NBA playoff boycott over Blake
shooting 'a way to again try to demand
a little more action,' coach says
Fox News,
by
Ryan Gaydos
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
8/26/2020 4:40:29 PM
Toronto coach Nick Nurse addressed the possibility of the Raptors and Celtics players boycotting the first game of their playoff series on Thursday in response to the Jacob Blake shooting. Rumors of a possible boycott were sparked (Snip) “So, for example, this happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin, if I'm correct? Would it be nice if, in a perfect world, we all say we're not playing, and the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks -- that's going to trickle down. If he steps up to the plate and puts pressure on the district attorney's office, and state's attorney, and governors, and politicians there to make real change and get some justice," he said.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
edgar 8/26/2020 4:45:40 PM (No. 521733)
If the NBA schedules a playoff game and no players or fans show up, does anyone really care?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
67cj5 8/26/2020 4:45:45 PM (No. 521734)
Quite frankly nobody cares if these morons play or not. Nobody's watching anyway.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 8/26/2020 4:45:50 PM (No. 521735)
Cool.
How about never playing another NBA game....EVER? I can support that.
LOL, morons think that they will stay rich if no playing? Even dumber than I thought they were, and that is going pretty far to beat.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
red1066 8/26/2020 4:51:53 PM (No. 521741)
Go ahead and boycott. I don't watch anyway, so I won't notice the difference.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Grateful 8/26/2020 4:54:31 PM (No. 521743)
The NBA is having a playoff?
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NBA stands for...
No I better not.
But I will say this
Nick Nurse is a fools fool...
As are most of the dribblers...
The only boycott is America’s ..
The fools will soon find out
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
smokincol 8/26/2020 5:14:01 PM (No. 521769)
in so many words: SO WHAT!!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 8/26/2020 5:18:21 PM (No. 521774)
Chalk up a loss to each team. Maybe NEITHER will go to the next round.
Just bypass them.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DARling 8/26/2020 5:22:27 PM (No. 521782)
So tedious. Some day, it will hit them that no one cares but the owners of sports bars. I'm thinking most of them are closed anyway, so no great loss.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/26/2020 5:26:23 PM (No. 521787)
We. Don't. Care. Bye-Bye.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Buckrog 8/26/2020 5:27:33 PM (No. 521790)
According to the Milwaukee Homicide Database on the Journal-Sentinel website, there have been 113 homicides this year, 54 more than this time last year. 74% of the victims are black, 66% of all the homicides have not had charges established against suspects. The Kenosha shooting is sad, but these guys need to look a little closer to home and they'll find a much larger problem that probably has gone largely ignored.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MMC 8/26/2020 5:31:44 PM (No. 521792)
With ticket sales diminished- who is going to pay the contract players extortion level salary?
Bye Bye to professional sports.. wont watch football or basketball- baseball is a question too.
I am sure the owners will be begging people to come back to venues.
Nope. I will #resist
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What is the NBA? Is it important?
