Posted on 09/25/2017 12:18:55 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: 'We agreed on unity and solidarity': Los Angeles Sparks leave the court before national anthem at Game 1 of WNBA finals after being inspired by the Pittsburgh Steelers
The Los Angeles Sparks walked off the basketball court ahead of the national anthem at Game 1 of the WNBA Finals in Minneapolis on Sunday and remained in their locker room until the song ended.
Their opponents, the Minnesota Lynx, stood on the court with their arms linked in Williams Arena on the University of Minnesota campus.
Sparks Forward Nneka Ogwumike said they returned to the locker room after warm ups as a sign of 'unity and solidarity'.
Some Sparks players wanted to stand for the anthem while others wanted to kneel or sit, so the team decided to remove themselves from court instead.
Ogwumike said the team were inspired by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
So in other words, the "team" violated the individual players' 1st Amendment rights.
Don’t they fly the rainbow flag at WNBA events?
The saying about forest, tree and sound popped into my head.
The fans should walk out en mass so when the spoiled ingrates come back they can play before empty seats.
and guilt ridden liberals in the NBA
I was thinking of him and Howard Stern and which one pronounced the league name as “Double U NNNNNNNNN Be A”. I never watched MSNBC in the morning after they got rid of Imus.
LOL and still NO ONE watched..the WNBA isn’t even a real sport..please..the final score was 20-15 LOL
If everyone else jumped off a cliff…..
Wow. Stupidity really is the calling for these racist liberals. NO SANE PERSON who loves sports watches these dykes play and now they made it completely worse for themselves. Amazing lol
I thought that WNBA thing flopped. I did not know it was still around.
Dead serious.
Not a spark of intelligence in the bunch.
If they hate America, they can take themselves to North Korea. I’m sure fat boy’s dogs are hungry.
Oh no...even lesbians “protesting.” No one watches their crappy games.
According to Don Imus, these were likely a bunch of nappy-headed ho’s. LMAO!!!
IIRC Imus was referring to the Rutgers college team.
All that’s it; I’ve finally had enough. No more WNBA for me; I’m through with them.
Of course, I never really cared to begin with.
LA: Lesbian America-haters.
The one good thing?
We can put names and faces on our enemies list.
The typical leftist brain vomit:”We did it because THEY did it”. This is why the left is a cancer,responsible for murdering a quarter billion people and one of the greatest threats on earth.
Are those real teams?
Never heard of the “Sparks”.
Must be from low voltage league....
So now the Lesbos are getting in on it.
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