Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks Will No Longer Play National Anthem At Home Games

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Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks Will No Longer Play National Anthem At Home Games: Report

Over the last few years, there’s been a debate on whether players in any American sport should or shouldn’t be forced to stand for the playing of the National Anthem, or allowed to kneel or display some other gesture or form of expression.

By: Forbes, February 9, 2021:

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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has decided to take this debate in a different direction, deciding not to play the Anthem at home games this season or moving forward, he confirmed to Tim Cato of The Athletic in a bombshell Tuesday story. It’s believed, per the report, that the Mavs are the first team in North American professional sports to do away with the Star Spangled Banner.

Fans were allowed at Dallas’ American Airlines Center for the first time at Monday’s win over the Minensota Timberwolves and the Anthem wasn’t played before that game just like the 12 regular and preseason games before it this season. Cuban and the team declined further comment on the matter to The Athletic. An NBA spokesperson told The Athletic that this season, teams can run their pregame operations, including the Anthem, as they see fit.

In a June interview on ESPN’s SportsCenter, Cuban said the NBA should change its rule requiring players to stand for the Anthem amidst Black Lives Matter and numerous social justice movements growing in popularity and momentum over the

“Hopefully we’ll re-adapt and hopefully we’ll allow players to do what’s in their heart,” Cuban told ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap, “whether it’s holding an arm up in the air, whether it’s taking a knee. If they were taking a knee and they were being respectful, I’d be proud of them. Hopefully I’d join them.”

A week later, in a June conversation with former NBA player Caron Butler as part of the league’s #NBAVoices series, Cuban discussed the BLM protest movement and how it made him think about the Pledge Of Allegiance he used to say every day at school.

“And going back to it, liberty and justice for all. That’s what this flag is supposed to be for all of us,” he said. “And so when people kneel, when people stand up and protest, it’s specifically what we pledged to do our entire lives at school.”

Now Cuban has apparently decided to do away with the National Anthem altogether, bucking a decades-long trend and potentially opening up the team and the league to another wave of controversy now that this news has been confirmed.

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Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago

Cuban made his money through multiple classic “pump-n-dumps” in the nineties dot.com frenzy. Nothing more than a huckster that did everything that it could to fleece a not too intelligent public.

Then, he graduated into ripping off very rich, not too intelligent investors … classic was his fleecing of Yahoo. Not that Yahoo didn’t deserve being taken … it’s simply a big fish that was as stupid as the people that he ripped off in his pump-n-dump schemes.

Put some lipstick on that pig and let’s get ‘er movin’ …..

Tasmanian Devil
Tasmanian Devil
3 years ago

Judging by this evil jackass’ behavior, Mark Cuban is the evil illegitimate son on Fidel Castro.

This guy and other treasonous scum like him are why Crazy Joe Biden was able to be elected and why, unless we purge garbage like Cuban from the country he so hates, we will ultimately perish as a free nation.

America needs to DESTROY his team by blackballing and boycotting the “maverick” bastard Mark Cuban.

If the team supports him, the team is as bad as is he.

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ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

Agreed.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago

maybe cuban has spent some time on his knees in the locker room…

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

He’s reported to be more of a bend over and grab your ankles type.

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
3 years ago

They say he’s of Russian descent. Probably from Lenin’s or Stalin’s side of the family, I suppose . . .

But also, the name Cuban, I suppose, figures – insofar as he no doubt would have supported Castro.

patd
patd
3 years ago

Does any real American even watch the morons playing games for millions of dollars anymore??? Let them kneel and stop loving the USA until they are BROKE!!!!

The Saint
The Saint
3 years ago
Reply to  patd

Cuban is an introverted nut. I remember in 2016 when he wanted either party to nominate him to be the V.P. pick. What a freking moron he is. I wish he would just shut his mouth. And nobody watches his stupid Maverick games anyway.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  The Saint

Every time he has a game, he strips the Americans of our identity…while his overpaid goons kneel and insult America and our Flag which is AMERICA in general. Who among us will tolerate his latest insult….not playing our anthem?
If not for America, these goons would not have been elevated out of their positions in life. They are so stupid …if not for our flag and anthem…they would be plucking chickens somwhere.
There are a few that took these opportunities and made something out of their shelves beyond sports.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago
Reply to  patd

Agreed. I stopped watching the NBA in the ’70s because of Darrell Dawkins, a.k.a. “Chocolate Thunder”, and his shattering backboards routine.

