(06-13-2020, 09:36 AM)Mavs2019 Wrote: Honestly if these players want change they should all donate 1% of their annual salaries to school projects in black communties and help get kids proper education and college opportunities. Education is like a pandemic. You help 10 children to a college degree, they can spread it to 100 others, who can spread it to 1000....

If they wait for the political and social system to change (anything), then I might point to hundreds of dead elementary school children. The repeated murders of little children could not bring Republicans or/and Democrats to put their differences aside and make a change. Something lawmakers in literally every civilised country in the world (that has suffered just 1-2 of them, not dozens) could agree upon within a month, regardless of their political agenda.

If they don´t play till these protests are over, they´ll be waiting forever. Usually the scumbags in congress would just sit this out, until people get on with their lives. Unfortunately for the them, this time people have no lives to get back to, because they are all unemployed.

So sadly this explosive situation will either continue for many months or people will go back home, because the protests served as a superspreader of Corona virus and people start dying in the thousands again.

(06-13-2020, 02:31 PM)luka_skywalker_77 Wrote:

(06-13-2020, 09:36 AM)Mavs2019 Wrote: Honestly if these players want change they should all donate 1% of their annual salaries to school projects in black communties and help get kids proper education and college opportunities. Education is like a pandemic. You help 10 children to a college degree, they can spread it to 100 others, who can spread it to 1000....

If they wait for the political and social system to change (anything), then I might point to hundreds of dead elementary school children. The repeated murders of little children could not bring Republicans or/and Democrats to put their differences aside and make a change. Something lawmakers in literally every civilised country in the world (that has suffered just 1-2 of them, not dozens) could agree upon within a month, regardless of their political agenda.

If they don´t play till these protests are over, they´ll be waiting forever. Usually the scumbags in congress would just sit this out, until people get on with their lives. Unfortunately for the them, this time people have no lives to get back to, because they are all unemployed.

So sadly this explosive situation will either continue for many months or people will go back home, because the protests served as a superspreader of Corona virus and people start dying in the thousands again.

I think you're over blowing the covid thing by miles. In fact, i know you are and there is no such thing as 'systemic racism' currently in place in this country. But hey, if they want to sit out, let them. The rest is mostly bs from athletes a lot of fans are growing tired of, and have been for years now--if football was any sort of precursor.

(06-13-2020, 10:21 PM)ThunderMav Wrote: I am on the verge of giving up all sports.  It was always an escape from stresses of life.  But now they are all disrespecting a flag I gave 20 years of service for and too many gave their lives for.  

(06-14-2020, 02:21 PM)chaparral Wrote:

(06-13-2020, 10:21 PM)ThunderMav Wrote: I am on the verge of giving up all sports.  It was always an escape from stresses of life.  But now they are all disrespecting a flag I gave 20 years of service for and too many gave their lives for.  

Thank You ThunderMav, for your service to our country. 

Maybe the NBA could explore not playing the National Anthem at the start of games in Orlando?  What's the need?  There will not be any fans in the stands.  And multiple games will be played on the same courts back to back to back.  I wonder what will be worse for the NBA, loosing fans for not playing the Anthem or loosing fans because the players take a knee?

Again, Thank You for your service...

(06-14-2020, 02:44 PM)ThunderMav Wrote:

(06-14-2020, 02:21 PM)chaparral Wrote:

(06-13-2020, 10:21 PM)ThunderMav Wrote: I am on the verge of giving up all sports.  It was always an escape from stresses of life.  But now they are all disrespecting a flag I gave 20 years of service for and too many gave their lives for.  

Thank You ThunderMav, for your service to our country. 

Maybe the NBA could explore not playing the National Anthem at the start of games in Orlando?  What's the need?  There will not be any fans in the stands.  And multiple games will be played on the same courts back to back to back.  I wonder what will be worse for the NBA, loosing fans for not playing the Anthem or loosing fans because the players take a knee?

Again, Thank You for your service...

Thank you for the kind words.  And I 100% agree with you, if sports would play it while players are in locker room its win/win.  Players can kneel or do whatever they want and fans can honor and respect flag without all the distractions.  Then players could go out in own time and do all they want.  That would be the perfect resolution.  I’d rather have no NA played than played and disrespected.