Posted on 02/17/2024 7:44:17 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
Three times over the past year, an NBA player has assaulted another player during or before a game.
This week, Pistons' forward Isaiah Stewart punched Suns' forward Drew Eubanks during a confrontation before the teams' matchup Wednesday night.
Earlier this season, Draymond Green struck Jusuf Nurkic in the face.
Green stomped on the chest of Kings' guard Domantas Sabonis during a game last April.
In each, the NBA saw a black player assault a white player. Perhaps that's why the trend isn't receiving much attention.
White players account for just 16.8 percent of the NBA, yet accounted for 100 percent of the last three players assaulted in the NBA. How could that be?
What's happening here is that players are reacting overly emotionally in the heat of the moment. They are resorting to violence because of prior, charged-up animus.
Former players Kendrick Perkins and Gilbert Arenas mentioned last year that there are black players who think white players are not skilled enough to compete on the court with black players, and thus rely upon systemic advantages to compete.
"Most black [people] (and a lot of white guys) think white guys can’t hoop & need special treatment in order to be viewed on the same level," explained former college basketball player and Fox Sports Radio host Doug Gottlieb.
Specifically, Arenas said this is "our league" – as in a black league – and more-than-half-jokingly encouraged further violence toward white players.
Arenas got his wish: a black player assaulted another white player this week.
The nasty view some players share about white competitors was notable in 2020 when players and media members supported Montrezl Harrell when he called Luka Doncic a "bitch ass white boy" to his face.
See, the media and social media repeatedly tell black players that their white counterparts are privileged. Black players are led to believe that white players are their enemies.
The press has uttered the phrase "The Great White Hope" several times over the past year regarding Jokic, Luka, and Caitlin Clark – subsequently telling black players that the majority white nation is rooting for them to fail because they are black.
That is, of course, a lie.
But when you hear a lie enough, you start to believe the lie – even if the facts don't support the claim. Evidently, there are black players in the NBA who now believe that lie.
There's a natural feeling of abhorrence towards those you believe are more privileged and fortunate than you. So, it's hardly stunning to see some black players lose their cool in a heated moment with a white competitor.
The trend is a combination of a more divisive culture and the rise of white superstars in basketball. Not since Larry Bird in the 1980s has a white player challenged for the title of the best basketball player in the world. Today, Jokic and Luka are arguably the two best players in the world.
Likewise, Caitlin Clark is the best women's basketball player in the nation. She is a phenomenon.
In fact, Dan Dakich and Jason Whitlock forewarn Clark could receive the same level of indignation – and perhaps violence – as white NBA players when she enters the WNBA next season.
"She's going to face a level of racism from black players, and she's going to face a level of hostility from lesbian players because she's not on team LGBTQ. She's a Catholic [and] she's got some boyfriend," which means she's going to walk into an extremely hostile environment," said Whitlock.
Recall how Angel Reese gestured aggressively in Clark's face last season upon winning the championship.
And how former WNBA player Sheryl Swoopes cited a series of lies last week to diminish Clark's legacy, lies on which Swoopes doubled down.
The resentment towards white players is real. It's obvious.
These are the consequences of racial division and letting blatant anti-white racism go unchecked, as the sports media so often does.
If the over/under on another white player being assaulted in the NBA this season is 0.5 – take the over.
Bullshit
Dream on
Breath sand
The NBA & NFL need to be desegregated (fair disclosure: I watch neither).
You simply cannot assess black behavior anywhere it exists from Durban to Detroit
A 20-30 point IQ gap matters
A lack of control over spontaneous violence matters
A 70-80% illegitimacy rate matters
And so on
Reverse the roles. Imagine nothing but white players assaulting blacks players in the NBA.
The howling and screams of protest would be deafening.
“This article is looking for something that isn’t really there, IMHO. Suggests a conspiracy of some sort that doesn’t exist.”
This is not some hyped up rhetoric. The facts of racism and prejudice have long been established in pro sports. Is anyone surprised this has now resulted in violence?
Playing in the NBA today is like giving Fani Willis a massage.
In my high school years in Sacramento I was one of the few white and blonde girls at my school and I was constantly pestered by disgusting ghetto rats. I complained to the faculty and on-campus SPD who did nothing. One teacher said I was racist for not dating these creatures and having sex with them.
I made over eighty documented complaints.
A wonderful Jewish friend who was a Holocaust survivor gave me a Fairbairn-Sykes dagger and taught me how to use it.
