Some NBA players may protest by boycotting playoffs

[ThaRealness]

If the players boycott, you gotta respect that.

The other reality is that the owners drafted up an incredibly greedy proposal. 22 teams... 7 game series... that's so much fukking basketball.

Like someone else said here... NBA players arent astronauts. They didnt sign up for 3 months away from family and friends. The owners are just trying to play as many games as possible, at the expense of the players. Its a bad look, and the players have realized that. I don't think the season will be cancelled, but it should be renegotiated.

16 teams. 4 exhibition games and then the playoffs. Some type of extra injury compensation. 5 game series in the 1st round.

 

[FakeNews]

 

[FakeNews]

 

[drifter]

House nicca talk

This is gonna be a mountain of a post but you have to understand some people are just fine being slaves. It's a psychological thing and it's common for most people to die without ever thinking differently.

And I ain't talking slave ships and plantations when I call them slaves, I'm talking "jobs". For major majority this country teaches two things, to work for someone else and celebrate scraps (raises/bonuses) while they profit the most off of your work, the other being death. You die and we replace you, the gravy train won't stop. We're conditioned to accept this form of life from an early age seeing our parents go to work, it's just the way it's supposed to be. And all races are on the same hamster wheel although it's clear which one has the better wheel, cedar chips, water, etc.

So when people decide this no longer works for them and they want to decide shyt for the betterment of themselves, you often get responses like the one that dude quoted "So they're too good to do their jobs. What makes them different from hospitality, essential workers, delivery workers, etc" and the one you quoted where they just completely miss the point.

They're so engrained in their own punch in/punch out mind they can't even comprehend differently. How about hospitality and delivery workers shouldn't be in the position where they have to decide between their next meal or getting a virus that could permanently effect their quality of life for that meal. How about white, black, brown, yellow should've been marching in the streets of DC months before Floyd died in protest of the greatest wealth transfer in American history and the trillions of dollars allocated to propping up the stock market. Those same trillions could've been used to make sure the working class has what they need to still provide for their family without risking their health, so that when shyt is opened up you can live life normally without worrying about shyt. Instead we protested for shyt to open up so we can back to the status quo of being a worker & consumer, we need more places open so we can spend our stimulus checks.

So that's why I fully respect these black men that are saying "We don't think it's time to go back to status quo yet" to address the inequality, but they also see the "bubble" isn't actually a bubble at all and see they aren't in positions of safety. It's a strong message considering the financials involved. Let Silver, Woj, and the rest of the Jews & non blacks in NBA media put on armbands and shut up and dribble. Let's see what the ratings look like on that.

Which is why I'm not surprised the majority covering the NBA are against any measures of the season not coming back, racial inequality has never affected their lives but basketball not coming back will. And any supposedly black person who can't understand any of that is 2x the slave. You're a working slave as well as a doughnut nothing in the middle head ass field nikka who can't even recognize what they're doing along with everything else the past few weeks benefits your black ass too.

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Yea bruh them sitting out would have an economic impact that would DEFINITELY be felt. Of ourse they’d feel it more than the owners but the owners still would too.

Y’all need to just keep it a buck and say y’all miss sports moreso than the chance to get yourself out of oppression. I for one would love to have basketball back and in TV. But at the same time this is a PIVOTAL time in history for us so why welcome the distractions back? This ain’t about their money for y’all. It’s about yalls over obsession with sports...

it’s not a obsession over sports . I’d watch soccer all damn day .My team aint even participating this summer . it’s just the fact that people believe sitting out a month from now is somehow a chess move.People are already distracted by Netflix ,social media and the fact they can go outside after months of lockdown .

This isn’t 100% about oppression. First it was they don’t like the bubble,Then it’s injury risk ,now it’s George Floyd ? They all over the place

And even if it is about Floyd why would my local Police Department care about some NBA shyt? Where are the objectives ?Why weren’t most of these nikkas outside when shyt was really real ?