I’m a veteran and stopped watching the NFL for disrespecting the flag and National Anthem. I didn’t quit on them until they quit on me.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

I once met an old NFL player from the late 1950’s he said he had to have a job in the off season in order to feed his family.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago

Believe him. The Packer’s team name comes from the fact the players had to work in a meatpacking plant in order to make ends meet.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

I can’t imagine what would happen if he were to get badly injured during the regular season. The NFL would still pay him his salary I’d hope.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

This guy had an amazing set of season box seats at Anaheim stadium — back when the Rams played there. I don’t think football made him rich either. I’ve never sat in box seats like those, fully catered food and drink. It was bizarre being at a football game but being barely able to hear the crowd and having televised coverage of the game on big screen TV’s.

Ike B.
Ike B.
3 years ago

I’m also a vet. I’m 78 years old and served to keep this Country free and to keep our FLAG WAVING!!I will always respect our Flag and our Anthem! I’ll never respect these over paid scum bags! If they don’t like this Country the way it was founded, get the hell out!!!!!!

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
3 years ago

That’s because their Chinese Masters hate hearing it as well !!!

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Pia
Pia
3 years ago

We won’t be watching. Duh.

Fount
Fount
3 years ago

Let professional sports hear the sound of 80 million people turning off their programs and not going to their games. Silence.

Play sports, don’t watch those anti-American millionaire Marxists. They have nothing but contempt for America and its people. Cancel culture cuts two ways.

I have completely stopped watching Fixnews as well. I have nothing but contempt for everyone on that network. If the so-called conservatives left had any integrity, they would have quit in protest over Lou Dobbs getting canned.

Lamarr02
Lamarr02
3 years ago
Reply to  Fount

I would like to kneel during the Black National Anthem and moon the television cameras. Throwing bananas on the field would be too racist. What are the poor cheerleaders to do? Those breast implants don’t pay for themselves. (Obviously, they do pay for themselves…stupid comment).

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  Lamarr02

I’m sick and tired hearing about the Blacks and the whining about racsim ..I’m seeing more and more racism against Whites, Jews, and Asians.

George Soros swore to destroy America…on live TV. Until we get rid of him…this is only going to get worse.

Alexandra
Alexandra
3 years ago

I don’t watch these anti-Americans. They can do whatever they want but will not get one thin dime from me.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
3 years ago
Reply to  Alexandra

Yup I agree this lower than Whale DUNG guy needs to be out of business forever .

WadeBaker
WadeBaker
3 years ago

All pro sports should remove it, along with the flag and military presence of any sort.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  WadeBaker

But … but …. but …. then no one will be able to “take a knee”.

santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago

Now, don’t worry, Mohandjob. The degenerates who would take a knee, would find plenty of other places to do so. You know, maybe in front of a church. For, being, you know, gasp,…..racist! Or, maybe in front of a super market. For selling food to white supremacists! So, you see, plenty of places for the ‘take a knee’ types to go and spread the ‘gospel.’

Fount
Fount
3 years ago

Those are not Jews and you are an anti-Semite for saying what you did. Sanders and Soros are Marxists and have no affiliation to the Jewish people or their roots. Many Leftists of Jewish Origin are worse anti-Semites than you are. As for Marx, he was not a Jew. He too is of Jewish origin and was baptized. His parents converted to Christianity.

Unlike you, I do not castigate a people because some are radicals. Believe me, many more Christians buy into the Marxist crap than Jews do, but I don’t blame Christianity!

You need to look in the mirror and free yourself from your misguided prejudices. What about the many Jews who fight for America: Mark Levine, Dennis Prager, Stephen Miller et al. And I include myself in their ranks, not to mention Pamela Geller, who puts her own life out there in the name of our freedoms.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  Fount

THX 1138’s religion is The Religion of Atheism.

Pol Pot, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse Tung … and the list goes on.

Never had a boss that was a member of The Religion of Atheism, but I don’t believe that I would care for it. A few of my employees, years back, practiced that religion (The Religion of Atheism). They wore their religion on their sleeve and weren’t the best of workers.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  Fount

It’s only culture, to a lesser degree. Most has to do with outright intelligence. Look at IQ demographics, pertaining to race.

Being stupid is real.

