This NBA season will likely be politicized like no other

This is all my opinion, but I can envision an NBA in which about half of the players don't stand for the national anthem. The NBA is a league that is far more liberal than the NFL, MLB, or NHL.

- NBA Owners proactively boycotted Trump hotels last season
- NBA Coaches like Kerr and Pop publicly decried Trump and Trump voters
- NBA Players attended Clinton rallies and publicly identified with the BLM movement
- NBA Media types are far more outspoken on leftist social causes at the national and local level than any other sport
- NBA fans are younger and skew heavily liberal. Most of the NBA diehard fans who are white are SJW's and proud of it. Every single writer for every Pelicans fan website is very, very far left (they are all white).

The fans themselves will start to sit during the anthem in a joint act of defiance - we were already seeing this at some games last year after Trump took office. It was mostly black fans last year who would sit and talk or sit and look defiantly at their phones. Perhaps now some liberal whites will join them, buying the narrative that any flag which represents Trump's America isn't worth saluting.

This will make for a far more tense atmosphere at Pelicans games (for example) as the racial divides between people who sit and stand will be somewhat obvious, and it will create a tensity that has never existed before. What once brought us together and united us will for the first time start to divide us. Parents might sense the tension and decide it's not a good place to bring young children anymore.

I hope that I'm wrong about all of this, but with ESPN, coaches, players, fans, and social media politicizing sports like never before it's a foregone conclusion that this will happen to some extent.