WITHOUT CONSULTING A SINGLE PLAYER, Silver removes BLM/political/justice messaging

[BarberSchool]

Discuss.

[ralph_i_el]

The players have enough money to do all the messaging they want. Time to put the money where the mouths are. Send me another AK LeMao!

[rawimpact]

Is this a hypothetical or actuality? How about some more information before making a thread asking for our opinion(s).

[BANE?]

Don’t even agree with a lot of NBA’s messages but this is cowardly. NBA markets itself as a league that puts social justice above everything and tries to claim moral superiority over other leagues and athletes, now Silver is backtracking because of the awful ratings.

[Kiddlovesnets]

Its for the better, BLM is a racist movement and its funny that it has so many supporters, some people cant use logic and they actually think its okay to fight racism with racism. All lives matter, not just black lives. I am glad if we can get rid of such political correctness craps soon.

[starface]

Don’t even agree with a lot of NBA’s messages but this is cowardly. NBA markets itself as a league that puts social justice above everything and tries to claim moral superiority over other leagues and athletes, now Silver is backtracking because of the awful ratings.


First of all, Black Lives Matter ™ has nothing to do with social justice. It’s much closer to being a religion/political party than being the Peace Corps. They arent the arbiters of social justice. They are also extremely EXCLUSIONARY. If you dont accept their doctrine, they are hostile and unwelcoming. Imagine having that logo smeared everywhere during a trophy presentation. Youre basically telling a huge number of people to **** off.

Secondly, the NBA is a profit driven enterprise. If a marketing plan is failing to produce bottom-line results, they will scrap it.


I have no idea if OP has a source on this or not, but if it’s true... nobody should be surprised the NBA is reversing course. Only the naive idiots who really believed the NBA cared more about SJW feelings than about money would be the least bit surprised.

[BarberSchool]

Is this a hypothetical or actuality? How about some more information before making a thread asking for our opinion(s).
https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/07/nba-social-justice-messages-adam-silver-largely-left-out-of-games-upset-fans/

[BarberSchool]

First of all, Black Lives Matter ™ has nothing to do with social justice. It’s much closer to being a religion/political party than being the Peace Corps. They arent the arbiters of social justice. They are also extremely EXCLUSIONARY. If you dont accept their doctrine, they are hostile and unwelcoming. Imagine having that logo smeared everywhere during a trophy presentation. Youre basically telling a huge number of people to **** off.

Secondly, the NBA is a profit driven enterprise. If a marketing plan is failing to produce bottom-line results, they will scrap it.


I have no idea if OP has a source on this or not, but if it’s true... nobody should be surprised the NBA is reversing course. Only the naive idiots who really believed the NBA cared more about SJW feelings than about money would be the least bit surprised.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nba-commissioner-adam-silver-says-social-justice-messages-largely-left-delivered-off-floor-next-season

[starface]

https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/07/nba-social-justice-messages-adam-silver-largely-left-out-of-games-upset-fans/


So, he suggested the NBA plans to tone down the messaging NEXT season.

He has removed nothing from anything at this moment.

Your thread title is false.

[fsvr54]

Don’t even agree with a lot of NBA’s messages but this is cowardly. NBA markets itself as a league that puts social justice above everything and tries to claim moral superiority over other leagues and athletes, now Silver is backtracking because of the awful ratings.

Lol

NBA should be about pushing basketball and nothing else. Not sucking China's **** and pushing communism promoted by Soros and his cronie elites to destabilize the western world.

There is no such thing as systemic white supremacy lmao.

[ralph_i_el]

Its for the better, BLM is a racist movement and its funny that it has so many supporters, some people cant use logic and they actually think its okay to fight racism with racism. All lives matter, not just black lives. I am glad if we can get rid of such political correctness craps soon.

I see you draw a hard line on racism. No racism is acceptable to you! :applause::bowdown::applause:

[talkingconch]

GOOD MOVE. They finally realize its going to cost them.

[ralph_i_el]

If you dont accept their doctrine, they are hostile and unwelcoming.

Which political groups would you describe as friendly and welcoming?

[starface]

Which political groups would you describe as friendly and welcoming?

You quoted my post, yet it seems you didnt read it.

