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Peace. This was a very good, uh, roundtable discussion on the, uh, the NBA and the overly politicized nature of the current NBA. And some good information was brought out that I want to comment on. So, we'll see what they bring out. All right, welcome back. Chris Broussard and Greg Jennings are back with us. Let's move to Golden State where Andre Iguodala tried to backtrack from his recent use of the n-word in reference to slavery in a postgame interview, saying it was, quote, "probably the wrong time to express myself." But Iguodala only drew a slap on the wrist from Adam Silver. Which shouldn't be a surprise. From LeBron campaigning for Hillary Clinton to Steph Curry calling President Trump, and, uh, Silver has been very permissive about players taking on social and political issues. Colin, has the NBA become too political?
Well, he's allowed them to take on social and political issues with the presumption that they're all super liberal. That's why he allows them to talk like that. Adam Silver, to me, is a, a, is a closeted homosexual, allegedly. Right? You can look up certain things where he's personally appeared at the homosexual parades. There's a reason why he's going so hard with the bathroom bill in North Carolina and also Texas. But from what I understand, the NFL is also getting involved with the bathroom bill. So that tells me that some of these sports leagues may be getting subsidized to go against the bathroom bill by, by other, uh, corporations, maybe the LGBT, maybe the US government. Who knows? But I did hear that the NFL is also getting in on the support the bathroom bill, uh, agenda. So, we'll see. But Adam Silver, he's a, he's a super liberal, uh, Caucasian Jew. And like I said before, if you know anything about the NAACP or a lot of these other civil rights movements, the Caucasian Jew has been the one leading blacks in most of these movements. All right. So, being the NBA commissioner is no different.
Well, it's become more political. Whether it's too political, we could argue. I, I would say this, um, show me the study. I've been doing this 30 years where people want their sports and politics together. Like, I love tuna fish. I have a sandwich every day. And I love ice cream. I don't like tuna fish ice cream. I can love politics. He likes any kind of. Don't worry. Go on. I like politics. I'm engaged. And I like sports. Show me the study where fans and consumers are demanding their together. I agree. At least not intelligent people. A lot of, uh, liberal blacks, a lot of the social media revolutionaries, the internet warriors that you see today. You know, uh, uh, you know, all the ones who want to go on Facebook and all these other social media outlets, Twitter, and try to front like they're so pro-black. They might like to see black athletes talk a lot of that, that empty hot air. But most people who are intelligent and know what life is really about, I don't put on the game to hear what LeBron James thinks about, uh, so-called politics, especially since the, the political stances that he takes are to support Nike so that he can continue making his sweatshop money. All right. Don't stand behind Hillary Clinton and act like you're doing something for the people when Hillary Clinton is a, you know, she's one of the biggest thieves on the planet Earth, allegedly. This is great for the NBA to occasionally be out there. But when I'm, I, I think the NBA ratings are down 15%. They're down 28% in Ohio. That's a great stat. That's a great tidbit. I did not know that. NBA ratings are down 15% and 28% in Ohio where LeBron James is. That shows you that that political statement that he made for Hillary Clinton, it's going to come back to bite him in his ass. All right. This is why I, I favor Fox Sports One. That I believe that their, uh, their roundtable discussions are much better, especially when it involves this guy here, Cowherd. He normally makes very good points. So, show me where everybody loves our former employer is down 15% across the board. Interesting. That shows you why ESPN is losing a lot of money. Why they have to fire people. All right. They're paying these different leagues billions of dollars to broadcast their games. And they have these NBA players sitting out six, seven times a year. That's a problem. And then on top of that, they want to come out and make all these inflammatory political statements, often times on issues that they have no comprehension of. The audience is telling you, we like politics, but we turn to Fox News for it. And we like sports, and we turn to you for it. Show me where the consumer is demanding we mix sports and politics. I'd like to see the study where it's effective.
I, I'm going to make this small point that I think there's some truth in what you're saying. I think traditional sports fans and most sports fans don't want hyper-left politics. Agreed. Agreed. And most intelligent people, most intelligent men don't want hyper-left politics. All right. The main people who deal with the hyper-left politics are a lot of these simps and, uh, a lot of these dudes that worship women. All right. So-called left-wing blacks and the, uh, internet revolutionaries. They're into all that left-wing and that, uh, that that nonsensical liberal media jargon. All right. In their sports. I think there's consistency and synergy between conservative values which are taught in sports. And so, so much of it has been left that I think it's bad business. And I listen to players all the time. They're not good businessmen. In terms of please your customer base. That's what any business person does. Because they're not really businessmen. Most of them are just pawns. All right. They do what their corporate sponsors tell them to do. Right. A lot of what LeBron does, he does at the behest of Nike or these other corporate sponsors. When they tell him, look, uh, side up with Hillary. Right? Show that you're on Hillary's side. We can't have Trump cutting into our overseas market shares. Right? We need you to side up with Hillary. Try to get her voted in. That's what he does. Right. Carmelo Anthony, he tried to front like he was so pro-black, pro-black power, blah, blah, blah. This guy, you know, he's just, he got so caught up in the emotion. I remember after they won the Olympics last year, this dude got on camera, he's crying, he's talking about, "We're going to make America great again." This is what Carmelo Anthony said. He was so caught up in the emotion, he actually quoted Donald Trump and he cited something that never existed. When has America ever been been great for the so-called black man? Please explain that to me. You know? So a lot of these guys, they just caught up in their feelings. And so, even take a dope dealer who we've somehow put on the the pedestal. They please and sell out to their customers. I'm looking at basketball players try to do too many different things within the platform of sports when they need to take to appease the media and Twitter. That's not the fan base. Well, move it outside there because they dwell