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They can speak out all they want, i don't care. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I don't agree with everyone's opinion, but i have zero problem with anyone speaking out about things they care about. That's what makes this country great. The NBA has allowed them to put stupid arse shite on their jerseys to speak out, put BLM on their court, allowed them to speak about all of this without any fear of retribution from their employer for expressing their beliefs regardless if it hurts their business or not. This is a employer who made a man sell his business b/c he said some racist things. I think it's ridiculous he was forced to sell the team. I also think he's a fricking moron of a human being that deserved what he got b/c of what he said. This same employer fined a player $100k for saying the word fagget. Yet someone hollers out bitch arse white boy and they make excuses for him and quickly sweep it under the run like it was no big deal. If that isn't an employer that stands behind it's black employees, i don't know who is.
And these employees repay them by walking out on the most important financial part of their season. They are just as stupid as the dumb fricks destroying other peoples property that have nothing to do with what they are protesting against. They took a stand at the cost of their employer. That was stupid as frick, and they should be penalized b/c of it, financially.
These guys have all sorts of platforms to speak out, and the resources to help make change in this country. Boycotting their playoffs was fricking stupid, and everyone is laughing at how stupid they are for doing so.
There's a right way to stand up and speak out, and there's a stupid way. Go listen to this man speak. LINK

You clearly do care though, a lot it seems.

You dont want to talk about it, fine, don’t talk about it, but you specifically chose to make performative theater out of my post, and only my post, when the entire thread was political.

And reading more of your thoughts it seems clear why, those thoughts align with yours.

You want them to shut up and dribble and think systemic racism is a joke. You long for a day employers could silence pro athletes(though I wonder if you said the same about Drew Brees?) and consider their protests both pointless and ineffective and yet escalating in response to feeling they are in fact not doing enough is also pointless.

When people were echoing your thoughts, you didnt care, when someone came in pushing back you got triggered.

It’s fine, lets just be honest here and drop the signaling shite.

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Posted by TeddyPadillac

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Posted on 8/28/20 at 12:35 pm to Bronc

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You dont want to talk about it, fine, don’t talk about it, but you specifically chose to make performative theater out of my post, and only my post, when the entire thread was political.

I did nothing of a sort. I told EVERYONE to shut the frick up. You chose to fight back with me about shutting the frick up. I pointed out that the arguing by everyone about politics and race should be done elsewhere. I gave examples of the types of replies i'd like to see in this thread, things that i actually would like to know more about.

How does this affect the CBA? Can the owners void it and start a new one b/c of this?
How does this affect the salary cap? Kind of a big one. This one will undoubtedly affect FA, which is another question.

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You want them to shut up and dribble and think systemic racism is a joke.

You fricking right i want them to shut the frick up and dribble, WHEN THEY ARE PLAYING A BASKETBALL GAME. They can speak out about whatever the frick they want off the court, and they do, and i support their right to, whether i agree with it or not. It doesn't matter if i think it's a joke or not. I'm not hear to talk about it, but you can't shut the frick up about it for some reason. If i wanted to talk about it, i'd do it on the proper board.
WHen i go to Whataburger you know what i want? A fricking hamburger. You know what i don't want? To hear the persons opinions on social justice, or politics, or religion, or basically anything at all instead of making my hamburger. Just make my fricking hamburger and give it to me. If i go to a concert, i want to hear music, not what the musician thinks about politics. If i cared about anyone elses opinion on all these things, i'd get a twatter account and follow them. I don't care about Lebron's opinions on non-basketball related things. I don't care about Drew Bree's opinions on non-football related things. I don't care about Tom Hanks opinions about non-movies. My employer doesn't care about my opinions about non-work related things either, just that i do my job the right way. When you're at work, do work. When you're on your own time, do whatever the frick you want. This isn't 1960 anymore. If i wanted to follow Lebron or Brees on what they do away from the court/field, i can very easily do that. Their job is to entertain patrons of their sport. Do your job. Do whatever the frick you want when you're not at work. It's a free country.

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You long for a day employers could silence pro athletes(though I wonder if you said the same about Drew Brees?) and consider their protests both pointless and ineffective and yet escalating in response to feeling they are in fact not doing enough is also pointless.

what in the frick are you talking about? I support every american's right to speak out and protest if they feel that's what needs to be done. As i said before there's a right way to protest and a wrong way. There's also consequences for the things you do and say, regardless if you think you're right or not.

What i long for is for you to shut the frick up about this and tell me if you think we should draft one of the SF's available or a PG like Cole Anthoney or Kira Lewis.

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