I specifically stated they are closer to being a political party/religion than to being the Peace Corps.

They are about group identity and advancement of a particular ideology. Not about serving others unconditionally.

[red1]

Discuss.

Im glad you're still here OP.


op is an OG bulls fan mj stan.


your thoughts on lebron cementing his mount rushmore 2nd GOAT status?

[2ball]

Yup nba realizing they alienated a big population of their white audience

[coin24]

They’ll pay for this big time, international league pass is big revenue for them and a lot of people won’t be renewing.

[HylianNightmare]

For next season

[ralph_i_el]

You quoted my post, yet it seems you didnt read it.

I specifically stated they are closer to being a political party/religion than to being the Peace Corps.

They are about group identity and advancement of a particular ideology. Not about serving others unconditionally.

And ice cream trucks don't sell tacos:confusedshrug:

What groups do you know of they are about "serving others unconditionally" ?

[RRR3]

Lol

NBA should be about pushing basketball and nothing else. Not sucking China's **** and pushing communism promoted by Soros and his cronie elites to destabilize the western world.

There is no such thing as systemic white supremacy lmao.
George Soros is a billionaire. It’s literally impossible for him to be a Communist.

[MaxPlayer]

George Soros is a billionaire. It’s literally impossible for him to be a Communist.

Even rich people can be economically and morally ignorant.

[starface]

And ice cream trucks don't sell tacos:confusedshrug:

What groups do you know of they are about "serving others unconditionally" ?


What a weird attempt at proactive deflection this is.

Itd be one thing if I was hounding you to acknowledge BLM does not actually equate to social justice, and then you resorting to what aboutism.

But I just made it as a general statement. And then you like popped up affirmatively to engage ME with an irrelevant what-about strawman. Usually illogical arguments like that are a last resort/defensive tactic. You totally flipped the script. You different bro :lol

Also, which social groups do you know of that the NBA promotes on their court free of charge?

None but BLM. So theyre the only group germane to this discussion ANYWAY.


I think you invest a lot of your identity into dead-end ideals that sound really edgy and revolutionary, and you get very nervous when people articulate their obvious fallacies and bring your whole perspective on the world closer to implosion.



But thats none of my business...

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[ralph_i_el]

All I see is projection and cope :confusedshrug:

[2ball]

BLM is closer to a terrorist group these days. NBA is ahead of schedule in realizing this and hence they are distancing themselves

[Axe]

Even rich people can be economically and morally ignorant.
'Oligarchs'

[paksat]

too little too late

lol @ lebron probably winning his 4th championship.. with no one watching

irony

[starface]

All I see is projection and cope :confusedshrug:


You must be standing in front of a mirror.

[light]

I think it was understood that the messaging was a bubble thing. No one expected it to last beyond this season.

[light]

too little too late

lol @ lebron probably winning his 4th championship.. with no one watching

irony

that is just a bubble scheduling issue. we're in october in the nba finals. never happens. they're playing games on sundays, head to head with the nfl. they played a game on friday night, which they never do in a regular nba finals because no one watches tv on friday nights.

if we were still in june the ratings would've been normal.

[Phoenix]

The NBA could have made this bubble playoff more interesting IMO. It's a once in a lifetime scenario so experiment with interconference matchups, reduce the number of seeds, give the conference leaders first round byes to reward them in lieu of the lost home court advantage. Hell, finish out the 82 games and then have a NCAA style one and done tournament.

Eh, I don't know about that last one, but just saying the season was already fundamentally changed by the March suspension of play, so go crazy in the bubble and do shit you wouldn't do otherwise to bring back the fans and spike interest. And yes, remove the social justice messaging on the court and jerseys. There are platforms for that without bringing it 'into' the product on the court.

[starface]

The NBA could have made this bubble playoff more interesting IMO. It's a once in a lifetime scenario so experiment with interconference matchups, reduce the number of seeds, give the conference leaders first round byes to reward them in lieu of the lost home court advantage. Hell, finish out the 82 games and then have a NCAA style one and done tournament.

