The games have been great and the bubble has been a wild success. Literally shocked how good the basketball had been and love how wide open the NBA playoffs is I couldn't tell you who is going to win the championship with any certainty.
Skipping a few days of games is not a big deal and won't make a big impact, honestly. Most of the people outraged by this move wouldn't have watched the game in the first place.
The league is mostly Black people and it seems only fair that they should be allowed to speak to the issues that mean something to them.
The best way I've heard it explored is this many Black nba players live with an enormous amount of survivors guilt. They escaped the poverty they grew up in a meh dai became wildly rich. However for every one of them they left behind hundreds of Black men just like themselves, sometimes just as talented, who suffer from poverty, drugs, crime and even death at the heart of the police. So a lot of the players strongly feel like they owe something back to the people they came from. And when they see videos of black people being beat up or shot by police, it brings up strong feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy of wondering if they've done enough. Wondering if they've turned their back on their roots by living in this lavish lifestyle they were lucky enough to lead.
The other thing to realize is that Black NBA players do get mistreated by law enforcement like other Black people. Thabo Sefolosha has his leg broken by a severe beating with a baton by a police officer. Sterling Brown was beaten and tazed over what should have just been a parking ticket notable because it happened while he was on the Milwaukee Bucks!
Of course there's a whole democrat vs republican angle to all this **** and that's unfortunate because it doesn't need to be. If you stop watching anything, stop watching cable news. That is the real atrocity in thus country. Being purposefully manipulated and lied to every day by both sides through those mediums just to lather you up into a fury so you watch more tv and give them more ratings. It's no different than the weathermen during a hurricane foaming at the mouth to describe the impending deadliness of an upcoming storm. That is their whole function and way of life.
The basketball players are really just trying to make the world a better place. It's possible they're wrong about some basic facts or about their tactics, but their heart is in the right place. That matters.
Skipping a few days of games is not a big deal and won't make a big impact, honestly. Most of the people outraged by this move wouldn't have watched the game in the first place.
The league is mostly Black people and it seems only fair that they should be allowed to speak to the issues that mean something to them.
The best way I've heard it explored is this many Black nba players live with an enormous amount of survivors guilt. They escaped the poverty they grew up in a meh dai became wildly rich. However for every one of them they left behind hundreds of Black men just like themselves, sometimes just as talented, who suffer from poverty, drugs, crime and even death at the heart of the police. So a lot of the players strongly feel like they owe something back to the people they came from. And when they see videos of black people being beat up or shot by police, it brings up strong feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy of wondering if they've done enough. Wondering if they've turned their back on their roots by living in this lavish lifestyle they were lucky enough to lead.
The other thing to realize is that Black NBA players do get mistreated by law enforcement like other Black people. Thabo Sefolosha has his leg broken by a severe beating with a baton by a police officer. Sterling Brown was beaten and tazed over what should have just been a parking ticket notable because it happened while he was on the Milwaukee Bucks!
Of course there's a whole democrat vs republican angle to all this **** and that's unfortunate because it doesn't need to be. If you stop watching anything, stop watching cable news. That is the real atrocity in thus country. Being purposefully manipulated and lied to every day by both sides through those mediums just to lather you up into a fury so you watch more tv and give them more ratings. It's no different than the weathermen during a hurricane foaming at the mouth to describe the impending deadliness of an upcoming storm. That is their whole function and way of life.
The basketball players are really just trying to make the world a better place. It's possible they're wrong about some basic facts or about their tactics, but their heart is in the right place. That matters.
