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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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Posted on 8/28/20 at 12:56 pm to TeddyPadillac

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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.

It’s a free country.....says employees should be dominated by corporate overlords and have no rights in their workplace, even if their boss agrees/encourages it, even if they have the ability to leverage themselves.

Quite the corporatist bootlicking philosophy you got there. The Bezos class would be proud!

Listen, like I said, plenty of other threads to frequent, you all started this political shite, literally laughing at their cause, so quit crying when people push back. And lets not rewrite history, you quoted us, those pushing back to go off on your rant. You were radio silent for days as people pumped Trump and piled onto the sentiments you had.

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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.

....Except if they speak out in a way you don’t approve of.

Always the wrong way to protest though isn’t i? So what is the right way? Seems a knee was too triggering, words on a jersey too in-your-face, riots uncouth, a peaceful gathering unjustified and disrupting.

Seems to me the consequence right now is the player’s got every team to open up their stadiums as voting hubs to combat voter suppression efforts on the part of the federal government, leveraging the NBA’s infrastructure to help people vote.

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