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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The NBA caves..... Too bad; so sad.
Adam Silver—missed his calling as a cadaver . . .
Maybe they should try BLUE LIVES MATTER or ALL LIVES MATTER and watch ratings improve.
To do equity, shouldn’t the NBA be required to have players on all teams allocated in line with present racial percentages in the general population? Certain races to me appear to be under-represented, especially Asians.
Time for the NBA to pay large and big reparations to black people everywhere.
Can’t think of a good reason to do it, but anyone getting the free money will take it.
I hope no one goes back to supporting this.
All it takes is another riot instigating opportunity to make Trump look bad and it will all come back, hard.
Oh well.
I’ve never followed basketball.
But I’m very pleased that the market feedback is working (they sense a threat to their bank accounts).
Let’s hear it for free markets and the law of supply and demand!
Seditious traitors are still seditious traitors and I will not watch the NBA until 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!
Too late.
*** “Dont care, Dead to me” ***
NBA, MLB, NFL ... DEAD... DEAD... DEAD
Coaches Popovich and Kerr will still berate the (white) fans, so nothing will have changed.
Little late. Don’t care. Dead to me.
Too late.
You made your bed - sleep in it
Amen
Doesn’t matter. Who’ll be watching anyway?
NBA is dead.
Ferrari dealers and Ferrari body repair shops are deeply saddened.
Now, let's keep it up and continue to drive them out of business.
When they fire the entire roster of players who knelt, then they’ve caved. This is just a tactical retreat.
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