Nba Players Vote To Boycott Rest Of Season

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It’s their right to protest and strike.

It also is the owners’ right to not pay them flr time missed while protesting. I’ll respect their protest as long as tbey don’t ask for pay. The second they want their money os tbe second they lose me.
 

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The day NBA players decided to strike for social justice

This is a really good article. People forget sometimes that these are people. And a lot of them are black men. That they are "famous", and more wealthy etc. doesn't change their skin color or where they come from. They are just as sick of the racism and senseless killing as all of us are.

I mean they want to use whatever "platform" they are afforded to do something to move the country to a more just place. Of course they will have detractors and people that say they are rich what do they know. But, to expect them as human beings, as black men to swallow their feelings and rage at the social injustice, the divisiveness coming from the top on down and perform for people's entertainment and not say anything is beyond the pale.

You have one of the 2 major party conventions ongoing right now. And if you were to listen to the GOP this week. You would believe that black and brown people invading the suburbs is imminent. And you better watch out cause only Trump can protect you from the dark menace coming to your kids schools.
 

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So, why should NBA PLAYERS want to entertain everyone playing ball only to get killed in a traffic stop driving home from the game? Bravo to the players for standing up and using their power.
The day NBA players decided to strike for social justice

This is a really good article. People forget sometimes that these are people. And a lot of them are black men. That they are "famous", and more wealthy etc. doesn't change their skin color or where they come from. They are just as sick of the racism and senseless killing as all of us are.

I mean they want to use whatever "platform" they are afforded to do something to move the country to a more just place. Of course they will have detractors and people that say they are rich what do they know. But, to expect them as human beings, as black men to swallow their feelings and rage at the social injustice, the divisiveness coming from the top on down and perform for people's entertainment and not say anything is beyond the pale.

You have one of the 2 major party conventions ongoing right now. And if you were to listen to the GOP this week. You would believe that black and brown people invading the suburbs is imminent. And you better watch out cause only Trump can protect you from the dark menace coming to your kids schools.

Precise, Keen, Kid. Bravo to them, and all Black athletes, entertainers, celebrities, and CONSUMERS, for using their/our power and recognizing OUR RESPONSIBILITIES in using such, to fight racism.

Athletes protest police shooting of Jacob Blake by refusing to play - Marketplace
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Trump White House officials criticize NBA players amid Jacob Blake protests
Two top White House officials on Thursday criticized NBA athletes who refused to play in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

President Donald Trump weighed in Thursday afternoon and took a swipe at the NBA, which he said has become "like a political organization -- and that's not a good thing I don't think that's a good thing for sports or for the country."

The president's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner earlier Thursday said NBA players have the "luxury" to "take a night off from work" because of their paychecks -- while saying "actual action" is what's needed to help achieve racial justice.

"I think the NBA players are very fortunate that they have the financial position where they're able to take a night off from work without having to have the consequences for themselves financially," Kushner told CNBC Thursday morning. "So they have that luxury, which is great."

"With the NBA, there's a lot of activism and I think that they put a lot of slogans out, but I think that we need to turn that from slogans and signals to actual action that's gonna solve the problem," he continued.

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I mean the audacity. The very people whose job it is supposed to be to protect the citizens of America, and address the actual issues causing the NBA players to protest find a way to criticize them.

That Jarod Kushner decided he has time in between "solving" Mid East Peace and fumbling around in the background supposedly doing Covid 19 response duties to let that bs come out of his mouth. I mean you cant have a more peaceful protest than what these guys are doing. So what in the world do you have to complain about?

It isn't there job to create "actual action that's gonna solve the problem". But at least Lebron is trying

LeBron James and a Multimillion-Dollar Push for More Poll Workers


 

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^ That’s trumps opinion. And you don’t have to agree. As Melania said, “you always know where he stands.”

A lot of sports fans would agree with him. Pollster Frank Luntz just said today “a lot of athletes have told him them don’t like wearing the slogans on the jerseys, don’t like the slogans on the courts, they just want to play.” But of course, like everything, we’re all told by the radical left how to think these days. . . .
 

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^ That’s trumps opinion. And you don’t have to agree. As Melania said, “you always know where he stands.”

A lot of sports fans would agree with him. Pollster Frank Luntz just said today “a lot of athletes have told him them don’t like wearing the slogans on the jerseys, don’t like the slogans on the courts, they just want to play.” But of course, like everything, we’re all told by the radical left how to think these days. . . .

Last time I checked Frank Luntz is NOT in the bubble and NEVER has been

So how exactly has he "talked" to any of the players ?

I highly doubt he has the phone number of a single NBA player so calling them is a stretch on the odd chance he were to get a number of one of them I am pretty sure he would get hung up on about 99.9 % of the time.

I even more highly doubt any NBA player in the bubble would have his number or even want his number and WAY over half could not tell you who Frank Luntz even was, if their life depended on it let alone actually wanting to call him FOR ANY REASON
 

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Sounds like the right is telling the NBA players to “shut up and shoot the ball”, only so they could catch their friends the next day and discuss players stats, height, weight, and whether or not one of them need to be shipped to another town. Forget the issues of your communities, just play ball. Ok I get it.
 
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Sounds like the right is telling the NBA players to “shut up and shoot the ball”, only so they could catch their friends the next day and discuss players stats, height, weight, and whether or not one of them need to be shipped to another town. Forget the issues of your communities, just play ball. Ok I get it.

Well yes yes but do note the difference.

 
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^ That’s trumps opinion. And you don’t have to agree. As Melania said, “you always know where he stands.”

A lot of sports fans would agree with him. Pollster Frank Luntz just said today “a lot of athletes have told him them don’t like wearing the slogans on the jerseys, don’t like the slogans on the courts, they just want to play.” But of course, like everything, we’re all told by the radical left how to think these days. . . .

Great point and very true.
 

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NBA will work to set up 2020 election polling sites in arenas as part of playoff restart

NBA teams will work to set up 2020 election voting sites in arenas as part of commitments made to end a player strike over racial injustice, the league announced Friday.

In a statement, National Basketball Players Association Executive Director Michele Roberts and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that in cities where franchises own venues, they will work with local officials to convert them into polling places “to allow for a safe in-person voting option for communities vulnerable” to the coronavirus pandemic. If deadlines to set up new voting locations have passed, teams will instead push to use the arenas for voter registration and ballot receiving boards.


Several NBA teams have already agreed or offered to make facilities into polling places for November’s election during a player-led drive to increase voter turnout amid a reckoning over systemic racism against Black Americans. They include the Atlanta Hawks, Sacramento Kings, Detroit Pistons, Cleveland Cavaliers, Houston Rockets and Milwaukee Bucks.

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"Concrete solutions" by the NBA. Good on them stepping up when the current administration is trying to undermine and disenfranchise voters.