Ayn-hoo-ackburrrrrrr

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago

Boycott the whole rotten NFL and NBA

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

done. been done for 2 years. i was a diehard broncos fan for decades, but i really do not give a shiite about them anymore

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Already there.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago

Karl Marx was raised in the Lutheran church …

He converted to The Religion of Atheism.

I’ve had several Jewish women work for me. They were efficient and professionally mannered (professionally mannered if needed, that is). They could get a bit rough, sometimes, swearing that would make a drunken sailor blush … but they could rough house it with the guys.

Never worked for one, that could be different.

If I wasn’t retired to being nothing more than a landlord … and went back into business … I’d actively recruit Jewish women.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago

One of the most racist terms, in the world, is Caucasian. Negroid, Mongoloid, and Caucasoid. I see negroes use the term “Caucasian” with relative frequency. Turnabout is fair play.

Isn’t it, little poorly educated one?

What is it about those that are SO uneducated, such as you, that causes them to HUMILIATE themselves time upon time, upon time?

santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago

Gee, did this idiot even bother to ask a section of his fans what they thought about this befoe making a decision. Probably not. Just another situation where the elites are telling the masses what’s good for them. The fed gov should tell this Mr. Cuban, if he refuses to include the national anthem, all of his tax breaks will be withdrawn. Permanently.

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago

it’s OK. just another brick laid down on our road back to separate but equal. the nba and nfl have almost become the old negro leagues, played by blacks only and in the not too distant future watched by blacks only. i foresee the emergence of a white nfl and a white nba, and let the paying customers decide who they want to watch and not be offended by.

santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago

How does some out of touch rich guy’s decision to exclude the national anthem at professional sports make you want to become anti-semitic? WTF? Where does that connection come from. If you’re so close to becoming anti-semitic, perhaps any reason would do.

eddy dee
eddy dee
3 years ago

Even if she is a TRUMPER ?

Eddie

livingengine
livingengine
3 years ago

So sick of it

Steck3500
Steck3500
3 years ago

Don’t care, don’t watch,
nor support any of the China Niki controlled basketball or any of their merchandise.

Warmac9999
Warmac9999
3 years ago

The NBA viewership has collapsed because of woke baloney like this. I thought the NBA commissioner said no more stunts. I guess he is powerless.

Mr Proton
Mr Proton
3 years ago

Hey, you guys here about the SuperBowl’s viewership numbers? Outstanding…

Keep digging, Mark. Here’s a bigger shovel. In fact, does anyone know the words to the Chinese National Anthem?

AlgorithmicAnalyst
AlgorithmicAnalyst
3 years ago

They can play the Internationale.

YesHemp Cbd
YesHemp Cbd
3 years ago

Excellent! Cuban proves that liberalism is a mental disorder and nails another coffin in the NBA. Used to love Warriors, Sac Kings, Run TMC. Does anyone remember David Robinson did his stint as an officer before going into the NBA? Can’t wait for motorcycle racing https://motoamerica.com

Fount
Fount
3 years ago

Since he’s a Cuban who loves Marxism maybe he should move to Cuba.

What a disgrace! Mark Cuban is proof you can be a moron and make money. That cretin should be kissing the American soil every day that a country has rewarded such an ingrate with so much wealth.

And take your scumbags with you!

America: love it or leave it.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago

What about the Chinese? After all we have Mao, Xi and whole lot of other scum, so let’s all condemn the whole Chinese race.
Your extrapolation is an all too typical example of erroneous induction and unworthy of you.
Clearly, you do not understand Jewish “liberal” idealism.
But, ironically, nor do its exponents, understand how dangerous is rampant idealism when it absolutely ignores the reality.
Socialism is an ideal construct that only works well in leftist fairy land while communism uses it as an excuse to seize power.

beniyyar
beniyyar
3 years ago

The NBA has ordered ALL of their games to play the National Anthem at their games, including King Cuban’s Mavericks. Who would have expected the NBA to actually stand up for patriotic and decent Americans and slap money bags Cuban in his smirky face.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  beniyyar

Hear, hear! The NBA finally does something right for a change! F*Ck Cuban!

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
3 years ago

Get WOKE —- GO BROKE!!!!!!!!!!!
I REFUSE to go-to or watch these DemoKKKrat National Kommunists!!!!