Eh, I don't know about that last one, but just saying the season was already fundamentally changed by the March suspension of play, so go crazy in the bubble and do shit you wouldn't do otherwise to bring back the fans and spike interest. And yes, remove the social justice messaging on the court and jerseys. There are platforms for that without bringing it 'into' the product on the court.

This all sounds potentially fun; unfortunately fun is opposite the direction the NBA decided to go in.

Instead they indulged their pretentious and minimally educated player base in turning the bubble into a low IQ fake-woke cringefest.

As a result, it wasnt fun and hardly anyone ended up giving a shit.

At least maybe itll bring back the guy who sexually assaulted a woman before marching toward his vehicle in hostile defiance of police orders to cooperate with an arrest.

Because... Black Lives Matter.

:ohwell:

[MaxPlayer]

The NBA could have made this bubble playoff more interesting IMO. It's a once in a lifetime scenario so experiment with interconference matchups, reduce the number of seeds, give the conference leaders first round byes to reward them in lieu of the lost home court advantage. Hell, finish out the 82 games and then have a NCAA style one and done tournament.

Eh, I don't know about that last one, but just saying the season was already fundamentally changed by the March suspension of play, so go crazy in the bubble and do shit you wouldn't do otherwise to bring back the fans and spike interest. And yes, remove the social justice messaging on the court and jerseys. There are platforms for that without bringing it 'into' the product on the court.

I'm not crazy about the social justice crap either, but I disagree that they should have changed the format. The whole situation has been so strange that it was important to preserve normalcy where possible.

[bobopenguin]

when they see the finale's rating, they realised they gotta stop this blm crap.

[Im so nba'd out]

The conservative snowflakes couldn’t take it.They whined and bched and pouted and Protest watching the games.They are bch made just like the liberals that they hate so much.....soft

[Phoenix]

I'm not crazy about the social justice crap either, but I disagree that they should have changed the format. The whole situation has been so strange that it was important to preserve normalcy where possible.

Some of those ideas I think the league has already talked about, especially interconference seeding. Ratings have been trending downwards the past few years. I don't think a one-off change in format for a one-off situation compromises anything. I'm curious to know what they're going to do to reverse that trend in general. Lebron is really the only mass appeal guy right now( love or hate) and he doesn't have much time left. Usually when an established star is outgoing his successor has emerged by now. Lot of great players currently, but who's that 'next guy'?

[ArbitraryWater]

The conservative snowflakes couldn’t take it.They whined and bched and pouted and Protest watching the games.They are bch made just like the liberals that they hate so much.....soft


soft?

soft would be watching the games none the less, dummie

they kept true to their word

[red1]

too little too late

lol @ lebron probably winning his 4th championship.. with no one watching

irony

there's nothing ironic here. the NBA isn't going anywhere. :oldlol:




deal with it pakt-ass. you lose, four six mafia wins. :oldlol:

[Mr. Woke]

Makes no difference to me; I'm watching regardless.

The folks who are triggered by social justice statements and BLM are snowflakes anyway.

[Mr. Woke]

soft?

soft would be watching the games none the less, dummie

they kept true to their word

Not all of them.

[Mr. Woke]

All I see is projection and cope :confusedshrug:

Same here.

[Mr. Woke]

Lol

NBA should be about pushing basketball and nothing else. Not sucking China's **** and pushing communism promoted by Soros and his cronie elites to destabilize the western world.

There is no such thing as systemic white supremacy lmao.

Is that you Alex Jones?

[BarberSchool]

What a weird attempt at proactive deflection this is.

Itd be one thing if I was hounding you to acknowledge BLM does not actually equate to social justice, and then you resorting to what aboutism.

But I just made it as a general statement. And then you like popped up affirmatively to engage ME with an irrelevant what-about strawman. Usually illogical arguments like that are a last resort/defensive tactic. You totally flipped the script. You different bro :lol

Also, which social groups do you know of that the NBA promotes on their court free of charge?

None but BLM. So theyre the only group germane to this discussion ANYWAY.


I think you invest a lot of your identity into dead-end ideals that sound really edgy and revolutionary, and you get very nervous when people articulate their obvious fallacies and bring your whole perspective on the world closer to implosion.



But thats none of my business...

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*Starface SONS Ralph right in front of Ralph’s daughter*