My issue is that you are coopting someone else's thing for YOUR thing. You want to protest? fine. Pay for the stadium, the ushers, the crew, the TV cameras and the tickets for the people that have to deal with your issue. Once you put on the Jazz uniform, you need to be playing for your team and not making an individual spectacle for yourself. If you weren't wearing the Jazz uni, nobody would care. You don't have a right to use the status somebody else has built in order to give voice to your pet projects. You want to do that on YOUR time, fine. But when you wear the Jazz uni, you better have the team buying in as a whole, because you are borrowing THEIR credibility. I can't imagine you are building team unity with that attitude.
Now imagine you were a former starter who got demoted because you sucked. You have even less right to involve your teammates, in your cause, on their court.
Also, you re not "building awareness," you are being an ***. Nobody has said, "Wow, that guy being an *** is really bringing me around to his point of view! Maybe if he would just block traffic on my way to work, I would totally support him!"
