Not long ago, NBA teams would have been terrified to post anything tangential to politics...
As a moment of silence was held at TD Garden in Boston on Friday night for the 19 children and two teachers killed in Uvalde, a scoreboard graphic encouraged fans to call their senators to support common-sense gun laws.The moment of silence didn’t last long this time. Someone in the crowd at Boston’s TD Garden interrupted it by yelling, “Do something!,” per reporters in the arena Friday night. Then others yelled, too.
In terms of bold statements, this wasn’t much. But it was something, at least, and with their cheers, it was as if the fans were screaming, “Finally!” As Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr so eloquently noted a few hours after 19 students and two teachers were killed on Tuesday, people are tired of empty condolences and hollow platitudes.
But how can there be any inoffensive middle ground on mass shootings in supermarkets, in houses of worship, in fourth-grade classrooms? When a coach like the Falcons’ Arthur Smith tries to please everyone by blaming a process “broken on both sides,” which two sides does he mean? What, exactly, is the “other side” when it comes to outrage over Uvalde?
Kapler, for one, isn’t going to do that anymore. The former Texas Rangers outfielder and current Giants manager wrote a blog post this week explaining that he “felt like a coward” for not protesting “the lack of delivery on the promise of what our national anthem represents” after the Uvalde shooting, and he told reporters he will not take the field for the anthem “until feel better about the direction of our country.
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