Cancel all NBA games until we see action
What the subject line says: it is up to us to save ourselves, the elites – players included, apparently – won’t care about us until their wallets are empty.
Both owners and players want their money. It has to start with fans, boycott and donate to organizations fighting on the grounds for our rights and freedoms
Why in gods name would you boycott the NBA for this. Target your boycotts at organizations with the power to enact change. The NBA has had a good track record on these issues. If boycotted anyway you offer zero incentives to any company to ever be on your side.
Nfl has more ice supporters in their ranks.
Every NHL player is supported by ICE.
“He’s outta line but he’s right.”
“Oh brother, this guy STINKS!”
But they get called for icing…
Wait until you see the NHL and MLB
Shut. Down. EVERYTHING.
Start by shutting down things that will actually have an impact. Performative shit, including Reddit posts, does nothing for people in Minneapolis or anywhere else for that matter.
The nba shutting down for Covid was a big wake up call for a lot of people.
I think there’s a difference between making people aware of a public health crisis and turning the screws on fascists with their wallets. I’m not saying don’t boycott, but boycotting/cancelling some NBA games is pretty low on the totem pole of effective things, a few notches above angry posts on Reddit and many notches below an organized labor strike.
This is reddit blackout all over again lmfaoooo
yea i remember them mods being on this thread around nba finals
if all professional sports shut down that would be pretty big. I don’t think that will happen. but it would be huge statement.
The people who own sports franchises have immense political power and tend to donate overwhelmingly to conservative and fascist politicians.
The players have great reach and influence, but don’t know how to use it.
Our nation puts profit and revenue ahead of human life. All capitalist businesses should be told that their success depends on their actively supporting basic human rights in our cities.
Because professional sports boycotts hit just about every major city in the country simultaneously.
Becuase it’s Reddit. This is how we cured racism in 2015-16 and COVID during the pandemic.
Crying on Reddit didn’t do shit and never has.
We also saved France by putting French flags on our profile when they got the terrorism
They have?? I haven’t see one “star” talk about it even performatively.. Where are the LeBron James, Giannis and Currys of the world. We need to boycott all games..
You really know how to hit the republicans where it hurts. How about until ICE stops murdering civilians, there will be no more woke NBA, no more drag shows and no more all female remakes of classic movies. That’ll show them.
Most companies aren’t on your side lmao tf is this paragraph
No fuck that. This is a lawless terrorist govt.
At this point boycott or cut out anything and everything that you’re willing to give up.
This is going to get worse. Creating economic instability and risk (and voting if the election still happens) are the last non-violent options left.
Boycotting the NBA as a protest to ICE is…certainly an idea
What do you think a general strike is?
bro this is reddit, not exactly the melting pot of intellects
Not specifically targeted at the NBA.
The title of the post does not indicate a general strike. Whereas a general, or even labor strike may be effectual, that is not… at all… the context and nature of this post. If you were suggesting a general strike, you’d suggest a general strike. If you were suggesting a NBA specific strike, well, that’s not a general strike. And obviously you’ll understand when people reply with that in consideration.
Also, the NBA is a weird, unimportant place to start the general strike.
Correct: boycott everything. The entire US economy. This ends when we shut it down. If we don’t then it accelerates.
You’re in for a sad realization that a solid 70%+ of the population absolutely do not care about other people
More like most people are scared to lose their jobs and end up homeless. I think this shit is awful, but I’m sorry I just can’t risk losing my job and not being able to feed my family
No the other guy is right. Most people dont care. Like at all.
“Boycott the US economy” 😂😂
Dude, just stop buying stuff, it’s not that hard.
If we all make the decision to farm our own land, not pay taxes, and never use power; the government will have no control, so things will change. Only buy goods that are smuggled into the US from ethical countires like China or Iran.
What’s so funny. The Canadians and Europeans are already doing it.
You realize that when you go buy bread and water to prepare for a winter storm you’re supporting the US economy right? I agree what’s happening is fucked, but how about we actually suggest realistic and rational ideas of protest instead of saying shit because it sounds good
Yes but we live in America. There are things you have to buy to live. I don’t think boycotting the NBA is the correct response here.
I understand where your head is at and obviously I hate what’s happening in the US but is it even possible to boycott the entire U.S. economy?? People need to work and buy stuff to like… live
So we should all quit our jobs and stop paying our bills?
Stfu and fuck you. This milquetoast bullshit is why were in this mess. Hurt people in their pocketbook to effect real change. Grow the fuck up and become an adult
I’m very much not in support of ICE, quite the opposite so I’m not sure why you’re coming at me so hostile. How about suggesting actual ideas instead of thinking NBA viewership numbers going down is going to make a damn difference. Use your brain.
