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bUt aT LeAsT We sTaRtEd a cOnVeRsAtIoN AnD SpReAd aWaReNeSs aNd sOlIdArItY
Kornheiser
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They went back to playing their games is because Blake isn’t dead and Saint Kyle took the wind out of their sails for protesting.
I'm sure the breach of contract as well as the many endorsement deal contracts had nothing to do with it. I wouldn't be surprised if the NBA was willing to work with them to some degree or another to try to get publicity and viewership, but at some point the owners are going to tell them to play or they'll see their asses in court.
737 MAX Stan Account
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Almost like they never left the plantation
Shit's a massive echo chamber. How else would standing for the anthem be considered as a controversial stance?
Super-Chevy454
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Styx bitchuted about LeBron whining about America but keep quiet about China.
This way they can feel good about themselves while also maintaining the luxurious lifestyle disgusting white supremacist America has afforded these black males.
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Depending on where that is, they're about to get a boost in business as word spreads or they're about to find all their windows broken. Probably both.
Sex offender gets arrested. The police tell him to surrender. He tries to get into his car, potentially risking the children and numerous other people's lives.
The man who shot him is a goddamn hero.
The man who shot him is a goddamn hero.
Super-Chevy454
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Looks like karma bites back LeBron James when a major sports company blasts him.
That youtuber gived me some smiles when he dropped that comment.
That youtuber gived me some smiles when he dropped that comment.
AW HELL NAW NOTS MY NIGGABALL IT BE TIMES TO BRING OUT DA GAT AN KEEL SUM WHITEYS!
Super-Chevy454
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Not a good idea to kneel on 9-11.
One guy is right on target.
One guy is right on target.
They're just reaffirming their attention whore status at this point.
Super-Chevy454
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Candace Owens double down on LeBron.
https://meaww.com/candace-owens-slams-james-le-bron-blm-pea-brain-president-2024-internet-reactions
I just hope we won't have to wait for a long time to see what's LeBron opinion about black on black crime.
https://meaww.com/candace-owens-slams-james-le-bron-blm-pea-brain-president-2024-internet-reactions
I just hope we won't have to wait for a long time to see what's LeBron opinion about black on black crime.
I'm going to predict that the Celtics-Heat game tonight will be boycotted.
CapricornusRex
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Whole lotta WAAAAAAAH here. Come on boycott. Please do it. I so want to hear how their Chinese overlords react to yet another one.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) -- LeBron James sent the word to the Los Angeles Lakers in a group text on Wednesday afternoon, and basketball suddenly seemed irrelevant.
A grand jury in Kentucky had finally spoken. And James was letting his team know that NBA players, who have spent months seeking justice for Breonna Taylor, did not get what they wanted.
"Something was done," Lakers guard Danny Green said, "but it wasn't enough."
Wednesday's decision by the grand jury, which brought no charges against Louisville police for Taylor's killing and only three counts of wanton endangerment against fired Officer Brett Hankison for shooting into Taylor's neighbors' homes, was not unexpected by many NBA players and coaches. They had a sense it wasn't going to go how they hoped.
"I know we've been using our platform down here to try to bring about education and a voice in a lot of players on our team, especially also spoken out on justice for Breonna Taylor," Denver coach Michael Malone said. "We have not gotten that justice."
Teams came to Walt Disney World to finish the season and crown a champion, and hoping that the platform of the NBA's restart bubble could help amplify calls for change. Players and coaches have used the NBA spotlight to make statements at a time when the demand for racial equality and an end to police brutality is resonating as loudly as it has in generations.
We feel like we've taken a step back, that we haven't made the progress we were seeking
Lakers' Danny Green after Taylor decision
And Taylor's story - the tale of a 26-year-old Black woman who was killed March 13 by police in Louisville when they burst into her apartment on a no-knock warrant during a narcotics investigation centered around a suspect who did not live there - has captivated NBA players. Many have met, virtually, with members of her family to offer support. They say her name in news conferences, wear it on shirts, scrawl it onto their sneakers.
"We have moms. We have sisters, nieces, aunties. And just like men of color have experienced traumatic instances, so have women," Boston forward Jaylen Brown said. "That is an example of some things that happen to women in our country. So, we wanted to stand alongside them, but also make it that it's not just us. I think the future is female, so it's important to show our sisters that we care. That's why it's been important."
Even for teams not in the bubble, it mattered. Atlanta coach Lloyd Pierce leads a committee of NBA coaches tasked with finding new ways to use their own platform to create change, and he's encouraged his own players - Black and white alike - to speak out and take action, whether in Atlanta or their own community.
Pierce took Wednesday's news hard.
"Yeah, there was a grand jury and yeah, they went through the information and yeah, they have facts to support whatever the claims may be," Pierce said. "But that doesn't provide any justice for those that are on the outside, those that feel like the police and law enforcement are there to protect them. ... What currently is happening isn't good enough."