The owners financial impact would be temporary. Ok fine sit out this year . New CBA time comes up and the owners will make up every damn dollar they missed out on. These owners own teams for 30 years .They have decades to get their cash back . While the average nba career is 5 years .Who really going to lose ? Future players will have to scrape back just to get to the point we’re at now


A black dude watching a Jazz-Pelicans game in August is going to forget about oppression?

NBA coming back is going to make black women ,gays and nikkas who don’t care about sports sit down ?


shyt is borderline insulting to act like nikkas is kids and can’t do two things at once

 

[Born2BKing]

This is gonna be a mountain of a post but you have to understand some people are just fine being slaves. It's a psychological thing and it's common for most people to die without ever thinking differently.

And I ain't talking slave ships and plantations when I call them slaves, I'm talking "jobs". For major majority this country teaches two things, to work for someone else and celebrate scraps (raises/bonuses) while they profit the most off of your work, the other being death. You die and we replace you, the gravy train won't stop. We're conditioned to accept this form of life from an early age seeing our parents go to work, it's just the way it's supposed to be. And all races are on the same hamster wheel although it's clear which one has the better wheel, cedar chips, water, etc.

So when people decide this no longer works for them and they want to decide shyt for the betterment of themselves, you often get responses like the one that dude quoted "So they're too good to do their jobs. What makes them different from hospitality, essential workers, delivery workers, etc" and the one you quoted where they just completely miss the point.

They're so engrained in their own punch in/punch out mind they can't even comprehend differently. How about hospitality and delivery workers shouldn't be in the position where they have to decide between their next meal or getting a virus that could permanently effect their quality of life for that meal. How about white, black, brown, yellow should've been marching in the streets of DC months before Floyd died in protest of the greatest wealth transfer in American history and the trillions of dollars allocated to propping up the stock market. Those same trillions could've been used to make sure the working class has what they need to still provide for their family without risking their health, so that when shyt is opened up you can live life normally without worrying about shyt. Instead we protested for shyt to open up so we can back to the status quo of being a worker & consumer, we need more places open so we can spend our stimulus checks.

So that's why I fully respect these black men that are saying "We don't think it's time to go back to status quo yet" to address the inequality, but they also see the "bubble" isn't actually a bubble at all and see they aren't in positions of safety. It's a strong message considering the financials involved. Let Silver, Woj, and the rest of the Jews & non blacks in NBA media put on armbands and shut up and dribble. Let's see what the ratings look like on that.

Which is why I'm not surprised the majority covering the NBA are against any measures of the season not coming back, racial inequality has never affected their lives but basketball not coming back will. And any supposedly black person who can't understand any of that is 2x the slave. You're a working slave as well as a doughnut nothing in the middle head ass field nikka who can't even recognize what they're doing along with everything else the past few weeks benefits your black ass too.

Hey breh, you know slaves didn't get paid right? Also you know slavery wasn't a choice right?

 

[I AM WARHOL]

Dumbass NBA media hates Kyrie and have exposed themselves. This was the wrong hill for them to die on

 

[Originalman]

Some more details just to put stuff in context.

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

Yea bruh them sitting out would have an economic impact that would DEFINITELY be felt. Of ourse they’d feel it more than the owners but the owners still would too.

Y’all need to just keep it a buck and say y’all miss sports moreso than the chance to get yourself out of oppression. I for one would love to have basketball back and in TV. But at the same time this is a PIVOTAL time in history for us so why welcome the distractions back? This ain’t

Because you said so?

no because it doesn’t even make sense

Also, wrong or right, if the NFL, NCAAF and other league get back and the NBA doesn’t it’s going to look terrible. The value and interest of the league will plummet.

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Some more details just to put stuff in context.

