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.
they can’t stand to be bested by the pale face....
better for Clark to go to Russia and get a few million.....
I’ve seen this discrimination for years and years....but we can’t talk about it....
‘Sorry to challenge your narrative.’
your comments are challenging no narratives, at least not mine; I’m aware that blacks abuse other blacks, but that’s simply human nature...whites abuse other whites, orientals abuse other orientals, and so forth, for reasons having nothing to do with ideological perspectives..
but the article describes such a perspective that is palpable in this country, and with the ascendency of black influence, will become a full blown racial crisis in the near future...
“..relations between blacks and whites have always been bad...”
There was a multple decades long progressive lessening of these tensions until 2009 when Obama and a bunch poverty pimps/rabble rousers stirred it all back up.
Kermit was fined $10K and suspended only 26 games for almost killing a man. Most brutal punch in NBA history.
But there was a similar incident just a few weeks earlier (late ‘77) when Kareem sucker-punched rookie Kent Benson. Kareem had been elbowing Benson throughout the first quarter when he got an elbow in return. The Muzzie then exhibited a complete lack of impulse control and sucker-punched Benson in the face, knocking him down, but not out. Fortunately the only real damage was done to Kareem’s right hand, which he broke, and he was forced to miss 21 games because of it.
Honkies getting uppity.
Alcindor turned out to be a real dick over the years.
You’re challenging it with anecdotal observations and exceptions
The overwhelming stats are what they are
For every 20 black hooligans there is a Ben Carson
Doesn’t change the facts
It’s folly to run on exceptions to rules
It’s honorable to recognize them
You were T & F for Florida? Are you old enough to remember Gerry Fanning? Hurdles? or Robert Cade?
I do T&F now, as a Masters competitor.(200m & 400m)
I do not know the men you speak of.
Sorry for the confusion.
Robert Cade was a nephrologist at the University of Florida who invented Gator-Ade. He used the track and field guys to develop his Gator-Ade formula - probably because the university thought the football players were too valuable? Apparently it was much better than the old salt tablets. They finally allowed the football team to take it during a big game against Georgia. It was very hot the day of the game and Florida played very well. The Georgia coach claimed the reason they lost was because of the Gator-Ade.
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