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MJ was right. Doesn't mean he didn't have an opinion. Those days of going along to get along are over...... Unless you want to go back to segregated pro sports and Jim Crow you better get used to outspoken minorities with power and money.
And sports leagues with politically outspoken athletes will probably get used to dwindling ratings as time goes on. That doesn't mean the athletes should shut up, but it is what it is.
I never really remember sports and politics being so intertwined. I always just assumed athletes didn't really care about politics.
You must not have been around for the athletes of the 60s and 70s. Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Jim Brown and countless others all cared very much about politics and people acted like jackbutts towards them too.
1 billion vs 3 billion. What's the damn difference ? And Jordan is 20 years younger than Trump. I'm sure he will earn more in his lifetime.
3 billion is triple 1 billion? Doubt Jordan is tripling his wealth in his lifetime. At this point, he's pretty much at peak saturation with his wealth growing pretty slowly.
You must not have been around for the athletes of the 60s and 70s. Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Jim Brown and countless others all cared very much about politics and people acted like jackbutts towards them too.
I knew someone would bring up the older generation. They were very political but sports weren't as popular as they'd become in the 80s onward (I don't even think most NBA games made it on tv). Most sports fans today have no memory of what guys like Jim Brown were doing in the 60s. Perhaps the relative silence is what allowed sports to become so popular?
guess Obama was president but really wanted to be a BB player as he saw no difference. we had to live 8 years with his frustration of career choice.
"Barack Obama welcomed America’s all-conquering basketball champions into the oval office on Thursday and suggested the experiences of a US president and NBA stars are not so different."
Not so different....millionaires being catered to....
The team would not to to go ,if, they were to be invited....
had been a standing tradition by the whitehouse since reagan to invite BB champs, so Trump did not invite them. he decided to break tradition and not invite them. The BB team did refuse an invitation from Trump since non was offerred by Trump..
"In June, a day after the Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers to capture their second NBA title in three seasons, an unconfirmed CNBC report suggested the Warriors might skip the White House visit. The team did not deny that report when reached by the Guardian, but said they had yet to receive an invitation."
By liberal and media standards, any black BB player that refused to go to the whitehouse because of Trump, apparently is a racist.
They certainly are. Hypocrites too, but everyone knows liberals are hypocrites by definition.
I knew someone would bring up the older generation. They were very political but sports weren't as popular as they'd become in the 80s onward (I don't even think most NBA games made it on tv). Most sports fans today have no memory of what guys like Jim Brown were doing in the 60s. Perhaps the relative silence is what allowed sports to become so popular?
Sports are much more political now and MUCH more profitable.... It is what it is. If an athlete wants to be a Nazi or a black panther he has that choice and his contracts and salary will reflect his choices.....
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