Posted on 06/14/2020 6:10:28 PM PDT by Kevin in California
The Los Angeles Lakers have their eye on an NBA championship when the season resumes next month, but center Dwight Howard said the team will have to do it without him. Howard told CNN on Saturday that given the unrest following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police last month that now is not the time for games. Floyd, like Howard, was African American, and Howard said the black community must put itself first now. "Basketball, or entertainment period, isn’t needed at this moment, and will only be a distraction,” his lengthy statement began. It continued: “I would love nothing more than to win my very first NBA Championship. But the unity of My People would be an even bigger Championship, that’s just too beautiful to pass up. What better time than now for us to be focusing on our families?
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Hurt us more...please!!
Fine, I hate the NBA.
Best thing about covid was march madness got cancelled.
“...and Howard said the black community must put itself first now...”
For openers, quit voting for democrats?
Well I haven’t ever watched a basketball game since Jr High School.
So who cares....
Sounds good to me.
Maybe eventually these millionaires will realize the world doesn’t actually revolve around them and their opinions.
Howard? Never heard of him.
Sorry dude but basketball is pretty low on everyone’s priority list right now. We don’t care if you never come back.
“no basketball until reform”?
So the overpaid, no talent, low IQ thug who couldn’t add the numbers on his jersey together is holding out until there are more white players in the NBA?
/Sarc
Okay.
im done with sports period, don’t care
they might have learned a lesson or two.
Basketball is a great sport but it hasn’t been fun to watch in quite awhile. Just a bunch of mouthy brats.
I wasn’t planning to watch the SJWs play anyway.
Don’t fricken play d**kwad.
Everyone’s heard of Howard! Howard Cosell!
“Look at that little monkey run!”
“””””””’’Seriously, does anyone here give a rats ass if the NBA ever comes back much less this moron? “”””””””””””
I didn’t know they were gone.
I’m with you!
MY people?
was that the ‘my people’ that looted, burned, and killed in LA?
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