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Deadspin to Jackie MacMullan: Kyrie Irving and Black NBA players aren't anybody's property
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:45 pm
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Jackie MacMullan is one of the world’s best sportswriters and has covered a Black league in the NBA for decades. As a woman working in a male-dominated industry, you would think she would have a good grasp on the diminished role minorities have historically played in sports.
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You thought wrong.
Recently, we found out that not only does MacMullan not understand it, but that she believes that Kyrie Irving and other Black, and white, players in the NBA are “property.”
This is the verbiage of a “Karen.”
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“Well, so I will tell you this,” she told Bill Simmons on a recent episode of The Ryen Russillo Podcast. “I was thinking about all the conversations I’ve had with Kyrie through the years. One of them I had, I don’t know, two years ago, we got into an argument about, you know, something, and he’s like, ‘Well, there shouldn’t be an NBA draft. Players should be able to go wherever they want to go. We’re not someone’s property.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah you are dude, that’s the way it works. That’s why you get paid all these millions.’”
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Even after everything that’s happened in the era of Trump, the events of 2020, and what’s already taken place this year, MacMullan’s mentality is yet another example of how so many in White America look at Black athletes solely as entertainment, as property. They aren’t people, just tools that help them escape from the realities of their lives and racism.
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MacMullan has never been anyone’s “property.” The Boston Globe didn’t own her when she worked there, and neither does ESPN right now. She didn’t get drafted out of college, she’s been free to make her own career decisions.
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Back in 2017, Draymond Green started a conversation about the term “owner,” as he felt it was inappropriate to still be used in today’s NBA that is dominated by Black players on the floor and white owners in the front office in a post-Donald Sterling era.
“Very rarely do we take the time to re-think something and say, ‘Maybe that’s not the way,’” Green said back then. “Just because someone was taught that 100 years ago doesn’t make that the right thing today. And so, when you look at the word ‘owner,’ it really dates back to slavery. The word ‘owner,’ ‘master’ — it dates back to slavery ... we just took the words and we continued to put it to use.”
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The conversation that Green started led to the league moving away from the word “owner” and using the term “governor,” which is something that MacMullan is fully aware of.
“I don’t want to overreact to the term because, as I said earlier, people end up twisting themselves into knots avoiding the use of the word ‘owner,’” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in 2019. “But we moved away from that term years ago with the league. We call our team owners ‘governors’ of the team and ‘alternate governors.’ So I think it makes sense. As I said, I don’t want to overreact ... but I’m sensitive to it, and I think to the extent that teams are moving away from the term, we’ll stick with using Governor.”
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That doesn’t look like a man that’s anybody’s property. But, this situation does feel like Jackie MacMullan is a woman that’s upset that Black players, like Kyrie Irving, are operating like … owners of themselves.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:46 pm to tiggerthetooth
Can't even take a shite nowadays without it being considered political
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:47 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Deadspin
Thought they were dead?
Only thing they have ever done is break the Manti Teo story.
This post was edited on 1/19/21 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:47 pm to tiggerthetooth
Now here is a guy that doesn't understand contract law
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:47 pm to tiggerthetooth
I completely forgot about Draymond Greens dumbass woke comment about owners.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:50 pm to tiggerthetooth
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The conversation that Green started led to the league moving away from the word “owner” and using the term “governor,”
this still makes me laugh years later. we're in the wrong timeline
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:50 pm to tiggerthetooth
Look at this misogynistic piece of shite targeting MacMullan.. Oh wait, wait.. the author is black? Never mind, he's so brave!! Give this man an award!
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:52 pm to Dawgfan247
This ain't travel ball
You would not have a league if players could sign wherever they wanted in a professional sports league
The NBA is not set up equally for all teams
The small market teams are nothing more than minor leagues for the larger markets
Same thing with MLB, the small market teams can't keep their stars as the Yankees and Dodgers swoop in and sign the high priced players
The NFL is about the only league that has created a league where parity allows all teams to compete
You would not have a league if players could sign wherever they wanted in a professional sports league
The NBA is not set up equally for all teams
The small market teams are nothing more than minor leagues for the larger markets
Same thing with MLB, the small market teams can't keep their stars as the Yankees and Dodgers swoop in and sign the high priced players
The NFL is about the only league that has created a league where parity allows all teams to compete
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:53 pm to tiggerthetooth
If you coach for the New Orleans Saints, they own you.
It’s not a white/black issue.
It’s not a white/black issue.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:55 pm to Choupique19
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It’s not a white/black issue.
Not with that attitude. Everything is a white/black issue if you try hard enough. If you believe, you can achieve!
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:56 pm to tiggerthetooth
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MacMullan’s mentality is yet another example of how so many in White America look at Black athletes solely as entertainment, as property
All athletes are entertainers. Nothing they do is necessary for the survival and safety of the human species.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:56 pm to tiggerthetooth
Yea...im not clicking on any Deadspin article.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:57 pm to tiggerthetooth
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She didn’t get drafted out of college, she’s been free to make her own career decisions.
It amazes me that athletes and those that back them during these arguments don’t understand that the players did not have to play in the NBA. If Kyrie didn’t want to work in any of the cities he’s been in he could have not signed the contract or retired and then gone wherever he pleases.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:57 pm to tiggerthetooth
quote:They fricking get paid millions of dollars because they are a form of entertainment. That's it. No other reason.
so many in White America look at Black athletes solely as entertainment
quote:No frick. That's what all forms of entertainment are.
They aren’t people, just tools that help them escape from the realities of their lives
I genuinely don't care about the personal lives of anyone that are not my friends/family. That doesn't mean that I wish any ill will toward these people, I hope their lives are great, but I really just don't care about them. They are in my life for a reason: they provide a service, entertainment, or a product that I enjoy. This goes for people of all races, I just don't give a shite.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:57 pm to tiggerthetooth
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he’s like, ‘Well, there shouldn’t be an NBA draft. Players should be able to go wherever they want to go. We’re not someone’s property.
Hockey Owners are racist!!!!
This post was edited on 1/19/21 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 1/19/21 at 1:58 pm to tiggerthetooth
quote:Nobody is forcing Irving to play basketball. He can change careers and make money doing whatever else he wants. He CHOSE to play a game and get paid millions. And im very jealous of him. If that makes me racist than frick my sweet backside with a shovel and call me Wendy.
MacMullan has never been anyone’s “property.” The Boston Globe didn’t own her when she worked there, and neither does ESPN right now. She didn’t get drafted out of college, she’s been free to make her own career decisions.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 2:00 pm to tiggerthetooth
TIL Deadspin is still a thing
Posted on 1/19/21 at 2:03 pm to tiggerthetooth
It’s hilarious listening to Russillo on the BS pod just waiting to be taken out of context
Posted on 1/19/21 at 2:03 pm to tiggerthetooth
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tiggerthetooth
99% of the clicks deadspin gets are hateclicks driven by retards like you who just cant fricking help themselves.
stop bringing this drivel to this board.
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