Posted on 04/20/2021 6:23:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
NBA officials and players were quick to react as former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd in the United States.
The jury deliberated for 10 hours before arriving at a unanimous verdict, finding Chauvin guilty on all three counts: second degree unintentional murder, third degree murder and second degree manslaughter.
The videotaped final moments off Floyd’s life last May sparked protests around the globe, and particularly in the NBA as players protested against racial injustice and police brutality.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver and National Basketball Players Association executive director Michele Roberts released a joint statement almost immediately after Wednesday’s verdict.
“George Floyd’s murder was a flash point for how we look at race and justice in our country, and we are pleased that justice appears to have been served,” the statement read.
“But we also recognise that there is much work to be done and the National Basketball Association and the National Basketball Players Association, together with our newly-formed Social Justice Coalition, will redouble our efforts to advocate for meaningful change in the areas of criminal justice and policing.”
LA Lakers star LeBron James, who has been at the forefront in sport when it comes to speaking out against racism, tweeted a single word after the verdict was announced. “ACCOUNTABILITY,” he wrote.
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This league is in the process of crashing and burning.
It can’t happen soon enough
>>The jury deliberated for 10 hours before arriving at a unanimous verdict
10 minutes more likely.
“We good?”
LeBron spelled out accountability? Or did someone help him how to say it into his sail pho?
Good-by NBA
DEFUND THE nba. I’m doing my part. But, I never supported them anyway.
There’s much more work to be done. That’s the latest catch phrase of the commies.
“IDIOCY”
Doesn’t matter.
The Chicom audience is far more important than the USA.
Not
Basketball
Anymore
May as well ask the same question here as I did in the NFL thread: If the NBA and its players are so committed to all things BLM, how is it that the commissioner is whiter than Casper the Ghost?
Waiting for the “it’s still not enough” comment.
Or.......“ we have a long way to go”.
Because it will NEVER be enough.
Until all whites are dead, and then they will turn on each other.
And yet not one word....not one...on the black on black murder in Chiraq. Not one.
You are correct.
I refuse to watch the NBA until we have teams that represent the population of the USA... that would be 5% asian, 70 % white and 15% black and 10% others
Boycott!
I care.
Not.
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