NBA may let players replace names on jerseys with social justice messages
Via Marc J. Spears of ESPN.com’s The Undefeated, NBPA president and Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris Paul
said that management and labor are working together to allow players to replace the names on their jerseys with
messages of “personalized social justice, social cause or charity.”
As noted by Spears, this creates a wide variety of potential messages beyond “Black Lives Matter.” Players could
display “I Can’t Breathe” or the names of persons who were killed by police officers.
“We’re just trying to continue to shed light on the different social justice issues that guys around our league continue
to talk about day in and day out,” Paul told Spears. “People are saying that social justice will be off of everybody’s
mind in Orlando. With these jerseys, it doesn’t go away.”
If the NBA permits alteration of the jerseys, the question becomes whether other sports leagues will do the same,
specifically the NFL...
The NBA needs revenue. Controversy doesn't create long term revenue -- see XFL. Ad space does. This is a backdoor to NASCAR style advertising. Anyone with a contract will put whatever message their real masters approve.
How will NCAA follow suit? They're in worse shape -- those big time programs which bring blacks to campuses also puts food on the table to allow the other sports (especially women's) to exist, let alone the trickle down to other non-sports departments.
Ron was playing chess when y'all were still playing checkers.
“My dentist, that’s another beauty, my dentist, you kiddin’ me. It cost me five thousand dollars to have all new teeth put in. Now he tells me I need braces!” —Rodney Dangerfield
IB wrote:The NBA needs revenue. Controversy doesn't create long term revenue -- see XFL. Ad space does. This is a backdoor to NASCAR style advertising. Anyone with a contract will put whatever message their real masters approve.
I saw Brian Windhorst on ESPN, talking about what a great idea this is.
What’s happening now is we’re turning into a circus. Instead of talking about racial equality, racial
justice and economic justice, we spend all our time worrying about who’s kneeling and not kneeling,
what things are being said on buses, what’s being said on jerseys. I think we’re missing the point.
- Sir Charles Barkley
No doubt.
This jersey message insanity might be THE most fvkked up thing I have ever seen in pro sports.
Left Seater wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:13 pm
So now the NBA is favoring some speech and restricting other speech.
If someone wanted to put “God Bless America” or “Back the Blue” or “Support or Troops” those wouldn’t be allowed.
Queue up the lawsuits.
Nobody wants meaningless conservative platitudes on their jerseys.
kcdave wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 8:05 am
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Derron wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:07 pm
You are truly one of the worst pieces of shit to ever post on this board. Start giving up your paycheck for reparations now and then you can shut the fuck up about your racist blasts.
Left Seater wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:25 pm
And you want to limit speech as well. Color no one surprised by this racist nazi take.
Gee, I wonder why a league that's 90% black wouldn't want to put GOP bullshit like Support the Blue on their jerseys. Wouldn't make sense.
Probably wouldn't have anything to do with our cat food brain president believing that more white people are killed by police than black.
kcdave wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 8:05 am
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Derron wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:07 pm
You are truly one of the worst pieces of shit to ever post on this board. Start giving up your paycheck for reparations now and then you can shut the fuck up about your racist blasts.
The Association is going to empower players by allowing them to express the social message of their choice on their jersey, rather than their real name.
... so long as the Association finds their message to be agreeable.