Lot of immigrants playing in the NBA -
If people don’t have circuses to go to then maybe, just maybe, they will focus their energy on what’s important.
This. “Panem en circenses,” bread and circuses, was part of the Roman credence of rule because it worked.
Keep them entertained and fed and they’ll let you do almost anything. =/
If people want to handle fascism non-violently, they need to start being ok with boycotts and work stoppages and material forms of protest. Anyone who is against these tactics either 1) doesn’t care about fascism and protected rights, 2) wants to address violation of rights and fascism with violence. There isn’t really another way
People in America have been convinced over the last 30 years that a Protest should operate more similar to a parade than an act of obstruction.
people want protests to be done in a way that is comfortable for them which is stupid considering thats not what a protest is about even in the slightest
Just like this thread.
Most Americans just want to outsource their responsibility and action to someone else, like the NBA.
So they can keep sitting in their chair and do jack shit.
I mean, if there is a chance you’re gonna get shot in the street for no reason, most people aren’t going to risk their lives or their families for that. You’re absolutely right, btw. But reality is sadly different
The Land of Individualism is only going to have strong protests in limited ways.
We have had some major and critical ones, Civil Rights, women’s suffrage, anti-war movements especially during Vietnam, but just as much effective backlash and an even worse propagation against everything those movements fought for.
After the George Floyd protests, a lot of states and local governments passed legislation targeting protests and protestors. Ironic that people used to say “if protesting worked, it would be illegal”.
Jesus christ thank you for this. I’m so tired of reading on thread after thread on this website about how protests “shouldn’t bother anybody” being upvoted by thousands of milquetoast fascist enablers. People exactly like /u/ca2mt, who tries to hide his reddit profile so people won’t see his Elon Musk worship.
Its only the left. Crazy right wingers have no issue storming capitol hill even when their argument doesn’t have any legs to stand on. The left sits on the internet making memes or boycotting people that can’t do anything about it. They really love peacefully walking through the streets and marveling at how large the crowd is while Trump’s crew probably having a good laugh in his golden throne room
A protest has to be poignant. Stopping nba games doesnt really put any pressure on those that be. Its a gesture, sure, but a lot of People ignore that during civil rights, protest was shutting down a section of town that affected those perpetuating jim crow. Sitting in a diner that couldn’t receive anymore business when seats were filled and racket was caused.
We’re at the point where peaceful protest is making it extremely uncomfortable for the president/politicians to move around, and the violent protest to happen in Minneapolis/at point of contact with ICE.
Can’t have MLK without threat of Malcolm X.
Yeah, this is our current state in a nutshell. People are okay with protests as long as they… occur on a private space designated solely for protests far from anyone who might be affected by gathering. Such a wildly stupid concept considering the point of protest, but here we are.
I’m from Cleveland and when Tamir Rice was murdered, I remember people protesting on the streets and blocking the highways, and the only shit I heard from people was “how do they have allllll this time to inconvenience everyone else!?! They should get a job!”
Americans need to be comfortable being uncomfortable when it comes to wanting actual change. I’m an American and I am privileged, and I know this shit isn’t right. To put it verrrry lightly, it’s disappointing & embarrassing to see what a joke America as a nation has become over the past decade. If I wanted to say what I really felt, I’d probably get banned from Reddit.
Those people are conservatives shouting loudly to try to stop protests. They’re saying the same shit about Minnesota right now.
Unfortunately, a lot of Americans do not want to disrupt their daily lives and inconvenience themselves in any way.
Apathy is an epidemic and I don’t know the cure
Do not want or cant?
We are wage slaves. Leaving job to go protest means losing income, food, home, health insurance. And it is hard for most Americans to justify it when this stuff doesn’t “directly” affect them. Until it does, of course.
You’re correct that there isnt an easy answer.
There is no cure when you consider over half of those that voted chose this regime. They had access to history, the words used on the campaign and Project 2025 and chose it.
Yes. If you believe your government is fascist/authoritarian… the solution is NEVER a really witty sign.
Boycotts need to be organized as part of a targeted campaign. Additionally, there need to be demands. Demanding “action” is vague.
100%. Boycotts and strikes are the last line of nonviolent protest
And that needs to include multi-billion dollar international tech companies like reddit, facebook, apple, amazon, google, instagram, x, etc. We all saw how much these companies profit when people stay home during the pandemic. We all saw how their CEOs lined up to kiss the ring at Trump’s second inauguration.
