Do you want your sports spectating experience to come complete with political commentary from a bunch of random athletes who don’t know anything about what they are lecturing you? Well, it’s time to party like it’s 2020 again, because the NBA is back in the political arena.
After the Border Patrol shooting of Alex Pretti, the NBA decided it should make the shooting all about itself and its brand as the wokest sports league in America. The NBA postponed a game between the Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves, citing “safety” concerns, as if Border Patrol agents would be stalking the streets of Minneapolis, prepared to shoot NBA fans. (Pretti was killed by fighting with agents while armed with a gun).
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By postponing that game one entire day, the NBA successfully inserted itself into the political world once again. Sports journalists, who love to talk about anything other than sports, flocked to every NBA player or coach they could find to ask them about their thoughts on the use of force involving lawless open borders protests, and those athletes and coaches happily gave them the political content they craved.
“It was amazing to watch the turnout and peaceful protests, the unified voice that was here,” NBA star Stephen Curry said of protests that were declared an “unlawful assembly” by Minneapolis’s police chief. Cleveland Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell chimed in on the fabricated story of Immigration and Customs Enforcement using a 5-year-old as deportation bait (the child had been abandoned by his illegal immigrant father as he fled agents). Mitchell admitted he didn’t know the full story, but he still wanted everyone to hear his uninformed opinion.
The best was San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama, who said he was “horrified” by the “murder of civilians.” Wembanyama is a 22-year-old, born and raised in France, who plays professional basketball in Texas. The Spurs were not in Minneapolis when the shooting of Pretti happened. They were in Texas, preparing to play a team from New Orleans. And yet, we had to be subjected to Wembanyama’s opinion, because it wouldn’t be the NBA if every sheltered millionaire athlete didn’t dump their Democratic Party-approved opinion on you at every opportunity.
The NBA is a special kind of league, the kind where every major name in it thinks they are smarter than the league’s audience and that everyone is dying to hear their identical political opinions. With President Donald Trump back in the White House, the NBA has secured itself another presidential term of political commentary that all basketball fans will have to listen to, whether they want to or not.
