Posted on 08/27/2020 10:19:53 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Last night, wrote that I couldn’t care less whether the NBA playoffs are cancelled due to a players’ boycott protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake. On reflection, I’m going to amend that statement. I’d be slightly happier if the playoffs were cancelled.
I haven’t watched a minute of the playoffs or the “bubble” games that preceded them. It’s my understanding, though, that the players use these games to promote Black Lives Matter, a radical far left movement.
If the games aren’t played, they cannot be used for propaganda purposes. The players won’t have that platform. Without it, America will tune them out. I think the players will be surprised by how quickly they lose relevance in the absence of the games that brought them to prominence.
It would therefore be imprudent from a BLM-promoting perspective for the players to shut down the playoffs. For that reason, I’d prefer that the playoffs not proceed.
Here’s something else to consider. Criminals are going to continue resisting arrest, as Jacob Blake did. Some officers will continue to use force to make arrests. No matter what Lebron James and other athletes demand, sometimes that force will be deadly.
Will the NBA shut down every time a white police officers uses deadly force against a black criminal? If so, the league won’t be sustainable.
The NBA players aren’t geniuses. However, they may be smart enough to realize, once they think it over, that political as well as financial considerations argue in favor of finishing the playoffs, after the players obtain a few more concessions from the league.
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they can cancel the entire sport forever, please
And MLB and the NFL.
I haven’t watched an NBA championship since the Pacers and Reggie Miller era. Home team dontchaknow.
Have no desire to even watch a game anymore. Same with the N Fools L.
Maybe the Chinese Communist Party will let them bring the NBA to China ,LOL
They don’t play they don’t get paid. Sounds good to me!
No longer follow pro sports. The millionaire players need to look for another way to make money. Advocating for violence is a losing proposition.
Been an N.B.A. fan since Chamberlin and Russell.At this point, Screw basketball and any other sport that disrespects my Country.
Ill read a classic or go fishing.
Just wondering, do these guys still get paid when they don’t play?
NBA? Thugs and scum.
Jacob Blake is the wrong "victim" on which to base this ridiculous mass virtue-signaling.
Jacob Blake is a violent felon who had a warrant out for his arrest, was acting in defiance of a protective order, was armed with a knife, and had already tussled with the police who were trying to apprehend him. The taser they had already used on him had proven ineffective. And he was entering his car, the reason for which the officers on the scene could only guess (he could easily have been trying to retrieve a gun, something he had a history of possessing).
In everything I've ever heard or read about police training on the justifiable use of force, not only was shooting Blake under these circumstances reasonable, but failing to do so would have been dangerously irresponsible.
This is the wrong "victim."
The Kenosha riots are based on a false narrative, inflamed by a Leftist press and a social justice industry, including the Democrat party, that benefits from the violence.
They can cancel every last one of those games for ETERNITY for all I care!!!
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