Most of us consume the internet as much or more than we consume physical products. Any general strike needs to include logging off the corporate internet, cancelling your streaming services, and not feeding the algorithms with free content that engages the masses and sells ads. As I write this comment there’s a huge add for UFC on Paramount+ in the r/nba sidebar.
UFC is owned by Dana White (who is on the board of Meta)
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dana-white-declares-anything-trump-121032205.html
Paramount is owned by Larry Ellison and the CEO is his son David Ellison
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/david-ellison-reportedly-promised-trump-144738560.html
All of these tech/media companies are complicit. If you’re going to strike, then don’t just shift your spending from brick and mortar commerce to e-commerce. Turn the internet off, spend time with your friends and family, cook food from the farmer’s market, and get your entertainment from your local library.
Players Union needs to lead because you know the league and owners aren’t going to do shit
The NBA of all leagues should be sensitive to racial injustice. These protests are taking place bc Supreme Court has allowed ICE to detain anyone bc of skin colour.
They’ve been profiling in Minny, including stopping off duty police officers.
This is all Stephen Millers wet dream. Posts today showing feds removing slavery exhibits at historic sites.
I would think this would hit MLB the hardest.
1⁄3 of the league could easily run into a Kavanaugh Stop and be arrested or deported in a flash.
And the other 2/3rds of the league voted for Trump lmao, interesting demographic breakdown
probably a lot of the 1⁄3 who are Hispanic did too.
Both executions in Minneapolis were of Caucasian citizens.
Yes, the focus of ICE is deporting anyone with dark skin, but they will murder anyone who voices opposition.
Then let’s pressure them to do it.
Players don’t want to lose their money unfortunately, I’d be shocked if they agreed to that
Ant has the perfect opportunity to do something here but something tells me he doesn’t care
Ant would rather do 18 years of protest with one signature on a check.
Let’s hope we’re both wrong
100s of thousands of workers who make way less money went on a general strike yesterday. The real issue is that ever since big businesses lobbied for the 1947 Taft Harley Act, nearly all union contracts have no strike clauses during the contract terms.
What’s remarkable is that many unions endorsed the Minneapolis general strike because of the pressure from the public. They typically never endorse militant actions like general strikes because that breaks the contract and employers could fire workers or even terminate hard fought union contracts.
At some point, people need to say fuck the contract and fuck the law to take back their power. They simply can’t fire everyone and NBA players have the financial privilege and leverage to potentially weather the consequences. The league and the players know that the public would never accept replacement NBA players.
Yep. It needs to start today in Minneapolis
They don’t care lil bro
The players are the uber wealthy you fucking idiots
But you don’t understand!! The NBA players are going to team up with the redditors and narwhal ICE’s bacon!!
Reddit on fellow redditors!!
Imagine thinking the players union would just throw away money.
Obama talked the Players Union out of going on strike post-George Floyd. That ship has sailed, unfortunately.
Cancel the basketball games, sure… but there will still be two football games tomorrow watched by millions of people as if nothing at all happened today.
The games are tomorrow but yes. No moment of silence for this guy GESTAPO killed but a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk
Edit: i want to add this is also a political assassination. The Gestapo will call it domestic terrorism.
They already did
“In remarks on X, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller called the dead man a ‘domestic terrorist’ and ‘would-be assassin’”
Source
Everything is not going to get solved in an instant. There are clearly still going to be problems. Actions don’t need to be God-breaking.
This doomerist rational nihilism about there still being worse after we do something potentially good supports us in what ways?
Footbalk games watched by 20x the people that will watch this game lol nfl sub be should getting flooded
The NFL protests will happen at the Super Bowl, which is why Trump just announced that he won’t be there.
Okay, if you boycott one thing, some store somewhere will still be open.
Other than the obvious, this is another reason I refuse to give a dollar to the Mavericks organization until the Adelson’s are gone.
Guess who was the largest individual donor in 2024 to the present administration?
The greatest weapon you have at your disposal right now is your wallet. If we exercise some actual discipline and just cut these scum suckers off from our hard earned money, they will wither.
Enough is fucking enough.
Yes, they are particularly rotten.
Mavs have such a great fanbase but fuck their evil ownership. He’ll fuck all the evil owners. Just a stark reminder they dont care about 99.99% of us. Good on you for doing what you can to not give them a cent even though yall deserve luka
Edit: hell* lol autocorrect
They are even encouraging Trump to run for a third term.
Yep, and the Adelsons are big supporters of Netanyahu, contributing to genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians.
