NBA Has No Plans To Move 2017 All-Star Game From North CarolinaFucking cowards.
Las Vegas has a new building, and if moved to LA you could have back-to-back NHL and NBA ASGs. Both markets will be ready in a momentās notice.
I kind of agree that they have plenty of time to continue to pressure NC, but I do hope there is actually pressure. It is plausible just because moving the game will not take much effort at all.
Silver said in a press conference.
āWe feel thereās a constructive role for the league to play.
If we announce weāre moving it now, whatās the incentive to change the law?ā
Perfect example of mealy-mouthed side-stepping by the NBA commish.
Unless it eventually is not.
Up to you Mr Silver.
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Come on, NBA. Do the right thing.
Iām hopeful.
Nothing mealy-mouthed about the way he handled Sterling.
Itāll be telling to see how may sponsors pull out. I hope itās a slew. Money talks.
Hmm. Better yet would be a massive player boycott.
Itās early but the all it will take is Curry or James to say they will not attend. Players and agents run the NBA. Easy assist.
The No Backbone Association. I guess they donāt need any LGBT tax dollars for their next stadium/arena.
Guess theyāll just have to leave it up to the players when the time comesā¦if they have the balls. The pressure will be on them to do the right thing. The NBAās governing body obviously needs a new commissioner. Someone ought to ask Mr. Silver if NC had said no Jews welcome instead, would he still allow the game to remain in the state? Then ask him whatās the difference.
āIt would be easy to say weāre moving it,ā Silver said in a press conference. āWe feel thereās a constructive role for the league to play. If we announce weāre moving it now, whatās the incentive to change the law?ā
Top notch negotiating there.
And nobody shot back with, "Incentive to change the law? How about, āLook what this goddamn law has cost us!ā? Howās that for a heapinā helpinā of incentive?
now would be a good time for us all to start writing letters and emails to those sponsors. Anyone have a list? I donāt follow the NBA, Iād assume Nike is one of them? others?
You know, the Dear Dead Ron administration used this very same rationale to keep an ambassador in South Africa while everybody else was leaving and wrinkling their noses in disgust.
āCause we have private bathrooms.ā
I can hear it now,
$$$$$$$$ once again talksā¦
I think a lot of players will have to take time off to heal injuries and have to miss the 2017 NBA All-Star game. It is really a tough grind in the NBA season, and a great number of players will be glad to take a rest.
Unless theyāre planing on selling tickets exclusively to LGBT people, having all LGBT cheerleaders, announcers, ushers, etcā¦and planning to issue rainbow jerseys to all the playersā¦I donāt get it.
Guess the boycotts of the NBA will have to start, then.
No way do Curry or any of the Warriors fail to take a stand on this. The Warriors are building a big arena in the middle of San Francisco even as we speak, literally a few blocks down the street from where the SF Giants play.
If they stay silent, theyāre going to get murdered in the court of public opinion in San Francisco.
Which also means Chase Bank, the sponsors of the new Warriors Arena, will have to say something as well.
Dominoes falling and faucets leaking ā drip, drip, drip, dripā¦
The Board of Supervisors and other Rights groups there in San Francisco will make sure this does not rest. That new arena had to jump through a lot of hoops (very likely some waiving of environmental regulations and other variances, if Iām a betting man). There are oh so many ways to gum up the works if push came to shove (and Iām not at all suggesting the Warriors would drop the ballāno pun intendedāso to speak, with regards to doing the right thing). I hope the NBA has some plan(s) here. These types of threats arenāt easy to make because a lot of peopleās money, jobs and careers can be on the line. There are numerous other states with more onerous bills being considered in their respective legislatures as we write. Perhaps too many to fight all at once ā and thatās why this should be a coordinated effort between big-league sports organizations and the most effective of the Rights groups (at least thatās my thinking). There are any number of big city markets who would kill for the chance to host these events ā but the threats are only solid if the potential cities are in states where there exists no credible fights to deny Trans and Inter-Sex People of their constitutional rights or where the fights have been won. Personally, Iām not nearly as up-to-date on all of this as Iād like to be ā so Iāve got a lot of studying to do. Some groups like the HRC, SPLC and perhaps the ACLU could partner up with whichever of the big-league sports groups ā putting together the knowledge of the Rights groups and the financial muscle of the sports organizations might produce some results across state lines, instead of trying to tamp down each one as they pop up. The Republican Party is doing their best to be labeled as a Hate Group.
Itās really not just the Warriors and their home in SF. The NBA is 74.4% African American. If black men ā even wealthy, privileged black men ā canāt empathize with the gay and transgender populations being discriminated against by North Carolina and an assortment of other backward southern and midwestern states which have codified bigotry as law, then those gentlemen are not worth the blood thatās been shed for their advancement in American society.