Posted on 10/06/2020 6:02:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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 “largely left off the floor” next season:
Here is the relevant question and answer:
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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Too late bitch.
WINNING!!!!
Avoid NBA..NFL...like a plague. It is over. Way more important things to do.
“...when we began these discussions with the players and what we all lived through this summer.”
You mean the burning and looting and assault?
Way too late! Phuck the NBA!
That’s awesome much appreciated!!
Ok, I guess I’ll go back to watching the NBA...let me look at my calendar.....
hmmmm, ok, “when hell freezes over”...is that in the 105th century or...?
Yup. Fan attention and support will be hard to win back because so many are alienated and in a punitive mood. The NBA and its players have years of pain ahead of them.
Yeah. “Largely” is not good enough. It’s the flag.
I guess when he asked some people when the next NBA championship game is, he expected them to answer “I don’t know,” but got “I don’t care.”
Die Commies!
"No, this is what I really call a message!"
Horse. Barn door.
It just breaks my heart that we live in such a horrible country where NBA star LeBron James is forced to live in a house with only one tennis court.
Will, there be a “Next” season, Batboy?
The word that they’re killing the Democrat Party must have gone out to the social justice warriors in the NBA, as it has to the rioters.
Way too late.
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!
Will the NBA still be kneeling and dissing the Star Spangled Banner?
Let me give you the abridged version: We’re losing millions and this nonsense has got to stop.
What about disrespecting the flag?
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