so, fine, but let`s be honest about it and regulate them so they better serve the public, just as we do with power companies and water companies. This farce of justifying the economicaly driven excesses of major league sports by claiming, `Oh well, that`s the free market at work`
needs to be challenged.
Very low at 2
The Golf Tournament in Sad Diego beat a NBA Game
ESPN is losing a Ton of money on their last NBA Contract and I am sure they won't pay Billions for a 7 Game series Final that is the only time they get about 20 Million Viewers compared to Baseball over 40 Million
What an egocentric little diaper baby.
28 year old trained monkey only good for throwing a ball through a hoop. Who cares about his opinion?
Don’t these people realize that their livelihoods depend on attracting an audience? When you alienate half of America, your marketability plummets.
You may win brownie points in Hollywood, but that only goes as far as you can bring in movie-goers, t.v.-watchers, etc.
And that gets even more difficult as the television universe is expanding, with Netflix, Crave, etc.
I remember some Hollywood star pontificating about the plight of Native Americans (I think?) during the Oscars about 30 years ago.
They had a captive audience then. No longer.
I agree—they need to learn to keep their mouths shut.
Meant to ping you to my previous post, too, ColdOne. :)
Steph is a GREAT basketball with the brains of idiot.
Just shoot your threes, Stephen, people don’t give a damn about your political views.
;)
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