I feel like redditors are sometimes a bit detached from the outside world
They don’t have a life outside of the internet
Explains why so many Redditors are deranged
r/nba CANCEL ALL GAMES!!!
r/nfl Popcorn ready,cant wait for the playoff.Oh look another coach was fired.
one reddit mod literally demanded to be treated like a celebrity
Yup. But twitter is the only one with foreigners masquerading as americans just because they exposed them. Theres a reason reddit doesnt give you account locations. This site is rife with destabilizing intentions
Nailed it mate! I love seeing Redditors freaking out about the world they know nothing about. What’s happened is terrible, but cancelling a couple of sport matches won’t do a thing. It’s cute that they think it will
have you been in the ‘outside world’ of minneapolis?
Yeah, I’m pretty sure thousands of armed goons patrolling the streets, beating the shit out of people, kidnapping people, shooting people, etc. is all too real for the people experiencing it.
The delusional ones living in their fairy tale world are those who put their fingers in their ears and say “lalalala not happening! Just let me get back to watching grown men toss a ball into a hoop, I don’t want to think about anything!”
I tend to agree.
This is 100% a uniquely reddit view and proof positive this is an echo chamber.
Sorry reddit, the vast majority of people don’t want this.
It’s absurdly dramatic. Not only is it an echo chamber, the median age is like 16.
Yep maybe it would’ve worked in 2020. Ive seen a few posts where they admit this is an echo chamber so at least they are self aware now.
Vast majority of people don’t want Americans to be shot in the back of the head either
So why were people on Reddit celebrating when that healthcare CEO or Charlie Kirk were killed?
Yes, and most of them understand that boycotting the NBA has no likelihood of helping with that
and the only way we can stop that is to stop the NBA!
Average redditors are not serious people.
It’s virtue signaling at its finest, which is often a uniquely Reddit thing too.
The whole anonymity aspect of Reddit really does emphasize a lot of these silly takes.
I imagine most of us are happy to see the story unfold, ideally the officer arrested and tried, and then hopefully a a de-escalation. But calling for entertainment leagues to shutdown over it or for the entire economy to have a strike is… yeah, definitely something.
virtue signaling is in NO WAY unique to reddit what? it’s just abundant here
Classic Reddit. Never change.
Yeah like don’t take away my basketball man I actually like seeing the Pistons do well
I love Reddit most of the time, but posts like this remind me why so many people ridicule Redditors
Op is literally 12. As is half the site. The other half is bots. It’s cooked
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It’s an insane platitude. No NBA player or owner is going to stop the season for this at all. NBA players don’t give a fuck about some guy getting killed by ICE
i swear yall are schizophrenic or russian bots i can’t tell which
They’re just really young
Historically most reddit bots comes from China IIRC
LOL not everything needs to be involved in politics
Why? What the fuck cancel games for?
Because if basketball stops getting played, they’ll stop arresting illegals. DUH YOU IDIOT. How do you not see the connection
i’m sure the people who signed up to join ICE will seriously reconsider when they can’t watch Gradey Dick jammin it up the court on a tuesday afternoon
Your username is wild in the context of this thread
Im a hockey fan. Its been my xbox gamertag since like forever.. 😂
Why would the NBA do that
We’ve had so many potential breaking points recently. But What IS the breaking point if not this.
I’m ngl I’ve thought a million things were the breaking point. Now I’m just waiting for the country to break sadly
Softies are so funny 🤣
Lol
We diD it reDdit!
I agree! This is fucked.
Mark Walter funds ICE prisons. Gotta cancel the Lakers.
Honestly just fuck all the owners who donated to president pedofile
So, all of them
If you’re going to twist my arm
This is why I was so cynical when they cancelled games in the covid bubble. It’s easy to do that when there’s no fans and no real consequences. Canceling now would be a much more powerful stand.
The only reason they got canceled is because the Bucks literally refused to play. But George Hill and Jrue Holiday aren’t in Milwaukee anymore, so it won’t be then leading it.
I admire Jrue so much man
Ridiculous. Stop impeding law enforcement, period, end of the problem.
Whose side do you think the owners are on? It’s not ours…
And realistically this just would never happen. People watch sports for entertainment and for 2-3 hours escape what’s going on. Good luck convincing players to give their millions and fans to give up their past time.
Op bringing r/politics to nba you are not appreciated.
I like where your heart is but better to organize a protest or general strike, this is a pretty random call to action
As a european: can you please leave your politics out of the sports I wanna watch? PLEASE
No.
Shits not gonna happen buddy lol
Why?