One day the lead vermin cornered me and I stabbed him. Those eighty complaints suddenly mattered when the school and SPD covered up the whole thing.
Upside is the rest of my senior year was very peaceful. Which taught me a lesson about bullies.
In any case I’ve lived in Wyoming since 2010 and I do not miss feral urban blacks. The black people who come through to visit Yellowstone are 100% decent people.
Just saying this to let you know you’re not alone.
Good story. What an awful high school experience. Sorry to hear that.
I went to high school in a far-west suburb of St. Louis. The school was probably 99.9% white at the time and very peaceful.
In junior high, a white bully was constantly picking on me. One day, in gym class, I had had enough and pounded the daylights out of him (even though I wasn’t a good fighter). Never had a problem with him again.
I’m having to deal with a developer bully right now. He bought the property below us and is proposing a God-awful second building on his property close to us. The design looks ike Modern American Industrial Park. It completely blocks our neighbor’s view of the lake. He is trying to pull several fast ones including running his driveway over another neighbor’s land and installing all the needed wiring and plumbing for a kitchen which is prohibited by code for second buildings. Several developers around here have tried similar shenanigans. In my experience, all developers are bullies. I HATE the idea of this guy being our neighbor and HATE the idea of hm ruining our semi-rural setting with his needless out building. We moved to Idaho from California for a lot of reasons and one of them was to get away from this type of bully.
I actually feel very sorry for decent, hardworking blacks who are being dragged down by the lower form of their race. These blacks typically don’t tend to live in a constant state of victimhood.
It’s almost like there are several sub-species. On the lower end of this spectrum you have those with violent tendencies, lower IQ’s and almost no impulse control.
As far as white NBA players?
Larry Bird
John Stockton
Pete Maravich
Nikola Jokic
Jerry West
Stephen Nash
Kevin McHale
John Havlicek
Dirk Nowitzki
Luka Doncic
Bob Cousy
And many more.
HOW CAN YOU FORGET JUNGLE JIM LOSCUTOFF!
And George Mikan, Dolph Schayes, Bill Sharman, Jerry Lucas, Rick Barry, Bill Walton, Dave Cowens, etc.
Isaiah Thomas saying that Larry Bird would’ve been considered just another player had he been black is both insane and indicative of the high level of animosity harbored by so many blacks. I’ve seen similar sentiments in today’s game re: Jokic and Doncic.
There are white players in the NBA?
You saw how Scott Adams was immediately de-platformed when he said similarly.
Many black people hate white folks for the same reason white folks hate blacks.......this is what they have been taught, what they have experienced in their homes from a very young age.
Racism is pretty simple. Especially when folks embrace the stereotypes.
“I actually feel very sorry for decent, hardworking blacks who are being dragged down by the lower form of their race.”
The problem is they largely don’t call out this behavior. Ditto the “peaceful” Muslims.
“This article is looking for something that isn’t really there, IMHO.’
amazing how wrong an opinion can be; in this case, 360 degrees wrong...relations between blacks and whites have always been bad, and will continue to worsen as blacks, especially women, are conferred unearned influence in the power structure...
walk in a black section of a decent size urban center on a Friday night and see if you get out of it without incident...
‘this is what they have been taught, what they have experienced in their homes from a very young age.;
not really; people who really hate another race or group do so out of some prior act that causes that hatred...what you’re describing is not true hatred, but suspicion as a result of the action...
suspicion is what supports segregation; fear that the actions causing the past hatreds will arise again unless avoided...that is what is taught in the homes; very few parents (unless they are religious or philosophical zealots) will teach their offspring outright hatred...
My youngest son went to an antique cartridge show in East St. Louis a while back and he said: “Dad you wouldn’t believe it. One guy was trying to break into a car, another guy was beating the hell out of another guy, and some woman was in the parking lot talking to all the men saying something like ‘honey you want to do me for a price?’”. It was one helluva wake-up call for a rural Kansas farm boy. Him and his friends all carried there Glocks and never left their hotel room except to go to the show, get something to eat and buy some hooch, which he said had the cash register behind bullet-proof glass. I’m very thankful I live out here in rural Kansas. Sorry for the long post.
Is Rudy Gobert white? Klay Thompson? Jaden McDaniels? Going back a few years, was Gilbert Arenas white when he pulled a gun on black teammate Javaris Crittendon in the Wizards locker room. Do you even know who those players are?
Sorry to challenge your narrative.
Rudy suffered life threatening injuries and was out of action for 5 months.
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