shoeless in seattle wrote:
The irony here is the NBA and NFL have track records of their 'employees' demonstrating this behavior and now they are protesting.
They have track records of their employees shooting someone in the back 7 times?
shoeless in seattle wrote:
The irony here is the NBA and NFL have track records of their 'employees' demonstrating this behavior and now they are protesting.
They have track records of their employees shooting someone in the back 7 times?
If NBA players boycott fans, can fans boycott the NBA? There is only so many times when players can shoot themselves in their own foot before fans say bye bye and good luck with that.
DefendingRights wrote:
If NBA players boycott fans, can fans boycott the NBA? There is only so many times when players can shoot themselves in their own foot before fans say bye bye and good luck with that.
Millions of past fans have already done that. I had season tickets a few years in Cleveland. I haven't even watched on TV the last 4 or 5 years. The games are so highly manipulated to keep them close and make more money, any nationally televised game became unwatchable.
If the NBA is trying to kill off 80% of the fans left, they are doing as good a job as possible.
The NBA is fake, guys that big can not play hard for all these games. They games are there to sell tickets but the men can not go all out . They coast a good part of the games . It' s so easy to see this. Outlaw defense in the key, get a few dunks , coast , play hard the last 10 minutes SOME TIMES!.
Everydog wrote:
The NBA is fake, guys that big can not play hard for all these games. They games are there to sell tickets but the men can not go all out . They coast a good part of the games . It' s so easy to see this. Outlaw defense in the key, get a few dunks , coast , play hard the last 10 minutes SOME TIMES!.
Ummm . . . so your argument is that the players are incapable of going all out for 48 minutes and therefore pace themselves to maximize their overall impact on the game . . . and therefore the game is fake?
Okaayyyyyyyy . . .
Should we listen to King James speaking for black men or a guy like this:
IfYouDontHaveWarrants wrote:
Should we listen to King James speaking for black men or a guy like this:
https://youtu.be/Iw64kntMFUw
That was extremely well said. Very good video!
criminals don't matter wrote:
NBA Nothing But Aholes wrote:
The NBA deleting itself would be the first positive development of the riots.
According to Sports Illustrated, an astonishing 60 percent of former NBA players become bankrupt within 5 years of their retirement. I hope these idiots all die broke!
hope you find your dog!
Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:
This may end up being the most effective form of protest. No sports means very little to no entertainment/vicarious living for the vast majority of working class people. It starts in the NBA and starts working its way into the NFL and NCAA football. No weekends of wall-to-wall football give people time to think about their lives and their circumstances. That's not a good thing for the wealthy and the powerful as sports provides the commons with a distraction. They forget about low pay and being put upon, going from "Take this job and shove it!" on Friday afternoon to "Gotta' work hard this week to afford beer and NFL Sunday Ticket this weekend!". Now they get two days each weekend to think about how they are getting conned and used by their corporate masters, politicians, and religious leaders.
Setting up some reasonable national police reforms around use of force, racial profiling, and effective neighborhood policing plus requiring future cops to be college trained and educated would satisfy 98% of what protesters are asking for but, keep on digging those heels in to protect legalized intimidation and people that should not have been allowed to become cops in the first place.
There’s a very high probability that these people Who used to watch pro sports will just garden. That’s what people did back in the day.
NBA is lame. Don't care.
Great news that they'll be back in action. As long as they're providing me with entertainment who cares about anything else! I'm actually glad we had a couple days off, seeing the games tonight fits better into my schedule.
old news wrote:
IfYouDontHaveWarrants wrote:
Should we listen to King James speaking for black men or a guy like this:
https://youtu.be/Iw64kntMFUwThat was extremely well said. Very good video!
If King James actually spoke honestly like this dude I would consider being a fan of him, but until he and other NBA players wake up to reality, I'm done with them.
false information cowboy #fakenews
pony on up wrote:
shoeless in seattle wrote:
The irony here is the NBA and NFL have track records of their 'employees' demonstrating this behavior and now they are protesting.
They have track records of their employees shooting someone in the back 7 times?
Remember when they had to shut down an entire investigation into human trafficking and pretend that all these Chinese women came to FLA to serve old men sexually because the billionaire Bob Kraft got caught at one of the parlors? Twice?
And how a judge has not thrown out the video evidence obtained from an approved and signed warrant?
Hundreds of women's lives are not nearly as important as not embarrassing Kraft.
Let's be honest here. What they play in the NBA is no longer basketball. Just some form of pickup 1 on 1 street ball. Nobody cares about the NBA.
Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:
Setting up some reasonable national police reforms around use of force
Honest question: what solution do you have to solve the following problem: someone has sexually assaulted a woman. The legal courts have issued a warrant for his arrest. But he doesnt comply with a piece of paper he receives in the mail. He refuses to voluntarily go to the courthouse. He is physically strong and unafraid of most normal rule-following people. He does not stop doing bad things when people ask him nicely. He carries weapons that can harm other people. He resists arrest when asked verbally. He continues to sexually assault women and assault othet males who try to stop him. He could potentially kill someone if he felt like it.
What solution do you have for that kind of a problem individual?
What is your solution to the problem of people who use force and are commiting dangerous, violent crimes?
What happens when they dont respond to "effective neighborhood policing" as you mentioned in your post?
I love all of these “no one cares about the league that has grown its value more than any other in the last decade” posts.
*chef’s kiss*
Are the athletes getting paid while protesting. This might be one year in which pro teams don't appreciate in value.
breit leit wrote:
I love all of these “no one cares about the league that has grown its value more than any other in the last decade” posts.
*chef’s kiss*
A lot of reason it has grown in value is because it is spreading through the the world, there are more foreign players than ever. Also gambling has become much more involved in basketball. You used to just have fantasy football, now you can play draftkings every day. But that doesn’t mean they are not killing their product now. Imagine if I said I’m boycotting work because I don’t feel like it.....and they just said, that’s ok come back tomorrow. These are grown men that complain about these five star resorts they’re staying in and talking about how they can’t play because a criminal resisted arrest. And they say whites are the privileged and entitled ones. Again, they guy in the video sums it all up.
old news wrote:
breit leit wrote:
I love all of these “no one cares about the league that has grown its value more than any other in the last decade” posts.
*chef’s kiss*
A lot of reason it has grown in value is because it is spreading through the the world, there are more foreign players than ever. Also gambling has become much more involved in basketball. You used to just have fantasy football, now you can play draftkings every day. But that doesn’t mean they are not killing their product now. Imagine if I said I’m boycotting work because I don’t feel like it.....and they just said, that’s ok come back tomorrow. These are grown men that complain about these five star resorts they’re staying in and talking about how they can’t play because a criminal resisted arrest. And they say whites are the privileged and entitled ones. Again, they guy in the video sums it all up.
How do you reconcile your statement on them growing throughout the world with your statement of them killing their product?