I disagree. The NBA serves a distraction for a lot of people during times of political hardship. If people focused completely on everything going on in the world, they’d kill themseleves. I understand your anger but I don’t see how this will help at all.
This shit needs to be removed. Tf do those idiots in Minnesota have to do with the NBA. Massive L for the mods for being bitch made and leaving up political shit.
Redditors are so performatively cringe 😂😂
NBA actually fucking succumbed to it is the worst part lol
Good grief. Cancelling games hurts nba and team employees , small businesses that rely on sales associated with games and fans. Easy to advocate for when it ain’t costing the advocate a dime. How bout getting the groups, organizations and individuals that pay professional protesters to cover this lost revenue ? Those that support cancelling games could contribute their own money to the cause also. Or instead just leave these games alone
Boycott Reddit until we see action
Let’s cancel the Timberwolves and keep the others. Compromise!
NFL games will still go ahead because they voted for thisn
I get it, but this is pure karma farm 😂😭
If you haven’t seen the other videos circulating Reddit, do your duty and watch them. It is a fact that the man’s gun never leaves his waist until an agent removes it when he is executed. Our government is lying to us.
Have no doubt this man probably stood with the players during the BLM and George Floyd protests in 2020. Every NBA player should stand against law enforcement brutality and not take the court until justice is served
It has nothing to do with the nba, is not like players are shooting civilians.
I’m all for it, push this message, you’d have a lot of support. The only way they feel it is in their wallet.
No one cares. At the end. Owners and players just care about their money and fame
Lmao redditors are hilarious.
No
My god, shut up already
lmfao holy reddit warrior
If you want to help the situation in Minneapolis or spread some type or awareness or combat ICE activity, posting on Reddit about an NBA game is perhaps the laziest form of pseudo-activism you can engage in. Go do something productive.
OP is a bot. Mods where are you?
OP’s comments get downvoted but his post gets mega upvotes, shits a bit weird
Yeah, this is forum for this for sure
My guy you’ve commented 150+ times in the last 24 hours, for your own sake take a step back
Why? For people doing their job? 🤣 the dude pulled a gun on them, what do you expect? 🤷♂️
OP isn’t even an nba fan look up his profile. he’s just trolling nba fans, report and get his ass banned
I’ve never seen basketball fans that hate basketball as much as the ones on reddit.
Jesus Christ the left has no brain cells left
Holy reddit
Not gonna happen
This subreddit is going to turn into polical dump like all the other all the other popular subreddits right?
Just focus on basketball ffs and talk you shit in r/pics or something.
Liberals man 😂
I don’t think protests do a whole lot anymore, and with the entitled people getting upset with protesters for making their lives inconvenient, and opposite side now throwing people in there with you to start physical violence or property destruction, it’s very difficult.
I think a boycott is a worthwhile tool we never have really played. You find a wealthy Republican donor that runs one or more nationwide companies, and everyone stops buying anything from those places that’s money trickles up to that man. You bankrupt him/her/them. Then you move to the next one. Retail, fast food…. places that need that daily cash infusion. We remove these places until the elite that we haven’t bankrupted start getting nervous and start pulling back their support.
It’s a slow choke that will take some real commitment, but I think hitting a few of the 1% with the “guess what? Your actions have consequences and now you have no income” card is a way to express ourselves.
Typical Reddit
I got bills to pay, buddy…. Iykyk so hard pass from me
Do you know who the owners are and where their allegiances lie?
What are we protesting exactly by shutting the league down? You think the feds care about the “liberal” nba? I guest people seem to forgot that 50% of America voted exactly for this. And theirs two HUGE nfl games tomorrow that people will be watching and forgot that today even happened.
Don’t pull a gun on law enforcement.
No u idiot
The brutal truth is that liberals will create chaos and make enemies out of anyone.
This post is not even mildly NBA related. Why is it still up
RIP to that young man attempting to help that lady and to keep our government even the slightest bit accountable before he was executed.
Lines have been crossed and there is no going back. I won’t expect the league to make a statement but I am judging those with the power to speak out remaining silent. So far I’m seeing a handful of musicians speaking out but not much from the sports community. I hope that changes.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
This isn’t a politics subreddit. And the government wouldn’t care if nba games are canceled so this wouldn’t do anything
Your whole country is sick, cancel fucking America. Land of the backwards cunts. Justified school shootings on the basis that you need guns to have the ability to fight back in a civil war yet doesn’t seem like anyone wants to do that, you are all a joke to the world.
NBA ain’t got shit to do with this!!! Y’all need to go outside and touch grass