Posted on 05/04/2010 9:51:02 PM PDT by CaroleL
Tonight, the Phoenix Suns basketball team will wear special jerseys during their NBA Western Conference playoff game. The jerseys will be emblazoned with the words, "Los Suns." Is this merely an acknowledgement that it's Cinco de Mayo? A way for the team to, as Suns Managing Partner Robert Sarver wrote in a statement, "honor our Latino community and the diversity of our league, the State of Arizona, and our nation?" Or is it the politicizing of professional sports on the issue of illegal immigration?
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Los(er) Suns.
Chill out, people !!!
The Suns have worn the Los Suns jersey before this Arizona law came about. If it coincides with Cinco de Mayo and celebrates LEGAL Mexican culture then LET IT GO!
Forget the stupid individual comments. We don’t hold athletes up to be the brightest just as we don’t do with other entertainment people.
This issue is really a non-issue. Please move along and spend your energy on something more worthwhile.
Read the comments, or watch them on ESPN. Or don’t, and continue to look like a fool. kthnx
OK tough guy.
LOL
Read the comments, watch them, or don’t. I’m sorry if me calling you a fool offended you. Fools typically don’t educate themselves on the information that is available to them. If you’ve watched SportsCenter tonight, my apologies. If not, well ...
In honor of their decision to do this the fans should throw full water bottles at them.
No dice.
The idiocy of the owner turning the team's most critical playoff series in years into a divisive political statement is beyond staggering.
I've been a hardcore fan for almost twenty years. Attended hundreds of games, a season ticket holder for three years, my family watch damn near every game every year from pre-season till they're booted out of the playoffs. We've bought more jerseys, shirts, and Suns' knickknacks than we can count. Our family is passionate about the Suns. And I'm angry and sick to my stomach about this news. For the first time since '92 my family and I will intentionally not watch the Suns play basketball.
It's one thing for players like Amare or Steve Nash, a notorious Liberal, to spout off on this type of issue. It is an entirely different matter when the Suns organization makes an official business decision to endorse a political statement. We bitterly resent this grossly inappropriate intrusion of politics into sports. We refuse to subsidize our beloved team's transformation into a political prop.
Basketball players putting their famed stupidity on display!
They are making a stand for lawlessness, their chosen lifestyle.
If this were just about the "Los Suns" jersey, which they've worn many times before, this would not be a big deal at all. But the owner Robert Sarver and the GM Steve Kerr have explicity stated that this is a political statement against the new law here in Arizona.
WGAS? Haven’t watched an NBA game in ten years.
When sports figures get involved in politics...it becomes a joke. You might as well worry if the Hooter’s gals will come out next as anti-Arizona.
It passed before, but Janet Napolitano vetoed it.
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