Posted on 10/06/2020 6:13:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sen. Ted Cruz and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban got into it on Twitter on Tuesday morning over the NBA’s “social justice” messaging. Before it was over, Cuban told Cruz: “You are so full of sh*t.”
The political kerfuffle began after Cruz tweeted a link to an article about the disastrous ratings of the 2020 NBA Finals.
“Not surprising. Personally speaking, this is the first time in years that I haven’t watched a single game in the NBA Finals. #GoWokeGoBroke”
Not surprising. Personally speaking, this is the first time in years that I haven’t watched a single game in the NBA Finals. #GoWokeGoBroke https://t.co/ygIp60EKHi
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 6, 2020
Unsurprisingly, Cuban was not amused by #GoWokeGoBroke, Cruz’s reference to the NBA’s low ratings and embarrassing pandering to all-things Black Lives Matter — which began shortly after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in May while in police custody.
The Cubes being The Cubes, it was game-on.
A US Senator with 3 @NBA teams in his state, employing thousands of people and he is rooting for their businesses to do poorly. This is who you are @tedcruz . Every minute of your life, this is exactly who you are. https://t.co/rnCV3qJTfQ
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) October 6, 2020
Cruz responded, reminding Cuban that he “loves” the Houston Rockets, and supports all three Texas NBA teams against non-Texas teams, while also suggesting that being an NBA fan is not mutually-inclusive with supporting the league’s pandering to Black Lives Matter.
I love @HoustonRockets & have rooted for them my entire life. I happily cheer for the Spurs & Mavericks against any non-TX team.
But @mcuban the NBA is engaged in a concerted effort to (1) insult their fans & (2) turn every game into a left-wing political lecture. That’s dumb. https://t.co/uKSgvPhEcq
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 6, 2020
The fiery Cuban, one of the more outspoken owners in the NBA, went off on Cruz — bigly — apparently not buying into the “not mutually-inclusive” notion that being a fan does require acquiescence to BLM.
“You are so full of sh*t. You haven’t watched a game of the finals, how would you know what is being said or done? Since when is a desire to end racism an insult to anyone or political? And you don’t think using #GetWokeGoBroke is a partisan insult? Again, this is who you are.”
You are so full of shit. You haven’t watched a game of the finals, how would you know what is being said or done? Since when is a desire to end racism an insult to anyone or political? And you don’t think using #GetWokeGoBroke is a partisan insult? Again, this is who you are. https://t.co/uKfHGV7IGc
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) October 6, 2020
Then Cruz took the money shot — literally.
I wish @mcuban loved his fans as much as he loves Chinese money. https://t.co/Wm4qkRMStP
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 6, 2020
Final score: Cruz: 1, Cuban 0.
Yo, Cubes? Conservative activist and former candidate for Florida’s 3rd Congressional District, Chuck Callesto, might be onto something, here.
BREAKING REPORT: NBA Finals Game 3 ‘LEAST WATCHED in Recorded Ratings History’…
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) October 6, 2020
In my recent article titled Noted Law Enforcement, Expert LeBron James Walks Off Court in Game 3 Loss: ‘Not a Good Look’, I included comments from Outkick sports columnist Jason Whitlock, along with a link to Outkick column NBA Finals Ratings Sink to All-Time Lows.
Killing the NBA’s popularity in the US will be LeBron’s legacy. Didn’t have to be this way. Sad. Can’t be the GOAT if you kill the game. #AirJordanForever https://t.co/vxK2m2e5D7
— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) October 1, 2020
LeBron James has not been alone in destroying the NBA’s ratings.
But from James’s controversial comments in the aftermath of the police-shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to the league’s “social justice” messaging announcement in July — as I covered in a July article titled NBA, Players Union Approve 29 ‘Social Justice’ Messages for Jerseys: And the Winners Are… — the National Basketball Association has done its damnedest to alienate millions of Americans turned off by its “woke” pandering to all things BLM.
For that reason alone, final score: Ted Cruz: 1, Mark Cuban: 0.
The NBA is racis’.
And I just got through reading an article where Adam Silver said not to expect such a BLM message on the court next year.
Sucks to be Mark Cuban.
Looks like Ted Cruz borrowed PDJT’s kitty tease...well played Ted...
MAGA WINNING!
Cuban posting like he was drinking. Sheesh.
Mark, seditious traitors are still seditious traitors and I will not watch the NBA until you/they apologize to the citizens of Hong Kong, the Uighurs and freedom loving people everywhere. Get the hell out of the US and move to China! See how Social Justice works there, since the US isn’t good enough for you.
You can extrapolate that to all NBA owners and the league as a whole. As to why the NBA is so popular in China I don't know. Maybe baseball is too complicated for them?
I’ve read a lot of comments by FReepers wondering who could follow Trump into the Oval Office to keep America’s resurgence going.
Ted Cruz has been making a very good case for himself.
Hey Mark Cuban, you can’t make up racism and then pretend to try and end it. That’s all this is, made up, phony ‘racism’ that doesn’t even really exist. Police don’t go after blacks over racism or any such nonsense. They go after people committing crimes regardless of skin color. It just so happens that in certain neighborhoods with high crime rates their happen to be a preponderance of criminals, and cops doing their jobs.
I’m not voting for any ineligible candidates, sorry.
I like Ted. He is a great legal mind. I wonder if he thinks Cubanadians are eligible to be POTUS.
Ted Cruz...stock is rising.
Saw him on Fox with Mark from Judicial Watch discussing the Supreme Court. I was impressed.
He seems to be getting very active as of late.
So, you think someone you might call “eligible” like Chuck Schumer would be better than an obviously proud and loyal American like Ted Cruz?
Notice how it is always the Leftists who resort to ad hominem and profanity first.
Always.
It displays weakness of character and intellectual inferiority on their part.
You are so full of shit. You haven’t watched a game of the finals, how would you know what is being said or done? Since when is a desire to end racism an insult to anyone or political? And you don’t think using #GetWokeGoBroke is a partisan insult? Again, this is who you are. https://t.co/uKfHGV7IGc
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) October 6, 2020
Should have replied “So after taking a knee, disrespecting the flag and loosing all the white fans, did you end racism or just make things worse?”
There are plenty of natural born citizens that are not degenerates like Schumer to choose from.
I think the founders were absolutely correct to exclude the children of foreigners with the natural born citizen clause.
There are many good reasons to require someone who could not be anything else and exclude those who are.
Ted Cruz was a Canadian citizen until 2014.
He is not a natural born citizen.
Mark Cuban is a first-class idiot and I hope his team goes up in flames along with the rest of the NBA.......yuck!!!
Mark Cuban you are a great businessman, but a lousy American.
Because its reported in the news every day?
Duh!
I haven't seen any NBA game this year and I still read about what BLM sh*t they do at their games.
“It displays weakness of character and intellectual inferiority on their part.”
It’s their way of saying “I lost the argument, so I hate you.”
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