Lakers and Clippers vote to boycott season, LeBron mad

THANK you.

 

So in the very unlikely event Trump is president for four more years or more imagine no basketball. Could the NBA survive lol

 

If Trump is re-elected nothing will ever be sane again and the implications and possibilities are impossible to imagine.
Maybe a peoples occupation of Washington? Masses tearing down the fences at the White House under fire from the Secret Service?

Basketball could be just a pleasant Dream from our past.

 

You sound like Chris Rock talking about "rich" and "wealthy": "Here's the difference between 'rich' and 'wealthy'.............Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks.......is wealthy."

Tilman Fertitta sitting at Trump's table a couple of months back still makes me almost as sick as would his food at Landry's. His other restaurants are safer because there isn't enough food on the plate. Or, as Peter Parker's Uncle Ben would say, "With small portions comes beaucoup check." Or something like that.

LeBron and Paul George were having a really hard time inside the NBA bubble, so they'll be the first to breathe a sigh of relief should the season get canceled; but this had to be the last straw. It would be tough to stay focused after life in the non-bubble world continues with, "What? You wanna get back in your vehicle? With several of us cops here ready to subdue you? You know, I skipped the gym this morning, so I'm just gonna shoot you in the back six times or so, right in front of your kids. That'll show you."

Then the inevitable protests turn violent (just like Trump wants, to solidify the base's vote) when the Tucker Carlson Klan descends on Kenosha after sending a letter saying, "We're here to assist, don't arrest us just because we're operating outside the law" (they must have directed the one member among them who can form sentences to type up the letter). Go find the video of the Kenosha cops handing out water and thanks to this "militia" that showed up to "help".........by killing people.

Or the picture that shows the 17 year-old murderer at the front row of a Trump rally. (I'm too lazy to post these things but they're real.)

 

What are you talking about? The Owners wanted to continue. The players were hesitant and only agreed once they got the contractual right to leave and cancel things anytime they wanted. The NBA agreed to those terms.

The NBA isn't whining about any of this. The players are discussing in a mature way what they want to do and whether to exercise their contractual rights to leave and focus on other things. You seem to be the only one being a whiney b****.

 

Yep, Chris Rock and George Carlin

 

I don’t get this response, at all. They have no obligation to live in this bubble, removed from their families and loved ones, just for your entertainment.

The league and players restarted the season with the understanding that it could be shut down again depending on how events unfold. Players were given permission to leave whenever they choose if they didn’t feel comfortable with it. That was the deal.

 

The China/HK thing is irrelevant, and I don’t know why it keeps coming up.

There are plenty of global causes people can be passionate about and protest over. That that they may choose one of them, that is especially meaningful to them, and not all of them is not hypocrisy.

But why don’t they care more about Hong Kong or lack of political freedom in China? Well, who are the people asking this question? Invariably, in the US, it is people who are doing nothing for Hong Kong or Chinese people, or its people who lose nothing personally from attacking China, or its people who use this as a pretext to minimize the importance of causes that the players care more deeply about.

 

Speaking of whiny.

 

Jared's gonna negotiate a peace plan with LeBron

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ys-white-house-will-reach-out-to-lebron-james

 

lol

 

playoffs are back on, Jared's plan must have worked

 

When people are criticized, like white people are being criticized lately, they tend to get defensive and look for faults in the people criticizing them. This is a natural reaction that I think a lot of people are missing. I would say that it's wrong for them to get defensive in that way, but it is something that comes naturally to most and many find it difficult to overcome.

Because it's difficult to overcome, I think the leaders of this movement need to make sure they are as close to 100% pure as they can be. Montrez Harrell, for example, cannot be a face of this movement and use a race-based insult against someone else. It takes away from his credibility and by extension takes away from the credibility of the movement.

There was a girl named Claudia Colvin (?) back during the Civil-Rights Movement that refused to give up her bus seat to a white person before Rosa Parks did. She was going to be the face of a bus boycott until she got pregnant. She was 15 and unmarried. The leaders decided against using her and instead opted for Rosa Parks because they knew that Colvin would cause the movement to lose credibility.

That isn't an issue for the leaders of today's movements, but I think it should be. LeBron James is a leader of this movement all the while profiting from China and not only staying silent on what's going on over there but outright saying everyone criticizing China should shut up. It makes it difficult for people to believe that he cares about anything else outside of his money and fame and it makes it easy for people to criticize him and by extension the movement.

Another thing being critiqued is the martyrdom of certain flawed figures. I am no expert at all of the Civil Rights movement, but from what I know from grade school, all of the martyrs were pure. People with the backgrounds of a Jacob Blake were not martyrs. The martyrs were civil rights workers driving through Mississippi or assassinated civil rights leaders or a teenage boy looking at a white woman.

Civil Rights leaders of the time would never, ever consider making men like Blake martyrs. From what I understand of the time, which isn't much, men like him would be straight up ostracized by the community. They were considered cancers in the community and rightfully so, IMO. Today, they are heroes of the community for living a life of pain and hate, and putting themselves in positions were other flawed men of authority could make lawfully defensible decisions that cost them their lives.

So, why do people bring up old **** or do the what about thing? Because it's just natural to do so. That is why the backgrounds of political candidates are important. They either have to be clean or have ready-made strong defenses of their backgrounds or have a plan that when executed would make people not care about their backgrounds. Doesn't seem like this movement has much of a plan besides chaos and confusion.

 

After a hot minute things have cooled off and the season will resume -- unfortunately the NBA has lost so many fans the league has declared bankruptcy.

RIP

 

Kush is gonna be the hero we need but don’t deserve ,...or the hero we deserve but don’t need . Either way he’s a hero . Kush 2024!

 

We always have the WNBA to turn to ...imagine The possibilities