I haven’t watched a professional game of anything for well over a year. I totally despise the NBA and NFL. They can die a slow and painful death.

The NBA has been dead since Jordan retired in 1998. Lost all legitimacy with their fixing of games, ref scandal and pushing of that piece of shit lebron james as the savior of the game.

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Originally posted by Tn226:

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Originally posted by Puckpilot78:
Maybe he's trying to knock attendance down to a point where he can move the team to Miami.

More likely to Beijing

The NBA is more deserving of Pyongyang than Beijing.

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Good, teams need to stop using it as a method to gain attention for their social justice seeking players and owners.

As Mark Cubutt is doing here, using it to get attention to himself and his team.

If you are going to play it as it relates to respecting the flag, the country and it's citizens, stand, hand over heart or salute fine.

Once you cross over into libtard lackey sjw projection, piss off and stop playing it...

The scene is ripe for a new generation of sports leagues. Only select local athletes (i.e. a Dallas player must be from Dallas or have lived there for X years), cap their salaries at $100k, permit zero politics or foreign sponsors, and start every game with a local musician's rendition of the National Anthem. That would be the end of it.

Likely wants to replace it with "The Internationale" or "March of the Volunteers".

Fuck him.

Look, Cuban isn't stupid, he knows this last season saw the lowest viewership in the history of the league. And IMO, nothing is going to change that at this point. The league has dug its on grave with the American viewers. So 'stupid' like this from Cuban isn't going to change much at all. The future of the league is internationally, and the NBA owners know it. So my send off as an American sports fan is simple...good riddance, don't want to ever see you or your BS again.

If I were asked to pay one dollar to save all of professional sports I'd have to think about it!

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Originally posted by Gene Hillman:
If I were asked to pay one dollar to save all of professional sports I'd have to think about it!

I wouldnt. Fuck them all

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Originally posted by Gene Hillman:
If I were asked to pay one dollar to save all of professional sports I'd have to think about it!

I wouldn’t have to think about it one bit.

The answer is “nope”.

Looking forward to 2021-2022 contract reductions as NBA advertising revenues plummet !! Glad I can contribute to their dlimena.

odd story about how Cuban became a billionaire

https://redstate.com/shipwreck...before-games-n324592

Cuban is a salesman who, after getting fired from a PC software retailer in Dallas, opened his own storefront business to compete with his former employer by siphoning off his former customers.

Over the course of several years, and after picking up Perot Systems as a customer, revenue reached $30 million a year and in 1990 he sold the business to CompuServe, making about $2 million for himself in the transaction.

Two years later, Cuban invested some of that money in a venture with two other Indiana University alums in a business called Audionet, a pioneer in webcasting. By 1998, Audionet had become Broadcast.com.

In 1999, Broadcast.com live-streamed over the internet the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. During the great “dot.com” market bubble of the late 1990s, with a grand total of $13.5 million in REVENUE, Broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo for $5.7 BILLION in Yahoo stock — a transaction regarded by some as the worst internet acquisition of all time. Cuban netted $ 1 Billion when he sold his shares.

Cuban bought the Dallas Mavericks for $ 285 million in 2000

Within just a few years of buying Broadcast.com, Yahoo shut the service down.

Forbes estimates the Mavericks are now worth $ 2.3 Billion. $ 2 Billion more than when Cuban bought the team 20 years ago.

https://www.businessinsider.co...et-worth-2018-9?op=1

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I might suggest that malcontents will find another way to use televised sports to publicly push their agenda.

This is true. You can't create legislation that prevents people from being assholes.

The NBA was SLAUGHTERED last year to the point where league leadership said they would back off some (not sure what what that meant). It is clear the whole league is in the pockets of the chinese. They say NOTHING about atrocities committed against people in Hong Kong and locals n mainland china. It is pitiful. I cannot remember last tine I watched a game and have no desire to at this point in time.

The National BeijingBall Assc told Cuban no. Anthem gonna be played. MInstry of State Security say so..

I have never been a "fan" of commercial organized team sports, but occasionally would watch (or even attend) an MLB game. Baseball is a game that moves slowly enough that I can follow it, and the list of vital rules is very small, so I can understand it. Other sports, not so.

I have on 3 occasions been part of an a capella men's chorus that sang the National Anthem at the local MLB ballpark before a game. I enjoyed doing that, and we were well-received by the fans in the stands. The rules about performance were very simple, and all renditions had to be very traditional (and short). No grandstanding allowed.

I don't think MLB has stooped as low as the other sports, but it's starting to do so. Not sure if I'll continue being an occasional fan.

flashguy

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I have never been a "fan" of commercial organized team sports, but occasionally would watch (or even attend) an MLB game. Baseball is a game that moves slowly enough that I can follow it. . .

Sidenote for flashguy. We brought a Ph.D. engineer from the UK to the Bay Area CA for a research project, took him to a SF Giants home game. Bottom of the first, a solo homerun. End of game score was 1-0 for the Giants.

We apologized to him for such a boring game. He laughed, "I have been to cricket tournaments in the UK that lasted for 3 days, ended in a tie".

Scoutmaster, a few years ago I attended a MLB game here in Dallas that went 0-0 for 18 innings before the other team got a run and the game ended. Most of the fans had departed by then and were listening to the game on the radio.

flashguy

You gotta give 'em credit. Just when you think they can't come up with another reason for us not to watch they always come up with another one.

Stupidity knows no bounds

And didn’t Cuban have something to do with Direct TV?

Oh, he changed his mind, too late asshole.

https://rfangle.com/politics/n...lay-national-anthem/

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Oh, he changed his mind, too late asshole.

https://rfangle.com/politics/n...lay-national-anthem/

We have the worst owners here in DFW. This fucking clown. For what seems like decades now, I've said STFU, get off the court, and go up to your owners box and act with some class. Same thing with Jerry Jones.

I get the optics of playing some other song and all that political bullshit. I also realize the history of playing the national anthem before games began in WWII iirc. But in this day and age, it's respect for our military folks who have paid with their lives. Why this idiot wanted to wade into this, escapes me, but I knew it'd end up that way.