Posted on 10/06/2020 5:44:21 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Adam Silver sat down for an interview with Rachel Nichols on NBA Countdown earlier this week, and indicated that the social justice messaging that you see on the courts and the backs of players’ jerseys will be “left off the floor” next season.
Rachel Nichols: The NBA has certainly been the most visible billion-dollar organization championing social justice and civil rights. As you noted in your press conference the other day, though, that has not been universally popular. How committed are you to being that going forward?
Adam Silver: We’re completely committed to standing for social justice and racial equality and that’s been the case going back decades. It’s part of the DNA of this league. How it gets manifested is something we’re gonna have to sit down with the players and discuss for next season. I would say, in terms of the messages you see on the court and our jerseys, this was an extraordinary moment in time when we began these discussions with the players and what we all lived through this summer. My sense is there’ll be somewhat a return to normalcy, that those messages will largely be left to be delivered off the floor. And I understand those people who are saying ‘I’m on your side, but I want to watch a basketball game.’
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Dont care
Dead to me
THANK YOU TED CRUZ
Am I wrong for thinking his heated argument with mark cuban might have made a difference?
Well maybe not more than crashing ratings and massive loss of revenue. Go woke go broke, insult your fans
Nba is not caving at all
They are just tweaking the optics so that they dont lose money
Neither do I, but this made me laugh.
I guess Lebron James is going to blame President Trump. Haha!
Too late, you’re going to have to get real jobs.
Now they can go live in caves.
Let me know when the NBA folds and goes out of business.
That is literally the only NBA story that would interest me.
All of us deplorables
[old joke about the future] "Dad, what was the NBA?"
Chew on tin foil.
You can’t put that back in the bottle...it’s over.
Mental Note: No to next year too
BLM = Burn, Loot & Murder
Translation: Our viewing ratings are so low they are beyond metrics to measure. A little private talking-to with the players is in order so as to determine how far they want to go with this when it effects their wages. If it’s costing them millions per year I think they’ll see the light. But the damage has been done; a lot of fans are not coming back.
Yep. They’re not caving. He said they’re still committed to pigs-kill-blacks and whitey-is-slave-owner-trash. I won’t watch.
Toothpaste trying to climb back into the tube. Adam silver looks like he escaped from a horror movie soundset.
Too late. I hope they have to give LaMoron a pay cut
Commissioner Silver doesn't realize there are a lot of former fans who have decided they are not on their side and will no longer watch basketball games.
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