The “stick to sports” crowd, which otherwise loves them some Tim Tebow, and has Coach Tuberville repping it in the U.S. Senate, is straining itself into a hernia over the athletes, teams and leagues speaking out on the Trump regime’s ritual executions of U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.
“It is a confusing time to be alive and be an American. What I would appeal to everyone is to remember what our Constitution stands for, what our values are, and what that means to how we treat each other,” said Steve Kerr, the coach of the Golden State Warriors, who were in Minneapolis for a game that had been scheduled for Saturday with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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The game at the Target Center, 1.9 miles from Glam Doll Donuts, where Alex Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse, was accosted by ICE thugs as he filmed their actions during a protest, then shot 10 times and killed at the scene, was moved to Sunday.
During the Sunday broadcast, Wolves color commentator Rebekkah Brunson addressed the shooting head-on.
“Watching an administration purge us of our neighbors, going into our stores, and our schools, and our hospitals, and really taking away people that make this community special, it’s unfair, and it’s not right what we see happening around us,” said Brunson, who is also an assistant coach with the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx.
Minnesota’s pro sports teams joined the top executives from Target, Best Buy, General Mills and dozens of other Minnesota companies in a public letter calling for an “immediate de-escalation of tensions” in the state.
“In this difficult moment for our community, we call for peace and focused cooperation among local, state and federal leaders to achieve a swift and durable solution that enables families, businesses, our employees, and communities across Minnesota to resume our work to build a bright and prosperous future,” the letter reads.
The NBA Players Association put out a statement on Sunday to let the world know that its players wish to “no longer remain silent.”
“Now more than ever, we must defend the right to freedom of speech and stand in solidarity with the people in Minnesota protesting and risking their lives to demand justice,” the NBPA statement read. “The fraternity of NBA players, like the United States itself, is a community enriched by its global citizens, and we refuse to let the flames of division threaten the civil liberties that are meant to protect us all.”
Two-time WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” during player introductions ahead of her Unrivaled matchup between the Mist and Vinyl on Sunday,
“All day yesterday I was kind of just disgusted,” Stewart said. “Everything that you see on Instagram and the news, we’re so fueled by hate right now, instead of love. I wanted to kind of have a simple message of, Abolish ICE. Which means, having policies to uplift families and communities, instead of fueling fear and violence.”
The outspoken Kerr made an appeal “to our better angels to look after one another and to recognize what’s happening.”
“We’re being divided by media-for-profit, by misinformation,” Kerr said. “There’s so much out there that’s really difficult for us all to reconcile. In times like these, you need to lean on values of who you are and who you want to be, either as an individual or as a country. That’s what’s so sad about all this. We’re at each other’s throats right now. You can’t just say, I’m right and the other person is wrong. Not in this current climate, in this nonstop news flooding at us. It’s hard to decipher what’s real and what’s not, what’s true and what isn’t.”
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