National Basketball Players Association executive director Michele Roberts went a step further. "Sadly, there was no justice today for Breonna Taylor," Roberts said. "Her killing was the result of a string of callous and careless decisions made with a lack of regard for humanity, ultimately resulting in the death of an innocent and beautiful woman with her entire life ahead of her."
The league shut down for three days last month when a boycott that was started by the Milwaukee Bucks - in response to the shooting by police of a Black man, Jacob Blake, in Kenosha, Wisconsin - nearly caused players to end the season because they felt their pleas for change were not being taken seriously enough.
And Wednesday's news was another disappointment for them.
"We feel like we've taken a step back, that we haven't made the progress we were seeking," Green said. "Our voices aren't being heard loud enough. But we're not going to stop. We're going to continue. We're going to continue fighting, we're going to continue to push, we're going to continue to use our voices."
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) -- LeBron James sent the word to the Los Angeles Lakers in a group text on Wednesday afternoon, and basketball suddenly seemed irrelevant.
A grand jury in Kentucky had finally spoken. And James was letting his team know that NBA players, who have spent months seeking justice for Breonna Taylor, did not get what they wanted.
"Something was done," Lakers guard Danny Green said, "but it wasn't enough."
Wednesday's decision by the grand jury, which brought no charges against Louisville police for Taylor's killing and only three counts of wanton endangerment against fired Officer Brett Hankison for shooting into Taylor's neighbors' homes, was not unexpected by many NBA players and coaches. They had a sense it wasn't going to go how they hoped.
"I know we've been using our platform down here to try to bring about education and a voice in a lot of players on our team, especially also spoken out on justice for Breonna Taylor," Denver coach Michael Malone said. "We have not gotten that justice."
Teams came to Walt Disney World to finish the season and crown a champion, and hoping that the platform of the NBA's restart bubble could help amplify calls for change. Players and coaches have used the NBA spotlight to make statements at a time when the demand for racial equality and an end to police brutality is resonating as loudly as it has in generations.
We feel like we've taken a step back, that we haven't made the progress we were seeking
Lakers' Danny Green after Taylor decision
And Taylor's story - the tale of a 26-year-old Black woman who was killed March 13 by police in Louisville when they burst into her apartment on a no-knock warrant during a narcotics investigation centered around a suspect who did not live there - has captivated NBA players. Many have met, virtually, with members of her family to offer support. They say her name in news conferences, wear it on shirts, scrawl it onto their sneakers.
"We have moms. We have sisters, nieces, aunties. And just like men of color have experienced traumatic instances, so have women," Boston forward Jaylen Brown said. "That is an example of some things that happen to women in our country. So, we wanted to stand alongside them, but also make it that it's not just us. I think the future is female, so it's important to show our sisters that we care. That's why it's been important."
Even for teams not in the bubble, it mattered. Atlanta coach Lloyd Pierce leads a committee of NBA coaches tasked with finding new ways to use their own platform to create change, and he's encouraged his own players - Black and white alike - to speak out and take action, whether in Atlanta or their own community.
Pierce took Wednesday's news hard.
"Yeah, there was a grand jury and yeah, they went through the information and yeah, they have facts to support whatever the claims may be," Pierce said. "But that doesn't provide any justice for those that are on the outside, those that feel like the police and law enforcement are there to protect them. ... What currently is happening isn't good enough."
National Basketball Players Association executive director Michele Roberts went a step further. "Sadly, there was no justice today for Breonna Taylor," Roberts said. "Her killing was the result of a string of callous and careless decisions made with a lack of regard for humanity, ultimately resulting in the death of an innocent and beautiful woman with her entire life ahead of her."
The league shut down for three days last month when a boycott that was started by the Milwaukee Bucks - in response to the shooting by police of a Black man, Jacob Blake, in Kenosha, Wisconsin - nearly caused players to end the season because they felt their pleas for change were not being taken seriously enough.
And Wednesday's news was another disappointment for them.
"We feel like we've taken a step back, that we haven't made the progress we were seeking," Green said. "Our voices aren't being heard loud enough. But we're not going to stop. We're going to continue. We're going to continue fighting, we're going to continue to push, we're going to continue to use our voices."
Why do these people think shit happens overnight, never mind they can't possibly be wrong.
Save the Loli
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Literally nobody cares about what some freakishly tall people with no skills aside from putting a ball in a hoop have to say about anything other than putting balls in hoops.
"We have moms. We have sisters, nieces, aunties. And just like men of color have experienced traumatic instances, so have women," Boston forward Jaylen Brown said. "That is an example of some things that happen to women in our country. So, we wanted to stand alongside them, but also make it that it's not just us. I think the future is female, so it's important to show our sisters that we care. That's why it's been important."
Me:
And also you do not speak for my mother.
This response reeks of entitlement and ego from a person that thinks he can speak for all black women.
Me:
And also you do not speak for my mother.
This response reeks of entitlement and ego from a person that thinks he can speak for all black women.
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