I think basketball has been identified as a “black” sport whereas football has not although a majority of its players are black. Why has the NBA not reached the anthem kneeling stage yet. Maybe because of the realization that their audiences are tenuous and all it will take is a few kneelers for the booing at their affront to be heard in a enclosed arena and a large portion of their white audience to disappear. Then goodbye million dollar salary,
Adam Silver issued a memo before the season began and he went on TV to say it would not be happening.
Because anthem behavior is actually in their rule book, Stern put it in over a decade ago, same time he put in the dress code for when they’re arriving at the arena.