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Does anyone care what the Negro Basketball Association does ? Are they even playing ?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/26/2020 5:52:42 PM (No. 521820)
I doubt the owners are very pleased with this threat. The NBA have already opened a can of sh...worms with their China ties and allowing political statements on journeys (BLM is a Marist political organization). Lots of ad money lost if they really boycott the first game. I don't really care and wouldn't watch anyway but watching the league circle the drain is fun.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
john56 8/26/2020 5:54:22 PM (No. 521824)
I;m already boycotting the NBA. Big whoop.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
HotRod 8/26/2020 5:55:41 PM (No. 521827)
By golly, this will really hurt black people! They are mostly the only ones left who watch basketball any more.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/26/2020 5:59:26 PM (No. 521833)
Thugball never disappoints.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
marbles 8/26/2020 6:07:42 PM (No. 521840)
Stupid, pointless, worthless.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rochow 8/26/2020 6:14:25 PM (No. 521847)
When a baby is held down by 2 brown arms and the other brown leg owner puts a leg on the kid's throat, not a problem playing right? Or when a 5 year old is shot point black in the forehead in front of his sisters, not a problem playing, right??? Freaking self important hypocrites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 8/26/2020 6:20:31 PM (No. 521851)
They don't play ... they don't get paid. Let's see how long this stupidity lasts.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/26/2020 6:24:57 PM (No. 521852)
SO a bunch of millionaire thugs think by having a temper tantrum and not playing their useless sport that they get paid waaaayyyyy too much money for that they will get the DA to move faster? The thug players are more stupid than I thought. I am happy that they aren't playing. No interruptions in the regular TV schedule. Hopefully the baseball players can join in too. I hear the NFL Detroit Lions refused to practice also because of the shooting. No matter, they suck anyway. If any of these Prima Donna's refuse to do their jobs, pro-rate their big fat contract payments for the missed practices and games. The world will function just fine without professional sports and the thugs who inhabit their courts and fields.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 8/26/2020 6:53:14 PM (No. 521877)
The NBA is in the playoffs? Who knew?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
hotcorner 8/26/2020 7:15:49 PM (No. 521894)
It's not entaining enough to watch and its players seem to hate America. Where are they if not for America - playing in Europee or China!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
volksford 8/26/2020 7:18:23 PM (No. 521896)
I'm doing my part to put these people out of work.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
BGray2 8/26/2020 7:31:30 PM (No. 521907)
Fine, go ahead and take the rest of the decade off. I could not care less.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/26/2020 7:34:46 PM (No. 521909)
I can care effing less. I'm boycotting the NBA anyway so no cash out of my pocket and no time wasted.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/26/2020 7:38:13 PM (No. 521913)
I don't think that I can bear it.
Just kidding. Yes I can.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
SALady 8/26/2020 7:42:26 PM (No. 521916)
From what I am hearing, the ratings won't be any different.
Nobody has been watching when they do play, so 0-0=0!!!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
AltaD 8/26/2020 8:01:58 PM (No. 521931)
MLB is getting in on the action too but in a season without fans in the stadiums, will anyone notice or care?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/26/2020 8:04:24 PM (No. 521933)
Keep demanding, Night Nurse Nick. Demand yourself right on out of a lucrative career. Idiot!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/26/2020 9:03:40 PM (No. 521971)
I hope the players boycott forever and never play again.
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Oh pleeze. They are paid more than brain surgeons. Why not just quit ? Nobody will miss you.
As Golda Meir said "Don't be so humble. You are not that great"
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Eagle4ever 8/26/2020 11:35:16 PM (No. 522077)
Good for them, however, I am not boycotting the NBA, NFL and MLB, I am outright banning them.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 8/27/2020 12:16:25 AM (No. 522100)
So they're going to not play and they think this impresses us??? PUH-LEEZ, Child!!
Got news for them. I have much better things to do than watch a bunch of "oppressed" multimillionaire thugs disrespect my country by kneeling for her National Anthem and then chase a ball up and down a court for a couple of hours a night. They could play the game in nothing but their jock straps and I STILL wouldn't watch!!
Stuff THAT in your crackpipe and smoke it!!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
XCenturion 8/27/2020 2:40:20 AM (No. 522135)
I really don't see their point in that most people have tuned out the BLM basketball league this season.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
JimBob 8/27/2020 4:55:59 AM (No. 522154)
Hey, you JERK 'performance cast members' of the entertainment company known as the NBA....
Boycott away! No one cares about your million-dollar angst and grievances.
You're NOT important. You are nothing more than Entertainers.
Go Pound Sand..... right where the Moon don't shine.
No work, no audience, no pay.
As they used to say in the old Charlie Chan movies, "No Tickee, No Washee".
So whatcha gonna do now?
They've got Machines.... GOOD machines..... to pick cotton.
You are 'superfluous', or as the Brits say... "You have been made Redundant".
If you REALLY had Character, you would go to your inner-city Thug-based neighborhoods and try to help the people there.
But you won't.
You are.....TRASH.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
paral04 8/27/2020 9:40:05 AM (No. 522426)
Do these idiots really think so much of themselves that people would care? They run around the court in expensive footwear and throw a ball into a net, or maybe not. What use is that to me?
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I'm certain my definition of change isn't the same as his. The change I want to see is an end to no or low bail or worse, no charges filed against looters and rioters.