I agree, but what happens after that. there is a very compact schedule in the bubble. this pretty much blows up everything. oh boy.
LOL. Ratings were down the last few years in sports ranging from the NBA to MLB to Nascar - all with very different approaches to politics - and largely because people are going to streaming and other non-TV activities. Ratings for TV show, political conventions, etc are all down for the same reasons. Ratings are down for this bubble because it's the summer and no one watches TV. It's the same reason networks put reruns and cheap reality TV on throughout the summer every year. There is nothing that ties ratings to politics.
Employees choosing not to come to work as a form of political protest is not unheard of in these times, nor should there be expectation of punishment. All this amounts to is a delayed game. Fine, games are delayed now and then for various reasons -- like due to weather or something wrong with the arena. Delaying a game as a protest shouldn't be that big a deal to the NBA. Maybe it be different if these were real NBA games with fans and businesses in and around the arena depending on it. But let's be real -- these are glorified exhibition games that we are just pretending count for real to take our mind of other stuff going on.
What is you two's definition of colored people? Racially I'm fully asian living in America, but I don't care about any of these movements the past few years. Unless asians are not colored people in your eyes
"A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing."
The NBA literally did everything they could to bring awareness by letting the players put phrases on their jersey, have "BLM" on the courts, in commercials etc. which I'm all for. Now by boycotting games they're slapping the hand that fed them and bent over for them doing all this which personally I had no issue with but I recognize it would divide some people. This is only making things worse, and I'm not for doing something this drastic. Where will this stop? Will the playoffs end up getting cancelled? How will it impact next season? Because it's not IF it will, it's HOW it will if it's cancelled this year.
This comparison makes no sense. Do you work in a line of work that has a massive media platform behind it. The players are actually "growing a pair" and making a statement that there are some issues more important than basketball. Obviously it's not going to solve the issue at once, but it sheds a light on the issue and turns the media attention to the injustices. The NBA always stood for a progressive vision about society and I expect Adam Silver to fully embrace this. The league was built on the shoulder of lot's of black athletes and the NBA should back-up the protest and not go the other way round and make them play basketball right now.
In Greece, police dont shoot people in front of their children based on their skin colour. They dont shoot anyone in front of their children, period. He plays for the NT and he speaks up because there are hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant children like him back home and he wants to fight for their right of citizenship.
that may be what it takes. if nothing happens there's 0 reason for these guys to start actually playing again if theyre doing this
I am not the one who is supposed to define what you feel is racist and not, and I frankly don't give a damn about what you think of these movements. The point made was the fact that it's not for me to judge how a black person should react due to daily discrimination and racism.
And slavery was abolished over 160 years ago. Jews continue to get discriminated against to this day. People make Jewish jokes all the time and in fact use "Jew" as a pejorative term to this day and nobody bats an eye.
Sure, I can agree with that. Both sides are free to voice their individual opinions in this thread. But it kinda sounded like you and the other poster's comments assumed all non-white people agree with protesting or the movements.
