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Players only meeting.

I fully support the fight for equality and justice. If the players want to use their platform to make a statement.. cool. Nothing but love and respect.

At the same time I feel like all this does in the end is hurt the NBA as a business and hurt the vast majority of fans who are not racist and just want to watch a game they enjoy.

The people who need to change are not going to change because the NBA shutdown for a day, 3 weeks or 30 years. They don't give a damn. It's like me boycotting work to get a supermodel who doesn't know who the f*** I am to marry me.
 
NAOS said:
As for the rest of your post, I can guarantee you that many players have spoken out and tangibly worked on many if not all of these things. Perhaps that’s what they want to rejoin after leaving the bubble.
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I would hope there is. You would think there would be lots of media coverage of this type of effort from players. I haven't heard any of it. To quote you (below), as of right now, there is no evidence of it.

NAOS said:
As of right now, there’s no evidence that their resumption in the bubble has produced any political or juridical progress.
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That would be impossible to measure considering the short amount of time they have been in the bubble, and the infinite number of external factors that would impact said political or juridical progress. Its quite possible their efforts have done significant good in raising awareness, and now they are throwing that progress away due to one stupid cop. As I mentioned earlier, this stuff has to be measured over longer time periods.
 
SCS said:
I fully support the fight for equality and justice. If the players want to use their platform to make a statement.. cool. Nothing but love and respect.

At the same time I feel like all this does in the end is hurt the NBA as a business and hurt the vast majority of fans who are not racist and just want to watch a game they enjoy.

The people who need to change are not going to change because the NBA shutdown for a day, 3 weeks or 30 years. They don't give a damn. It's like me boycotting work to get a supermodel who doesn't know who the f*** I am to marry me.
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I finally have a reason to quit my job.
 
I have mixed feelings about this. My view of the world really changed over the last year, I was diagnosed with cancer in December and have gone through hell trying to survive. I really have no patience for this grandstanding nonsense. The important things in life start at home with your family and loved ones.
I spent dec, Jan, Feb, March, April, may, locked down because I am/ was extremely high risk. I guess what I am feeling is that there are better ways of effecting change. Sitting here watching people literally burn down their own community just didn't make me want to be a part of whatever they were trying to accomplish.
Now watching these guys literally take their balls and go home does nothing but make me feel like they are just virtue signaling.
They have a very unique platform that they are just going to waste.
 
SCS said:
At the same time I feel like all this does in the end is hurt the NBA as a business and hurt the vast majority of fans who are not racist and just want to watch a game they enjoy.
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How the **** can majority of fans not be racist when we were all raised in a systemically racist society? Are you actually so naive to believe, on one hand, that we have a serious problem with racism in society, but on the other hand, you're not racist at all?
 
whatthe said:
I think their voices are louder in the bubble, sorry but it is true.

But if they want to walkout, then do it and create a drop the mike moment. Or get the cameras on them and few players make a statements for few minutes before each game. But it's up to them.

Covid and the racial injustice stuff all just sucks...like...royally. Can we just skip to 2021?
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Cops will still be executing people of color in 2021. Bet.
 
Michaelr said:
I have mixed feelings about this. My view of the world really changed over the last year, I was diagnosed with cancer in December and have gone through hell trying to survive. I really have no patience for this grandstanding nonsense. The important things in life start at home with your family and loved ones.
I spent dec, Jan, Feb, March, April, may, locked down because I am/ was extremely high risk. I guess what I am feeling is that there are better ways of effecting change. Sitting here watching people literally burn down their own community just didn't make me want to be a part of whatever they were trying to accomplish.
Now watching these guys literally take their balls and go home does nothing but make me feel like they are just virtue signaling.
They have a very unique platform that they are just going to waste.
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I wish you nothing but the best in your fight. Beat that bastard cancer.

I completely agree with your stance on everything.

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It’s going to be hilarious watching the players and owners fight over money they are going to loose. But some things are just bigger than money.

I don’t really care what happens, honestly the games were just not the same.
 
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