‘Every Player, Coach, And Ref’ Kneels During Anthem Before NBA Game

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Perhaps they are kneeling for their big, fat bank accounts made possible by the greatest country on earth.

The kneeling from the NBA players and staffers comes the day after a bombshell ESPN report outlined alleged abuse of children at NBA youth training camps in China.

Related: NBA Coaches Expose Dealings in China: ‘We Were Basically Working For The Chinese Government’

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‘Every Player, Coach, And Ref’ Kneels During Anthem Before NBA Game

By Amanda Prestigiacomo • Daily Wire • Jul 30, 2020:

On a court that says in large black letters, “Black Lives Matter,” every player, coach, and referee in attendance at the Thursday evening Utah Jazz v New Orleans Pelicans NBA game took a knee during the national anthem.

Kneeling during the anthem was popularized by then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in 2016, allegedly to protest racist police brutality.

The kneeling from the NBA players and staffers comes the day after a bombshell ESPN report outlined alleged abuse of children at NBA youth training camps in China.

“Every player, coach and ref takes a knee during the national anthem before the Pelicans-Jazz game,” Bleacher Report posted on Thursday night.

Players also rocked warm-up shirts that promoted the radical, far-left Black Lives Matter movement.

In the “What We Believe” section of the official Black Lives Matter website, the organization calls for the “national defunding of police” and for the “disruption” of the nuclear family.
Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans wears a Black Lives Matter shirt as he is introduced before the start of an NBA basketball game against the Utah Jazz at HP Field House at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on July 30, 2020 in Reunion, Florida.

Though left-wing social activism is becoming central to the NBA here in the States, the league has troubling ties to China, a leader in human rights abuses.

According to the ESPN report published Wednesday, “American coaches at three NBA training academies in China told league officials their Chinese partners were physically abusing young players and failing to provide schooling, even though commissioner Adam Silver had said that education would be central to the program.”

“One of the academies that was opened by the NBA was in Xinjiang, where the Chinese Communist Party allegedly has millions of people locked up in concentration camps,” The Daily Wire noted. “ESPN says that it obtained an email that the NBA sent to employees that instructed employees not to tell ESPN that they were being instructed to answer questions about the league’s new China scandal.”

Bringing attention to the NBA’s troubling relationship with communist and human rights-violating China, Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted on October 4 an expression of solidarity with the protesters in Hong Kong who were pushing back against the communist regime. “Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong,” the post said.

Morey, though, was seemingly pressured into deleting the post, and the NBA initially publicly admonished him.

“Amid pressure, Morey quickly deleted the tweet, while the NBA issued a statement describing the post as having ‘deeply offended many of our friends and fans in China, which is regrettable,’” The Daily Wire outlined. “The NBA’s initial response sparked accusations that the league had ‘caved to Chinese censorship,’ prompting NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to attempt to ‘clarify’ the league’s stance, stating the league ‘will not put itself in a position of regulating what players, employees and team owners say or will not say on these issues.’ Morey, said Silver, has a right to ‘exercising his freedom of expression.’”

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2bgreat
2bgreat
3 years ago

Boycott NBA.

joe shmoe
joe shmoe
3 years ago
Reply to  2bgreat

dont spend 1 cent on these commie supporters

TD
TD
3 years ago
Reply to  2bgreat

exactly.
NBA ratings are on a nosedive too.
They deserve it!!!!

A bunch of unfunny, immature entitled unlikable wokers. less power to them and their dem party.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
3 years ago
Reply to  TD

It beats me why more white Americans are not hitting back against an organization that supports the anti-white black racists of Black Lives Matter. What of value to humanity do these nitwits ever produce?

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago

any white american who ever watches an nba game again is a hopeless fool. those black guys hate us and our white country.

Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

Millionaires all.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

Complicit billionaire owners and millionaire players.

Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

MONEY CAN’T BUY YOU HAPPINESS IN THE LONG HAUL. Eventually, you will run out of things that can make you happy.

Tina
Tina
3 years ago

Kneeling? Only for G`d

MAGA 2020 TRUMP

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Tina

Kneeling? Only to shoot leftist traitors!

Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

KNEEL, FOCUS, AIM, FIRE.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Tina

He is the only One worthy for me to kneel to.

Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
3 years ago
Reply to  Tina

AMEN!

Tina
Tina
3 years ago

http://chng.it/ZR8nJHndL7

Can you help NYC please.
I do it.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  Tina

NYC can go to h*ll

Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
3 years ago
Reply to  Tina

help nyc yourself. IT IS A COMMUNIST HUB OF DEMONIC BEHAVIOR WITH ITS NASTY LEADERS, DE BLASIO AND THE REST OF THOSE THUGS.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago

Black Lies Matter?

Uhh, no they don’t!

Loyal Phillips-Kuhn
Loyal Phillips-Kuhn
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Black Crimes Matter

Bill
Bill
3 years ago

Hockey doesn’t kneel.

Loyal Phillips-Kuhn
Loyal Phillips-Kuhn
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

AMEN !!

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

That’s because there are so few black players in the NHL, thus few with moronic BLM mentally deranged sympathies.

Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

And more than NASCAR, which had one black driver, and he went all psycho on everybody.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
3 years ago

Americans died for that anthem …

… and this NBA scum kneels …

No words are fit for these people.

Anyone who watches the NBA is a traitor.

*** Everyone here at Geller have a great weekend!

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
3 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Evidently the entire NBA organization is afflicted with stupid, ignorant, gullible individuals. As for white people who go along with BLM and its anti-white racism, Marxism and support of Islam, they are simply ‘useful idiots’ and gutless. For goodness sake boycott that NBA.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
3 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

True …

*** You and yours have a wonderful week, Rob!

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago

it s a free country. the NBA can kneel and kowtow to the Chinese Communists and I can choose not to watch.

durabo
durabo
3 years ago

Nielsen ratings will sow massive refusal to watch NBA and NFL on the idiot box.

Alexandra
Alexandra
3 years ago

Here Here!

anonQ
anonQ
3 years ago

They now are contributors to and helping a larger problem that is no good. They are now a part of the problem. Any American that supports them in any way, shape or form are also contributors to this problem brought on by george sorros. He is the money behind all the failures at life rioting across America.

Peter WF
Peter WF
3 years ago

Change the color and see if it is racist. 1) BLM change to WLM and it still sounds racist. ALM is not racist! It has no color.

If they want to kneel let them kneel for the full 9 minutes. Any shorter time is an insult.

Ron rockit
Ron rockit
3 years ago

I used to be something of a fan. No longer. At least Jabbar and Barkley came out against black anti semitism. But, I have had enough.

Scooby Doo
Scooby Doo
3 years ago

The most overpaid despicable unpatriotic traitorous and useless men the world has ever known. Anyone who pays one cent to watch these useless hypocritical racist liars is sicker than sick. Just cancelled my NBA league pass subscription and so happy I did! Adios NBA!

Daddyo
Daddyo
3 years ago
Reply to  Scooby Doo

Good on you, Scooby Doo! Now add the nfl and mlb to your “do not support” list, so, these haters and traitors can feel OUR solidarity.

sodacrackers2
sodacrackers2
3 years ago
Reply to  Scooby Doo

We used to have four season tickets.

durabo
durabo
3 years ago
Reply to  Scooby Doo

And FOXTROT UNIFORM to the NFL too!

Daddyo
Daddyo
3 years ago

These haters and traitors (pro athletes and their coaches) have forever lost me as a fan. I can only hope that enough fellow fans feel the same so that hardly anyone watches the nba, nfl and mlb again. Once the teams, the leagues and the tv advertisers lose enough money, lets see if they continue to support hate groups like black LIES matter.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago

Since the disastrous NBA is in bed with chinks, it should stand for Nanking Basketball Association.

That is, if you remember your history, the rape of Nanking commonly referred to as “the other holocaust of WWII”.

CARRENO  BARTOX
CARRENO BARTOX
3 years ago

Those “sportsmens” brains and qualities are laying below the belt…

IAMARICK
IAMARICK
3 years ago

No kneeling on the ice. Watch NHL instead.