IFam I wish I would let a nikka who already had two
Max deals and is going to get paid regardless fukk my families wealth up

 

[calh45]

it’s not an obsession over sports . I’d watch soccer all damn day .My team aint even participating this summer . it’s just the fact that people believe sitting out a month from now is somehow a chess move.People are already distracted by Netflix ,social media and the fact they can go outside after months of lockdown .

This isn’t 100% about oppression. First it was they don’t like the bubble,Then it’s injury risk ,now it’s George Floyd ? They all over the place

And even if it is about Floyd why would my local Police Department care about some NBA shyt? Where are the objectives ?Why weren’t most of these nikkas outside when shyt was really real ?

The owners financial impact would be temporary. Ok fine sit out this year . New CBA time comes up and the owners will make up every damn dollar they missed out on. These owners own teams for 30 years .They have decades to get their cash back . While the average nba career is 5 years .Who really going to lose ? Future players will have to scrape back just to get to the point we’re at now


A black dude watching a Jazz-Pelicans game in August is going to forget about oppression?

NBA coming back is going to make black women ,gays and nikkas who don’t care about sports sit down ?


shyt is borderline insulting to act like nikkas is kids and can’t do two things at once

The final sentence is precisely why this is not a good idea. His spirit is in the right place, but no. If anything Kaep's experience shows that you can keep the conversation in the news they just need to put effort into not allowing Fox to muddy the narrative. We can do two things at once and considering how many people will be watching the message would be amplified if they were genuine about keeping it going.

This feels like the flat earth thing to me where he's saying something different just to be the guy that's different and sometimes that ain't the right move.

 

[Originalman]

I
Fam I wish I would let a nikka who already had two
Max deals and is going to get paid regardless fukk my families wealth up

Breh we see in all these lockout instances the lower level players and journey men push back and be like naw we negotiating a deal. You saw it in the NFL lockout and the NBA 2011 lockout season (also the 1999 lockout season).

Hell you even see it with union strikes for regular folks. The folks that make the big money usually don't want a deal. But the folks that make the lower salaries screaming deal deal deal.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Yea bruh them sitting out would have an economic impact that would DEFINITELY be felt. Of ourse they’d feel it more than the owners but the owners still would too.

Y’all need to just keep it a buck and say y’all miss sports moreso than the chance to get yourself out of oppression. I for one would love to have basketball back and in TV. But at the same time this is a PIVOTAL time in history for us so why welcome the distractions back? This ain’t about their money for y’all. It’s about yalls over obsession with sports...

The league’s been away for 3 months. Pretty sure people have found other distractions to pass the time. If you’re worried that sports deterring from real life shyt, your priorities are off and by the end of July you won’t be as fervent about this anyway. When things open up and everyone goes back to work and things slightly become less restrictive, you’ll find out who is really working towards this.

 

[goatmane]

Austin Rivers

 

[I AM WARHOL]

This issue is multilayered.

1. You have the covid issue. From what I'm getting this "bubble" isnt really a bubble. So this is a player safety issue. One thing we forget when it comes to the nba, since they usually seem so progressive, is that they are still a majority white owned business. They have not done the due diligence of making a plan that keeps everyone safe. This is a "reopen the economy" move. If it was 100% safe to play, there would be no major discussion here.

2. Political unrest. In a time of zero distractions due to covid, we have seen the most focused protests in America since the 60s. Sports being off the table 100% has played a big factor in this. Let's say the NBA had made it 100% safe for players to return, they would probably be contractually obligated to play. But here we have a situation where the conditions of a return would not be safe for anyone, plus a protest, that quite frankly, would be distracted by NBA basketball. It just seems like the perfect time to make that statement "protest" . We all know if covid didnt happen and all these deaths happened all the nba players would "band together" with some weak ass "powerful" statement like a t shirt. None of them would actively sit out to protest against injustice. Covid has given them an opportunity to sacrifice a diminished farce of a season (that is also potentially dangerous) for a bigger cause. Obviously it would be more powerful if the top athletes did this during a real season, but since they never do that, why not at least do it with this bogus season for this new movement