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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If Republicans were savvy, which they are not, they would retweet Silver’s comments to every nba owner and player asking if they agree with his comments that social justice is just a passing phase that will be gone next year when we return to “normal.”
Largely? Really?! How about COMPLETELY.
Too late anyhow...I nor anyone in my family will ever watch the NBA, NFL, NooseCar, NHL, etc. again. Not missing it, at all.
They haven’t figured out that they’ve already killed their golden goose.
They can take away the slogans and the visuals of their support of BLM but everyone knows what they support and knows that it won’t shut them up off court.
#2. Re “Too late bitch”.
Yes, there might not be a “next season”, esp. if the COVID virus is still around. So sad but who gives a good crap.
You reap what your cowardice and leftism sows. Trump and the American people are now “The GRIM REAPERS” driving millions of tractors and reapers down to the voting booths.
As the crows eat the fallen crops after our Reapers have gotten thru the fields, one will climb up on a fence-post and say about professional sports - “NEVERMORE”!
LOL! Waaaay too late.
Just laughing at the title alone.
“This was an extraordinary moment in time”
Yeah, that’s what y”all tried to sell us....but we ain’t buying your BS.....a piece of crap like George Floyd isn’t worth anybody ‘s time of day
If I was a TV network executive I’d give some serious thought to suing the NBA to get out of my contract. The basis of the suit would be a breach of contract — because the NBA is staging political rallies, not basketball games.
I see by the title, they still plan on doing it anyway. I hope they enjoy losing billions.
Who won the championship back in June? I missed it.
I’m a huge basketball fan but I have not watched a game since they started this pc social justice bs
Replaced by splattering tatoos all over the floor, bleachers, jerseys, walls.
To late there Adam.
The NBA, LaBron and all can go fish.
Net year?
Get bent a-holes.
Largely?
SNORT.
THE CCPBA can KMA.
Way too late. The dumb thugs in this league have destroyed their own jobs.
Now let’s see the football thugs and hockey thugs with foreign accents telling us how to fix our country fall through their assess as well.
There maybe be some hope for baseball, but the first three have to go out of business and push the re-start button before we come back if at all.
Too late, NBA https://t.co/bzOGhAHrhW— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) October 7, 2020
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