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1 posted on 10/08/2022 1:36:30 PM PDT by conservative98
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All you have to do is walk away from it by not watching games on TV or patronizing their sponsors, not buying any team merch, and not attending any of their games.


2 posted on 10/08/2022 1:38:25 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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Thug ball is of interest to the criminal class, I suppose. Decent people don’t watch such stuff.


3 posted on 10/08/2022 1:39:06 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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Green was arrested at MSU, if I recall correctly.


4 posted on 10/08/2022 1:39:51 PM PDT by JonPreston
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Oh this is silly. Practice fights happen ALL THE TIME. In all the sports that have even the slightest contact. The only thing that’s new about this is the ease with which the footage lands on the internet. Back in the days when reporters but not cameras were allowed in practice this happened all the time, it just wasn’t discussed. So long as nobody actually hurt each other, and knew to shake hands after it was just part of the process. There’s a famous story of Jordan decking a teammate during practice, that season wrapped up with winning the championship. Which teammate did he deck? Current Warriors coach Steve kerr. He knows how this works.


7 posted on 10/08/2022 1:42:26 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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The NBA is a massively successful and growing commercial business.

It has reached worldwide support at a level that only soccer also enjoys.


10 posted on 10/08/2022 1:50:38 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Basketball is rigged and like old school wrestling. That coupled with the political activism of the players just makes the whole thing unpalatable long term. If you watch the last 2 minutes of any game you pretty much saw the entire game. But as long as it appears rigged no one wants to watch that.


12 posted on 10/08/2022 1:55:50 PM PDT by genxer ( )
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Basketball was invented by a white man.
This is cultural appropriation writ large.
I’m triggered!!!!


13 posted on 10/08/2022 1:59:55 PM PDT by EEGator
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Terribly boring to watch nowadays. The Larry Birds and the Michael Jordans are all gone. Give me hockey any day over squeaky ass, whistle-laden basketball.


19 posted on 10/08/2022 2:08:47 PM PDT by toddausauras ( )
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Let the players carry guns on the court and see what happens.


20 posted on 10/08/2022 2:08:49 PM PDT by rbg81
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What is a NBA?


24 posted on 10/08/2022 2:14:37 PM PDT by CardeadInKy ("The problem with Liberalism is that eventually you run out of other people's money" -Marg Thatcher)
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Who?


26 posted on 10/08/2022 2:16:45 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Socialism should more accurately be called Sociopathism)
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I call it the NTA for National Thugball Association.


31 posted on 10/08/2022 2:28:18 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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They need to implement character counts

https://charactercounts.org/

I just took a short review but didn’t see political correctness or wokeness at the site.

They haven’t gone to the darkside?


36 posted on 10/08/2022 2:34:45 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Start handing out year long suspensions for fighting/without pay.

I could care less, I gave up NBA long ago.


44 posted on 10/08/2022 3:02:58 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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I’ve stopped watching all sports (golf is an ‘activity’). I like seeing them get some comeuppance. (I can’t spell schadenfreude).

But it’s all part of the game - like wrestling and all their false bravado...


47 posted on 10/08/2022 3:15:31 PM PDT by tje
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