Posted on 08/27/2020 10:19:53 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Last night, wrote that I couldn’t care less whether the NBA playoffs are cancelled due to a players’ boycott protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake. On reflection, I’m going to amend that statement. I’d be slightly happier if the playoffs were cancelled.
I haven’t watched a minute of the playoffs or the “bubble” games that preceded them. It’s my understanding, though, that the players use these games to promote Black Lives Matter, a radical far left movement.
If the games aren’t played, they cannot be used for propaganda purposes. The players won’t have that platform. Without it, America will tune them out. I think the players will be surprised by how quickly they lose relevance in the absence of the games that brought them to prominence.
It would therefore be imprudent from a BLM-promoting perspective for the players to shut down the playoffs. For that reason, I’d prefer that the playoffs not proceed.
Here’s something else to consider. Criminals are going to continue resisting arrest, as Jacob Blake did. Some officers will continue to use force to make arrests. No matter what Lebron James and other athletes demand, sometimes that force will be deadly.
Will the NBA shut down every time a white police officers uses deadly force against a black criminal? If so, the league won’t be sustainable.
The NBA players aren’t geniuses. However, they may be smart enough to realize, once they think it over, that political as well as financial considerations argue in favor of finishing the playoffs, after the players obtain a few more concessions from the league.
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Send the players to a country more matched to their - er - .....
As many of the players who seem to be supportive of the “cancel culture”, I would be perfectly fine with canceling the NBA permanently...
Who cares if these THUGs ever play another GAME....it’s a damn GAME fool.....only fools watch BB anyway.
Protesting the shooting for an ex-con, child molester, who resisted arrest, fought with cops, and was armed when shot by cops. I get it.
Is there a list of recent fake narratives by the left, from Ferguson on?
The NOT FOR LONG, NFL, these thugs will go to hell too!!!
Who in Hell Cares????
This FOOL need to go>>>> BYE!!!
Why waste your time writing an article about it. Who cares.
Ignore the NBA
...height?
What does “NBA” stand for, and why should I care?
Cancel the NBA, period.
Rather watch EuroLeague games anyway. The crowds there are the real show.
I agree. If they don’t show the games, they may show Hee Haw re-runs instead.
Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark, depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me
I can remember when basketball was a fun game to watch...
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-28-sp-1425-story.html
Had a lot of high school all Americans..
Riley would eventually star for Adolph Rupp at Kentucky and play in the NBA with the Lakers and the Suns.
The 6-3 junior forward was so good in high school, in fact, that Linton Coach Walter Przybylo expected him to take most of his team’s shots, especially at the end of close games.
The tactic almost invariably worked. With the help of another outstanding athlete who played at Linton in the late 1950s, future NBA player Barry Kramer, the school won 52 of 54 games in one stretch from 1958 to 1961.
My wife years ago suggested to only watch the final championship game in the supposedly last 5 minutes.
Her rationale:
1. Probably the best 5 minutes of the playoffs.
2. With all of the time outs, penalties and delays, that would cover a lot of real time, enough for us until the next year.
It worked.
We will read books during this year’s so called finals.
That's what came to mind when I read this. If a basketball team goes on strike and no one clamors to watch them play, do the free throws count?
(Ditto baseball. I love baseball. LOVE baseball. Haven't watched a game this year. Haven't missed it. My team is in first place, and I don't care.)
This was the morning gym treadmill discussion and many others agree with you.
Yes, even the baseball teams now kneel for Karl Marx. Now, baseball is un-american garbage.
Golf may be the only sport left that celebrates freedom.
Cancelling the season to cover up the bad ratings....
“Send the players to a country more matched to their - er - .....”
...dribbling skills?
What’s an NBA?
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