LAKERS AND CLIPPERS VOTE TO SIT OUT REST OF NBA SEASON

Outkick ^ | 08/26/2020 | Ryan Glasspiegal

[Kevin in California]

The Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers have voted to sit out the NBA season in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, according to Chris Haynes and Shams Charania:

[CJ Wolf]

“NBA players, meet the Hollywood movie stars.” the circus isn’t really needed when bread is scarce. first thing to go.

[mrsmith]

So... we know their contracts say they get paid anyway?

[decal]

“...Intentionally killing the NBA now is going to resonate in a lot of corporate boardrooms. Social justice or not, the NBA may never recover from this.”

I'm old enough to remember when CBS tape-delayed the Finals until after the 10:00pm news because of ratings - imagine what happens after this.

[joshua c]

Obviously the otherNBA teams are racist

[Celtic Conservative]

As most of their fans are already sitting out the season, why not.

CC

[Cowboy Bob]

Did they vote to give up their salaries?

[sheehan]

This is just an excuse, the remaining players don’t want to be in this bubble anymore...

These dudes want to go to da booty clubs, be with the groupies, smoke weed in their mansions, etc

[ConservativeStatement]

Haven’t the Clippers sat out just about every NBA season since moving from Buffalo to California?

[bray]

This is an excuse that their playoffs didn’t work and nobody is watching.

[mmichaels1970]

LeBron has so much money, he could pay every Black adult in the U.S. $1000 each to better their lives but does he offer to do this? Of course not because he doesn’t think *he* should make that sacrifice.

I can’t stand LeBron. But he funded the remodeling of a huge bank here on Market Street in Akron and turned it into a very impressive looking “I Promise Academy” that serves inner city youths with behavioral problems. All kids meeting criteria get a full scholarship to U of Akron. The LeBron James Family Foundation also helped establish an urban STEM program at Zook Hall at U of Akron and is now called The LeBron James Family Foundation College of Education.

That said, good riddance to him and I hope he never plays another game.

[Altura Ct.]

Well, bye

[mulligan]

Good. No loss. Just shows the ignorance of many

[indthkr]

Too funny!

Hopefully the NBA will go bankrupt and never recover.

[Colorado Doug]

Good plan! Take next season too.

[Kevin in California]

LMAO.....thank you P-Mar!

[Dennis M.]

“And do these idiots still collect a paycheck?”

They will for a while but eventually the money will run out. If it doesn’t go in, it doesn’t go out.

[5th MEB]

Mine’s been pegged at ZERO about professional sports my whole life.

[5th MEB]

I CARE, I CARE; now I won’t get to watch them kick any more baskets or throw any more home runs!
And I will really miss seeing them dribble for a touch down!

(snicker-snicker)

[BuddhaBrown]

“Who cares!”

They treat the cardboard fans like they are disposable.

This feels kinda like being rudely dumped this morning by that flea-bitten hooker I apparently married in Vegas last night.

Thank you Saint JakeBlake!

[Robert357]

I think that the players just killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. The NBA owners want to make money and gain attention along with being local heroes.

With no games there will be much lower future TV revenues. The networks may get burned this year, but that will not last for long. Without games there will be no stadium or arena ticket sales. Much less licensed team merchandising revenue. And for the players much less sports product endorsement revenues.

Right now a first year rookie makes a minimum salary of over $800,000 per year. That will probably not last for much longer.

Also since college BB is being postponed by major universities, and will probably overlap with football, the college feeder teams to the NBA will have financial problems as well.

I expect the entire professional basketball thing to plummet within the USA. However, the NBA has been courting China and other overseas countries, so I would expect to see many of the teams sold to new owners in other Countries.

Couldn't happen to a better group of pampered over-paid athletes.