NBA orders players to stand for National Anthem

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http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/nba-suggests-teams-unity-ideas-reminds-anthem-rule-50192923

oregonblitzkrieg

What does that pussy Lebron have to say about that?

89ute

Helps Trump IMO.

dnc

Really surprising. The NBA is far and away the most liberal professional sports league in the US that anyone GAF about (fuck off WNBA). Will be chinteresting to see how the players union responds to this.

CuntWaffle

Can't wait! I hope I keep getting updated every day about the who does and doesn't stand for the national anthem every day for the rest of my life!

Fire_Marshall_Bill

Silver didn't back down. By November, the media will have fabricated new things to divide the country and be outraged about so this doesn't matter.

UWhuskytskeet

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Silver didn't back down. By November, the media will have fabricated new things to divide the country and be outraged about so this doesn't matter.

Most players didn't GAF until Trump chimed in.

RaceBannon

Adam Silver is a racist

BleachedAnusDawg

Pretty sure I read that league rules require them to stand in the NBA. There will be lots of raised fists.

FireCohen

this shit is all about money. they see that all this kneeling shit is hurting nfl ratings. only color that matters in this situation is fucking green

RoadDawg55

WeakarmCobra said:

this shit is all about money. they see that all this kneeling shit is hurting nfl ratings. only color that matters in this situation is fucking green

NBA players make more money and the league is growing. I doubt it was hard to get the players on board with not doing anything to fuck up the bottom line and future revenues.

allpurpleallgold

This whole thing has jumped the shark. I'm over it. Kaepernick was actually kneeling for something. Unity is a meaningless buzzword.

CuntWaffle

I hope some players kneel and get fined. Then their will be an outrage that Silver is a racist who doesn't believe in FREE SPEECH!1! Arguments will happen because the right wing people will say that free speech doesn't mean your employer can't fine/fire you because of it. Then the left will point out that they freaked out when employers fired the alt right protesters when they found out.

This whole fucking thing is a bunch of retarded dogs chasing their tails at this point. It has always been this way to a degree now its just 1000000x worse these days.

Lets just say fuck the national anthem and not sing it before every sporting event, win/win for everyone.

greenblood

I'd be more worried about players actually playing full-time. The star players taking every 3rd or 4th road game off to rest will do more harm to the product than if they stand for the anthem or not. Shitty teams still sell out home games against teams like the Cavs because people want to see Lebron. However, they won't come to watch Kyle Korver and JR Smith get extended minutes.

oregonblitzkrieg

allpurpleallgold said:

This whole thing has jumped the shark. I'm over it. Kaepernick was actually kneeling for something. Unity is a meaningless buzzword.

You are over it, bullshit. Your vagina was leaking as much as Boobs was. Must not have been that important to begin with. The faux outrage was mildly entertaining though.

Kaepsknee

Great what's next? Player introductions off of a flatbed????














Donald Sterling would have never made his players stand. Just sayin'.

DerekJohnson

CuntWaffle said:

Can't wait! I hope I keep getting updated every day about the who does and doesn't stand for the national anthem every day for the rest of my life!