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You're buying what they're selling...Not me..What percentage of the Celtics does Bill Russell own? To the whites of Boston he was once a n1gger, now he's a n1gger that won their city a bunch of shiny metal...Now you can wrap it up in "history" "legacy" and a bunch of other horse sh1t folklore, but it still means nothing for his humanity as a MAN...Ehhh...........while I would not have played and I am bothered by the whole idea of focusing on the game, this isn't the best analogy. There is something of individual and group merit of winning an NBA championship that goes down in history. Fighting to pick cotton to the best of your abilities will just make you the best of a nameless mass of exploited people who will go to unmarked graves and be forgotten or whose legacy will be framed solely by the slaveowners who oppressed you. You can separate the team from an owner or a city. Bill Russel did that, but that separation pales in comparison to what they can stand up for here.
I have more respect for a dude to come out and flat out say he's playing for money..Better that than to play for platitudes and "that-a-boys"for a city or fanbase that is littered with thousands who share Sterling's sentiments...