Seriously, I don't.
They are protesting by not playing a game.... why? Their boss's don't control any aspect of what is going on in the world. By not playing the game, all they are doing is costing their employer money and annoying their remaining fans who enjoy watching the game. To what end? All this does is hurt their business. It makes people like me go "You don't want to play? Ok I'll find a better way to spend my time."
This is the equivalent of me and my team at work not going to work in protest because the feds still consider pot illegal. My bosses don't control federal policy, nor do they influence it. All I'm doing is costing my company money and pissing off my superiors. If I did this, I would at best be written up for refusal to work, and at worst terminated on the spot.
They are employees of a company. Very well paid employees of a company. Their job is to play the sports ball game. Instead of getting fired, they are being lauded by the legacy media, their bosses are oking it, hell even the league isn't penalizing them by giving them an L.
The only reason they are doing this is because they know they can get away with it. They know they won't get fired, they know their check is going to clear on pay day, and they know they will never suffer repercussions of being retards like this. Period.
As a side note, I ain't kneeling for shit. Fuck what they say or do.
Their ratings were tanking and they can cancel their games to save face. If no one is watching anyway, you might as well act like it was your decision to stop playing.
Hopefully they boycott next season as well.
its the logical conclusion of social justice. they try to out-righteous each other over and over again until the point where there is nothing left anymore. if you ask me the NBA is finished after everything that's happened. nobody is going to go back to watching this like nothing ever happened.
2020 has proven to be the most character-revealing year in my lifetime so far, and that isn't exclusive to just corporations, but people as well.
R.I.P. NBA
No, may it rest in the fiery pits of Hell.
They are virtue signaling morons. That’s all there is to understand. They don’t care about the sport, the franchise, their employer/club and they certainly don’t care about thei fans or what you think about them.
Don’t reward these idiots with your attention. Stop watching the NBA.
They are insane. They never went to school. Their entire existence takes place in a fantasy world. From their own words, they hate white people, and think they are hurting them.
LeBron - "I don’t want nothing to do with white people".
. . . . and after a few years and LeBron learning:
LeBron, about Trump voters - "At the end of the day, I don't think a lot of people was educated."
So many of the NBA players, especially the loudest ones, are the criminals they say everyone else is. The dog fights, the gunfights, the abuse of women, the NBA players are the dangerous ones.
Few NBA players know anything about the world, and those who do stay quiet so the other NBA players don;t attack them.
As Laura knows, they can bounce a ball, some can shoot the ball, a small number know how to box out for a rebound, but most don't know anything else. The NBA used to have college graduates as players, now they have morons.
How someone can make $100million, spend it all on tattoos and jewelry, and have nothing, crazy.
60 percent? That is almost too amazing to believe. If I were in a position where I was making ridiculous amounts of money like that, I would have half go to some kind of money manager for me. Invest it, make it do something, keep it out of my hands so I can't spend it. That way I at least have something to retire on, if nothing else.
If they don't want to play ball, end their contracts and get some ball players that want to play. That's what a normal business would do. Fuck those virtue signaling scumb bags. Bring in some fresh blood.
This is how it should go. The owners are so cowed they won't though. I just want one with the guts to say something.
Communist Revolution. You have to see everything through the lens of Communism. They want to destroy society.
Players are just pawns and don't know what the hell is going on
Unless they're protesting China, which I've also heard.
Ah, see, you employed logic, reasoning and common sense. Rookie mistake!
Its virtue signaling.
Their league contracts are already guaranteed and they know the league is too scared to punish them. The inmates run the asylum. they aren't employees like normal people.
They lost 40% of their audience already and they are doubling down as a last gasp in order to incite the remaining audience that they have remaining.