Daddyo
Daddyo
3 years ago

Cuban makes me proud to be an American Jew…if I`d had a lobotomy.

Don39
Don39
3 years ago

CUBAN is about to pay the price of all two bit political hacks! OBSCURITY! NOTHING he is affiliated with matters to real Americans! I frankly think it is Unamerican to raise the flag at ANY CCP affiliated event!

Donna Garland
Donna Garland
3 years ago

Any American who refuses to stand in respect of the nation they call home before the flag and sing their national anthem is a disrespectful, disloyal traitor to all those who sacrificed for the very freedoms they are spitting on. Boycott any games this UN-American has and show him what happens when he decides to push his leftist, biased, cowardice agenda on those who are true patriots!

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  Donna Garland

I am waiting for the day he puts up a Chinese flag over the field…..we’ll see how that turns out.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

Do U want to contact the NBA? Perhaps to tell them you won’t attend their away games when the Dallas Mavericks play or that you’ll boycott any televised games of the Dallas Mavericks?
Here’s one way to to do that:
https://support.watch.nba.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060600773-US-Phone-Support

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago

Which is why i will most certainly never watch the NBA ever again –

durabo
durabo
3 years ago

You just don’t piss off patriotic Texans by disrespecting our flag and retinal anthem! Watch the fans disappear.

Poptoy1949
Poptoy1949
3 years ago

Here is a real Ray of Sunshine. This Cuban Guy. No, not Geopolitically speaking but speaking of his Sir name. Perhaps the two are indeed interchangeable but at this Point who cares. He grows up makes a Ton of Money Quickly and wants to change the things he can that he grew up that he did not like. Who is the HELL is a Mark Cuban to try and change our Culture by allowing such a drastic move at a Sporting Event ? Well I will tell you. He is a nobody that has a a Big Wish to be a somebody and has no idea how to Act Correctly to become someone Locked in History the correct Way. In other words he is a Big Loser whose time has not fully arrived yet but it is coming.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  Poptoy1949

…LOSER AS A HUMAN BEING…..

rsklaroff
rsklaroff
3 years ago

nba reversed this; also, apparently, he’s China-related

L-Dan
L-Dan
3 years ago

I see an opportunity for women’s roller derby to make a comeback if they keep the politics out of it

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  L-Dan

It won’t work…..transgender men who want us to accept them as women will shut that down real quick….as they are all across America. in women’s sports. Tragic for the women and girls….
The alleged transgenders, are just whinny boys who are afraid to compete against other men….so they whine and take away women and girls’ sports.

God destroyed Sodom and Gomorra centuries ago in the middle east.
It has now been rebuilt in America.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks Will No Longer Play National Anthem At Home Games.

WHO CARES? HAS ANYONE IN THIS AUDIENCE CONTINUED WATCHING SINCE CHINA BOUGHT THEM OUT?

Cuban is so stupid to let the Chinese interfere in our National Sports….all for the Almighty dollar. They took the “America” out of “America.” Anyone who watches except to mock….is not an American.

Commissioner Gordon
Commissioner Gordon
3 years ago

Time for the peaceful protests at his $20 million Dallas mansion!

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Wait, that was yesterday!

Mark Cuban Now Claims He ‘Didn’t Cancel’ National Anthem
By Dylan Gwinn
2/11/21

After reportedly confirming to The Athletic that he canceled the national anthem, then having the league step in and order him to play it, Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban has decided that he never canceled the anthem after all.

“We didn’t cancel the national anthem,” Cuban told ESPN. “We still had our flag flying proud up on the wall at the American Airlines Center and everybody had the opportunity to address it and pray to it or salute to it or whatever their feelings are.”

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/02/10/mark-cuban-now-claims-didnt-cancel-national-anthem/

Robert Kahlcke
Robert Kahlcke
3 years ago

Hey little mark, i suggest you tell “WOUNDED WARRIORS” your going to shut down our NATIONAL ANTHEM, I’am certain you will create many fans.
That being said, when you are old and about to die from plain old age, I hope you suffer a SLOW AND AGONIZING DEATH.
God Bless America, God Bless the U.S. Military and above all God Bless HERO WOUNDED WARRIORS. Period

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

Bbbbbutt, Ayn Rand!

edward kennedy
edward kennedy
3 years ago

Cuban can take his fake perpetual victims and leave the country. I have no time for half wits.

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