Posted on 02/17/2024 7:44:17 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
Three times over the past year, an NBA player has assaulted another player during or before a game.
This week, Pistons' forward Isaiah Stewart punched Suns' forward Drew Eubanks during a confrontation before the teams' matchup Wednesday night.
Earlier this season, Draymond Green struck Jusuf Nurkic in the face.
Green stomped on the chest of Kings' guard Domantas Sabonis during a game last April.
In each, the NBA saw a black player assault a white player. Perhaps that's why the trend isn't receiving much attention.
White players account for just 16.8 percent of the NBA, yet accounted for 100 percent of the last three players assaulted in the NBA. How could that be?
What's happening here is that players are reacting overly emotionally in the heat of the moment. They are resorting to violence because of prior, charged-up animus.
Former players Kendrick Perkins and Gilbert Arenas mentioned last year that there are black players who think white players are not skilled enough to compete on the court with black players, and thus rely upon systemic advantages to compete.
"Most black [people] (and a lot of white guys) think white guys can’t hoop & need special treatment in order to be viewed on the same level," explained former college basketball player and Fox Sports Radio host Doug Gottlieb.
Specifically, Arenas said this is "our league" – as in a black league – and more-than-half-jokingly encouraged further violence toward white players.
Arenas got his wish: a black player assaulted another white player this week.
The nasty view some players share about white competitors was notable in 2020 when players and media members supported Montrezl Harrell when he called Luka Doncic a "bitch ass white boy" to his face.
See, the media and social media repeatedly tell black players that their white counterparts are privileged. Black players are led to believe that white players are their enemies.
The press has uttered the phrase "The Great White Hope" several times over the past year regarding Jokic, Luka, and Caitlin Clark – subsequently telling black players that the majority white nation is rooting for them to fail because they are black.
That is, of course, a lie.
But when you hear a lie enough, you start to believe the lie – even if the facts don't support the claim. Evidently, there are black players in the NBA who now believe that lie.
There's a natural feeling of abhorrence towards those you believe are more privileged and fortunate than you. So, it's hardly stunning to see some black players lose their cool in a heated moment with a white competitor.
The trend is a combination of a more divisive culture and the rise of white superstars in basketball. Not since Larry Bird in the 1980s has a white player challenged for the title of the best basketball player in the world. Today, Jokic and Luka are arguably the two best players in the world.
Likewise, Caitlin Clark is the best women's basketball player in the nation. She is a phenomenon.
In fact, Dan Dakich and Jason Whitlock forewarn Clark could receive the same level of indignation – and perhaps violence – as white NBA players when she enters the WNBA next season.
"She's going to face a level of racism from black players, and she's going to face a level of hostility from lesbian players because she's not on team LGBTQ. She's a Catholic [and] she's got some boyfriend," which means she's going to walk into an extremely hostile environment," said Whitlock.
Recall how Angel Reese gestured aggressively in Clark's face last season upon winning the championship.
And how former WNBA player Sheryl Swoopes cited a series of lies last week to diminish Clark's legacy, lies on which Swoopes doubled down.
The resentment towards white players is real. It's obvious.
These are the consequences of racial division and letting blatant anti-white racism go unchecked, as the sports media so often does.
If the over/under on another white player being assaulted in the NBA this season is 0.5 – take the over.
It won’t happen, but it would be great if all white owners in the NBA sold to black ownership, all white coaches replaced with black coaches, and all white players replaced with black players. The failure of the league would be epic!
This is nothing new. Kermit Washington clocked Rudy Tomjanovich decades ago, breaking his jaw and Isiah Thomas once said that if Larry Bird was black he’d just be considered another basketball player…
The white players are not thoroughbreds
You get punched? Punch back. Or alternatively kick him in the balls.
There are talented white players in high school who choose not to play. That is for many years when a HS basketball squad becomes majority black, white players often become slighted, made to feel they don’t belong and discriminated against in subtle ways.
“She’s going to face a level of racism from black players, and she’s going to face a level of hostility from lesbian players because she’s not on team LGBTQ. She’s a Catholic [and] she’s got some boyfriend,” which means she’s going to walk into an extremely hostile environment,” said Whitlock.
We’re to tolerate them but they are free to be intolerant to us. Got it.
When will white people get reparations for the violence committed against them by black people?
I don’t believe there is a racial component to Draymond Green’s antics. There are dustups between black/not white players all the time.
There are surely bigoted black players in the NBA. Just like there are bigoted white players in MLB. And NHL. And PGA.
This article is looking for something that isn’t really there, IMHO. Suggests a conspiracy of some sort that doesn’t exist.
I learned all about black rage, uncivilized behavior, and lack self-control when I got sucker punched by one when leaving a movie theater when I was 13. He wheeled me around, let fly a right hook, and dropped me on the spot. This was back in 1964. I had five or six rude and near-violent encounters and confrontations with them in the following twenty years. I took Scott Adams advice decades before he delivered it.
“The failure of the league would be epic!”
All kinds of idiots would still flock to it to see the drama.
The NFL is a prime example.
I switched from basketball to volleyball.
No blacks, and hot white chicks.
Same reason I swim and enjoy tennis.
I don’t have an explanation for competing in T&F sprinting though.
Aside from enjoying it.
If black players want the NBA to themselves, do it. Then go form a NWA league for players who pass a lighter skin color test. Problem solved. To each his own.
I’m rooting for McClung tonight.
(If the NBA were really about entertainment, they’d have Jaylen Brown in the skills contest rather than dunking.)
I stopped watching NBA games years ago, after Larry Bird retired.
So white guys can’t play basketball?
Wonder what the response would be if a white person were to say point blank that blacks, by there own behavior, are incapable of acting in a civilized manner and therefore the rest of us need to separate ourselves from them.
I worked with basketball for years. This does not surprise me.
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