Peter mohan
Peter mohan
3 years ago

When the kneeling virus began the cultural Marxist intent of BLM was not well know and very few athletes tested positive. Ironically, as BLM’s purpose was revealed – destroy capitalism and America, banish all whites to Dhimmitude – kneeling for the National Anthem has reached epidemic numbers. Between social media and Brownshirt tactics citizens have been cowed into silence.
If this woke movement doesn’t shake fly over country awake, we will be under the thumb of totalitarianism in under 100 days.

Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
3 years ago
Reply to  Peter mohan

THIS CITIZEN WILL NEVER COMPLY TO SATANIC RULES OF EVIL.

7734daniel
7734daniel
3 years ago

Any organization that contributes to a teariest organizations and disrespects the ones who gave all for America deserves NO support of any kind from Patriotic Americans.

L-Dan
L-Dan
3 years ago

When the NBA goes broke some of these clowns will have to do a lot of kneeling on their next job.

durabo
durabo
3 years ago

I hope gate receipts g down the tube when “normality” returns and these sub-literate “college graduates” are forced to get real jobs.

Ed Maher
Ed Maher
3 years ago

I’m done with watching ALL professional sports! I’m sick of these multi-millionare players that think the arena is their platform to voice their political opinions!
If it wasn’t for the people that died defending that flag, they would never be were they are right now!!!

Dustin John
Dustin John
3 years ago

Why is the NBA endorsing a communist, anti-white organization and spitting on the nation that created and gave blacks who were oppressed in the Democrat South an opportunity to rise to millionaire and celebrity status. How about shove it forever?

Leonard Payne
Leonard Payne
3 years ago

Pack them up, one and all, and ship them to China – I’m sure they will all be much happier there where they only have to deal with “yellow privilege”.
Anyone who watches a game, buys a trinket, is just ask GUILTY as those who kneel.

Robert Ford
Robert Ford
3 years ago

The law under United States Code 36 U.S.C. § 301 requires that civilians stand with hand over heart when the National Anthem is played. Any other action is disrespectful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner

Any player who refuses to stand for the National Anthem should be immediately dismissed.

Alexandra
Alexandra
3 years ago

Who cares who they kneel to. Just stop watching.

Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
3 years ago

KNEEL BEFORE NO ONE EXCEPT JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF!

Keith1941
Keith1941
3 years ago

Is there an adult in the house? I can understand the ignorance of the players, but the owners not telling the players that the public is paying their salaries?

ed
ed
3 years ago

Bron-Bron…can we ask you a question about China….
Bron-Bron….Bron-Bron….
Can we ask you a question about China ????

ed
ed
3 years ago

The NBA was worth watching in the days of Bird and Magic. When Bron-Bron can run over people and have them charged with a blocking foul…When Giannis can take 10 steps for a lay-up/dunk and not get called for traveling….when BLM dictates taking a knee during the Anthem….

It’s no wonder I no longer watch the NBA.

Robert Kahlcke
Robert Kahlcke
3 years ago

“BLUE LIVES MATTER”

That’s exactly where these boys like it, on their knees.
think about it.

John Acord
John Acord
3 years ago

All of these pro sports teams and their huge profits and player salaries are made possible by an exemption from the anti-trust laws. The Best way to strike back is to have these exemptions annulled, deleted,cancelled.Then,anyone can form a team and the country will be far better off for it.

James
James
3 years ago

What’s basketball? Never heard of it.

Loyal Phillips-Kuhn
Loyal Phillips-Kuhn
3 years ago

Screw this political showboating !! I wanted to watch atheletes competing in a basketball game. What did I get instead? I saw a bunch of clowns disrespecting the country I love by kneeling during the National Anthem !! I knew there was a good reason NOT to watch any NBA games, and I was appalled, dissappointed and nauseated by the political horsecrap instead. I refuse to ever watch another NBA political rally or whatever they call their assembly with their total disrespect-fest of America. They can stuff their games up their rectal orifice and do it without my participation !!!!

The kneeling from the NBA players and staffers comes the day after a bombshell ESPN report outlined alleged abuse of children at NBA youth training camps in China… I guess their agenda has been made clear to the entire world.

Merchantseamen
Merchantseamen
3 years ago

Ungrateful cowards and pussies. Put them all together and they are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Morally not worth a plugged nickel.

Mark Huber
Mark Huber
3 years ago

Never watch or attend another NBA game again.

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