in that social media world. That's where all the left wings, that's where all the super left-wing liberals dwell. Historically, because of the racial situation in this country, we all know what that's been. African-Americans, I would say, have liked a mix. Like we've wanted our athletes to speak out. You know, Muhammad Ali. People, Muhammad Ali just didn't speak out though. He was a member of an organization that promoted separatism. Right? Ali was a person who did not just say things. He actually was a part of something. All right? That's the difference between Ali and a lot of these other men. Whether you agree with his ideologies or not. All right? He actually was a part of something that had a, uh, that had a realistic goal. That had that actually was trying to do something and not just talk. All right? They didn't, you know, Ali didn't just talk about white people this and white people that, but then turn around and say, oh, you know what, let's all mix with them now. Later on down the line, when, uh, after Elijah Muhammad died and he was trying to preserve himself and his own stardom, he converted to conventional Islam and then he started to to, uh, proactively promote globalizing and mixing. But, you know, that's something that a lot of people don't like to talk about with Ali. But he did do that. All right? And the fact of the matter is that he gets a lot of credit for what he did when he was more radicalized. But Ali did get watered down in the late '70s. That's a fact. People criticize Michael Jordan because he would wouldn't speak out when he played. Look, the thing about Michael Jordan is this. Michael Jordan was in the era. He was the, he was at the vanguard of the corporate athlete. He was the first athlete to become a, a, uh, super sp, a super representative for these major corporations. And in in that point in time, in the late '80s, nobody, no athlete was speaking out. The '80s was not a time of speaking out. Late '80s into the '90s, you can't name any athlete, black athlete, that was speaking out on racial issues back then. K. Griffey Jr., Barry Sanders, Magic Johnson, Barry Bonds, Jordan, Tyson. Nobody was making radical comments about race back then. All right? So, I, I think there's an element of that. But you can go too far. And look, I'm like the average fan. When the athletes or a league speaks out and I like it, like I like what you're saying, then I'm, yeah, that's right. LeBron, go ahead. Yeah, because you're a left-wing liberal. That's why. But if I disagree, then I'm a bit bothered. Like, man, why they, you know? And if, if most Americans feel like that, which I'm sure is the case, then you risk, that's the risk you run when you get political, is that you may really turn off a lot of people.
Yeah, I, I say no. And, and the reason why I say no is because players understand and they realize that politics both have a direct and indirect impact on them as well as everyone else who's a viewer, the average fan. So when I'm a player, to your point, if I don't, if I choose to keep my mouth shut, and I'm a, I'm a, I'm one of the main guys, the faces of an organization, let alone the face of a, one of the. This brother needs to work on his articulation if he's going to be on TV. He has to start speaking a little clearer. All right. He makes decent points, but he has trouble getting his words out. He's got to get that together. The leagues, your fan base is looking for you to say something, do something. And when you keep your mouth shut, it's like, well, why isn't this guy speaking out? Why isn't he? But when you do, it's, well, he shouldn't have said that. Identify who your real fan base is. Who's buying the tickets? I understand that. But when we look at when we look at players in, I wasn't buying the tickets when I was going by the way. Muhammad Ali is an individual athlete in an individual sport. Completely different. Completely, completely different time. But when you, we, when we look at players in politics, I truly, I love what LeBron has done because he understands the timing. There's a timing for everything. He doesn't do it in it after after a game when he's upset at a loss or whatever. He doesn't do it like that. He does it when the timing permits. Yeah, when Nike tells him, look, we need you to say this and do that. It's what Iguodala did. That was unnecessary. And whether it's an inside joke or not, inside jokes are not funny to those who are not on the inside. Listen, the football, and I keep going back to this, it's run like a business and it stays true to the values of sports. And that's why football is king. I'm telling you, if basketball were run properly, it would unseat football. Here's what's interesting. Football was down like 5% this year. People like, oh, football. Then the Super Bowl comes, the ratings are great. Why isn't it being reported that the NBA is down 28% in in Cleveland? It's not being reported, Colin, because the NBA is held by the super liberal left-wing ESPN and ABC. And they don't want to report the effect that making all these silly comments has had on their business. Why is that not a story? Why is it happening?
So, Jason, do you think Michael Jordan is more the model for these athletes or should be the model? Listen, I think LeBron, to me, was on track for being the perfect model. Model. LeBron invests in his community where he's from. That's an activism that I think is appropriate for multi-millionaire athletes. Yes. It's gestures. Not getting it done. If John Carlos and Tommy Smith had been worth $100 million, throwing the fist up in the air, that's a gesture. Take action. You know what else is interesting? Agreed. This is not just players. This goes all the way up to the top to Adam. He pulled the All-Star Game out of Charlotte, North Carolina. He's threatened or talked about, you know, Texas is thinking about passing similar legislation with the bathroom bill. He might pull it. You know, not have an All-Star Game there. Yeah, because he's the homosexual himself, allegedly. There. That opens, in addition to alienating maybe half the country, that also could open you up to hypocrisy or claims of hypocrisy. It plays to the media, but it's truly inauthentic. Yep. In actuality, you're not. That shows that, yeah, that it is. And I do feel like, I do feel like the NBA sees itself as a progressive social leader. That is fine. A neoliberal cult. But I mean, the Warriors now, it is a weekly occurrence, a political statement. Show me the study where fans and consumers want that from not just athletes, but commentators on sports. Coming up, good roundtable. I agree with Colin. I don't want to hear any, uh, too much political, uh, moralizing or or too much articulating about issues that I really don't think most of these guys are fit to to handle. I don't care about what they think about most, uh, political issues or societal issues. And it's because they want to make a lot of these black athletes leaders or really, uh, put them on a pedestal as idols so that the corporate, the corporate America businesses can control you through the athletes. Anyway, peace.